PHILIP G. CHASE
Senior
Research Scientist
and Anthropology
(
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology [WEBSITE]
General Information about my Research
Publications for the General Public
Selected Scholarly Publications
In Press. The
2007. The significance of 'acculturation' depends on the meaning of 'culture.' In Mellars, P., Boyle, K., Bar-Yosef, O., and Stringer C., eds. Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 55-65.
2007. New dates
for the Fontéchevade (
2006.
Anthropology, Taphonomy, and the Concept of Paleolithic Cultures: The Case of
the Tayacian from Fontéchevade (
2006. The Emergence of Culture: The Evolution of a
Uniquely Human Way of Life. Springer,
New York
2004. Façons d'extraire la moelle au
Moustérien de La Quina (Charente) (Marrow
extraction methods in the Mousterian of La Quina,
Charente), Bulletin de la
Société Préhistorique Française 101(2):253-256.
2003. Comment on 'The origin of modern human behavior' by C.S. Henshilwood and C.W. Marean. Current Anthropology 44(5):637.
2002. Is a cave
bear bone from
2002. A propos d'un poinçon provenant de la grotte des Fées à Châtelperron (On an awl from the Grotte des Fées at Châtelperron), Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française 99(2):378-379. (André Debénath, Philip Chase, and Harold Dibble)
2001. Punctured reindeer phalanges from the Mousterian of Combe Grenal (France). Arheoloski Vestnik 52:19-25.
2001. 'Symbolism'
is two different phenomena: Implications for archaeology and paleontology. In P.V. Tobias, M.A., Raath, J. Moggi-Cecchi, and G.A.
Doyle, eds., Humanity from African
Naissance to Coming Millennia - Colloquia in Human Biology and
Palaeoanthropology.
2001. Multilevel
Information Processing, Archaeology and Evolution. In A. Nowell, ed., In the
Mind's Eye: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Evolution of the Human Mind.
International Monographs in Prehistory,
1999. Bison in
the context of the complex use of faunal resources: a preliminary report on the
Mousterian zooarchaeology of La Quina (
1999. Symbolism as reference and symbolism as culture.
In C. Knight, C. Power, eds., The Evolution of Culture: An
Interdisciplinary View.
1998. 'Archéozoologie' in A. Debénath and A.J.
Jelinek, "Nouvelles fouilles
à La Quina (
1998. Taphonomy
of a suggested Middle Paleolithic bone flute from
1997. Testing the reality of a 'living floor' with archaeological data. American Antiquity 62:629-51. (H. Dibble, P. Chase, S. McPherron, and A. Tuffreau)
1995. Evidence
for the use of bones as cutting boards in the French Mousterian. Préhistoire
Européenne
7:111-117.
1995. Rapport préliminaire sur le gisement
de Cagny-l'Epinette (Somme). (Preliminary report on
the site of Cagny-l'Epinette [Somme]). Bulletin
de la Société Préhistorique Française
92:169-191. (A. Tuffreau, P. Antoine, P. Chase, H. Dibble, B. Ellwood, T. van Kolfschoten, A. Lamotte, M. Laurent, S. McPherron, A.-M.
Moigne, and A. Munaut)
1994. On Symbols and the Paleolithic. Current Anthropology 35:627-9.
1994. Taphonomy
and zooarchaeology of a Mousterian faunal assemblage from La Quina (
1993. "Reply to Belfer-Cohen and
Hovers." Current Anthropology
34:170-72. (H. Dibble and P. Chase)
1992. Scientific
archaeology and the origins of symbolism: A reply to Bednarik.
1991. Symbols and Paleolithic artifacts: Style, standardization, and the imposition of arbitrary form. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 10:193-214.
1991. Issues in
biological and behavioral evolution and the problem of Upper Pleistocene
subsistence. In G.A. Clark, ed., Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical Biases
in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research.
1990. Tool-making tools and Middle Paleolithic behavior. Current Anthropology 31:443-7. Reprinted in Paleoanthropology Annuals 1:213-17 (1990).
1990. Sifflets au Paléolithique moyen? Les
implications d'un coprolite de coyote actuel. Bulletin de la Société
Préhistorique Française 87:165-7.
1990. "On the emergence of modern humans."
Current Anthropology
31:58-9. (P. Chase and H. Dibble)
1990. Comment on "Symbolism and modern human origins" by J.M. Lindly and G.A. Clark. Current Anthropology 31:241-3. (H. Dibble and P. Chase)
1989. How different
was Middle Paleolithic subsistence? A zooarchaeological perspective on the
Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. In
P. Mellars, ed., The Origins and
Dispersal of Modern Humans: Behavioural and
Biological Perspectives.
1988. Scavenging
and hunting in the Middle Paleolithic: the evidence from
1987. Spécialisation de la chasse et transition vers le Paléolithique supérieur. L'Anthropologie 91:175‑188.
1987. Middle Paleolithic symbolism: A review of current evidence and interpretations. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 6:263‑296. (P. Chase and H. Dibble)
1986-1987. Minimum number of individuals and its alternatives: A probability theory approach. Ossa 13:75-86. (P. Chase and R. Hagaman)
1986. The Hunters of Combe Grenal: Approaches to
Middle Paleolithic Subsistence in
1986. The
relationships between Mousterian lithic and faunal assemblages at
1986. On the use of Binford's utility indices in the analysis of archaeological sites. In A. Voorips and S.H. Loving, eds., To Pattern the Past. PACT 11:287‑302.
1985. Illustrating lithic artifacts: Information for scientific illustrators. Lithic Technology 14:57‑70.
1985. Whole vessels and sherds: an experimental investigation of their relationships. Journal of Field Archaeology 12:213‑218.
Contact Information
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Tel.: (1) 215-898‑2624
Fax: (1) 215-898-0657
E-mail: pchase@ sas.upenn.edu
About My Research
Research Foci
Paleolithic archaeology, with
emphasis on
Evolution of symbolism and culture
Zooarchaeology, taphonomy, and site formation processes
Sites Excavated
Cagny-la-Garenne,
Somme, France
Cagny-l’Epinette,
Somme, France
Fontéchevade,
Charente, France
Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1983.
Dissertation: On the Use of Animal
Resources in the Mousterian of
M.A., George Washington University, 1975. Thesis: Quantitative Inferences Based on Pottery Fragments.
B.A., Harvard College, 1968.
Publications for the General Public
Ice Age Europeans. Expedition vol. 34, no. 3, 1993. Guest Editor. READ IT
What were the Ice Ages? Expedition vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 4-13. READ IT
Language in the Ice Ages: When did Europeans first speak? Expedition vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 61. READ IT
Cult of the Cave Bear: Ritual or illusion? Expedition vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 4-9, 1988. READ IT