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General Research Interests:
- Zooarchaeology
- Bone Artifacts
- Eurasian Prehistory
Recent Research Focuses:
PUBLICATIONS:
Edited Volumes
- S. L. Olsen, S. Grant, A. Choyke, and
L. Bartosiewicz, (eds.) 2006
Horses and Humans: The Evolution of the Human-Equine Relationship. BAR, International Series 1560, Oxford, (375pp).
- S.L. Olsen (ed.) 1996, reprinted in 2003 in paperback
Horses Through Time. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado, (222pp).
- S.L. Olsen (ed.) 1988
Scanning Electron Microscopy in Archaeology. BAR, International
Series 452, Oxford, (408 pp).
Journal Articles and Chapters
in Edited Volumes
- Outram, A; N. Stear; R. Bendrey; S. Olsen; A. Kasparov; V. Zaibert; N.Thorpe and R. Evershed 2009
The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking, Science 323: 1332-1335.
- Olsen, S.L. and D. Harding 2008
Women’s Attire and Possible Sacred Role in 4th Millennium Northern
Kazakhstan. In K. Linduff and K. Rubinson (eds.), Are All Warriors
Male? Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe. Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield, Lexington Books, and Madison Books, 67-92.
- Olsen, S.L. 2008
Hoofprints. Natural History 117(4): 26-32.
- Olsen, S. L. 2008
This Old Thing? Copper Age Fashion Comes to Life. Archaeology 61
(1): 46-47.
- F. Allard, D. Erdenebaatar, S. Olsen, A. Caralla, and E. Maggiore
2007
Ritual and Horses in Bronze Age and present-day Mongolia: Some
Preliminary Observations from Khanuy Valley. In Laura Popova, Charles
Hartley,
and Adam Smith (eds.), Social Orders and Social Landscapes:
Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian
Archaeology.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Olsen, S.L. 2007
Conclusions: 4.3 Bone Artifacts and their Importance to Archaeology.
In Christian Gates St.
Pierre and Renee B. Walker (eds.), Recent Developments in Bone Tool
Studies. Oxford: BAR International Series 1622: 175-182.
- Olsen, S.L. 2006
Early horse domestication on the Eurasian steppe. In M. A. Zeder,
D.G. Bradley, E. Emshwiller, and B. D. Smith, Documenting
Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms. Berkeley: University
of
California Press: 245-269.
- Olsen, S. L. 2006
Introduction. In S.L. Olsen, S. Grant, A.M. Choyke and L. Bartosiewicz
(eds.), Horses and Humans: The Evolution of Human-Equine
Relationships. Oxford: BAR International Series 1560:1-10.
- Olsen, S.L. 2006
Early horse domestication: Weighing the evidence. In S.L. Olsen,
S. Grant, A.M. Choyke and L. Bartosiewicz (eds.), Horses and Humans: The Evolution of Human-Equine Relationships. Oxford: BAR, International
Series 1560: 81-113.
- Olsen, S.L., B. Bradley, D. Maki, and A. Outram 2006
Community organisation among Copper Age sedentary horse pastoralists
of Kazakhstan. In D. Peterson, L.M. Popova, and A.T. Smith (eds.),
Beyond the Steppe and Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University
of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, Colloquia Pontica
13.
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers: 89-111.
- Olsen, S.L. and I. Glover 2004
The bone industries of Ulu Leang 1 and Leang Burung 1 rockshelters,
Sulawesi, Indonesia, in S. Keates and J. Pasveer (eds.), Quaternary
Research in Southeast Asia. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 273-300.
- Olsen, S.L. 2003
The bone and antler artefacts: Their manufacture and use. In N.
Field and M. Parker Pearson (eds.), Fiskerton: An Iron Age
Timber Causeway
with Iron Age and Roman Votive Offerings. Oxbow Books, Oxford,
pp. 92-111.
- Olsen, S.L. 2003
The exploitation of horses at Botai, Kazakhstan. In M. Levine,
C. Renfrew and K. Boyle (eds.), Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation
and the Horse. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research, pp. 83-104.
- Olsen, S.L. 2002
Comments on “Archaeology and language: the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians,” by
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. Current Anthropology 43(1)80-81.
- N. Moloney, S. L. Olsen, and V. Voloshin 2001
Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Central Kazakhstan:
The Batpak valley and environs. In S. Milliken and J. Cook (eds.),
A
Very Remote Period Indeed. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp.138-143.
- Olsen, S.L. 2001
The importance of thong-smoothers at Botai, Kazakhstan. In A. Choyke
and L. Bartosiewicz (eds.), Crafting Bone: Skeletal Technologies
through Time and Space. BAR International Series 937, Oxford,
pp. 197-206.
- Olsen, S.L. 2000
The Upper Paleolithic bone industry of Klithi Rock Shelter, northwest
Greece. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(4): 209-226.
- Olsen, S.L. 2000
Reflections of ritual behavior at Botai, Kazakhstan. In K. Jones-Bley,
M. Huld, and A. Della Volpe (eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh
Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Journal of Indo-European
Studies Monograph
Series No. 35. Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, D.C.,
pp.183-207.
- Olsen, S.L. 2000
The sacred and secular roles of dogs at Botai, Kazakhstan. In S.
Crockford (ed.), Dogs Through Time: The Archaeological Evidence. B.A.R., International
Series 889, Oxford, pp.71-92.
- Olsen, S.L. 2000
The bone artifacts. In A. Moore, G. Hillman, and A. Legge (eds.),
Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu
Hureyra. Oxford
University Press, Oxford, pp. 154-163.
- Olsen, S.L. 1999
Investigation of the Phanourios bones for evidence of cultural
modification, Chapter 9, Specialized Analysis, Section 5. In
A. H. Simmons (ed.),
Faunal Extinction in an Island Society: Pygmy Hippopotamus
Hunters of Cyprus. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 230-237.
- Olsen, S.L. 1998
Animals in Native American life. In Marsha Bol (ed.), Stars Above,
Earth Below: Essays on Native Americans and Nature. Roberts Rinehart,
Niwot, Colorado, pp. 95-118.
- Olsen, S.L. 1997
Horse hunting strategies in the Paleolithic. In F. Alhaique, et.
al. (eds.), XIII International Congress of Prehistoric and
Protohistoric Sciences, Forlì, Italy, 1996: The Proceedings,
Vol. 6. A.B.A.C.O., Forlì, Italy.
- Olsen, S.L. 1996
Prehistoric adaptation to the Kazak steppes. In G. Afanas’ev,
S. Cleuziou, J. Lukacs, and M. Tosi (eds.), The Colloquia of
the XIII International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric
Sciences, Vol.
16: The Prehistory of Asia and Oceania. A.B.A.C.O. Edizioni,
Forlì,
Italy, pp. 49-60.
- Olsen, S.L. 1996
Introduction. In S. Olsen (ed.), Horses Through Time. Roberts Rinehart,
Boulder, Colorado, pp. 1-10.
- Olsen, S.L. 1996
Horse hunters of the Ice Age. In S. Olsen (ed.), Horses Through
Time. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 35-56.
- Olsen, S.L. 1996
In the winner's circle: the history of equestrian sports. In S.
Olsen (ed.), Horses Through Time. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder,
Colorado,
pp. 103-128.
- Olsen, S.L. and J.W. Olsen 1996
An Analysis of Faunal Remains from Wind Mountain, Appendix 8. In
A.I. Woosley and A.J. McIntyre (eds.), Mimbres Mogollon Archaeology:
Charles
C. Di Peso’s Excavations at Wind Mountain. Amerind Foundation
Publications No. 10, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, AZ, and The
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp. 389-406.
- Shnirelman, V.A., S.L. Olsen and P. Rice 1996
Hooves across the steppes: The Kazak life-style. In S. Olsen (ed.),
Horses Through Time. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado, pp.
129-154.
- Olsen, S.L. 1995
Pleistocene horse-hunting at Solutré: Why bison jump analogies
fail. In E. Johnson (ed.), Ancient Peoples and Landscapes. Texas
Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas, pp. 65-75.
- Olsen, S.L. 1994
Exploitation of mammals at the Early Bronze Age site of West Row
Fen (Mildenhall 165), Suffolk, England. Annals of Carnegie
Museum 63(2):115-153.
- Olsen, S.L. and P. Shipman 1994
Cutmarks and perimortem treatment of skeletal remains on the Northern
Plains. In D. Owsley and R. Jantz (eds.) Skeletal Biology
in the Great Plains: A Multidisciplinary View. Smithsonian Institution
Press,
Washington, D.C., pp. 377-387.
- Olsen, S. L. 1992
Taphonomy. 1992 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.
McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, New York.
- Olsen, S.L. 1989
The 1988 research at Solutré, France. AnthroQuest 40: 6-18.
- Olsen, S.L. 1989
On distinguishing natural from cultural damage on archaeological
antler. Journal of Archaeological Science 16:125-135.
- Olsen, S.L. 1989
Solutré: A theoretical approach to the reconstruction of
Upper Palaeolithic hunting strategies. Journal of Human Evolution 18: 295-327.
- Olsen, S.L. 1988
Introduction: applications of scanning electron microscopy to archaeology.
In S.L. Olsen (ed.), Scanning Electron Microscopy in Archaeology, BAR, International Series, 452, Oxford, pp. 3-7.
