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University of Wollongong: Wollongong, NSW, AU

2021-06-15 to present | Research Fellow (ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH))
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Christopher Ames

University of Wollongong: Wollongong, NSW, AU

2020-05-04 to 2021-06-14 | Lecturer in Archaeology (School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences)
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University of Wollongong: Wollongong, NSW, AU

2018-02-05 to 2020-05-03 | Associate Research Fellow (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
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University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2015-07-01 to 2015-12-31 | Lecturer (Anthropology Department)
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University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2013-11-01 to 2015-10-31 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthropology Department)
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Education and qualifications (3)

McGill University: QC, QC, CA

2009-09-01 to 2014-02-28 | PhD (Department of Anthropology)
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McGill University: QC, QC, CA

2007-09-01 to 2009-08-31 | Master's of Arts (Department of Anthropology)
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University of British Columbia: Vancouver, BC, CA

2001-09-01 to 2006-04-30 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Department of Anthropology)
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Funding (6)

Refining the Middle­-to-­Later Stone Age Transition: The Perspective from Grassridge Rockshelter, South Africa

2017-04-01 to 2018-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7592086
GRANT_NUMBER: 165784
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Late MIS 3 Behavioral Diversity: The View from Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa

2015 to 2018 | Grant
Wenner-Gren Foundation (NY, NY, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 9144
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Christopher Ames

Middle Stone Age Excavatins at Grassridge Rockshelter, South Africa

2014 to 2017 | Grant
Leakey Foundation (CA, CA, US)
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Christopher Ames

Prehistoric settlement of the Azraq Basin: a desert refugium for hominins along a migration corridor between Africa, Eurasia, and the Arabian Peninsula

2013-04-01 to 2016-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3876140
GRANT_NUMBER: 123822
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Unearthing the origins of human behaviour: palaeoenvironmental change and hominid/human occupation in the Azraq Druze Basin, Jordan

2009-04-01 to 2012-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3876421
GRANT_NUMBER: 75117
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Does regional interaction contribute to social change

2008-04-01 to 2009-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3900413
GRANT_NUMBER: 61593
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Works (28)

Middle to Late Quaternary palaeolandscapes of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan: Deciphering discontinuous records of human-environment dynamics at the arid margin of the Levant

Quaternary International
2022-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.10.007
Contributors: Christopher J.H. Ames; Carlos E. Cordova; Kelsey Boyd; Christoph Schmidt; Detlev Degering; Johannes Kalbe; Brian G. Jones; Anthony Dosseto; James T. Pokines; Amer S. Alsouliman et al.
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The Forensic Utility of Photogrammetry in Surface Scene Documentation

Forensic Anthropology
2021-06-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5744/fa.2020.0039
Part of ISSN: 2573-5039
Part of ISSN: 2573-5020
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Christopher Ames

Chronostratigraphy, site formation, and palaeoenvironmental context of late pleistocene and holocene occupations at grassridge rock shelter (Eastern Cape, South Africa)

Open Quaternary
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5334/oq.77
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2-s2.0-85082827331

Part of ISSN: 2055298X
Contributors: Ames, C.J.H.; Gliganic, L.; Cordova, C.E.; Boyd, K.; Jones, B.G.; Maher, L.; Collins, B.R.
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Exploring Mid-Late Pleistocene lithic procurement strategies at Shishan Marsh 1: Preliminary geochemical characterization of chert sources around the Greater Azraq Oasis Area, Jordan

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102091
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2-s2.0-85076016119

Part of ISSN: 2352409X
Contributors: Beller, J.A.; Ames, C.J.H.; Nowell, A.
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The effects of heating ostrich eggshell on bead manufacturing: An experimental approach

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102287
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2-s2.0-85082823147

Part of ISSN: 2352409X
Contributors: Craig, C.; Collins, B.; Nowell, A.; Ames, C.
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Robberg Material Procurement and Transport in the Doring River Catchment: Evidence from the Open-Air Locality of Uitspankraal 9, Western Cape, South Africa

Journal of African Archaeology
2020-12-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1163/21915784-20200013
Part of ISSN: 1612-1651
Part of ISSN: 2191-5784
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Beads and bead residues as windows to past behaviours and taphonomy: a case study from Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
2020-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01164-5
Contributors: Benjamin Collins; Marine Wojcieszak; April Nowell; Tammy Hodgskiss; Christopher J. H. Ames
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A Multi-User Mobile GIS Solution for Documenting Large Surface Scatters: An Example from the Doring River, South Africa

Journal of Field Archaeology
2020-08-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2020.1753321
Contributors: Christopher J. H. Ames; Matthew Shaw; Corey A. O’Driscoll; Alex Mackay
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Evaluating erosional impacts on open-air archaeological sites along the Doring River, South Africa: methods and implications for research prioritization

