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KATINA T. LILLIOS
Department of Anthropology
114 Macbride Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
[email protected] 319-335-3023
https://clas.uiowa.edu/anthropology/people/katina-lillios
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Education
1985-1991 Ph.D. Yale University, Anthropology
Dissertation: Competition to Fission: The Copper to Bronze Age Transition
in the Lowlands of West-Central Portugal (3000-1000 BC), Chair: F. Hole
1983-1985 M.A. Yale University, Archaeology
1978-1982 B.A. Boston University, Archaeology; Art History, Magna Cum Laude
Academic Positions (Primary)
2015- Professor, The University of Iowa
2003-2015 Associate Professor, The University of Iowa
2001-2003 Associate Professor, Ripon College
1995-2001 Assistant Professor, Ripon College
Professional and Academic Positions (Secondary)
2019- Departmental Executive Officer (Chair), Department of Anthropology
2009-2012 Director of Graduate Studies, University of Iowa, Department of
Anthropology
2006-2008 Director, European Studies Group, University of Iowa, International
Programs
2001-2002 Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute
of Archaeology
1997 Tutor, School of Maori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand
1995 Lecturer, Hunter College
1993-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Ripon College
1992, 1993 Instructor, The Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth
1992 Lecturer, Brandeis University
1991 Lecturer, Tufts University
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SCHOLARSHIP
Monographs
2020 Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula: The Paleolithic through the Early Bronze
Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reviews: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (April 2020), Journal of
Anthropological Research (2021).
2015 In Praise of Small Things: Excavations at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age
Burial of Bolores (Torres Vedras), Portugal, with Mack, J., Waterman, A.J.,
Artz, J.A, and Nilsson-Stutz, Liv. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports,
International Series.
2008 Heraldry for the Dead: Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of
Neolithic Iberia. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Reviews: Zephyrus LXVII:214-216, Minerva, September/October, pp. 14-15,
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(2):277-278, European Journal of
Archaeology 13:255-257, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(N.S.) 16:405-6, The Times Literary Supplement, February 5, 2010, No.
5575:28, Journal of Anthropological Research 65(4):648-650, Journal of
Field Archaeology 34:357-359, Trabajos de Prehistoria 66(2):193-195,
American Anthropologist 111(2):256-257.
Edited Volumes
2020 with I. Sastre and P. Díaz-del-Río. The Matter of Prehistory. Papers in Honor of
Antonio Gilman Guillén. Bibliotheca Prehistorica Hispana. Madrid.
2016 with M. Chazan. Fresh Fields and Pastures New: Papers Presented in Honor of
Andrew M.T. Moore. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Reviews: European Journal of Archaeology 20(3): 576-580.
2011 Comparative Archaeologies: The American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the
Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Reviews: European Journal of Archaeology 15(2):341-344, Trabajos de
Prehistoria 69(1):177-178.
2010 with Tsamis, V. Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe.
Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Reviews: American Journal of Archaeology 116.3, Archaeological Review
from Cambridge 26(1):151-156.
1995 The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia. Ann Arbor, MI:
International Monographs in Prehistory.
Reviews: L’Anthropologie 100(4):606, American Antiquity 61(3):617-618,
Trabajos de Prehistoria 53(2):178-182, Antiquity 70 (June):478-480,
American Journal of Archaeology 100:609-610.
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Digital Media
2016 Death and Life at Bolores and the Sizandro Valley, Portugal.
http://bolores.lib.uiowa.edu.
2004 The Engraved Stone Plaque Registry and Inquiry Tool (ESPRIT).
http://research2.its.uiowa.edu/iberian.
Review: Trabajos de Prehistoria 63(1):191-195.
Journal Articles
2020 Alterity and mobility in Iberian late prehistoric archaeology: current research
on the Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (6000-1500 BCE) (invited article).
Annual Review of Anthropology 49:49-65.
2019 Response to “Social complexity and social inequality in the late prehistoric
Mediterranean” (by T.P. Leppard). Current Anthropology 60(3):283-308
(response on pp. 298-299).
2019 Olalde, I., Mallick, S., Patterson, N., Rohland, N., Villalba-Monco, V., Silva,
M., Dulias, K., Edwards, C. J., Gandini, F., Pala, M., Soares, P., Ferrando-
Bernal, M., Adamski, N., Broomandkhoshbach, N., Cheronet, O., Culleton, B.
J., Fernandes, D., Lawson, A. M., Mah, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K.,
Zhang, Z., Jiménez Arenas, J. M., Toro Moyano, I. J., Salazar-García, D. C.,
Castanyer, P., Santos, M., Tremoleda, J., Lozano, M., García Borja, P.,
Fernández-Eraso, J., Mujika-Alustiza, J. A., Barroso, C., Bermúdez, F. J.,
Viguera Mínguez, E., Burch, J., Coromina, N., Vivó, D., Cebrià, A., Fullola,
J. M., García-Puchol, O., Morales, J. I., Oms, F. Xavier, Majó, T., Vergès, J.
M., Díaz-Carvajal, A., Ollich-Castanyer, I., López-Cachero, F. Javier, Silva,
A. M., Alonso-Fernández, C., Delibes de Castro, G., Echevarría, J. J.,
Moreno-Márquez, A., Pascual Berlanga, G., Ramos-Garcia, P., Ramos
Muñoz, J., Vijande Vila, E., Aguilela Arzo, G., Esparza Arroyo, A., Lillios,
K. T., Mack, J., Velasco-Vázquez, J., Waterman, A., Benítez de Lugo Enrich,
L., Benito Sánchez, M., Agustí, B., Codina, F., de Prado, G., Estalrrich, A.,
Fernández Flores, A., Finlayson, C., Finlayson, G., Finlayson, S., Giles-
Guzmán, F., Rosas, A., Barciela González, V., García Atiénzar, G.,
Hernández Pérez, M. S., Llanos, A., Carrión Marco, Y., Collado Beneyto, I.,
López-Serrano, D., Sanz Tormo, M., Valera, A. C., Blasco, C., Liesau, C.,
Ríos, P., Daura, J., de Pedro Michó, M. J., Diez-Castillo, A. A., Flores
Fernández, R., Francès Farré, J., Garrido-Pena, R., Gonçalves, V. S., Guerra-
Doce, E., Herrero-Corral, A. M., Juan-Cabanilles, J., López-Reyes, D.,
McClure, S. B., Merino Pérez, M., Oliver Foix, A., Sanz Borràs, M., Sousa,
A. C., Vidal Encinas, J. M., Kennett, D. J., Richards, M. B., Alt, K. W., Haak,
W., Pinhasi, R., Lalueza-Fox, C., Reich, D. 2019. The genomic history of the
Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years. Science 363(6432):1230-1234.
2018 Twenty-five years of late prehistoric archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula.
Looking back, looking forward (invited review article). Trabajos de
Prehistoria 75(2):203-222.
2018 Blanco-González, A., Lillios, K.T. López-Sáez, J.A. and Drake, B.L. Cultural,
demographic and environmental dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age
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in Iberia (3300–1500 BC): towards an interregional multiproxy comparison at
the time of the 4.2 ky BP event. Journal of World Prehistory 31(1):1-79. DOI:
10.1007/s10963-018-9113-3
2018 Olalde, I. Brace, S., Allentoft, M., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Rohland, N.,
Mallick, S., Booth, T., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson,
M., Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y.,
Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Harney, E., de Knijff, P., Michel,
M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Barclay, A., Alt, K., Avilés Fernández,
A., Bánffy, E., Bernabò-Brea, M., Billoin, D., Blasco, C., Bonsall, C.,
Bonsall, L., Allen, T., Büster, L., Carver, S., Castells Navarro, L., Craig, O.,
Cook, G., Cunliffe, B., Denaire, A., Dinwiddy, K., Dodwell, N., Ernée, M.,
Evans, C., Kuchařík, M., Francès Farré, J., Fokkens, H., Fowler, C.,
Gazenbeek, M., Garrido Pena, R., Haber-Uriarte, M., Haduch, E., Hey, G.,
Jowett, N., Knowles, T., Massy, K., Pfrengle, S., Lefranc, P., Lemercier, O.,
Lefebvre, A., Lomba Maurandi, J., Majó, T., McKinley, J., McSweeney, K.,
Balázs Gusztáv, M., Modi, A., Kulcsár, G., Kiss, V., Czene, A., Patay, R.,
Endrődi, A., Köhler, K., Hajdu, T., Cardoso, J.L., Liesau, C., Parker Pearson,
M., Włodarczak, P., Price, T.D., Prieto, P., Rey, P.-J., Ríos, P., Risch, R.,
Rojo Guerra, M., Schmitt, A., Serralongue, J., Silva, A.M., Smrcka, V.,
Vergnaud, L., Zilhão, J., Caramelli, D., Higham, T., Heyd, V., Sheridan, A.,
Sjögren, K.-G., Thomas, M., Stockhammer, P., Pinhasi, R., Krause, J., Haak,
W., Barnes, I., Lalueza-Fox, C., Hałuszko, A., Zanini, A., Bastida Ramírez,
A., Herrero-Corral, A.-M., Valenti, A., Rapiński, A., Neil, B., Heras
Martínez, C., Waddington, C., Keating, D., Kennett, D., Guerra-Doce, E.,
Carnieri, E., Candilio, F., Brown, F., Delibes, G., Brücken, G., Soriano, I.,
Dani, J., Desideri, J., Vega Miguel, J., Lillios, K., Lentini, L., Mackiewicz,
M., Besse, M., Brittain, M., Hoole, M., Luke, M., Dobeš, M., Furmanek, M.,
Cheronet, O., Velemínský, P., Flores Fernández, R., Mortimer, R., Menduiña
García, R., Tusa, S., Leach, S., Szeniczey, T., Harper, T., Galera Olmo, V.,
Bernert, Z. and Reich. D. The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic
transformation of Northwest Europe. Nature 555:190-196.
