SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
James L. Phillips
Education:
Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois BA in Anthropology
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois A.M. in Anthropology
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Ph.D. in Anthropology
Academic Positions:
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago
Director, Iraq Cultural Heritage Project and Adjunct Curator of Near Eastern,
North African, and Paleolithic Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History
Administrative and Editorial Positions:
North American Editor, Paléorient, 1971-1976; Member of Scientific Panel,
Paléorient, 1971-1995
Chairman, Archaeological Studies Committee University of Illinois at Chicago,
1980-1998
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at
Chicago, 1982 - 1986, 1989-1993; 1997-2004
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of
Illinois at Chicago, 2000-2002
Acting Associate Director, Office of Social Science Research, University of Illinois
at Chicago, 1985 - 1986
Executive Committee of the Graduate College, 1985-1986
Chair, Executive Committee of the Graduate College -2004-2006
Election Committee, College of LAS, 1989-1991
Education Policy Committee, College of LAS, 1994-1996; 1997-1999, 2002-2005
Field Work:
Department of Antiquities, State of Israel, (Field) Student Archaeologist, January-June
1960
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Field Assistant, Kaskaskia River
Dam Project, Summer 1964
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago Research Assistant, Near Eastern
Prehistoric Project, January-September 1965
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Archaeologist, Combined
Prehistoric Project, January-May 1967
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Field Director, Combined
Prehistoric Project, December 1967-March 1968
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Field Director, Combined
Prehistoric Project, December 1968-March 1969
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Field Director, Central
Negev project, July 1969-June 1970
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Senior Archaeological Assistant, Joint Iranian
Expedition, January-March, 1971
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois and Hebrew University (with O. BarYosef), Principal Investigator, Northern Sinai Prehistoric Project, 1972-1977
Institute of Archaeology,Hebrew University, Field Director, excavations of Nahal Hadera
V, Ein Gev I, January-September, 1973
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Director, Iroquois and
Kankakee Valley Survey, 1974-1977
Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Consultant, South Sinai Prehistoric Project,
August, 1976
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Co-Principal Investigator
and Director, FAI-270 Phase I Project, Columbia, IL, 1977-1978
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Principal Investigator
and Project Director, FAI-270 Phase II Project, Columbia, IL, 1978-1981
Quintana Island, Texas Research Project, Field Director, December 1980
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Principal Investigator
and Project Director, Sinai Prehistoric Project, 1982-present
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Principal Investigator
and Project Director, Judean Desert Prehistoric Project, May 1997-present
Department of Anthropology, Field Museum. Senior Archaeologist, Tsavo Research
Project (C. Kusimba Director) Kenya, June 2000.
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Director of Lithic Analysis, Tel Zincirli
Project, August 2004-present
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Director of Lithic Analysis, Sudan
Archaeological Project, January 2008-Present
Publications:
Monographs and Reports:
1973 The Nile Valley Late Paleolithic and External Relations. Memoir of the
Geological Survey of Egypt, No. 57. Cairo.
1974 Archaeological Survey of the Iraquois River Valley, Illinois Historic Sites
Survey, 55 pp.
1975 Archeological Survey of the Kankakee River Valley, Illinois Historic Sites
Survey, 30pp.
1978 Investigations at the Bullfrog Station, East St. Louis Stone Co., and Labras Lake
Sites, Illinois Department of Transportation, Phase I Report, FAI 270 Project,
Springfield, 75 pp. (With R. L. Hall).
1979 Investigations at the Labras Lake Site, Annual Report. Illinois Department of
Transportation, Phase II Report, FAI 270 Project, Springfield, 120 pp. (with R.
L. Hall and B. Weston).
1987 Subsistence Strategies of the Upper Paleolithic in the Wadi Feiran, Southern
Sinai. Report to the National Science Foundation for Grant #BNS-8409021
(J. L. Phillips & B. G. Gladfelter), 59pp
Edited Volumes:
1976 Prehistoric Investigations in Gebel Maghara, Northern Sinai, O. Bar-Yosef
and J. L. Phillips, Editors, Qedem 7. Memoirs of the Institute of Archaeology,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press.
