Publications List
Daniel Stiles
1974 (with R.L. Hay and J.R. O’Neill) The MNK Chert Factory Site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
World Archaeology 5(2): 287-304.
1977 Ethnoarchaeology: a discussion of methods and applications. Man n.s. 12(1):87-103.
1978 Paleolithic artifacts in Siwalik and Post-Siwalik deposits of northern Pakistan.
Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 53/54:129-148.
1979 Paleolithic culture and culture change: experiment in theory and method. Current
Anthropology 20(1):1-20.
1979 Early Acheulian and Developed Oldowan. Current Anthropology 20(1):126©129.
1979 (with T.C. Partridge) Results of recent archaeological and paleoecological studies at the
Sterkfontein Extension Site. South African Journal of Science 75(8):346-352.
1979 On stone tools and the identification of ethnic groups. Current Anthropology
20(2): 411-412.
1979 More on stone tools and ethnic groups. Current Anthropology 20(3): 613-615.
1979 On the use of statistics for testing archaeological hypotheses. Current
Anthropology 21(4): 530-532.
1979 Recent archaeological findings at the Sterkfontein site. Nature 277:381-382.
1979 Ethnoarchaeology with the Boni. Kenya Past and Present 11: 12-17.
1979 An ethnoarchaeological study with the Boni. Nyame Akuma 15:30-34.
1980 Origins of the hunting peoples of the northern East African coast. Transafrican Journal of
History 9(1): 52-69.
1980 Industrial taxonomy in the Early Stone Age of Africa. Anthropologie 18(2-3):189-207.
1981 Developed Oldowan and Acheulian: problems in lithic taxonomy. Current
Anthropology 22(2):185-188.
1981 The Gabbra of northern Kenya: past and future. Kenya Past and Present 13: 23-31.
1981 The Boni: problems of a hunting-gathering people. Africana 8(2):23-25.
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1981 A diachronic study of the demography, human ecology and history of pastoral groups of
northern Kenya. Nyame Akuma 18:14-17.
1981 Relevance of the past in projections about pastoral peoples. in The Future of Pastoral
Peoples, (Eds) J.G. Galaty, Dan Aronson, P.C. Salzman and Amy Chouinard.
Ottowa:IDRC, pp. 370-378.
1981 Hunters of the northern East Africa coast: origins and historical processes. Africa
51:848-861.
1981 What happened to the big game in northern Kenya? Africana 8(1): 21-23.
1982 A history of northern East African coast hunting peoples: ecological and socio-economic
considerations. in From Zinj to Zanzibar, (Eds) J. DeVere Allen and T.H. Wilson.
1983 Vanishing grass: Samburu camel herders. Swara 6(1): 8-11.
1983 On the side of the hunters. Wildlife August:314-316.
1983 Camel pastoralism and desertification in northern Kenya. Desertification Control Bulletin
8:2-8.
1983 Desertification and pastoral development in northern Kenya. Nomadic Peoples 13:1-14.
1983 Marabou – the saintly bird. Swara 6(6): 26.
1984 Stopping desert spread - with a camel. The Ecologist 14(1):38-43.
1984 Desertification: the time for action. The Environmentalist 4:93-96.
1984 (with Gaafar Karrar) The global status and trend of desertification. Journal of Arid
Environments 7: 309-312.
1984 Desertification: a question of linkage. Desertification Control Bulletin 11:1-6.
1984 Désertification et élevage dans le nord du Kenya. Production Pastorale et Société
17:39-53.
1984 (with S. Milas) Recognizing a new world crisis. Uniterra May, 1-6.
1984 Desertification: a UNEP assessment seven years after UNCOD. Entwicklung + landlicher
raum 6: 3-5.
1984 (with S. Sangweni) Summary of the activities and output of the General Assessment of
Progress in the Implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification.
Desertification Control Bulletin Supplement to 10: 12-15.
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1984 Motonyik: the bird head-dress. Swara 7(5): 35-37.