- Olsen, S.L. 1988
The identification of stone and metal tool marks on bone artifacts.
In S.L. Olsen (ed.), Scanning Electron Microscopy in Archaeology,
BAR, International Series, 452, Oxford, pp. 337-360.
- Olsen, S.L. 1988
Applications of scanning electron microscopy in archaeology. Advances
in Electronics and Electron Physics, 71: 357-380.
- Olsen, S.L. and P. Shipman 1988
Surface modification on bone: trampling vs. butchery. Journal
of Archaeological Science 15 (5): 535-553.
- Olsen, S.L. 1987
Magdalenian reindeer exploitation at the Grotte des Eyzies, southwest
France. Archaeozoologia, 1987, 1: 171-182.
- Arndt (Olsen). S.L. and M.H. Newcomer 1986
Breakage patterns on prehistoric bone points: an experimental study.
In D. Roe (ed.), Studies in the Upper Palaeolithic of Britain
and Northwest Europe. BAR, International Series 296, Oxford,
pp.165-173.
- Sales, K.D., A.D. Oduwole, G.V. Robins, and S.L. Olsen 1985
The radiation and thermal dependence of ESR signals in ancient
and modern bones. Nuclear Tracks 10(4-6): 845-851.
- Olsen, S.L. 1983
Zooarchaeological study of archaeological sites in the Farmington
area. In L.I. Vogler (ed.), Human adaptation and cultural
change: the archaeology
of Block III, N.I.I.O. Navajo National Papers in Anthropology
15(4): 1797-1844.
- Olsen, S.L. 1982
AZ V:9:105 faunal remains from excavation. In J.J. Reid (ed.),
Cholla Project Archaeology 4: the Tonto-Roosevelt Region, Arizona
State
Museum Archaeological Series 161: 160.
- Olsen, S.L. 1982
Faunal analysis. In T.J. Ferguson and B.J. Mills (eds.), Archaeological
Investigations at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, 1977-1980, Zuni Archaeology
Program Report 183: 390-428.
- Olsen, S.L. and J.W. Olsen 1981
A comment on nomenclature in faunal analysis. American Antiquity 46(1): 192-194.
- Olsen, S.L. 1981
Bone artifacts from Las Colinas, Appendix D. In L.C. Hammack and
A.P. Sullivan (eds.), Mound 8, Las Colinas Group, Phoenix,
Arizona.
Arizona
State Museum Archaeological Series 154: 291-295.
- Olsen, S.L. 1980
Bone artifacts from Kinishba Ruin: their manufacture and use. Kiva 45(4): 39-67.
- Olsen, S.L. 1979
A study of bone artifacts from Grasshopper Pueblo, AZ P:14:1. Kiva 44(4): 341-373.
- Olsen, S.L. 1977
Faunal analysis of four sites, Appendix E. In D. E. Doyel (ed.),
Excavations in the Middle Santa Cruz River Valley, Southwestern
Arizona. Arizona
State Museum Contributions to Highway Salvage Archaeology in
Arizona 44: 178-186.
Book Reviews
- Olsen, S.L. 1991
Review of Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision
Making,
by Stephen Mithen. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 86:1.
- Olsen, S.L. 1985
Review of Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk 1972-1976, Fascicule
1, Neolithic Antler Picks from Grimes Graves, Norfolk, and Durrington
Walls, Wiltshire: a Biometrical Analysis by J. Clutton-Brock.
Quaternary Research 47: 48-49.
Popular Articles
- Olsen, S.L. 2008
Hoofprints. Natural History 117(4): 26-32.
- Olsen, S. L. 2008
This Old Thing? Copper Age Fashion Comes to Life. In Archaeology 61 (1): 46-47.
- Olsen, S.L. 2007-2008
Ancient Artisans of the Asian Steppe. In El Palacio 112(4)Winter:
58-64.
- Olsen, S.L. 2000
Beware of dogs facing west. Archaeology 53(4): 23.
- Olsen, S.L. 1993
The dawn horse returns to North America. Carnegie Magazine 61(7):
10.
- Olsen, S.L. 1990
The importance of the white-tailed deer in Virginia prehistory.
The Virginia Explorer 6(5): 10.
- Olsen, S.L. 1990
An 11,000 year history of Virginia cuisine. The Virginia Explorer 6(2): 9-11.
- Moncrief, N. and S.L. Olsen 1989
Why reindeer are our Christmas symbols. The Virginia Explorer 5(12):
14-15.
- Olsen, S. L. 1989
Behind the scenes in archaeology. The Virginia Explorer 5(9): 15-16.
- Olsen, S.L. 1979
Birds. Encyclopedia of Indians in the Americas 3: 151-156. Scholarly
Press, St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
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