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Class of 2019
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Andrew Zipkin
Office:
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Post Doctoral Scholars
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
2402
Biography
Andrew Zipkin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Previously, he was a National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Andrew was awarded a PhD in Hominid Paleobiology by The George Washington University in 2015, where he was supervised by Prof. Alison Brooks. He has conducted archaeological, ethnographic, geological, and environmental chemistry field work in Alaska, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and Zambia since 2007. During the academic year Andrew focuses on analytical chemistry method development and application to archaeological provenance research, with a special emphasis on Rare Earth Element and strontium isotope ratio measurement using variants of Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. His overarching research objective is the integration of ethnographic and archaeological science methods to investigate anthropological questions about landscape use, mobility/residency, network formation and maintenance, and material symbolism.
Education
The George Washington University
Doctor of Philosophy in Hominid Paleobiology
Dissertation: Material symbolism and ochre exploitation in Middle Stone Age East-Central Africa
Graduate advisor: Prof. Alison S. Brooks
August 2009 - August 2015
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Cornell University
Bachelor of Science with Research Honors, Magna Cum Laude
Major: Biology and Society
August 2005 - August 2009
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Publications
Andrew Du, Andrew M. Zipkin, Kevin G. Hatala, Elizabeth Renner, Jennifer L. Baker, Serena Bianchi, Kallista H. Bernal, and Bernard A. Wood. (2018) Tempo and mode of brain size evolution in the hominin clade. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20172738.
Alison S. Brooks, John E. Yellen, Richard Potts, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Alan L. Deino, David E. Leslie, Stanley H. Ambrose, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Francesco d’Errico, Andrew M. Zipkin, Scott Whittaker, Jeffrey Post, Elizabeth G. Veatch, Kimberly Foecke, and Jennifer B. Clark (2018) Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age. Science 360: 90-94.
Andrew M. Zipkin, Stanley H. Ambrose, John M. Hanchar, Philip Piccoli, Alison S. Brooks, and Elizabeth Y. Anthony. (2017) Elemental fingerprinting of Kenya Rift Valley ochre deposits for provenance studies of rock art and archaeological pigments. Quaternary International 430: 42-59
Andrew M. Zipkin, John M. Hanchar, Alison S. Brooks, Mark W. Grabowski, Jessica C. Thompson, and Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu. (2015) Ochre fingerprints: Distinguishing among Malawian mineral pigment sources with Homogenized Ochre Chip LA-ICP-MS. Archaeometry 57 (2): 297–317.
Andrew M. Zipkin, Mark Wagner, Kate McGrath, Alison S. Brooks, and Peter W. Lucas. (2014) An Experimental Study of Hafting Adhesives and the Implications for Compound Tool Technology. PLoS ONE 9 (11): e112560.
Professional Associations
Society for American Archaeology
Paleoanthropology Society
The Society for Archaeological Sciences
The Register of Professional Archaeologists
Work History
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Anthropology
University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign
June 2015 - June 2018
Board
Vice President for Social Media and Outreach
The Society for Archaeological Sciences
October 2016 - Present