2017 Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Roth, C. Brandt, G., Rihuete Herrada, C., Tejedor-
Rodríguez, C., Held, P., García-Martínez-de-Lagrán, I., Arcusa Magallón, H.,
Zesch, S., Knipper, C., Bánffy, E., Friederich, S., Meller, H., Bueno Ramírez,
P., Barroso Bermejo, R., de Balbín Behrmann, R., Herrero-Corral, A.M.,
Flores Fernández, R., Alonso Fernández, C., Jiménez Echevarria, J.,
Rindlisbacher, L., Oliart, C., Fregeiro, M.I., Soriano Llopis, I., Vicente, O.,
Micó, R., Lull, V., Soler Díaz, J., López Padilla, J.A., Jover Maestre, F.J.,
Lomba Maurandi, J., Avilés Fernández, A., Lillios, K.T., Maria Silva, A.M.,
Ramalho, M.M., Oosterbeek, L.M., Goncalves, V.M. dos, Cunha, C., Parreira,
R., Waterman, A., Roig Buxó, J., Martínez, A., Ponce Martínez, J., Hunt
Ortiz, M., Mejías-García, J.C., Pecero Espín, J., Cruz-Auñón Briones, R.,
Tomé, T., Carmona Ballestero, E., Cardoso, J.L., Araújo, A.C., Liesau von
Lettow-Vorbeck, C., Blasco Bosqued, C., Ríos Mendoza, P., Pujante, A.,
Pichler, S.L., Krause, J., Garrido-Pena, R., Kunst, M., Risch, R., Rojo-Guerra,
M.A., Haak. W., Alt, K.W. The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian
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Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. Scientific
Reports: Nature 7:15644, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15480-9.
2017 Irish, J.D., Lillios, K.T., Waterman, A.J. and Silva, A.M. ‘Other’ possibilities?
Assessing regional and extra-regional dental affinities of populations in the
Portuguese Estremadura to explore the roots of the Late Neolithic-Copper Age of
Iberia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11:224-236.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.12.003
2017 Drake, B.L., Blanco-González, A., and Lillios, K.T. Regional demographic
dynamics in the Neolithic transition in Iberia: Results from summed calibrated date
analysis. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 24 (3): 796-812. DOI
10.1007/s10816-016-9286-y
2016 Bodies in space and time: Rethinking the Other in later Iberian prehistory. Setúbal
Arqueólogica 16:65-76.
2016 Lillios, K.T., Blanco-González, A., Drake, B.L., and López-Sáez, J.A. Mid-late
Holocene climate, demography, and cultural dynamics in Iberia: A multi-proxy
approach. Quaternary Science Reviews 135:138-153.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.011.
2016 Waterman, A.J., Lillios, K.T., Tykot, R.H., and Kunst, M. Environmental
change and economic practices between the third and second millennia BC using
isotope analyses of ovicaprid remains from the archaeological site of Zambujal
(Torres Vedras), Portugal. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 5:181-
189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.017.
2016 Mack, J., Waterman, A.J., Racila, A.-M., Artz, J.A., and Lillios, K.T. Applying
zooarchaeological methods to interpret mortuary behavior and taphonomy in
commingled burials: The case study of the Late Neolithic site of Bolores,
Portugal. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 26(3):524-536.
10.1002/oa.2443.
2015 Practice, process, and social change in third millennium BC Europe: A view
from the Sizandro Valley, Portugal. European Journal of Archaeology 77(2):
245-258.
2014 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Waterman, A.J., Mack, J., Thomas, J.T., Trindade, L.,
and Luna, I. The rock-cut tomb of Bolores (Torres Vedras): An interdisciplinary
approach to understanding the social landscape of the Late Neolithic/Copper Age
of the Iberian Peninsula. Trabajos de Prehistoria 71(2): 282-304.
2014 Horwath, B., Waterman, A.J., Lillios, K.T., and Irish, J. Assessing change in diet
and biological affinity between the 4th and 3rd millennia cal BCE in the
Portuguese Estremadura: A preliminary dental comparison of Feteira II and
Bolores. HOMO: Journal of Human Comparative Biology 65(2):87-100.
2013 Disciplining bodies, disciplining objects: Museum guards and the Museu
Etnológico Português (1893-1929). Museum Anthropology 36(1):51-65.
2010 Lillios, K.T., Waterman, A.J., Artz, J.A., and Josephs, R.L. The Neolithic-Early
Bronze Age mortuary rockshelter of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal: Results
from the 2007 and 2008 excavations. Journal of Field Archaeology 35(1):16-36.
2009 Thomas, J.T., McCall, G., and Lillios, K.T. Revisiting the individual in
prehistory: Idiosyncratic engraving variation in the Neolithic slate plaques of the
Iberian Peninsula. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(1):53-72.
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2008 La memoria, la diosa madre y los ídolos placa de la Iberia Neolítica (Memory,
megaliths, and the engraved stone plaques of Neolithic Iberia). In Património
Megalítico. Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Património Histórico, (PH 67).
L.G. Sanjuan, ed., Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, pp. 62-67.
2004 Lives of stone, lives of people: Re-viewing the engraved plaques of Copper Age
Iberia. European Journal of Archaeology 7(2):125-158.
2002 Some new views of the engraved slate plaques of southwest Iberia. Revista
Portuguesa de Arqueologia 5(2):135-151.
2000 A biographical approach to the ethnogeology of late prehistoric Portugal.
Trabajos de Prehistoria 57(1):19-28.
2000 Read, C., Lillios, K.T., and Alves, F. The axe of the Obidos lagoon (Portugal) -
an uncommon find recovered during an underwater archaeological survey
(1999). Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia 3(1):5-14.
1999 Objects of memory: The ethnography and archaeology of heirlooms. Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory 6(3):235-262.
1997 Amphibolite tools of the Portuguese Copper Age (3000-2000 BC): A
geoarchaeological study of prehistoric economics and symbolism.
Geoarchaeology 12(2):137-163.
1992 Phosphate fractionation of soils at Agroal, Portugal. American Antiquity
57(3):495-506.
Book Chapters
2020 Where is the state in Portuguese prehistory? In The Matter of Prehistory. Papers
in Honor of Antonio Gilman Guillén. Bibliotheca Prehistorica Hispana. P. Díaz-
del-Río, K.T. Lillios, and I. Sastre, eds. Madrid, pp. 145-152.
2020 Idols of the Iberian Southwest: Histories, contexts, and practices. (Commissioned
chapter for catalogue of museum exhibition Ídolos. Miradas milenarias at Museo
Arqueológico Regional de Madrid). P. Bueno-Ramírez and J. Soler, eds. Madrid:
Museo Arqueológico Regional de Madrid, pp. 192-202.
2016 Andrew M.T. Moore: A life in service of archaeology and the academy. In Fresh
Fields and Pastures New: Papers Presented in Honor of Andrew M.T. Moore.
K.T. Lillios and M. Chazan, eds., Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 11-20.
2014 Crossing borders: Death and life in the Bronze Age of southern Iberia and North
Africa. In Cambridge Handbook of the Mediterranean World in the Bronze-Iron
Ages. A.B. Knapp and P. van Dommelen, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 554-570.
2011 Preface and Conclusions (Chapter 17). In Comparative Archaeologies: The
American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC).
K.T. Lillios, ed. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. ix-xv and 277-291.
2010 Lillios, K.T. and Tsamis, V. Introduction. In Material Mnemonics: Everyday
Memory in Prehistoric Europe. K.T. Lillios and V. Tsamis, eds. Oxford: Oxbow,
pp. 1-9.
2010 Mnemonic practices of the Iberian Neolithic: The production and use of the
engraved slate plaque-relics. In Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in
Prehistoric Europe. K.T. Lillios and V. Tsamis, eds. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 40-72.
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2009 Lillios, K.T., and Thomas, J.T. Speaking of stone, speaking through stone: An
exegesis of an engraved slate plaque from Late Neolithic Iberia. In Materialitas:
Working Stone, Carving Identity. B.V. O’Connor and G. Cooney, eds., Oxford:
Prehistoric Society Research Papers, pp. 138-146.
2008 Engaging memories of European prehistory. In Prehistoric Europe. A. Jones,
ed., Oxford: Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, pp. 228-254.
2007 Minds on the move: Mobility and memory in Iberian prehistory. In On the Road.
Studies in Honour of Lars Larsson, B. Hårdh, K. Jennbert, and D. Olausson, eds.,
Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, No 26. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell
International, pp. 220-225.
2007 Crall, D., and Lillios, K.T. The Engraved Stone Plaque Registry and Inquiry
Tool (ESPRIT) and the windfalls and pitfalls of publishing online archaeological
databases. In The World is in Your Eyes: Computer Applications and
Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 33rd Conference
(Tomar 2005), A. Figueiredo and G. Velho, eds. Tomar, pp. 111-117.
2006 Woods, A.D., and Lillios, K.T. Wearing stone: Experimental use-wear analysis
of the Iberian engraved slate plaques. In Simbolismo, Arte, e Espaços Sagrados
na Pré-história da Peninsula Ibérica. N.F. Bicho, ed., Actas do IV Congresso de
Arqueologia Peninsular (Faro, 14 a 19 de Setembro de 2004). Promontoria
Monográfica 05. Faro: Universidade do Algarve, pp. 29-37.
2006 Liminal animals, liminal people: The barn owl (Tyto alba) and the engraved
plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. In Animais na Pré-história e
arqueologia da Península Ibérica. E. Weiss-Krejci, C. Duarte and J. Haws, eds.,
Actas do IV Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular (Faro, 14 a 19 de Setembro
de 2004). Promontoria Monográfica 03. Faro: Universidade do Algarve, pp. 27-
34.
2003 Late Neolithic/Copper Age Iberia. In Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, P.
Bogucki and P.J. Crabtree, eds., Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
pp. 456-463.
2003 Creating memory in prehistory: The engraved slate plaques of southwest Iberia.
In Archaeologies of Memory, R. Van Dyke and S. Alcock, eds., Oxford:
Blackwell, pp. 129-150.
2001 The European megalithic tradition; regional subtraditions of the British Isles,
France, Iberia, the central Mediterranean, and north-central Europe; and the sites
of Stonehenge, Skara Brae, Newgrange, Locmariaquer, Bougon, Barnenez,
Carnac, Tarxien, Los Millares, Anta Grande do Zambujeiro. In Encyclopedia of
Prehistory, P.N. Peregrine and M. Ember, eds. New York: Plenum, pp. 157-184.
1999 Symbolic artifacts and spheres of meaning: Groundstone tools from Copper Age
Portugal. In Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory, J. Robb, ed.
Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations, pp. 173-187.
1998 Groundstone tools, competition, and fission: The transition from the Copper to
Bronze in the Portuguese lowlands. In Encounters and Transformations: The
Archaeology of Iberia in Transition, M.S. Balmuth and L. Prados Torreira, eds.
Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, pp. 25-32.
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1997 The third millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric evidence for settlement
histories and socio-cultural change. In Third Millennium BC Abrupt Climate
Change and Old World Social Collapse. H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss,
eds. NATO/ASI Series. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 173-191.
1997 Read, C., Grapes, R., and Lillios, K.T. Petrography and Chemical Analyses of
Prehistoric Amphibolite Artefacts from Portugal and Possible Source Rocks
from Western Iberia. Analytical Facility Publication No. 19. Wellington, New
Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press.
1995 Nationalism and Copper Age research during the Salazar regime (1932-1974). In
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. P.L. Kohl and C.
Fawcett, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-69.
1995 The historiography of late prehistoric Portugal. In The Origins of Complex
Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia, K. Lillios, ed. Ann Arbor, MI: International
Monographs in Prehistory, pp. 7-19.
1995 The potentials of phosphate analysis in understanding settlement territory and
land use during the Portuguese Chalcolithic. In Origens, Estruturas e Relações
das Culturas Calcolíticas da Peninsula Ibérica. Actas das 1as Jornadas
Arqueologicas de Torres Vedras, 1987. Torres Vedras: Câmara Municipal de
Torres Vedras, pp. 77-81.
1993 Regional settlement abandonment at the end of the Copper Age in the lowlands
of west-central Portugal. In Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethno-
archaeological and Archaeological Approaches, C. Cameron and S. Tomka, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 110-120.
1993 Agroal and the Early Bronze Age of the Portuguese lowlands. Actas do Io
Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia
33(3-4):261-281.
1991 Results from the second season of excavations at Agroal (1989). Boletim da
Câmara Municipal de Tomar 14:103-123.
Book Reviews
2020 Memory and Nation Building: From Ancient Times to the Islamic State, by M.L.
Galaty (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2018). American Journal of
Archaeology 124(4).
2020 Review essay of two books: ¡Un brindis por el príncipe!: el vaso campaniforme
en el interior de la Península Ibérica (2500-2000 a.C.), by G. Delibes de Castro
and Elisa Guerra (eds.) (Madrid: Museo Arqueológico Regional, Comunidad de
Madrid. 2019) and Las sepulturas campaniformes de Humanejos (Parla,
Madrid), by R. Garrido-Pena, R. Flores Fernández and A.M. Herrero-Corral
(Madrid: Comunidad de Madrid. 2019), Trabajos de Prehistoria 77(1):371-384.
2019 The Public Archaeology of Death, by H. Williams, B. Wills-Eve, and J. Osborne,
eds. (Sheffield: Equinox. 2019). American Antiquity 84(4):774-775.
2019 O Arqueólogo Cordial, by R. Gomes Coelho (Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências
Sociais). Journal of Historical Archaeology 53(1):205-206.
2018 European Archaeology as Anthropology: Essays in Memory of Bernard Wailes,
by P. J. Crabtree and P. Bogucki, eds. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press. 2017). Journal of Anthropological Research 74(2):270-272.
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2017 Montelirio: Un gran monumento megalítico de la Edad de Cobre, by A.
Fernández Flores, L. García Sanjuán, and M. Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, eds. (Sevilla:
Junta de Andalucía. 2016). Antiquity 91(359):1394-1396.
2017 Clairvaux et le “Néolithique Moyen Bourguignon,” Volume 1 and 2, by P.
Pétrequin and A.-M. Pétrequin, eds. (Besançon, France: Presses Universitaires de
Franche-Comté. 2015). Journal of Anthropological Research 73(2):282-284.
2016 The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Europe,
by M. Díaz-Guardamino, L. García Sanjuán, and D. Wheatley, eds. (Oxford:
Oxford University Press. 2015). Trabajos de Prehistoria 73(2):385-386.
2015 Review article of: Material Relations: The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic
Honduras, by J.A. Hendon, R. A. Joyce, and J. Lopiparo (Boulder, University
Press of Colorado. 2014), and Maya Figurines: Intersections Between State and
Household, C. T. Halperin (Austin: University of Texas Press. 2014). Antiquity
89:228-230.
2015 Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Vital Matters, by I. Hodder, ed.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014). American Anthropologist
117(1):189-190.
2013 Jade: Grandes haches alpines du Néolithique européen, by P. Pétrequin, S.
Cassen, M. Ererra, L. Klassen, A. Sheridan, and A.-M. Pétrequin, eds.
(Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté; Gray: Centre de Recherche
Archéologique de la Vallée de l'Ain. 2012), Journal of Anthropological Research
69:564-565.
2013 The Prehistory of Iberia. Debating Early Social Stratification and the State, by
M.C. Berrocal, L.G. Sanjuán, and A. Gilman, eds. (New York: Routledge. 2013),
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(3):556-557.
2013 Funerary Practices in the Iberian Peninsula from the Mesolithic to the
Chalcolithic, by J. F. Gibaja Bao, A.F. Carvalho and P. Chambon, eds. (Oxford:
British Archaeological Reports. 2012), European Journal of Archaeology
16(4):154-158.
2012 Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in
Oaxaca, Mexico, by R.L. Brulotte (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2012),
Journal of Anthropological Research 68(4):554-555.
2012 Religion, Death, and Dying, by L. Bregman, ed. (3 volumes, Denver, CO:
Praeger Perspectives. 2010), Religious Studies Review 38(2):70-71.
2012 Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany, by C. Scarre (Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 2011), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18:456-468.
2012 Interpreting Ancient Figurines. Context, Comparison, and Prehistoric Art, by
R.G. Lesure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011), Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 22(2):291-292.
2011 An Archaeology of the Senses, by R. Skeates (Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2010), European Journal of Archaeology 14(1):153-156.
2011 Archaeological Ethnographies, special issue of Public Archaeology (vol. 8, nos.
2-3, August. 2009), by Y. Hamilakis and A. Anagnostopoulos, eds.,
Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental
Studies 3(1):107-109.
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2010 Body and Image: Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2., by C. Tilley
(Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 2008), Journal of Anthropological
Research 66:298-300.
2009 Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices, by B.J. Mills and W.H.
Walker, eds. (Santa Fe: SAR Press. 2008), American Anthropologist 111(2):257-
258.