1984 The Azanian civilization and Megalithic Cushites revisited. Kenya Past and Present 16:
20-28.
1985 The Rikki Tikki Tavi of Kora. Swara
1986 The food crisis and environmental conservation in Africa. Food Policy
November:298-310.
1986 Desertification in the Third World. in Forest Resources Crisis in the Third World.
SAM:Penang, pp. 144-155.
1986 Désertification et élevage dans le nord du Kenya. Production Pastorale et Société 17:3953.
1986 Moving house in the desert. Kenya Past and Present 18: 37-42.
1987 Classical versus grassroots development. Cultural Survival Quarterly 11(1):3-7.
1987 Camel vs cattle pastoralism: stopping desert spread. Desertification Control Bulletin
14: 15-22.
1987 Through the bush by camel. Swara 10(3): 15-18.
1987 Rolling Back the Desert. Nairobi: UNEP.
1987 People under pressure. Africa Life 1(2): 15-17.
1987 The Riki Tikki Tavi of Kora. Swara 10(2): 29.
1988 Le dromadaire contre l'avanceé du désert. La Recherche 201:948-952.
1988 Arid Land plants for economic development and desertification control. Desertification
Control Bulletin 17:18-21.
1988 Desertification in prehistory: the Sahara. Sahara 1:85-92.
1988 Journey around Lake Victoria: a traveller’s guide. Swara 11(6): 8-11.
1988 Historical interrelationships of the Boni with pastoral peoples of Somalia and Kenya.
Kenya Past and Present 20: 38-46.
1989 Born free no more. Africa Life 3(1): 38-40.
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1989 Conservation vs development in East Africa's drylands. Swara 12(4):31-33.
1989 Indigenous dryland plants for Kenyan development. Kenya Past and Present 22:41-44.
1989 Regenerating bourgou. Harmatta 5: 16-17.
1989 The end of Bwana Game. Swara 12(6): 15-18.
1990 East African cultures and wildlife conservation. Swara 13(3):15-17.
1990 Ecological Monitoring: the Senegal Model. UNSO Technical Publication Series No. 1.
New York:UNSO.
1990 Lakes of Grass: Regenerating Bourgou in the Inner Delta of the Niger River. UNSO
Technical Publication Series No. 2. New York:UNSO.
1991 Early hominid behavior and culture tradition: raw material studies in Bed II, Olduvai
Gorge. The African Archaeological Review 9:1-19.
1991 Reforestation: The Ethiopian Experience, 1984-1989. UNSO Technical Publication Series
No. 4. New York:UNSO.
1991 The Gabbra Jilla. Kenya Past & Present 23: 23-34.
1991 Power and patronage in the Philippines: Environmental and cultural survival in Palawan
Province. Cultural Survival Quarterly 15(3): 71-75.
1991 (with A. Kassam) An ethno-botanical study of Gabbra plant use, Marsabit District, Kenya.
Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum 81(198): 14-37.
1991 Tubers and Tenrec: the Mikea of Southwestern Madagascar. Ethnology 30(3):251-263.
1992 The Gabbra: traditional social factors in aspects of land-use management. Nomadic
Peoples 30:41-52.
1992 The ports of East Africa, the Comoros and Madagascar: their place in Indian Ocean trade
from 1-1500 A.D. Kenya Past and Present 24: 27-36.
1992 The hunter-gatherer 'revisionist' debate. Anthropology Today 8(2): 13-17.
1993 Nomads on notice. Natural History 9:50-57.
1993 Sustainable development in tropical forests by indigenous peoples. Swara 16(5): 24-27.
1993 Hunter-gatherer trade in wild forest products in the early centuries A.D. with the port of
Broach, India. Asian Perspectives 32(2): 153-167.
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1993 Aweer of Kenya and Somalia. in State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on
Societies in Danger, (Eds) Julian Burger, R.F. Kennedy, Jr., and Rigoberta Menchú
Tum. Boston: Beacon Press, p. 164.
