From Stone Tools to the Internet

Speakers

Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr is the author of two previous books and a contributor to Wired, The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times, and The New Republic, among other publications. He is also the author of the blog, Rough Type, which deals with many issues raised by the uneasy coexistence (at this point) between traditional print culture and the new digital culture. For more information, visit www.nicholascarr.com.

Nicholas Toth, PhD

The Stone Age Institute

Nicholas Toth is co-director of the Stone Age Institute and a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. He received his PhD in 1982 from The University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include African prehistory, Paleolithic studies, the evolution of human intelligence, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, microscopic approaches to archaeology, zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and primate studies. He is currently involved in experimental investigations of stone tool-making and tool-using behaviors of modern African apes and of the manufacture and use of early Paleolithic tools.

Kathy Schick, PhD

The Stone Age Institute

Kathy Schick is co-director of the Stone Age Institute and a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. She received her PhD in 1984 from The University of California, Berkeley. Her interests in Old World prehistory, palaeoanthropology, archaeological site formation, zooarchaeology, lithic technology, and primate studies have led her to conduct fieldwork in Africa, Asia and Europe, as well as laboratory research in the United States. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, and received the Distinguished Faculty Research Award from Indiana University in 1997.