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Ben Schoville is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, a member of the College of Liberal Arts AI Research Initiative. His research focuses on technological innovations that enabled human survival during the Late Pleistocene, utilizing field excavations, experimental archaeology, and emerging quantitative methods. He collaborates with Indigenous communities, employing community-led approaches to explore long-term human-environment interactions. Schoville directs the North Kuruman Palaeoarchaeology Project, which concentrates on Early Middle Stone Age archaeological sites in the southern Kalahari Basin. His work combines high-resolution archaeological data and paleoenvironmental records to understand how human populations adapted to water scarcity in arid environments over the past million years.
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