Kathryn Ranhorn
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ISTB-7 294A 777 E University Drive Tempe, AZ 85287-8404
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Mail code: 8404Campus: Tempe
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Kathryn Ranhorn is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Research Scientist at the Institute of Human Origins. She studies the Middle and Late Pleistocene archaeological record of Africa, with an emphasis on community archaeology, heritage management and digital archaeology.
Ph.D. Hominin Paleobiology, George Washington University
B.A. Anthropology, African Studies, University of Florida
Ranhorn, Kathryn L, Silindokuhle S Mavuso, Debra Colarossi, Tamara Dogandžić, Kaedan O'Brien, Mathilde Ribordy, Christopher Ssebuyungo, Shannon Warren, John WK Harris, and David R Braun. 2023. By the lakeshore: Multi-scalar geoarchaeology in the Turkana Basin at GaJj17, Koobi Fora (Kenya). Quaternary Science Reviews 317:108257.
Ranhorn, Kathryn L., Debra Colarossi, Sarah Molel, Myra F. Laird, Jason E. Lewis, Husna Mashaka, Elizabeth Niespolo, Samantha T. Porter, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Warren D. Sharp, Christian A. Tryon, and Ilaria Patania. 2023. Kisese II Rockshelter, Tanzania. In Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa : Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology, edited by A. Beyin, D. K. Wright, J. Wilkins and D. I. Olszewski. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Ranhorn, Kathryn L., and Mariam Bundala. 2023. Tanzanian Women in Archaeology. In Women in Archaeology, edited by S. L. L. Varela: Springer.
Pargeter, Justin, Alison Brooks, Katja Douze, Metin Eren, Huw S. Groucutt, Jessica McNeil, Alex Mackay, Kathryn Ranhorn, Eleanor Scerri, Matthew Shaw, Christian Tryon, Manuel Will, and Alice Leplongeon. 2023. Replicability in Lithic Analysis. American Antiquity.
Patania, Ilaria, Samantha T. Porter, William F. Keegan, Rukia Dihogo, Sara Frank, Jason Lewis, Husna Mashaka, Julius Ogutu, Elena Skosey-Lalonde, Christian A. Tryon, Elizabeth M. Niespolo, Debra Colarossi, and Kathryn L. Ranhorn. 2022. Geoarchaeology and Heritage Management: Identifying and Quantifying Multi-Scalar Erosional Processes at Kisese II Rockshelter, Tanzania. Frontiers in Earth Science 9 (Cave Deposits: Processes, Approaches and Environmental Significance).
Lipson, Mark, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Jessica C. Thompson, Jonas Oppenheimer, Christian A. Tryon, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, Kathryn M. de Luna, Kendra A. Sirak, Iñigo Olalde, Stanley H. Ambrose, John W. Arthur, Kathryn J. W. Arthur, George Ayodo, Alex Bertacchi, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Brendan J. Culleton, Matthew C. Curtis, Jacob Davis, Agness O. Gidna, Annalys Hanson, Potiphar Kaliba, Maggie Katongo, Amandus Kwekason, Myra F. Laird, Jason Lewis, Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Fredrick Mapemba, Alan Morris, George Mudenda, Raphael Mwafulirwa, Daudi Mwangomba, Emmanuel Ndiema, Christine Ogola, Flora Schilt, Pamela R. Willoughby, David K. Wright, Andrew Zipkin, Ron Pinhasi, Douglas J. Kennett, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Nadin Rohland, Nick Patterson, David Reich, and Mary E. Prendergast. 2022. Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers. Nature 603 (7900):290-296.
Laird, Myra F, Elizabeth A Sawchuk, Amandus Kwekason, Audax ZP Mabulla, Emmanuel Ndiema, Christian A Tryon, Jason E Lewis, and Kathryn L Ranhorn. 2021. Human burials at the Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175 (1):187-200.
Tryon, Christian A., and Kathryn L. Ranhorn. 2020. Raw material and regionalization in stone age eastern Africa. In Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Springer, Cham.
Ranhorn, Kathryn L, Justin Pargeter, Lukas S Premo, and PaST Network Collaborators. 2020. Investigating the evolution of human social learning through collaborative experimental archaeology. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 29 (2):53-55.
Niespolo, EM, WD Sharp, CA Tryon, JT Faith, J Lewis, K Ranhorn, S Mambelli, MJ Miller, and TE Dawson. 2020. Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopes of ostrich eggshells provide site-scale Pleistocene-Holocene paleoenvironmental records for eastern African archaeological sites. Quaternary Science Reviews 230:106142.
Tryon, C. A., J. E. Lewis, and K. L. Ranhorn. 2019. Excavating the Archives: The 1956 Excavation of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sequence at Kisese II (Tanzania). In Modern Human Origins and Dispersal, edited by Y. Sahle, H. Reyes-Centeno and C. Bentz. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
Tryon, Christian A., Jason E. Lewis, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, Amandus Kwekason, Bridget Alex, Myra F. Laird, Curtis W. Marean, Elizabeth Niespolo, Joelle Nivens, and Audax Z.P. Mabulla. 2018. Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania. PloS One 13 (2):e0192029.
Ranhorn, Kathryn L., and Christian A. Tryon. 2018. New Pleistocene radiocarbon dates from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology 16 (2):211-222.
Ranhorn, Kathryn L., David R Braun, Rebecca E Biermann Gürbüz, Elliot Greiner, Daniel Wawrzyniak, and Alison S Brooks. 2018. Evaluating prepared core assemblages with three-dimensional methods: a case study from the Middle Paleolithic at Skhūl (Israel). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences:1-14.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
ASB 361 | Human Cultural Beginnings |
ASB 361 | Human Cultural Beginnings |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASM 300 | Anthropological Sciences Sem |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASM 573 | Lithic Analysis |
MAS 585 | Capstone Course |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 361 | Human Cultural Beginnings |
ASB 361 | Human Cultural Beginnings |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
ASB 361 | Human Cultural Beginnings |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 361 | Human Cultural Beginnings |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASM 300 | Anthropological Sciences Sem |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 361 | Pleistocene Archaeology |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASM 573 | Lithic Analysis |
ASB 584 | Internship |