John Murray

IHO Affiliated Graduate Student,

Institute of Human Origins

Other ASU affiliations

School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Mail code: 2402

Campus: Tempe
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Student Information

Graduate Student
Anthropology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci

Long Bio

John Murray is a graduate student interested in paleoanthropology, hominin behavioral variability, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, human-environment interaction, and the extended evolutionary synthesis.

John has conducted field work on the Azraq Marshes Archaeological and Paleoecological Project (AMAPP) at the late Lower Paleolithic site Shishan Marsh - 1 in al-Azraq, Jordan. Further, he has worked at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Mughr el-Hamamah in the Jordan Valley. Currently, John is working at the Later Stone Age site, Knysna in South Africa. His dissertation research will investigate the role of pyrotechnology in human adaptations during the late Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa.

John's hobbies include PC gaming, skateboarding, and flintknapping.

Education

2017 - MA in Anthropology, University of Victoria

2017 - Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Victoria

2015 - Graduate Certificate in GIS, Johns Hopkins University

2014 - B.A., Anthropology, Stony Brook University

Curriculum Vitae

Images

Obsidian biface knapped by John

Obsidian handaxe knapped by John

Research Website URL

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Murray-39

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=q_vLAWgAAAAJ&hl=en

Publications

2022. Murray, John K., Simen Oestmo, and Andrew M. Zipkin. Portable, non-destructive colorimetry and visible reflectance spectroscopy paired with machine learning can classify experimentally heat-treated silcrete from three South African sources. PLOS One.

2022. Gravel-Miguel, Claudine, Jan De Vynck, Colin D. Wren, John K. Murray, and Curtis W. Marean. Were prehistoric coastal sites more intensively occupied? Using an agent-based model to understand the intensity of prehistoric coastal occupation and what it means for the evolution of coastal adaptation. Quaternary International.

2021. Claudine Gravel-Miguel, John K. Murray, Benjamin Schoville, Colin Wren, and Curtis W. Marean. Exploring variability in lithic armature discard in the archaeological record. Journal of Human Evolution.

2021. Murray, John K., Robert Acio Benitez, and Michael J. O’Brien. The extended evolutionary synthesis and human origins: Archaeological perspectives. Evolutionary Anthropology. 1-4.

2020. Murray, John K., Jacob A. Harris, Simen Oestmo, Miles Martin, and Curtis W. Marean. A new approach to identify heat treated silcrete near Pinnacle Point, South Africa using 3D microscopy and Bayesian modeling. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 34, 102622.

Courses

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ASB 222	Buried Cities and Lost Tribes

Expertise Areas

Archaeology

Paleoanthropology