2009 Dinâmicas locais de identidade: estructuração de um espaço de tradição no 3o
milénio AC (Fornos de Algodres, Guarda), by A.C. Valera (Fornos de Algodres:
Município de Fornos de Algodres. 2007), Trabajos de Prehistoria 66(1):180-
181.
2009 Land, Power and Prestige: Bronze Age Field Systems in Southern England, by
D.T. Yates (Oxford: Oxbow Press. 2007), Journal of Anthropological Research
65(1):129-131.
2007 Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New
Millennium, by G.F.M. Rakita, J.E. Buikstra, L.A. Beck, and S.R. Williams, eds.
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005), American Ethnologist
34(3):3042-3045.
2001 Social Transformations in Archaeology: Global and Local Perspectives, by K.
Kristiansen and M. Rowlands (New York: Routledge. 1998), Journal of
Anthropological Research 57(2):239-240.
2001 Human Impact on Ancient Environments, by C.L. Redman (Tucson: University
of Arizona Press. 1999), American Antiquity 66(2):382.
1993 Iberia Before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain, by
L.G. Straus (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1992), American
Anthropologist 95(2):479-480.
1990 Spain at the Dawn of History, by R.J. Harrison (New York: Thames and Hudson.
1989), American Journal of Archaeology 74(1):157-158.
Non-refereed Reports
2013 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Waterman, A.J. Mack, J., and Racila, A.-M.
Archaeological Excavations at the Artificial Cave of Bolores (Torres Vedras,
Portugal), 2012 Season. Report submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal
(summary in Portuguese). 200+ pages.
2011 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., and Waterman, A.J. Archaeological Excavations at the
Artificial Cave of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Portugal), 2010 Season. Report
submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in Portuguese). 200+
pages.
2009 Lillios, K.T., Trindade, L., Willman, L., and Waterman, A. Neolithic-Bronze
Age Funerary Sites Between the Alcabrichel and Sizandro Rivers: Survey and
Testing. Report submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in
Portuguese). 20 pages.
2009 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Waterman, A.J., and Willman, J. Bolóres (Torres
Vedras) rockshelter: Preliminary report of the 2008 excavations. Report
submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in Portuguese). 53
pages.
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2008 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Kendall, B., Waterman, A.J., and Willman, J. Bolóres
(Torres Vedras) rockshelter: Preliminary report of the 2007 excavations. Report
submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in Portuguese). 91
pages.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
External
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, “Prehistoric Archaeology of the
Iberian Peninsula: The Making of a Cultural Mosaic.” 2016-2018 ($50,400)
National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Assessing the Role of Ecological Change on
Economic and Demographic Transformations Between the Late Neolithic and
Early Bronze Age in the Sizandro River Valley, Portugal,” 2012-2015, with 1
year no-cost extension. P.I. K.T. Lillios, Co-P.I. J.A. Artz ($235,534)
Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology of Portugal Fund Fellowship, for study of
engraved stone plaques of Neolithic Portugal, 2002 ($6,665)
Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology of Portugal Fund Grant, for collaborative
study with Caroline Read (Monash University, Australia), of groundstone tools
from Copper Age sites in Portugal, 1999 ($7,950)
National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Amphibolite Exchange and Social
Complexity in Copper Age Portugal: Phase 1- Source Characterizations and
Analyses of Archaeological Assemblages,” 1994 ($18,560)
American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, to support study of amphibolite tool
exchange in late prehistoric Portugal, 1994 ($2,000)
American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, to support study of amphibolite tool
exchange in late prehistoric Portugal, 1993 ($3,000)
Wenner-Gren Foundation Predoctoral Grant: The Copper to Bronze Age Transition in the
Nabão Valley, Portugal, 1989 ($7,000)
Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid: Nabão Valley Archaeological Survey, 1989 ($600)
Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid: Land Use at Agroal, Portugal, 1987 ($300)
Luso-American Educational Commission travel grant, to present paper at Primeiras
Jornadas Arqueológicas de Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1987 ($464)
External (as Collaborator)
2016 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia/Foundation for Science and Technology,
Portugal. Origins of the Beaker Culture: Testing the Neolithic expansion
hypothesis using ancient and modern mtDNA. P.I. Martin Richards (University
of Huddersfield, UK). €198.264,00.
Internal (University of Iowa)
2020 Summer Research Fellowship, International Programs, for project: Hybrid
Temporalities: Archaeological Evidence for Islamic Uses of Late Prehistoric
Sites in Al-Andalus (CE 711-1492) ($3000)
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2019 Book Subvention Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, for
Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula: From the Paleolithic through the Early
Bronze Age ($2500)
2018 Global Research Partnership Award ($10,000), to develop collaboration with Dr.
Luis Benítez de Lugo and excavations at Bronze Age site of Castillejo del
Bonete (Terrinches, Ciudad Real)
2018 International Project Special Projects grant, to bring Dr. Rui Gomes Coelho
(Rutgers) as colloquium speaker ($500)
2018 International Programs Travel Grant, for library research in Madrid ($700)
2013 Conference Travel Support, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to present
paper at American Anthropological Association meeting ($1,000)
2012 Conference Travel Support, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to present
paper at the Society for American Archaeology meeting ($1,300)
2011 Curriculum Development Grant, to support visit of Portuguese archaeologist R.
Boaventura ($500)
2011 Student Technology Fee Grant, to support anthropological information systems
and spatial analysis lab in Macbride Hall ($52,012)
2011 ICRU Fellow Academic Year grant, Bog Body Politics: A Comparative Study of
Archaeological Approaches and Public Reactions to Prehistoric Bog Bodies in
Ireland, England, and Denmark, Student: T. Burk ($2,500)
2010 Conference Travel Support, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to present
paper at Society for American Archaeology meeting ($1,200)
2010 International Programs Travel Grant, for archaeological fieldwork in Portugal
($1,000)
2010 Study Abroad Grant, to develop Study Abroad program: Archaeological
Excavation at the Neolithic Burial Site of Bolóres, Portugal ($3,000)
2009 Curriculum Development Grant, to support Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula
(113:130) in purchase of library books and visit of Portuguese archaeologist J.
Zilhão ($1,500)
2009 Stanley International Programs-Obermann Center Research Fellowship:
Population Nucleation and Collapse in Late Prehistoric Portugal: A View from
the Mortuary Site of Bolóres (Torres Vedras) ($3,000)
2008 ICRU Fellow Academic Year grant, Dental Evidence for Biological Affinity in
Neolithic Portugal: An Analysis of Two Neolithic Burial Sites, Student: B.
Horwath ($2,500)
2008 International Programs Travel Grant, to conduct archaeological fieldwork in
Portugal ($500)
2008 ICRU Fellow Academic Year grant, Excavations at Bolores, Portugal, Student:
J. Willman ($2,500)
2008 Book Subvention Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, to prepare
index for Heraldry for the Dead: Memory. Identity, and the Engraved Stone
Plaques of Neolithic Iberia ($850)
2008 International Programs Travel Grant, to present paper at Society for American
Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, BC ($500)
2007 Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP) Award, for Preliminary Excavation of
the Late Neolithic Burial Site of Bolóres (Torres Vedras), Portugal ($50,000)
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2007 International Programs Travel Grant, to present paper at Materialitas conference,
in Dublin, Ireland ($700)
2005 Obermann Summer 2006 Research Seminar, Comparative Archaeologies: The
American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC),
Co-directed with W.M. Graves (Anthropology) ($45,000)
2004 Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant to prepare The Engraved Stone Plaque
Registry and Inquiry Tool (ESPRIT) for publication on-line ($7,490)
2004 Ida Beam Visiting Professor grant, to support visit of S. James (Leicester, UK),
Co-sponsored with R. Moore (Classics/History)
2004 International Programs Travel Grant ($500)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Research
2018 Corresponding Member of the Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI)
2011-2012 Archaeology of Portugal Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America
2008 Scholar, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, The University of Iowa
Teaching
2015 Champion for Student Success, Academic Support and Retention
2002 May Bumby Severy Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ripon College
INVITED SYMPOSIA AND LECTURES
2021 What can archaeology tell us about Islamic engagements with megalithic
landscapes in al-Andalus? Universidade de Coimbra. April 16.
2021 What can archaeology contribute to our understanding of Islamic engagements
with megalithic landscapes in al-Andalus? Linnaeus University, Sweden. April
12.
2020 Heraldry for the Dead: Messages to the Living. The Engraved Plaques of
Neolithic Iberia. Guest lecture in Introduction to Iberian Archaeology course,
Universidad de Sevilla. December 14.
2018 What is Portuguese Archaeology? Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses.
Lisbon. April 4.
2018 Beyond Heraldry: The Engraved Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. Sociedade
Geográfica de Lisboa. April 5.
2015 Getting to Know You: Individuals and Social Difference in the Iberian
Prehistoric Past. Ripon College, Ripon, WI. October 30.
2014 Archaeology of Prehistoric Iberia: The State of The Field (Archaeology of
Iberia: State of the Field, L. Gosner and A. Smith, co-organizers), Brown
University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Providence, RI. February 27-
March 1.