1980
Investigations at the Labras Lake Site. Chicago: Department of Anthropology,
University of Illinois at Chicago Report of Investigations No. 1. 633 pp (J. Phillips,
R. Hall, and R. Yerkes).
1983
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest, J. L. Phillips and
J. A. Brown, Editors. New York: Academic Press.
2010 Advances in Eurasian Prehistory: Presented To
Sheva: The Israel Prehistoric Society.
Ofer Bar-Yosef. Beer
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The Prehistory of North and Northeastern Sinai, J. L.Phillips and O. BarYosef, Editors. Cambridge: Peabody Museum-Harvard University Press.
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The Prehistory of Southern Sinai. J. L. Phillips and B. G. Gladfelter, Editors,
Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory.
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Recent Studies in Eurasian Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef.
J. L. Phillips Editor. Israel Prehistoric Society.
Chapters in Refereed Books:
1975
Iberomaurusian related sites in the Nile Valley, In F. Wendorf and A.E. Marks,
Eds., Problems in Prehistory: North Africa and the Levant. Dallas: Southern
Methodist University Press, Pp. 171-180
1977
Introduction, In O. Bar-Yosef and J.L. Phillips, Eds., Prehistoric Investigations
in Gebel Maghara, Northern Sinai. Qedem 7, Memoirs of the Institute of
Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press.Pp. 1-10
(O. B-Y and J. Phillips).
1977
The Harifian, In O. Bar-Yosef and J.L. Phillips, Eds., Prehistoric Investigations
in Gebel Maghara, Northern Sinai. Qedem 7. Memoirs of the Institute of
Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press. Pp. 199218.
1977
The Mushabian, In O. Bar-Yosef and J.L. Phillips, Eds., Prehistoric
Investigations in Gebel Maghara, Northern Sinai. Qedem 7. Memoirs of the
Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Hebrew University
Press. Pp. 149-183 (J. Phillips and E. Mintz).
1977
Summary, In O. Bar-Yosef and J.L. Phillips, Eds., Prehistoric Investigations in
Gebel Maghara, Northern Sinai. Qedem 7, Memoirs of the Institute of
Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press, Pp. 255260, (O. B-Y and J. Phillips).
1979
The development of agriculture in Israel, In A. Horowitz. The Quaternary of
Israel. New York Academic Press, Pp. 317-319
1983
Preface, In J. Phillips and J. Brown, Eds., Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in
the American Midwest. New York: Academic Press Pp. i-ii
1983
Introduction, In J. L. Phillips and J. A. Brown, Eds., Archaic Hunters and
Gatherers in the American Midwest. New York: Academic Press, Pp. 1-4
1983
The Labras Lake Site and the paleogeomorphic setting of the Late Archaic on the
American Bottom, In J. Phillips and J. Brown Eds., Archaic Hunters and
Gatherers in the American Midwest. New York: Academic Press, Pp. 197-218.
(J.L. Phillips and B.G. Gladfelter)
1983
The Archaic phases in the American Bottom, In C. Bareis and J. Porter, Eds.,
American Bottom Archaeology, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Pp. 105118 (T. Emerson, A. Fortier, D. McElrath, and J. Phillips)
1987
Upper Paleolithic Hunter Gatherers in the Wadi Feiran, southern Sinai, In O.
Soffer Ed., The Pleistocene Old World, New York: Plenum Press, Pp. 169182.
1987
Sinai During the Paleolithic: The Early Periods, In A. E. Close Ed., Prehistory of
Arid North Africa: Essays in Honor of Fred Wendorf. Dallas SMU Press, Pp.
105-121.
Edge-Wear, Refitting and Chaines Opératoires: A Case Study From Sinai. In L.
Meignen Ed. 25 Ans d'Études Technologiques en Préhistoire. Juan-les-Pins:
Editons APDCA, Pp. 305-317.