1993 Mikea of Madagascar. in State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies
in Danger, (Eds.) Julian Burger, R.F. Kennedy, Jr., and Rigoberta Menchú Tum.
Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 171-172.
1993 The past and present of hunter-gatherers in Kenya. Kenya Past and Present 25: 39-46.
1994 The ports of East Africa and Madagascar and their place in Indian Ocean trade. In:
Role of Universities and Research Institutes in Marine Archaeology. (Ed.) S.R. Rao.
Bangalore: Society for Marine Archaeology, pp. 55-66.
1994 Tribals and Trade: a strategy for cultural and ecological survival. Ambio 23(2):106-111.
1994 The Mikea, hunter-gatherers of Madagascar. Kenya Past and Present 26:27-33.
1994 The conservation war: Kenya and Madagascar compared. Swara 17(2):20-22.
1994 Harvesting the forest. Our Planet 6(4):33-35.
1994 New war in South East Asia. Swara 17(5):19-21.
1994 (Ed.) Listening to the People: Social Aspects of Dryland Management. Nairobi: UNEP.
1994 On evolutionary ecology and cultural realities. Current Anthropology 35(4):438-440.
1994 Don't desert the Desertification Convention. Geographical October: 12.
1995 (Ed.) Social Aspects of Sustainable Dryland Management. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
1995 An overview of desertification as dryland management. In: Social Aspects of Sustainable
Dryland Management. (Ed.) Daniel Stiles. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 3-20.
1995 Government policies to promote good dryland management. In: Social Aspects of
Sustainable Dryland Management. (Ed.) Daniel Stiles. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, pp.
289-299.
1995 The advantages of camels over other livestock in dry lands. In: Camel Keeping in Kenya.
Range Management Handbook of Kenya.Vol. III, 8. (Eds.) J. Evans, S.P. Simpkin and D.
Atkins. Nairobi: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Development and Marketing, Kenya,
pp. 1.5-1.7.
1995 Sold down the river: The South East Asian wildlife war. Dier & Milieu
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1995 Economic boom leads to wildlife doom in Southeast Asia. International Zoo News
42(4):202-204.
1995 The Hadzabe of Tanzania: people and land in trouble. Kenya Past and Present 27:39-44.
1995 Desertification is not a myth. Desertification Control Bulletin 26:29-36.
1996 A Swahili port of call. Natural History 1: 52-56.
1996 Urban origins in East Africa: historical and systemic processes. Kenya Past and
Present 28:39-45.
1996 Nomads on notice. In: Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural
Anthropology. (Eds.) Haviland, W. and Gordon, R. Mountain View, USA: Mayfield
Publishing Co., pp. 73-75.
1997 Victims of progress: the Hadza. Swara 19(6)/20(1):40-43.
1997 Linkages between dryland degradation and migration: A methodology. Desertification
Control Bulletin 30: 9-18.
1997 Cycad conservation. Kenya Past and Present 29: 21-25.
1997 Poachers or gamekeepers? Swara 20(5): 6-7.
1998 Vegetable dinosaurs: cycads. Swara 20(6)/21(1): 35-38.
1998
Biodiversity conservation, conflict and migration in Africa’s drylands: linkages and
solutions. Desertification Control Bulletin 32: 13-21.
1998 The Mikea hunter-gatherers of southwest Madagascar: ecology and socioeconomics.
African Study Monographs 19(3): 127-148.
1998
Raw material as evidence for human behavior in the Lower Pleistocene: the Olduvai case.
In Early Human Behavior in Global Context. (Eds.) M. Petraglia and R. Korisettar.
London: Routledge, pp. 133-150.
1998 Lamu: last city of the Swahili. Msafiri 23: 52-54.
1999
Dryland forest conservation in south-west Madagascar. Desertification Control Bulletin
35: 67-75.
1999
The Gabbra nomad survival kit. Msafiri 29: 48-51.
2000
(with E.B. Martin) Adding up the ivory. BBC Wildlife 18(4): 26-30.
