Dr. Daniel S. Amick
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Lake Shore Campus, Coffey Hall 405
1032 W. Sheridan
Chicago, Illinois 60660
(773) 508-3446
E-mail: damick@luc.edu
Dr. Amick received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1994. He is an archaeologist with research interests in the relationship of humans to the environment, the early peopling of the Americas, archaeological site formation processes, hunter-gatherer lifeways, and lithic technology. He has conducted archaeological research in several regions of North America with a focus on the ecological and economic adaptations of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. His current research projects focus on understanding colonization and land use strategies of Late Pleistocene inhabitants of the Midwest; the organization of Early Paleoindian stone tool technology and settlement in the Midwest, Southwest, and Great Basin; and the Archaic-Woodland transition in the Prairie Peninsula of Illinois. He is currently involved in service-learning and community based research in refugee resettlement. You are welcome to read his students' blogs at http://blogs.luc.edu/refugee/
COURSES TAUGHT
Anth 101: Human Origins; Anth 104 (ESP 104/PAX 104): The Human Ecological Footprint; Anth 212: Peoples of Native North America; Anth 241: Principles of Archaeology; Anth 243: North American Archaeology; Anth 301: Refugee Resettlement (Civic Engagement and Leadership);Anth 303 (ESP 303): People and Conservation; Anth 341: Ice Age America; Anth 361: Effects of Human Population Growth; Anth 365: Archaeology Lab Methods; Anth 366: Lithic Technology; Anth 397: Directed Readings; Anth 398: Independent Study; Anth 399: Fieldwork in Anthropology, and
RESEARCH OPPORTUNTIES FOR STUDENTS
Dr. Amick strongly believes that archaeology is best learned by doing and he encourages interested students to contact him about opportunities for gaining practical experience in archaeological research at Loyola. Many students have used these projects to complete credits in Independent Study or Fieldwork, Mulcahy Scholarships, or Senior Honors Theses.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Dr. Amick is a past president of the Plains Anthropological Society and an Associate Editor of Current Research in the Pleistocene. He maintains memberships in the Society for American Archaeology; American Anthropological Association; Midwest Archaeological Conference; American Quaternary Association; and Illinois Archeological Survey.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2007 Behavioral Causes and Archaeological Effects of Lithic Artifact Recycling. In Tools versus Cores: Alternative Approaches to Stone Tool Analysis, ed. by S. McPherron, pp. 223-252. Cambridge Scholars Publications, Newcastle. Amick_2007_Tools_versus_Cores.pdf
2005 Systematic Field Investigations at the Mueller-Keck Clovis Site Complex in Southwestern Illinois. Current Research in the Pleistocene 22:39-41. [pdf]
2004 A Possible Ritual Cache of Great Basin Stemmed Bifaces from the Terminal Pleistocene-Early Holocene Occupation of NW Nevada, USA. Lithic Technology 29(2):119-145. [pdf]
2004 The Berger Cache of Turkey-tail Points from Dunn County, Western Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Archeologist 85(1):1-11. [pdf]
2002 Manufacturing Variation in Folsom Projectile Points and Fluted Preforms. In Folsom Technology and Lifeways, ed. by J. E. Clark and M. B. Collins, 159-187. Lithic Technology Special Publication No.4. [pdf]
2000 Regional Approaches with Unbounded Systems: The Folsom Record of Land Use in New Mexico and West Texas. In The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare, and Exchange in the American Southwest and Beyond, ed. by M. Hegmon, pp. 119-147. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. [pdf]
1999 Folsom Lithic Technology: Explorations in Structure and Variation (edited volume). Archaeological Series 12. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor.
1997 Effects of Raw Material on Flake Breakage Patterns. Lithic Technology 21(1):18-32. [pdf]
1996 Regional Patterns of Folsom Mobility and Land Use in the American Southwest. World Archaeology 27(3):411-426. [pdf]
1994 Technological Organization and the Structure of Inference in Lithic Analysis: An Examination of Folsom Hunting Behavior in the American Southwest. In The Organization of Prehistoric North American Chipped Stone Tool Technologies, ed. by P. Carr, pp. 9-34. Archaeological Series No. 7. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor. [pdf]
1989 Experiments in Lithic Technology (edited with R.P. Mauldin). BAR International Series 528, Oxford.
1989 Comment on Sullivan and Rozen's "Debitage Analysis and Archaeological Interpretation." American Antiquity 54(1):166‑168. [pdf]
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2008 Early Paleoindian Colonization of the North American Midcontinent. Conference and workshop organizer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (April 25-26, 2008).
2007 Way Out West: Cody Complex Occupations from the Northwestern Great Basin. Paper presented at the 65th meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society, Rapid City.
2007 What Were Great Basin Chipped-Stone Crescents Used For? Poster presented at the 72nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin.
2006 Another 300 Folsom Points and Preforms from South-Central New Mexico. Paper presented at the 64th meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society, Topeka.
2006 The Clovis Archaeological Record of the Western Great Lakes. Paper presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Urbana-Champaign (with T. Loebel).
2005 Early Paleoindian Settlement and Mobility Patterns on the Northeastern Edge of the Great Plains. Paper presented at the 63rd meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society, Edmonton.