Natufian Conference-Discussion, In O. Bar-Yosef and F. Vallas, Eds., The
Natufian Period in the Levant. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in
Prehistory, Pp.637-644.
Chronology of the Upper Paleolithic Period in the Levant and Nile Valley, In O.
Bar-Yosef and R. Kra, Eds., Late Quaternary Chronology and
Paleoenvironments of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tucson: Radiocarbon and
the University of Arizona Press, Pp. 169-176.
Remarks on:Seasonality and Sedentism: Archaeological Perspectives from Old
and New World sites,. In T. Rocek and O. Bar-Yosef Eds., Identifying
Seasonality and Sedentism in Archaeological Sites: Old and New World
Perspectives. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; Pp 217-225.
1991
1991
1994
1998
2001
Prehistory, In A. Negev and S. Gibson Eds., Archaeological Encyclopedia of
the Holy Land: Revised and Updated. Jerusalem, Continuum Publishing
House, pp. 403-411.
2003
The use of the chaines opératoires approach in the Upper Paleolithic Period of
Sinai, In N. Kardulias and R. Yerkes, Eds., Written in Stone: Multiple
Dimensions of Lithic Analysis. Lanham: Lexington Books, Pp. 7-17.
Phillips, J. L., and I. N. Saca
2003 Variability and change in the Upper Paleolithic of the Levant, In N. Goring-Morris
and A. Belfer-Cohen Eds., More Than Meets the Eye: Advances in Upper
Paleolithic Studies. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 95-105.
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Ofer Bar-Yosef and Levantine Prehistory, In Recent Studies in Eurasian
Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef. J. L. Phillips Editor. Israel
Prehistoric Society.
Chapters or Articles in Non Refereed Sources
1980
Introduction, In J. L. Phillips, R. L. Hall, and R. W. Yerkes. Investigations at the
Labras Lake Site, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Report of Investigations No. 1., Pp. 1-27
1980
Excavation and Laboratory Procedures. In J. L. Phillips, R. L. Hall, and R. W.
Yerkes. Investigations at the Labras Lake Site, Department of Anthropology,
University of Illinois at Chicago Report of Investigations No. 1., Pp. 28- 40 (J.
Phillips and R. Yerkes)
1980
The Archaic component, In J. L. Phillips, R. L. Hall, and R. W. Yerkes.
Investigations at
the Labras Lake Site, Department of Anthropology,
University of Illinois at Chicago Report of Investigations No. 1., Pp. 41-114
1980
The Lithics, In J. L. Phillips, R. L. Hall, and R. W. Yerkes. Investigations at the
Labras Lake Site. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Report of Investigations No. 1.,Pp. 353-365
1980
Conclusions, In Investigations at the Labras Lake Site, Department of
Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago Report of Investigations No 1, Pp.
407-412
Articles in Refereed Journals:
1970
Travail récente sur le paléolithique final de la vallée du Nil: rapport préliminaire,
L'Anthropologie 74 (7-8):573-581
1971
Prehistoric sites near Ein Avdat, Negev, Israel Exploration Journal 2l:13-24
(A.E. Marks, J.L. Phillips, H. Crew, and R. Ferring)
1972
Recent work in North Africa and the Nile Valley and the problem of the Late
Paleolithic, Current Anthropology 13 (5):587-590
1972
Prehistoric sites near the Har Harif, Negev, Israel Exploration Journal 22:13-24
(A.E. Marks,H. Crew, R. Ferring and J.L. Phillips)
1973
Comments on G.E. Wright, The Archaeology of Palestine from the Neolithic
through the Bronze Age, Journal of the American Oriental Society 93 (3):347351
1973
Syria, Hebrew Encyclopedia, Volume S (in Hebrew).
1974
Preliminary survey of Northern Sinai and Gebel Maghara, Kedem 1:12-16 [in
Hebrew] (J.L. Phillips and O. Bar-Yosef)
1974
Gebel Maghara, Israel Exploration Journal 23:106-107
1975
A `Silsilian' occupation site (GS2B-II) of the Kom Ombo Plain, Upper Egypt:
geology, archaeology, paleoecology, Quaternaria 17:343-386 (J.L. Phillips and
K.W. Butzer)
1976
L'Sinai du Nord. Chronique archéologique, Revue Biblique 80:18-22.
