James F. O'Connell is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. from University of California-Berkeley in 1971 for his dissertation entitled The Archaeology and Cultural Ecology of Surprise Valley, Northeastern California. His research interests include hunter-gatherer ecology, archaeological method and theory, and ethnoarchaeology of modern hunter-gatherers; he has conducted research in Australia, Africa, and North America. O'Connell considers himself an anthropologist, ethnoarchaeologist, and prehistorian with the goal of "identify[ing] the principal determinants of [hunter-gatherer foraging and food sharing] practices and their implications for arguments about human evolution."
Selected Work
2006 Bird, Doublas W. and James F. O'Connell. Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 14(2): 143-188.
The Application of Behavioral Ecology to the Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers
