Todd Surovell is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Arizona. His research interests include exploring Paleoindian lifeways such as mobility, colonization, prey choice and technological organization within the framework of behavioral ecology. He has conducted research in both the Old World and New World, with his New World research mostly located in the Rocky Mountains and Northern Plains. Surovell's interest in lithic technology adds an important component to the application of behavioral ecology. His book entitled Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: A Case Study from Paleoindian Archaeology is currently in press. Along wtih Nicole Waguespack, Surovell has published extensively on the exploitation of megafauna by Paleoindians.
Selected Works
2009 Surovell, Todd A. and Nicole M. Waguespack. Human prey choice in the late Pleistocene and its relation to megafaunal extinctions. In American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene, edited by G. Haynes, 77-105. Springer.
2003 Waguespack, Nicole M. and Todd A. Surovell. Clovis Hunting Strategies, or How to Make out on Plentiful Resources. American Antiquity 68(2): 333-352.
The Application of Behavioral Ecology to the Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers