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2000
(with E.B. Martin) The Ivory Markets of Africa. Nairobi: Save The Elephants.
2000 (with E.B. Martin) Handeln med elfenben. WWF EKO 3:16-20.
2000 Reminiscences on the prehistoric past. Msafiri 76-78.
2001 Hunter-gatherer studies: the importance of context. African Study Monographs
Supplement 26: 41-65.
2001 (with E.B. Martin) Status and trends of the ivory trade in Africa, 1989-1999. Pachyderm
30: 24-36.
2001 The quest for African ivory. Kenya Past and Present 32: 16-20.
2002 Nomads on notice. In: Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural
Anthropology, (eds) W. Haviland, R. Gordon and L. Vivanco. New York: McGraw Hill,
pp. 80-82.
2002 (with E.B. Martin) The South and South East Asian Ivory Markets. London and Nairobi:
Save the Elephants.
2002 (with E.B. Martin) From tusks to trinkets. BBC Wildlife 20(3): 32-38.
2002 (with E.B. Martin) The trade in African and Asian ivory in South and South East Asia.
Pachyderm 33: 74-87.
2002 Ivory carving in Myanmar. http://www.asianart.com/articles/ivory/index.html.
2002 Fears for forest as poll looms. BBC Wildlife 20(7): 23-24.
2002 The fate of the forests. Swara 25(3): 49-51.
2003 The hunters are the hunted. Geographical 75(6): 28-31.
2003 Ivory carving in Thailand. http://www.asianart.com/articles/thai-ivory/.
2003 (with E.B. Martin) Underground to Asia. BBC Wildlife 21(11): 58-37.
2003 (with E.B. Martin) The Ivory Markets of East Asia. London and Nairobi: Save the
Elephants.
2003 (with E.B. Martin) Enter, China’s ‘Ivory Triangle’. Swara 26: 64-66.
2003 (with E. Martin) The trade in African and Asian ivory in East Asia. Pachyderm 35: 8299.
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2003 Titanium bonanza – or titanic blunder? Swara 26: 28-30.
2004 Update on the ivory industry in Thailand, Myanmar and Viet Nam. TRAFFIC Bulletin
20(1): 39-43.
2004 Tough choice for elephant lovers. New Scientist August 28: 16-17.
2004 The ivory trade and elephant conservation. Environmental Conservation 34(1): 309-321.
2004 The Azanian civilisation revisited. Msafiri 46:90-92.
2005 In private hands? Swara 28(2): 62-64.
2005 (with E. Martin) Ivory Markets of Europe. London and Nairobi: Care for the Wild
International and Save the Elephants.
2005 (with E. Martin) Agony and ivory. BBC Wildlife November: 54-55.
2005 (with E. Martin) The African and Asian ivory markets in Europe: a survey of five
countries. Pachyderm 39: 77-90.
2005 Tiomin site revisited. Swara 28(3): 9.
2005 No mean feat! Swara 28(3): 14-15.
2005 The Society tackles maendeleo. Swara 28(3): 48-53.
2005 (with E. Martin) Europe’s ivory markets. Swara 28(3): 54-55.
2005 Moving elephants. Kenya Past and Present 35: 29-32.
2006 Wasted resources: Shimba Hills pine plantation. Swara 29 (2): 9.
2007 Hunters of the Great Red Island. Geographical 79(7): 44-48.
2007 The Mara at the crossroads. Swara 30(3): 52-54.
2008 (with E. Martin) Ivory Markets in the USA. London and Nairobi: Care for the Wild
International and Save the Elephants.
2008 (with Esmond Martin) Inadequate controls. Swara 31(2): 14-17). (USA ivory trade)
2008 The Ivory Trade Need Not Endanger the Elephant. The East African August 31.
2008 An Assessment of the Illegal Ivory Trade in Viet Nam. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: TRAFFIC
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Southeast Asia.
2008 An Assessment of the Marine Turtle Products Trade in Viet Nam. Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia: TRAFFIC Southeast Asia.