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2014 Biographies and Practices at the Third-Second Millennia BC Mortuary
Rockshelter of Bolores (Torres Vedras). Departamento de Antropologia,
Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. April 3.
2014 The Rock-Cut Tomb of Bolores (Torres Vedras): An Interdisciplinary Approach
to Understanding the Social Landscape of the Late Neolithic/Copper Age of the
Portuguese Estremadura. Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal.
April 1.
2014 Biographies, Practices and Social Change: multiscalar research at the Late
Neolithic-Early Bronze age collective burial of Bolores, Portugal. Núcleo de
Arqueologia e Paleoecologia da Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal. March
26.
2014 The Lives and Times of the Bolores Dead: Excavations at the Late
Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Artificial Cave of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal.
Departamento de Arqueologia, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain. March 25.
2013 Disciplining Bodies, Disciplining Objects: Museum Guards and the Museu
Etnológico Português (1893-1929). University of Wisconsin-Madison. Oct. 4.
2012 Marks, Art, or Writing? The Engraved Plaques of Neolithic Iberia (Signum Mark
Studies Conference, J. Pim and O. Perrin, co-organizers). Stockholm, Sweden.
October 18-19.
2012 Everyday Practices of Museum Guards in the Early History of the Museu
Etnológico Português (1893-1929). University of Leicester, UK. October 16.
2012 Disciplining Bodies, Disciplining Objects: Museum Guards and the Museu
Etnológico Português (1893-1929). Cambridge Heritage Research Group
Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK. October 15.
2012 Memory Matters: The Social Lives of Objects and the Dead in the Third and
Second Millennia BC of Portugal. Hartford Society of the Archaeological
Institute of America, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. April 9.
2012 Heraldry for the Dead: The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. Lubbock
Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Texas-
Lubbock. March 21.
2012 Memory Matters: The Social Lives of Objects and the Dead in the Third and
Second Millennia BC of Portugal. Los Angeles County Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Los Angeles, CA. January 29.
2010 Interdisciplinary Excavations at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age
Rockshelter of Bolóres, and The Engraved Slate Plaques of Neolithic Iberia.
Associação Leonel Trindade, Torres Vedras, Portugal. July.
2008 Histories in Prehistory? The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia.
Archaeological Institute of America, Iowa City Society. February.
2007 Speaking of Stone, Speaking Through Stone: An Exegesis of an Engraved Slate
Plaque from Late Neolithic Iberia (Materialitas: Working Stone, Carving
Identity, G. Cooney and B.V. O'Connor, co-organizers). University College,
Dublin.
2004 Prehistoric Memories: Analyses of the Engraved Stone Plaques of Copper Age
Iberia. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. April.
2003 Re-Viewing and Re-Thinking the Engraved Plaques of Iberia. Association of
Portuguese Archaeologists, Lisbon, Portugal. In Portuguese. July.
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2003 New Perspectives on the Engraved Plaques of Iberia. German Archaeological
Institute, Madrid, Spain. June.
2003 What Did the Engraved Plaques of Late Prehistoric Iberia Mean? Portland,
Oregon Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America Lecture. March.
2003 Writing Without Words? Re-viewing and Rethinking the Engraved Plaques of
Copper Age Iberia. Yale University, Department of Anthropology. January.
2002 Lives of Stone Tools in Late Prehistoric Portugal. Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology. University of California, Los Angeles. February.
2002 New Interpretations of the Iberian Slate Plaques. Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. January 2002.
2002 Some New Views of the Iberian Slate Plaques. Instituto Português de
Arqueologia. Lisbon, Portugal. January.
2002 Lives of Stone Tools in Late Prehistoric Portugal. Seminar in History and
Archaeology. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal.
January.
2000 Objects of Sentimentality and Subversion, or Why Heirlooms Matter? University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Anthropology. January.
1998 Objects of Memory: The Archaeology of Heirlooms. Archaeological Institute of
America, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. May.
1998 Objects of Memory: The Archaeology of Heirlooms. Archaeological Institute of
America, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. January.
1997 Stone Tools in Prehistoric New Zealand. Victoria University of Wellington,
School of Maori Studies. Wellington, New Zealand. November.
1996 The Social Life of Groundstone Tools in Copper Age Portugal. University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Anthropology. November.
1996 Stones of the Ancestors: Amphibolite Axes of Copper Age Portugal. University
of Sydney, Department of Anthropology. Sydney, Australia. July.
1996 Stones of the Ancestors: Amphibolite Axes of Copper Age Portugal. The
Australian National University, Department of Anthropology. Canberra,
Australia. July.
1995 An Axe to Grind: Slate Plaques of Late Prehistoric Portugal. University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Anthropology. October.
1995 Amphibolite Tools of Copper Age Portugal: Sourcing, Technology, and
Exchange. University of Otago, Department of Anthropology. Otago, New
Zealand. June.
1995 Power Tools of the Portuguese Copper Age. University of Auckland, Department
of Anthropology. Auckland, New Zealand. July.
1994 Power Tools: Amphibolite Exchange in the Portuguese Copper Age.
Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology. Evanston, IL. January.
1993 Resource Selection and Groundstone Artifacts of the Portuguese Copper Age: A
Contextual Approach to Prehistoric Technology. University of Wisconsin,
Madison. Department of Anthropology. October.
1993 Portuguese Nationalism and Copper Age Research during Salazar's Regime.
University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology, Storrs, CT. October.
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1992 Social Fragmentation in Late Prehistoric Portugal: A Journey to the Dark Side of
Cultural Evolution. Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology. Waltham,
MA. March.
1990 Phosphate Analysis at the Site of Agroal. Escola Superior de Tecnologia de
Tomar. Tomar, Portugal. In Portuguese. August.
1986 Recent Thoughts on the Portuguese Chalcolithic. Museu Nacional de
Arqueologia e Etnologia. Lisbon, Portugal. In Portuguese. December.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
International
2021 Moving between scales of time and space: How can the current moment inform
our understandings of the 3rd-2nd millennia BCE in the Iberian Peninsula? 27th
Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel, Germany.
September 8-11.
2021 M. Cintas Peña, K.T. Lillios, and L. García Sanjuán. What can ethnography tell us
about gender inequality in the past? Case studies from the Chalcolithic site of
Valencina, Spain. Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists,
Kiel, Germany. September 8-11.
2019 Heterarchical Practices in the 3rd Millennium BCE of Southwestern Iberia.
American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, CA. November 20-24.
2018 Lillios, K.T. and P. Díaz-del-Río. Introduction to the Life and Career of Antonio
Gilman, for session Political Matters in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Antonio
Gilman Guillén. 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of
Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain. September 5-8.
2018 Lillios, K.T. and S.E. Kohring. Memory and Mimetic Practices in Ancient
Iberia: The Engraved Plaques and Bell Beakers. 24th Annual Meeting of the
European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain. September 5-8.
2017 Moving Bodies Over Space and Time: Multiscalar Analyses and Critical
Reflections. 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of
Archaeologists, Maastricht, Netherlands. September 1.
2017 Bodies at Contact Zones: Museum Guards, Customs and Immigration Agents,
and the Nation. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Toronto, CA. May
18-20.
2015 Lillios, K.T., A. Blanco-González, B.L. Drake, and A. López-Sáez. Assessing
the 4.2 kya event in the Iberian Peninsula and its Relationship to Culture Change
Using a Large Dataset of Radiocarbon Dates and Associated Delta 13C Values.
21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow,
Scotland. September.
2015 Blanco-González, A., B.L. Drake, and K.T. Lillios. The Onset of Agriculture in
Early Neolithic Iberia (5500-3500 cal BC). Fresh Research lines from Summed
Probability Radiocarbon Distributions. 21st Annual Meeting of the European
Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, Scotland. September.
Lillios, CV, page 17 of 28
2014 Lillios, K.T., J. Mack, J.A. Artz, A.J. Waterman, B. Horwath, and L.N. Stutz.
Biographies, Practices, and Social Change: Multiscalar Research at the Late
Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Collective Burial of Bolores, Portugal. 20th Annual
Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Istanbul, Turkey.
September.
2008 Societies Against the State, or the Failure of the State in Iberian Prehistory. 73rd
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
March.
2008 Waterman, A.J., J. Willman, and K.T. Lillios. Health Status and Diet of the
Human Population at the Late Neolithic Collective Burial of Bolóres (Torres
Vedras), Portugal: Preliminary Results. Poster. 73rd Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada. March.
2006 Colonizing Portugal: Tensions in Creating the Portuguese Prehistoric Past. Union
Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Meeting, Lisbon,
Portugal. September.
2006 Crafting Memories of the Iberian Neolithic. Union Internationale des Sciences
Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal. September.
2005 Crall, D. and K.T. Lillios. The Engraved Stone Plaque Registry and Inquiry Tool
(ESPRIT) and the Windfalls and Pitfalls of Publishing Online Archaeological
Databases. Computer Applications in Archaeology Congress, Tomar, Portugal.
March.
2004 Nationalism, Normal Science and the Historiography of the Engraved Plaques of
Iberia. Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, Faro. Portugal. September.