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
2020-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01061-x
Contributors: Christopher J. H. Ames; Sherrie Chambers; Matthew Shaw; Natasha Phillips; Brian G. Jones; Alex Mackay
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Faunal remains from recent excavations at Shishan Marsh 1 (SM1), a Late Lower Paleolithic open-air site in the Azraq Basin, Jordan

Quaternary Research (United States)
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2018.113
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2-s2.0-85063957027

Part of ISSN: 10960287 00335894
Contributors: Pokines, J.T.; Lister, A.M.; Ames, C.J.H.; Nowell, A.; Cordova, C.E.
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The Doring River Archaeological Project: Approaching the Evolution of Human Land Use Patterns in the Western Cape, South Africa

PaleoAnthropology
2019 | Journal article
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Christopher Ames

Quaternary Sediments and Soils of Jordan: Palaeoclimatic and Geoarchaeological Implications

Quaternary of the Levant
2017 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1017/9781316106754.058
Part of ISBN: 9781316106754
Part of ISBN: 9781107462373
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Revisiting the holocene occupations at Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa

South African Archaeological Bulletin
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85052327456
Contributors: Collins, B.; Wilkins, J.; Ames, C.
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Middle Pleistocene subsistence in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan: Protein residue and other proxies

Journal of Archaeological Science
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.013
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2-s2.0-84979639727
Contributors: Nowell, A.; Walker, C.; Cordova, C.E.; Ames, C.J.H.; Pokines, J.T.; Stueber, D.; DeWitt, R.; al-Souliman, A.S.A.
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Christopher Ames via Scopus - Elsevier

Of Rocks and Water: Towards an Archaeology of Place, Joukousky Institute Publication 5. ӦmürHarmanşah (Ed.). 2014. Oxbow Books, Oxford, U.K. 270 pp., B&W, ISBN 978-1-78297-671-4, £25 (paperback).

Geoarchaeology
2016-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21554
Part of ISSN: 0883-6353
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Christopher Ames

Middle and Late Pleistocene Landscape Evolution at the Druze Marsh Site in Northeast Jordan: Implications for Population Continuity and Hominin Dispersal

Geoarchaeology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21516
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2-s2.0-84936864486
Contributors: Ames, C.J.H.; Cordova, C.E.
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Test excavations at Wadi Zarqa Ma'in 1, a Natural Sinkhole Faunal Trap Site, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.373.0121
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2-s2.0-85019454364
Contributors: Pokines, J.T.; Ames, C.J.H.
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Weathering and dispersal of a cattle (Bos taurus) carcass in the desert of eastern Jordan over a six-year interval

2015 | Journal article
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Christopher Ames

Dissecting palimpsests in a Late Lower and Middle Paleolithic flint acquisition site on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan

Quaternary International
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.031
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2-s2.0-84899901661
Contributors: Bisson, M.S.; Nowell, A.; Cordova, C.; Poupart, M.; Ames, C.
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Geoarchaeology and prehistoric transitions in the Azraq Druze basin, Jordan: preliminary data and hypothesis for a 4-d model of landscape change

2014 | Book chapter
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Christopher Ames

Paleoenvironmental change and settlement dynamics in the Druze Marsh: Results of recent excavation at an open-air Paleolithic site

Quaternary International
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.04.016
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2-s2.0-84899928549
Contributors: Ames, C.J.H.; Nowell, A.; Cordova, C.E.; Pokines, J.T.; Bisson, M.S.
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Taphonomic and paleoecological investigations in the Paleolithic of Northern Jordan

Jordan’s Prehistory: past and future research
2014 | Book chapter
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Christopher Ames

Holocene book review: Arid and Semi-Arid Geomorphology

The Holocene
2014-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614547320
Part of ISSN: 0959-6836
Part of ISSN: 1477-0911
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Christopher Ames

Interglacial and glacial desert refugia and the Middle Paleolithic of the Azraq Oasis, Jordan

Quaternary International
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.09.019
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2-s2.0-84878963410
Contributors: Cordova, C.E.; Nowell, A.; Bisson, M.; Ames, C.J.H.; Pokines, J.; Chang, M.; al-Nahar, M.
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Why We Need an Alternative Approach to the Study of Modern Human Behaviour

Canadian Journal of Archaeology / Journal Canadien d'Archéologie
2013 | Journal article
URI:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489201
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Christopher Ames

Geomorphological and soil stratigraphic patterns associated with the Middle Paleolithic on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan: The case of the Ma'in Site Complex

Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society
2011 | Journal article
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/23386459
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Christopher Ames

The functioning of a natural faunal trap in a semi-arid environment: preliminary investigations of WZM-1

Journal of Taphonomy
2011 | Journal article
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Christopher Ames

8,000 Years of Technological Change in the Gulf of Georgia: Is There a Major Transition at 4850 cal B.P.?

Canadian Journal of Archaeology / Journal Canadien d’Archéologie
2010 | Journal article
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/41103681
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Christopher Ames
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