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General Research Interests:
- Zooarchaeology
- Bone Artifacts
- Eurasian Prehistory
Recent Research Focuses:
- Contemporary Mongolia:
In 2004, Dr. Sandra Olsen explored Mongolia as part of a Fulbright-Hayes Committee delegation of scholars in their project aimed at increasing educational programs on Mongolia in the US.
- The Horse in Prehistory: recreating
the European Pleistocene horse, hunting and exploitation in Eurasia,
the origins of domestication, and the horse's impact on world cultures.
- Prehistory of Kazakhstan: focusing
on cultures in north-central Kazakhstan from the Neolithic to Bronze
Age.
- Kazakh Pastoralism: economic
adaptation to local environments as it relates to prehistoric livestock
maintenance and human subsistence.
- European Upper Paleolithic Zooarchaeology:
reindeer exploitation at the Grotte des Eyzies, France and horse exploitation
across Europe in the Pleistocene.
- Bone, Antler, and Tooth Artifacts:
the prehistoric manufacture and use of osseous materials for tools
and ornaments.
Selected Publications:
Edited Books
Olsen, S. L.
- 1996 (editor) Horses Through Time.
Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado. (second edition: 2003)
- 1988 (editor) Scanning Electron Microscopy
in Archaeology. British Archaeological Reports, International
Series 452, Oxford.
In Press
- 2004 Olsen, S., B. Bradley, D. Maki
& A. Outram. Copper Age Community Organization in Northern Kazakhstan.
In D. Peterson (ed.), Proceedings of the University of Chicago Conference
on Eurasian Archaeology, Monograph Series of Colloquia Pontica.
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden. (31 pp)
Articles, including chapters in
edited volumes
Arndt (Olsen), S. L., and M. H. Newcomer
- 1986 Breakage patterns on prehistoric
bone points: an experimental study. In Studies in the Upper Palaeolithic
of Britain and Northwest Europe, edited by D. Roe. British Archaeological
Report, International Series 296:165—173.
Moloney, N., S. Olsen, & V. Voloshin
- 2001 Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occupation
in Central Kazakhstan: The Batpak Valley and environs. In S.
Milliken & J. Cook (eds.), A Very Remote Period Indeed. Oxbow
Books, Oxford. Pp.138-143.
Moncrief, N., and S. L. Olsen
- 1989 Why reindeer are our Christmas
symbols. The Virginia Explorer 5(12):14—15.
Olsen, S. L.
- 2003 The bone and antler artefacts:
Their manufacture and use, in N. Field & M.
Parker Pearson (eds.), Fiskerton: An Iron Age Timber Causeway with Iron
Age and Roman Votive Offerings.
Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 92-111.
- 2003 The exploitation of horses at Botai,
Kazakhstan, in M. Levine, C. Renfrew & K. Boyle (eds.),
Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse. McDonald Institute
Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
83-104.
- 2002 Olsen, S. L. Comments on "Archaeology
and Language: the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians," by C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky.
Current Anthropology 43(1) 63-88. Pp. 80-81.
- 2001 The importance of thong-smoothers
at Botai, Kazakhstan. In Past Exploitation of Osseous Materials:
Proceedings of the II Meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group, Budapest,
1999, edited by A. Choyke and L. Bartosiewicz. B.A.R. International
Series 893, 239—248.
- 2000 Reflections of Ritual Behavior
at Botai, Kazakhstan. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual UCLA
Indo-European Conference, edited by K. Jones-Bley, M. E. Huld,
and A. Della Volpe. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series
No. 35, 183—207.
- 2000 The sacred and secular roles of
dogs at Botai, Kazakhstan. In Dogs Through Time: An Archaeological
Perspecive, edited by S. Crockford. B.A.R. International Series
889, 71—92.
- 2000 The upper paleolithic bone industry
of Klithi rockshelter, northwest Greece. Annals of Carnegie Museum,
69:209—226.
- 2000 The bone artifacts. Pp. 154—163,
in Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra,
edited by A. T. M. Moore, G. C. Hillman, and A. J. Legge. Oxford
University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- 2000 Beware of dogs facing west. Archaeology
53(4):23.
- 1999 Investigation of the Phanourios
bones for evidence of cultural modification, Chapter 9, Specialized
Analysis, Section 5. Pp. 230—237, in Faunal Extinction in
an Island Society: Pygmy Hippopotamus Hunters of Cyprus, edited
by A. H. Simmons. Plenum Press, New York.
- 1998 Animals in Native American life.
Pp. 95—118, in Stars Above, Earth Below: Essays on Native
Americans and Nature, edited by Marsha Bol. Roberts Rinehart,
Boulder, Colorado.
- 1996 Prehistoric Adaptation to the Kazak
Steppes. Pp. 49—60, in The Colloquia of the XIII International
Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Vol. 16: The Prehistory
of Asia and Oceania, edited by G. Afanas’ev, S. Cleuziou,
J. Lukacs, and M. Tosi. A.B.A.C.O, Edizioni, Forl", Italy.
- 1996 Introduction. Pp 1—10, in
Horses Through Time, edited by S. Olsen. Roberts Rinehart,
Boulder, Colorado.
- 1996 Horse hunters of the Ice Age. Pp.
35—56, in Horses Through Time, edited by S. Olsen. Roberts
Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado.