2004 Liminal Animals, Liminal People: The Barn Owl (Tyto alba) and the Engraved
Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. Congresso de Arqueologia
Peninsular, Faro. Portugal. September.
2004 Lillios, K.T. and C. Read. Vila Nova de São Pedro and Its Role in the Trade of
Amphibolite during the Copper Age. Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular,
Faro, Portugal. September.
2002 Madonna, Mother Goddesses, and Ambiguity in Visual Culture: Re-viewing the
Engraved Slate Plaques of Iberia. 8th Annual Meeting of the European
Association of Archaeologists, Thessaloniki, Greece. September.
2000 Stones of the Ancestors: Axes as Heirlooms? 6th Annual Meeting of the
European Association of Archaeologists, Lisbon, Portugal. September.
1993 Agroal and the Early Bronze Age of the Portuguese Lowlands, Io Congresso de
Arqueologia Peninsular, Porto, Portugal. September.
1989 The Hilltop Settlement of Agroal, 5º Encontro Internacional de Tomar, Portugal.
In Portuguese. July.
1987 The Potentials of Phosphate Analysis in the Understanding of Settlement
Territory and Land Use in the Portuguese Chalcolithic, Ias Jornadas
Arqueológicas de Torres Vedras, Portugal. April.
National
2021 Archaeological Evidence for Islamic Uses of Megalithic Structures in al-Andalus
(CE 711-1492). Society for American Archaeology. Online.
Lillios, CV, page 18 of 28
2020 (Poster) V. Priola, M. Beck, L. Benítez de Lugo, and K. Lillios. Vessel Form and
Paste Recipe: Ceramics from Castillejo del Bonete, Spain (2800-1800 BCE),
Austin, Texas, Society for American Archaeology (conference cancelled due to
COVID-19)
2016 Theft and Other Unsociable Extremes: Alternative Mobilities of the Iberian Slate
Plaques. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Boulder, CO. April 22-24.
2016 Lillios, K.T., J.D. Irish, A.J. Waterman, and A.M. Silva. Regional and Extra-
regional Dental Affinities of Populations Between the Late Neolithic and Copper
Age in the Portuguese Estremadura. 85th Meeting of the American Association
of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta, GA. April 12-16.
2016 Lillios, K.T., J.D. Irish, A.J. Waterman, and A.M. Silva. Demographic and
Cultural Dynamics of the Portuguese Estremadura in the 4th-3rd Millennia BC:
A Multi-Proxy Approach. 81st Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Orlando, FL. April 6-10.
2014 Waterman, A.J., R.H. Tykot, J.T. Thomas, D.W. Peate, and K.T. Lillios. An
Investigation of Human Dietary and Mobility Patterns at the Late Neolithic
Burials of Bolores Using Isotopic Analyses. 79th Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April.
2014 Practice, Process, and Social Change in Third Millennium BC Europe: The Role
of Collective and Commingled Burials. 79th Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Austin, TX. April.
2014 Mack, J., J.A. Artz, and K.T. Lillios. Landmark Quantification and the
Taphonomy of the Late Neolithic Rock-Cut Tomb of Bolores, Portugal. 79th
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April.
2014 Artz, J.A., J. Mack, and K.T. Lillios. Seeking Individuals in Commingled
Human Remains Using GIS and Osteological Landmarks: Collective Burials
from Bolores, a Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age Mortuary Site in Torres Vedras,
Portugal. Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
January 5.
2013 Heraldry for the Dead, Messages for the Living: Contextualizing the Engraved
Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. American Anthropological Association Meeting,
Chicago, IL. November 24.
2013 Practice, Process, and the End of Collective Burials in the European Neolithic.
Theoretical Archaeology Group, Chicago, IL. May.
2012 Gatekeepers to the Past: Museum Guards, Archaeology, and the Early History of
the Museu Etnológico Português (1893-1929). 8th Meeting of the American
Portuguese Studies Association, Iowa City, IA. October.
2012 Lillios, K.T., and E. Weiss-Krejci. Strangers on a Train: Individuals, Collective
Burials, and Temporality. 77th Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April.
2011 Interpreting Variability in Late Neolithic Burials in the Sizandro-Alcabrichel
River Valleys. 76th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Sacramento, CA. April.
2010 Museum Guards and the History of Portuguese Archaeology. 75th Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. April.
Lillios, CV, page 19 of 28
2009 Excavations at the Neolithic-Bronze Age Burial of Bolóres (Torres Vedras,
Portugal): A Contribution Toward the Study and Analysis of Collective Tombs.
74th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA. April.
2008 Portuguese Archaeology and Its Colonial Legacy. Encompassing the Globe:
Portuguese Contact, Exchange, and Heritage. University Iowa, April.
2008 Waterman, A.J., Willman, J., and K.T. Lillios. The Late Neolithic collective
burial of Bolores (Torres Vedras), Portugal: Preliminary results. Abstract
published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 218.
2007 Body/Object Boundaries in the Neolithic of the Iberian Peninsula. 106th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC.
November.
2007 Lillios, K.T. and J.T. Thomas. Engaging Artists in Prehistory: An Application of
the Morellian Method to the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. 108th
Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Diego, CA.
January.
2005 The Application of GIS Toward Understanding the Function and Meaning of the
Engraved Stone Plaques of Late Prehistoric Iberia. 106th Annual Meeting of the
Archaeological Institute of America. Boston, MA. January.
2003 The Engraved Plaques of Copper Age Iberia: Form, Structure, Context, Patterns
…Meaning? 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Chicago, IL. November.
2002 Memory Specialists in Prehistory: A New Interpretation of the Engraved Slate
Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. 101st Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2002.
2002 Were the Engraved Slate Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Portugal
Genealogical Reckoning Systems? 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Denver, CO. March 2002.
2001 The Engraved Slate Plaques of Late Prehistoric Portugal - Depictions of Heraldic
Textiles? 19th Annual Conference on Textiles. Decorah, IA. June.
2001 Apprehending Memory in the Prehistoric Past: Heirlooms of Ancient Portugal.
102nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Diego,
CA. January.
1997 Heirlooms, Personhood, and Death in the Copper Age of Portugal. 62nd Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN. April.
1996 Anthropological Narratives of Social Collapse: Contradictions between Theory
and Practice. American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA.
November.
1996 Amphibolite, Axes, and Ancestors: the Role of Groundstone Tools as Heirlooms
in Late Prehistoric Portugal. Midwest European Archaeological Diaspora
(MEAD). The University of Iowa. October.
1996 The Mute Stones Speak: Geoarchaeological Evidence for Differential Access to
Amphibolite Tools during the Portuguese Copper Age. 61st Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA. April.
1996 Symbolic Artifacts and Spheres of Meaning: Groundstone Axes from Copper
Age Portugal. Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory, 13th
Annual SIU Visiting Scholar Conference, Carbondale, IL. February.
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1995 Snyder, H. and K.T. Lillios. The Petrology of Amphibolite Groundstone: A
Petrochemical Approach to Understanding the Procurement, Distribution, and
Technology of a Lithic Resource in Copper Age Portugal. Northeastern Section
of the Geological Society of America, Cromwell, CT. April.
1994 Lillios, K.T. and H. Snyder. The Study of Amphibolite Tools of the Portuguese
Copper Age: A Geoarchaeological Approach to Prehistoric Technology, Science
in Archaeology: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying the Past,
Harvard University. October.
1994 Lillios, K.T. and H. Snyder. Resource Selection and Groundstone Artifacts of
the Portuguese Copper Age: A Contextual Approach to Prehistoric Technology,
59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.
April.
1991 European Nationalism and the Historiography of the Portuguese Copper and
Bronze Ages. Social Complexity in Late Prehistoric Iberia, Invited Session,
American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. November.
1991 Groundstone Tools, Competition, and Fission: The Copper to Bronze Age
Transition in the Lowlands of West-Central Portugal, New Perspectives in
Western Mediterranean Archaeology. Tufts University. October.
1990 Competition to Consolidation: The Third to Second Millennium BC Transition in
the Lowlands of West Central Portugal, 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Las Vegas, NV. April.
Media Appearances and Public Commentaries
2020 Guest Editorial, Who Gets to Build the World We Live In? Iowa City Press-
Citizen (July 9): https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/guest-
editorials/2020/07/29/who-gets-build-world-we-live-in/5470528002/.
2019 Multiple interviews in Spanish media, related to collaboration with Luis Benítez
de Lugo on excavations at Castillejo del Bonete (Ciudad Real):
(https://www.clm24.es/articulo/ciudad-real/estudiantes-norteamericanos-
excavaran-yacimiento-castillejo-bonete/20190711160232249203.html;
https://www.lanzadigital.com/provincia/ciudad-real/la-delegacion-de-la-
universidad-de-iowa-conoce-piezas-de-terrinches-en-el-museo-provincial-de-
ciudad-real/, etc.)
2012 Interviewed for audio podcast on the archaeology of heirlooms for textbook: 3rd
edition of World Prehistory and Archaeology, by M. Chazan (Pearson
Publishers).
