C Michael Barton
Professor
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
United States of America
Biography
Michael Barton is a geoarchaeologist whose expertise includes long-term dynamics of socioecological systems, hunter/gatherers and small-scale agricultural societies, Quaternary landscapes, geospatial technologies, computational modeling, complex systems science, evolutionary theory, lithic technology. His research has focused primarily in the Mediterranean, western Eurasia more broadly, and western North America Barton is Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, and heads the Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive System Science.
Research Interest
Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics,Mogollon Region Small Sitesics
Publications
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Barton, C. M., & Riel-Salvatore, J. (2016). A lithic perspective on ecological dynamics in the upper pleistocene of western eurasia. In Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective (pp. 25-51). University Press of Colorado.
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Gravel-Miguel, C., Riel-Salvatore, J., Maggi, R., Martino, G., & Barton, C. M. (2017). The Breaking of Ochred Pebble Tools as Part of Funerary Ritual in the Arene Candide Epigravettian Cemetery. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(2), 331-350. DOI: 10.1017/S0959774316000640
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Paige, J., Michelaki, K., Campisano, C., Barton, M., & Heimsath, A. (2017). Are the intensities and durations of small-scale pottery firings sufficient to completely dehydroxylate clays? Testing a key assumption underlying ceramic rehydroxylation dating. Journal of Archaeological Science, 79, 44-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2017.01.009
