Danielle Macdonald
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
The University of Tulsa
United States of America
Biography
Danielle Macdonald is an archaeologist who specialized in Near Eastern Prehistory and lithic analysis.Macdonald is currently the co-director of the Kharaneh IV excavation project in the Azraq Basin, Jordan (Kharaneh IV website). Her research is developing new methods for the quantification of microwear traces through the use of microscopes developed for the field of surface metrology.
Research Interest
Lithic analysis, Microwear analysis, Epipalaeolithic, Material culture theory, Origins of Agriculture
Publications
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Evans AA, Lerner H, Macdonald DA, Stemp WJ, Anderson PC. Standardization, calibration and innovation: a special issue on lithic microwear method.
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Jones MD, Maher LA, Macdonald DA, Ryan C, Rambeau C, Black S, Richter T. The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV. Quaternary International. 2016 Mar 7;396:95-104.
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Macdonald DA, Chazan M, Janetski JC. The Geometric Kebaran occupation and lithic assemblage of Wadi Mataha, southern Jordan. Quaternary International. 2016 Mar 7;396:105-20.
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Maher LA, Macdonald DA, Allentuck A, Martin L, Spyrou A, Jones MD. Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant. Quaternary International. 2016 Mar 7;396:79-94.