2011 Interviewed for Iowa Alumni Magazine article: “Rites of Passage”, by K. Howe,
December 2011, pp. 31-35.
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/digital/dec11.cfm
2011 Interviewed for story on World Trade Center relics for Cedar Rapids Gazette,
September 9. http://thegazette.com/tag/katina-lillios/
2003 Interviewed for BBC Brasil, “Placas de xisto revelam mistérios sobre cultura
ibérica” (Slate plaques reveal mysteries of Iberian culture). July 7.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/ciencia/story/2003/07/030707_portugal.shtml.
2003 Interviewed for article in major Portuguese newspaper O Publico, on engraved
plaques research, “Placas de xisto gravadas do Alentejo e Algarve podem ser o
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mais antigo sistema heráldico do mundo” (The engraved slate plaques of the
Alentejo and the Algarve could be the oldest heraldic system in the world). July
4. http://www.publico.pt/ciencias/jornal/placas-de-xisto-gravadas-do-alentejo-e-
algarve-podem-ser-o-mais-antigo-sistema-heraldico-do-mundo-203036.
TEACHING
Students Supervised
Degree Student Years Role Outcome
Postdoc Marta Cintas-Peña 2020 Co-supervisor in progress
(Univ. de Sevilla)
Ph.D. Rachael Maxon 2021- Committee Member in progress
Victoria Priola 2020- Chair in progress
Corinne Watts 2019- Chair in progress
Addison Kimmel 2016- Committee Member in progress
Sonia García Pérez 2013- Co-Supervisor in progress
(Univ. de Sevilla, Spain)
Kyle Harvey 2013-16 Committee Member left program
Tawny Tibbitts (E&ES) 2012-16 Committee Member Graduated
Meredith Anderson 2010-17 Co-Chair left program
Christian Haunton 2010-17 Committee Member Graduated
Sarah Trabert 2010-15 Committee Member Graduated
Alissa Whitmore 2009-13 Committee Member Graduated
Keelin Baine 2008-14 Co-Chair Graduated
Jonathan T. Thomas 2007-14 Chair Graduated
Anna Waterman 2006-12 Co-Chair Graduated
Emmanuel Lillios (Ed.) 2004-10 Committee Member Graduated
Erik Filean 2004-06 Committee Member Graduated
M.A. Justin Soares 2020- Chair in progress
Bianca Viseu
(McMaster University) 2020 External Examiner Completed
Victoria Priola 2018-20 Chair Completed
Christie Vogler 2012-13 Committee Member Completed
Theodore Marks 2010-11 Committee Member Completed
Briana Horwath
(U Alaska, Fairbanks) 2009-12 Committee Member Graduated
Christopher Kimsey 2009-10 Committee Member Graduated
Jonathan T. Thomas 2006-07 Chair Completed
Anna Waterman 2005-06 Co-Chair Completed
Angela Collins 2005-06 Committee Member Graduated
Meredith Anderson 2005-06 Committee Member Completed
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Erica Begun 2004-06 Co-Chair Completed
Diego Schoch (Dance) 2004-05 Committee Member Graduated
Alexander D. Woods 2004-05 Committee Member Completed
Indep. Ethan Page 2020 Instructor Completed
Studies- Jacob Hosch 2020 Instructor Completed
Undergrad Abigail Brickley 2019 Instructor Completed
Lily Doershuk 2014 Instructor Completed
Lily Doershuk 2013 Instructor Completed
Katherine Lazzara 2013 Instructor Completed
Laurie Rickels 2011 Instructor Completed
Peter Gillon 2010 Instructor Completed
Sara Moore 2010 Instructor Completed
John Willman 2009 Instructor Completed
Briana Horwath 2008 Instructor Completed
Krista Dotzel 2008 Instructor Completed
Michael Thompson 2004 Instructor Completed
Honors Ana-Monica Racila 2012-13 Supervised Completed
Teah Burk 2011-12 Supervised did not complete
Krista Dotzel 2008-09 Supervised Completed
Briana Horwath 2008-09 Supervised Completed
Kelly Wilhelm 2006-07 Supervised Completed
Michael Thompson 2005 Supervised Completed
IS Senior Ashley Hollingshead 2009 Supervised Completed
Project Aaron Schlumbohm 2008-09 Supervised Completed
Lab Laura Ruebling 2013 Supervised Completed
Practicum Katie Thompson 2013 Supervised Completed
Laura Ruebling 2013 Supervised Completed
Ana-Monica Racila 2012 Supervised Completed
Laurie Rickels 2011 Supervised Completed
Sara Moore 2009-10 Supervised Completed
Brandi Bowers 2009 Supervised Completed
Laura Stulken 2007 Supervised Completed
Jacob Rosenberg 2006 Supervised Completed
SERVICE
Professional Committees
2018- Member, Advisory Board for Spal. Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la
Universidad de Sevilla.
2017- Escoural (Portugal) Cave Project, Board of Advisors
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2016- International advisory board member. Setúbal Arqueológica, Portugal
2016 External referee, Dr. Andrew Jones, University of Southampton, UK
2014-2015 Member, Review Committee of the German Archaeological Institute, Madrid
2014-2015 Member, Advisory Board for Trabajos de Prehistoria, flagship journal for
Iberian archaeology, published by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, Madrid
2013- Member, Editorial Board for ph investigación, cultural heritage journal
published by the Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico
2012-2014 Chair, Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award
2012-2017 Member, Archaeological Institute of America Gold Medal Award Committee
2012-2013 Member, Archaeological Institute of America Cotsen Excavation Fund
Committee
2011 Founding member of Signum, The International Society for Mark Studies
2011 Founding member of Re:marks, Journal of the International Society for Mark
Studies
2010- Member, Advisory Committee of the Fundación Pozuelo para el Estudio y
Difusión del Megalitismo
2010- Member, Advisory Board of Menga, International Journal of Andalusian
Prehistory
2008-10 President, Iowa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
2006 Permanent Council Member, Union International de Sciences Pré- et
Protohistoriques
2006-2008 Secretary, Iowa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
2005-2008 Member, Program for the Annual Meeting Committee. Archaeological Institute
of America
1999-2002 Translator, Instituto Português de Arqueologia. Translated abstracts in Revista
Português de Arqueologia (journal) and Trabalhos de Arqueologia (monograph
series) from Portuguese to English.
1999-2000 Member, Organizing Committee, European Archaeological Association Annual
Meeting (Lisbon, Portugal)
Journal Manuscript Reviews
I have reviewed articles submitted to: Antiquity, American Antiquity, Current Anthropology,
Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Social Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, e-
Keltoi, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Method
and Theory, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Journal of Archaeological Science,
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology,
American Journal of Archaeology, World Art, European Journal of Archaeology, PLOS
ONE, Trabajos de Prehistoria, Menga, Archaeometry, International Journal of
Osteoarchaeology, Open Archaeology, American Journal of Archaeology
Grant Proposal Reviews
I have reviewed grant proposals submitted to the: National Science Foundation, National
Endowment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and National Geographic
Society.
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Conference Session Chair or Organizer
2019 Bridging Geographic and Gender Gaps in Archaeology: Session in Honor of
Janet Levy, co-organized with B. Arnold, American Anthropological Association
Meeting (Vancouver, Canada), November 20-24, 2019.
2018 Political Matters in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Antonio Gilman Guillén, co-
organized with P. Díaz-del-Río, European Archaeological Association Meeting
(Barcelona, Spain). September 5-8.
2017 Book Presentation in Honor of Andrew M.T. Moore, co-organized with M.
Chazan. Archaeological Institute of America Meeting (Toronto, Canada).
January
2016 Unfair Trades and Unwilling Travellers: Alternative Mobilities of Things,
People, and Animals in the Past, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference,
Boulder, CO. April 22-24.