- 1996 In the winner's circle: the history
of equestrian sports. Pp. 103—128, in Horses Through Time,
edited by S. Olsen. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado.
- 1995 Pleistocene horse-hunting at Solutré:
Why bison jump analogies fail. Pp. 65—75, in Ancient Peoples
and Landscapes, edited by E. Johnson. Texas Tech University Press,
Lubbock, Texas.
- 1994 Exploitation of mammals at the
Early Bronze Age site of West Row Fen (Mildenhall 165), Suffolk, England.
Annals of the Carnegie Museum 63:115—153.
- 1993 The dawn horse returns to North
America. Carnegie Magazine 61(7):10.
- 1992 Taphonomy. 1992 McGraw-Hill
Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York,
New York.
- 1991 Review of Thoughtful Foragers:
A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making, by Stephen Mithen. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 86:1.
- 1990 An 11,000 year history of Virginia
cuisine. The Virginia Explorer 6(2):9—11.
- 1990 The importance of the white-tailed
deer in Virginia Prehistory. The Virginia Explorer 6(5):10.
- 1989 On distinguishing natural from
cultural damage on archaeological antler. Journal of Archaeological
Science 16:125—135.
- 1989 Solutré: A theoretical approach
to the reconstruction of Upper Palaeolithic hunting strategies. Journal
of Human Evolution 18:295—327.
- 1989 1988 research at Solutré,
France. AnthroQuest 40:16—18.
- 1989 Behind the scenes in archaeology.
The Virginia Explorer 5(9):15—16.
- 1988 Introduction: applications of scanning
electron microscopy to archaeology. In Scanning Electron Microscopy
in Archaeology, edited by S. L. Olsen. British Archaeological
Reports, International Series, 452:3—7.
- 1988 The identification of stone and
metal tool marks on bone artifacts. In Scanning Electron Microscopy
in Archaeology, edited by S. L. Olsen. British Archaeological
Reports, International Series, 452:337—360.
- 1988 Applications of scanning electron
microscopy in archaeology. Advances in Electronics and Electron
Physics, 71:357—380. Academic Press, New York, New York.
- 1987 Magdalenian reindeer exploitation
at the Grotte des Eyzies, southwest France. Archaeozoologia,
1987, 1:171—182.
- 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.
- 1983 Zooarchaeological study of archaeological
sites in the Farmington area. In Human adaptation and cultural
change: the archaeology of Block III, N.I.I.O., edited by L. I.
Vogler. Navajo National Papers in Anthropology 15(4):1797—1844.
- 1982 Faunal analysis. In Archaeological
investigations at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, 1977—1980,
edited by T. J. Ferguson and B. J. Mills. Zuni Archaeology Program
Report 183:390—428.
- 1982 AZ V:9:105 faunal remains from
excavation. In Cholla Project Archaeology 4: the Tonto-Roosevelt
Region, edited by J. J. Reid. Arizona State Museum Archaeological
Series 161:160.
- 1981 Bone artifacts from Las Colinas,
Appendix D. In Mound 8, Las Colinas Group, Phoenix, Arizona, edited
by L. C. Hammack and A. P. Sullivan. Arizona State Museum Archaeological
Series 154:291—295.
- 1980 Bone artifacts from Kinishba Ruin:
their manufacture and use. Kiva 45(4):39—67.
- 1979 A study of bone artifacts from
Grasshopper Pueblo, AZ P:14:1. Kiva 44(4):341—373.
- 1979 Birds. Encyclopedia of Indians
in the Americas 3:151—156. Scholarly Press, St. Clair Shores,
Michigan.
- 1977 Faunal Analysis of four sites,
Appendix E. In Excavations in the Middle Santa Cruz River Valley,
Southwestern Arizona, edited by D. E. Doyel. Arizona State Museum
Contributions to Highway Salvage Archaeology in Arizona 44:178—186.
Olsen, S. L., and I. Glover
- 2004 S. L. Olsen, S. & I. Glover 2004. The bone industries of Ulu Leang 1 and Leang Burung 1 rockshelters,
Sulawesi, Indonesia, in S. Keates & J. Pasveer (eds.), Quaternary Research in
Southeast Asia. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 273-300.
Olsen, S. L., and J. W. Olsen
- 1996 Appendix 8, An Analysis of Faunal
Remains from Wind Mountain. Pp. 389—406, in Mimbres Mogollon
Archaeology: Charles C. Di Peso’s Excavations at Wind Mountain,
edited by A. I. Woosley and A. J. McIntyre. Amerind Foundation Publications
No. 10, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, AZ and The University of New
Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- 1981 A comment on nomenclature in faunal
analysis. American Antiquity 46(1):192—194.
Olsen, S. L., and P. Shipman
- 1994 Cutmarks and perimortem treatment
of skeletal remains on the Northern Plains. Pp. 377—387, in Skeletal
Biology in the Great Plains: A Multidisciplinary View, edited
by D. Owsley and R. Jantz. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
D.C.
- 1988 Surface modification on bone: trampling
vs. butchery. Journal of Archaeological Science 15 (5):535—553.
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.
Shnirelman, V. A., S. L. Olsen, and P.
Rice
- 1996 Hooves across the steppes: The
Kazak life-style. Pp. 129—154, in Horses Through Time,
edited by S. Olsen. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado.
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