2009 Sell-off or sell-out? BBC Wildlife January: 37.
2009 No proof CITES-backed ivory sales kill more elephants. Swara 32(1): 40-42.
2009 Ivory’s Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants. (Book review)
Swara 32(1): 148-149.
2009 The Elephant and Ivory Trade in Thailand. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: TRAFFIC
Southeast Asia.
2009 (with E. Martin) The USA’s ivory markets – how much a threat to elephants?
Pachyderm 45: 67-76.
2009 Ivory’s Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants. (Book review).
Pachyderm 45: 143-144.
2009 CITES-approved ivory sales and elephant poaching. Pachyderm 45:
150-153.
2009 The status of the ivory trade in Thailand and Viet Nam. TRAFFIC Bulletin 22(2):
83-91.
2009 The marine turtle product trade in Viet Nam. Marine Turtle Newsletter 124:6-9.
2010 (with John Frederick Walker) Consequences of legal ivory trade. Science 328: 16331634.
2010 (with John Frederick Walker) Know the effects of legal ivory trade. Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/328/5986/1634-d
2010 The okapi Wildlife Reserve: Is there hope for the future? Swara 33(4): 42-45.
2011 First ivory, now meat: Elephants face second threat to survival. Swara 34(1): 20-24.
2011 Burning ivory stockpiles: what message does this send? Swara 34(4): 11-12.
2011 Poverty, corruption and Asian wealth: the perfect storm battering African elephants.
Swara 34(4): 22-25.
2011 (with E. Martin and L. Vigne) Exaggerated ivory prices can be harmful to elephants.
Swara 34(4): 16-20.
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2011 Elephant Meat Trade in Central Africa. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/SSC-OP-045.pdf
2011 Elephant Meat Trade in Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study.
Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/SSC-OP-045-004.pdf
2011 (with Shannon Randolph) Elephant Meat Trade in Central Africa: Cameroon Case Study.
Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/SSC-OP-045-001.pdf
2011 (with Ezra Neale) Elephant Meat Trade in Central Africa: Central African Republic Case
Study. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. . http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/SSC-OP-045002.pdf
2011 (with Stephanie Latour) Elephant Meat Trade in Central Africa: Republic of Congo Case
Study. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. . http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/SSC-OP-045003.pdf
2011 Elephant meat and ivory trade in Central Africa. Pachyderm 50: 26-36.
2012 Jumbo threat: Elephants as bushmeat. Natural History April: 12-16.
2012 Threat to Kenya's coast colobus. Swara 35(1): 55.
2012
Elephant bushmeat: new threat to elephants. Swara 35(3): 38-41.
2012 The 'Inconvenient Truth' about the ivory trade. The Ecologist November
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1690689/the_inconvenient_truth_a
bout_the_ivory_trade.html
2012
Reviews of The Ivory Dynasty: A report on the soaring demand for elephant and
mammoth ivory in southern China, by Esmond Martin and Lucy Vigne, and Making a
Killing: A 2011 Survey of Ivory Markets in China, by Grace G. Gabriel, Ning Hua and
Juan Wang. Pachyderm 51: 94-96.
2012 Eating Elephants. Geographical December: 46-50.
2013 Disappearance of big game in northern Kenya. Swara 37(1): 42-45.
2013 (with others) Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos and
Orangutans. A Rapid Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme,
GRID- Arendal. http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/apes/
2013 (with others) Elephants in the Dust – The African Elephant Poaching Crisis. A Rapid
Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal.
http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/elephants/
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2013 The great ape slave trade. Swara 37(2): 26-35.
2013 Aunt Mildred’s teeth, CITES and the ivory trade. Swara 37(2): 18-19.
2013 It’s not just China: New York is gateway for illegal ivory. Swara 37(3): 36-38.
2013 The big ivory apple. Natural History July-August: 10-13.
2013 Africa’s lost apes. Africa Geographic September: 46-51.
2013 The world wildlife racket: the Conakry Connection. Swara 37(4): 41-44.
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