Stone

Southwestern archaeologist (North America) now living and working on the Great Plains with an interest in ancient technologies, especially lithics and perishables.

My interest is in prehistoric lithic technology, usewear, residues and tool-use.

I work in the field of experimental archaeology for more than 20 years. My interest focus on the technology and function of the prehistoric stone and osseous artefacts, which I study mainly with the use of the traceological method.

In the frame of my MA and PhD work I have become familiar with analytical description (at macroscopic scale), and functional analysis of stone artefacts.

Hello! My name is Lucia.
I am a woman with wide interests and experience, and always looking for new challenges and learning opportunities!

Since 1980 I have taught the conservation of objects (stone, glass, metal, fibers, leather, ceramics etc.) at the Department of Art Conservation at Buffalo State College (State University of New York). I have been a craftsman essentially all my life.

I am an avid practitioner of traditional living skills and primitive technology of all kinds and have followed this interest into the academic field of Experimental Archaeology, in which I hold an MA in Experimental Archaeology and a PhD on the ‘Microscopic Analysis of Prehistoric Tanning Technol

I am not a professionally trained archaeologist. I am a physicist by training. Until recently I was a research scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information technology at the University of California at San Diego.

Currently doing a PhD at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

My (large scale) experiments investigating my concepts as to how, specifically, large stone blocks were lifted by the Old Kingdom Egyptians commenced in 2005, although I had reduced to paper such concepts several years earlier.