1976
Prehistoric sites near Nahal Lavan, Western Negev, Israel, Paléorient 2 (2):477482 (J.L. Phillips and O. Bar-Yosef
1976
Gebel Maghara, Northern Sinai, Paléorient 2 (2):483-484 (J.L. Phillips and O.
Bar-Yosef)
1976
Interpretations of prehistoric technology from ancient Egyptian and other
sources. Part I: Ancient Egyptian bows and arrows and their relevance for
African prehistory, Paléorient 2 (2):323-388 (J.D. Clark, J.L. Phillips, and P.
Staley).
1981
La Rivoluzione del Neolitico. Milan: Grande Enciclopedia Della Natura,
Fascicoli 102
1986
Travaux Récents sur la Période Archaique dans le Midwest des États Unis.
Nouvelles de l'Archéologie 22:32-38
1989
The Upper Paleolithic of Wadi Feiran. In The Prehistory of the Levant: Cultural
Changes From Their Beginnings Until the Sixth Millenium. Paléorient 14 (2):183200.
1990
A Survey in the Upper Wadi Feiran Basin, Southern
(1):113-122 (J.L. Phillips and B.G. Gladfelter)
1996
The real nature of variabilty in Levantine Epipaleolithic assemblages, Antiquity
70 (267):137-138.
1998
Collection of bone tools from old excavations at Kebara and El-Wad. Palestine
Exploration Quarterly 130 (2): 110-123 (J. L. Phillips, A. Belfer-Cohen, and I. N.
Saca).
2002
Recent excavations at the site of Erq-el-Ahmar, West Bank, Antiquity 76
(291):17-18 (J. L. Phillips and I. N. Saca).
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2003 Recent excavations at the site of Erq-el-Ahmar, Judean desert, West Bank,
Journal of Human Evolution 42 (3):A30-A31 (I. N. Saca and J. L. Phillips).
2006 Flores Hominid: New Species or Microcephalic Dwarf?, The Anatomical
Record Part A, 288A:1123-1145 [R.D. Martin, A.M Maclaron, JL Phillips, and W
B Dobyns]
2006 Comment on “the brain of LB 1, Homo floresiensis”, Science 312:999b [RD
Martin, AM MacCllaron, JL Phillips, L. Dussubieux, PR Williams, WB Dobyns].
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Recent excavations at Erq-el-Ahmar, Judean Desert, Journal of Eurasian
Prehistory. [J. L. Phillips, I. N. Saca, P. Wrinn, and N. Monroe]
Reviews:
1970
Review of P. Ucko and G. Dimbleby, Editors. The Domestication and Exploitation
of Plants and Animals. Ecology 51 (4):752-754
1973
Review of R. Berger, Editor, Scientific Methods in Medieval Archaeology,
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 32 (3):337
1973
Review of T.E. Allibone, The Impact of the Natural Sciences in Archaeology,
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 32 (3):337-338
1974
Review of K.W. Butzer, Environment and Archaeology. Journal of Near Eastern
Studies 33(1):171-172
1974
Review of S. Struever, Editor, Prehistoric Agriculture. Journal of Near Eastern
Studies 33 (1):172-173.
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Review of H-Gebel, Ed. Chipped Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent.
American Journal of Archaeology
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Review of S. Rosen, Lithics After the Stone Age. Bulletin of the American
Schools of Oriental Research
In Preparation:
The Prehistory of the Levant, Journal of Anthropological Research
The Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers of Sinai. La Recherche (France)
An archaeological survey in the Quseima area, northeastern Sinai. Paléorient.
The Dorothy Garrod Collection at the Field Museum. Fieldiana
Museum Exhibits [Curator]
2000
Dead Sea Scrolls
2001
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
2002
Eternal Egypt
2006
King Tut
2010
Mammoths and Mastodons
2011
The Horse