2012 Collective Burials, Collective Identities? Society for American Archaeology
Meeting (Memphis, TN)
2011 From Moments to Millennia: Multiscalar Analyses of the Neolithic-Early Bronze
Age Mortuary Landscape of Torres Vedras, Portugal, Society for American
Archaeology Meeting (Sacramento, CA)
2006 Material Mnemonics in European Prehistory, Union Internationale des Sciences
Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Meeting (Lisbon)
2003 Writing Without Words: Anthropological Approaches to Semasiographic
Systems, American Anthropological Association Meeting (Chicago, IL)
2000 Recent Approaches to the Study of Groundstone Tools, co-organized with T.
Orozco-Köhler, European Archaeological Association Meeting (Lisbon,
Portugal)
1991 Social Complexity in Late Prehistoric Iberia (3000-1000 BC, American
Anthropological Association Meeting (Chicago, IL)
Department Administration
2019 Chair, Fifth Year Review Committee for M. Hill
2018-2019 Chair, Department Diversity Committee
2017 Member, Third Year Review Committee for T. Powers
2017 Member, Tenure Review Committee for A. Kitchen
2017 Member, Fifth Year Review Committee for R. Ciochon
2016-2017 Chair, Departmental Review Committee
2016-2017 Chair, Department Diversity Committee
2016 Chair, Fifth Year Review Committee for E. Prussing
2016 Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Department Newsletter
2015 Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee for L. Graham
2015 Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee for E. Wentzell
2015 Chair, Fifth Year Review Committee for S. Schnell
2015 Member, Third Year Review Committee for E. Buch
2015 Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Department Newsletter
2013 Director of Undergraduate Studies
2013 Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee for M.E. Hill
2013 Member, Third Year Review Committee for E. Wentzell
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2013 Member, Curriculum Committee (spring)
2012 Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee for M. Beck
2012 Chair, Review Committee for M.E. Hill
2012 Department Representative, Hawkeye Visit Day
2010-2011 Member, Search Committee, for Medical Anthropologist
2010-2011 Member, Museum Studies Committee
2011 Department Representative, Hawkeye Visit Day
2009-2012 Director of Graduate Studies, The University of Iowa, Department of
Anthropology
2007-2008 Member, Colloquium Committee
2006-2007 Member, Search Committee, for North American Archaeologist
2006 Departmental Representative, CLAS Commencement, December
2006 Member, Departmental Consulting Group, for Promotion and Tenure of M.
Khandelwal (Anthropology)
2004-2008 Member, Teaching Resources Committee
2004-2006 Chair, Colloquium Committee
2003-2004 Member, Space and Equipment Committee
2003-2004 Museum Committee
2003-2004 Faculty Assembly Alternate Representative
2003-2013 Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (Archaeology)
2003 Department Representative for Open House at Belin-Blank Center for Gifted
and Talented Education
Department Presentations
2017 Writing about One Million Years of Iberian History: Why and How? UI
Anthropology Pub Talk. December 13.
2017 Grant-writing for the National Endowment for the Humanities. UI
Anthropology Graduate Student Brown Bag. October 20.
2017 Climate, Demography, and Culture Change in the Copper and Bronze Ages
of the Iberian Peninsula. UI Anthropology Club. April 5.
2016 Unfair Trades and Unwilling Travellers: Alternative Mobilities of Things,
People, and Animals in the Past. UI Anthropology Graduate Student Brown
Bag Series. April 15.
2015 The Research Process: Cycle or Spaghetti? UI Anthropology Club. October
21.
2013 The Ins and Outs of Applying to Graduate School. UI Anthropology Club.
November 12.
2013 Disciplined Bodies, Disciplined Objects, and the Early History of the
Museu Etnológico Português (1893-1929). UI Anthropology Graduate
Student Brown Bag Series. October.
2013 Excavations at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Artificial Cave of
Bolores. What Have We Learned? What Do We Hope to Learn? UI
Anthropology Graduate Student Brown Bag Series. February.
2010 Archaeology as a Career, to student members of the UI Archaeology Club, at
Office of the State Archaeologist, November.
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2010 The Social Lives of Dead Bodies in the Third and Second Millennia BC of
the Portuguese Estremadura. Department of Anthropology Colloquium
Lecture. October.
2007 Understanding Deathways - and Lifeways - at the Neolithic Site of Bolóres,
Portugal: Project Goals and (Very) Preliminary Results, for Anthropology
Graduate Student Brown Bag Series. October.
College Committee Service
2018-2019 Member, Collegiate Consulting Group
2016 Member, Nominating Committee for Faculty Assembly
2015 Member, Review Committee for Career Development Awards
2010-2012 Member, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Instructional Technology
Committee
2008 Member, Review Team for the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication
2007 Member, Peer Review Committee for G. Storey (Classics)
2007-2010 Elected Member of Faculty Assembly
College Presentations
2017 The characterization and sourcing of amphibolite tools in ancient Iberia, in
Archaeological Methods (ANTH: 3208), taught by M. Beck. October 18.
2017 The Iberian slate plaques as a writing system, in The Invention of Writing
(ANTH 2248), taught by S. Gölz. Sept. 19.
2016 The Iberian Neolithic plaques as writing, in Scripts, Glyphs, Characters, and
Codes: Adventures in the History of Writing from Cuneiform to Computers
(HONR:167), taught by S. Gölz.
2016 When Did Religion Begin?, in RELS:5200 - Graduate course on Varieties of
Religion in the Contemporary World, taught by M. Schlütter
2013 The Bolores excavations, in First Year Seminar, Archaeology, taught by J.
Doershuk.
2012 The Bolores excavations, in First Year Seminar, Archaeology, taught by J.
Doershuk
2011 The Bolores excavations, in First Year Seminar, Archaeology, taught by J.
Doershuk
2011 What the Dead Can Teach Us About the Living?, in Learning about Living
About the Dead, First Year Seminar taught by M. Bern-Klug.
2008 with B. Kendall on Geoarchaeological Investigations at Bolores, Portugal, for
Quaternary Brown Bag Series, Department of Geoscience. April.
2005 Memories in Space: The Mapping and Geographic of Analysis of Engraved
Stone Plaques of Prehistoric Portugal and Spain, Department of
Geography. February.
University Committees
2021 Member, Fulbright Faculty Committee
2020 Member, Fulbright Faculty Committee
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2019 NEH Mock Panel, Reviewer
2019 Reviewer, International Programs Summer Research Fellowships
2016-2017 Member, Charter Committee on Diversity
2013 Panelist, Research@Iowa Orientation, organized by the Office for the VP for
Research and Economic Development
2013 Member, Graduate College Ballard Seashore Review Committee
2012-2013 Member, Obermann Center Advisory Board
2011 Member, Graduate College Focus Group for Evaluation of Presidential
Graduate Fellowships
2011 Member, Selection Committee for Obermann Summer Seminar Director
2010 Member, Search Committee for Assistant Director of Obermann Center for
Advanced Studies
2010-2013 Panelist, Study Abroad Scholarship Committee
2010-2013 Member, Family Issues Charter Committee
2007-2010 Member, Charter Committee on Diversity
2009 Reviewer, Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP) Awards
2008 Reviewer, Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP) Awards
2007-2008 Iowa Faculty Investing in Recruiting Student Talent (IowaFIRST)
2007 Reviewer, International Programs Summer Research Fellowships and
Curriculum Development awards
2006-2008 Director, European Studies Group, The University of Iowa, International
Programs
2006 Member, Student Speaker Search Committee
2006 Reviewer, Fulbright Campus Review Committee
2005 Reviewer, Arts and Humanities Initiative Grants
2005 Reviewer, Stanley Grants
2004-2005 Member, European Studies Lecture Committee
2004 Judge of submissions to James F. Jakobsen Conference
University Presentations
2014 Diversity in the Prehistoric Past: Archaeological Excavations at the Neolithic
Site of Bolores, Portugal, for European Studies Group Brown Bag Series.
April 11.
2013 Space, Social Change, and Identity in Neolithic and Bronze Age Portugal.
GIS-a-palooza Day. April.
2010 Disciplinarians, Docents, Diggers, and Dusters: Museum Guards and the
Early History of the Museu Etnográfico Português (1893-1929). Office of the
State Archaeologist. October.
2008 Memory and Identity in Neolithic Iberia, for European Studies Group Brown
Bag Series. April.
2006 with A. Martins (Cultural Heritage Commission, Lisbon, Portugal), on
‘Colonizing Portugal: Portuguese Archaeology and Its Colonial Legacy,’ for
European Studies Group. October.
2006 Memories Etched in Stone: The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia.
Office of the State Archaeologist. April.
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2004 What is Europe to a European Prehistorian? in ‘What is Europe?’, European
Studies Group workshop.
Community Presentations
2020 Out in the Field: Finding Wonder under the Water, in the Ground, and on the
Waves (Obermann Conversations Program). November 16
2019 Climate and Culture Change: Archaeological Excavations at Castillejo del
Bonete, Spain. Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. December 11.
2017 Death and Mortuary Practices in the Ancient Past. Scattergood Friends
School. May 17.
2016 Funerary Practices in Prehistoric Iberia: A View from the Site of Bolores,
Portugal. Oaknoll Retirement Residence. December 20.
2015 Provided expert advice on case of illegal trafficking of Iberian antiquities
2015 Interviewed by 6th grade Foote School (CT) student for project on Portugal
2015 Interviewed by West High student for essay on cultural responses to death
2014 Archaeological Excavations at Bolores, Portugal. 2 presentations at the
Nathan Bishop Middle School, Providence, Rhode Island. February 28.
2013 Job-shadowed by two New London (Iowa) high school students. May.
2011 Presentation on the engraved stone plaques of Neolithic Iberia:
Experimental archaeology, for National Archaeology Day, Iowa City
Archaeology Fair. October. Reported in Iowa City Press Citizen, October 24.
2010 The Neolithic, Shimek Elementary School, Iowa City. October.
2009 The Archaeology of Social Collapse: A View from the Neolithic-Early
Bronze Age Mortuary Site of Bolóres, Portugal, International Mondays
Lecture Series, Iowa City Public Library. March 2009.
2008 Presentations on bones and archaeology to elementary school children from
the Shimek and Mann Schools, Iowa City. October 2008.
2003 Series of lectures: Great Debates in Archaeology, Institute for Learning in
Retirement, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT (spring)