{"id":452,"date":"2015-04-06T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/?page_id=452"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:43:44","slug":"egeland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/faculty-staff\/egeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles P. Egeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-353\" src=\"http:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/egeland.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Egeland\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\">Professor &amp; Director of Archaeology Program<br \/>\nPaleolithic Archaeology and Paleoanthropology<br \/>\nPh.D., Indiana University, 2007<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:cpegelan@uncg.edu\">cpegelan@uncg.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uncg.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/dept-12201\/EYna6jXXGn1Jl0WaVOrpnFkBt7FSRoVbj82aI5XxMRCMsQ?e=qzuJxb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cpanthro.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See my Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Human Evolution<\/li>\n<li>Paleolithic Archaeology<\/li>\n<li>Zooarchaeology<\/li>\n<li>Vertebrate Taphonomy<\/li>\n<li>Paleoenvironmental Studies<\/li>\n<li>Hunter-Gatherer Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Courses Taught<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ATY 153: The Human Species<\/li>\n<li>ATY 205: <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The World of the Neandertals<\/span><\/li>\n<li>ATY 231:&nbsp; Race and Human Diversity<\/li>\n<li>ATY 341: Paleolithic Archaeology<\/li>\n<li>ATY 350: <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Human Origins and Evolution<\/span><\/li>\n<li>ATY 357:&nbsp; Monkeys, Apes, and Humans<\/li>\n<li>ATY 359: Forensic Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>ATY 361: Methods in Biological Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>ATY 369: Statistics for Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>ATY 453: Human Osteology<\/li>\n<li>ATY 457: Primate Behavior<\/li>\n<li>ATY 477: Zooarchaeology<\/li>\n<li>ATY 479: Analysis of Archaeological Data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Personal Statement<\/h3>\n<p>As an anthropologist, I am interested in how humans interact with their environments. My focus is the Pleistocene, or \u201cIce Age,\u201d which lasted from 2.6 million years ago to about 12,000 years ago. I specialize in the analysis of ancient animal remains, which are a rich repository of past human behavior and past environments. Ultimately, I seek to identify how humans reacted to, and used technology and culture to actively construct, their environments over long periods of time. I believe strongly, to borrow from Barbara Kingslover\u2019s novel&nbsp;<i>The Lacuna<\/i>, that \u201cthe past is all we know of the future.\u201d Looking back in time offers a depth to our understanding of human-environment interactions that allows us to appropriately contextualize\u2014and provide potential solutions to\u2014the issues we face today. <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">As a committed teacher and mentor, I regularly include students in research and strive to instill skills that prepare them for the 21st&nbsp;century economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Student Research<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div><a id=\"LPlnk\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p9kGl3Fekm8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p9kGl3Fekm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Stone tools, bones, and butchery<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div><a id=\"LPlnk\" title=\"https:\/\/www.uncg.edu\/faculty-staff\/them-bones-clues-unearthed-about-prehistoric-predators-and-human-history\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncg.edu\/faculty-staff\/them-bones-clues-unearthed-about-prehistoric-predators-and-human-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"\">Them bones: clues unearthed about prehistoric predators and human history<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites<\/em>.&nbsp; (with M. Dom\u00ednguez-Rodrigo and R. Barba, Springer, 2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">CP Egeland, Briana L. Pobiner, Stephen R. Merritt, and Suzanne Kunitz (2024), Actualistic Butchery Studies in Zooarchaeology: Where We&#8217;ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Want to Go,&nbsp;<i>Journal of Anthropological Archaeology<\/i> 73:101565 (<a href=\"https:\/\/uncg.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/dept-12201\/ER6Jrdfnao5LvBwBjb0RoXoB7kCddTPfqZQcb1v7GY499w?e=iEPDe3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">view PDF<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div>Manuel Dom\u00ednguez-Rodrigo,&nbsp;CP Egeland,<b>&nbsp;<\/b>Luc\u00eda Cobo-S\u00e1nchez, Enrique Baquedano, and Richard C. Hulbert Jr.&nbsp;(2022), Sabertooth Carcass Consumption Behavior and the Dynamics of Pleistocene Large Carnivoran Guilds,&nbsp;<i>Scientific Reports&nbsp;<\/i>12:6045 (<a href=\"https:\/\/uncg.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/dept-12201\/EZ3cNF3e7olDoVfo8F1v95gB2fuYSdlmcrc-CilF1X9VdA?e=RSYMsB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">view PDF<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div>CP Egeland and Travis Rayne Pickering (2020), <a href=\"https:\/\/libres.uncg.edu\/ir\/uncg\/listing.aspx?id=33756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cruel Traces: Bone Surface Modifications and Their Relevance to Forensic Science<\/a>,&nbsp;<i>WIREs Forensic Science<\/i>&nbsp;3: e1400<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div>CP Egeland,&nbsp;Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Travis Rayne Pickering, Colin G. Menter, and Jason L. Heaton&nbsp;(2018),<b>&nbsp;<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/libres.uncg.edu\/ir\/uncg\/listing.aspx?styp=ti&amp;id=33788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hominin Skeletal Part Abundances and Claims of Deliberate Disposal of Corpses in the Middle Pleistocene<\/a>,&nbsp;<i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/i>, 115: 4601-4606<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div>CP Egeland (2014),<b>&nbsp;<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/libres.uncg.edu\/ir\/uncg\/listing.aspx?id=33783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taphonomic Estimates of Competition and the Role of Carnivore Avoidance in Hominin Site Use Within the Early Pleistocene Olduvai Basin<\/a>,&nbsp;<i>Quaternary International<\/i>&nbsp;322\/323: 95-106<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Current Projects<\/h3>\n<p>My research revolves around three major projects. The first is the analysis of Early Pleistocene sites from&nbsp;<a id=\"LPlnk\" title=\"https:\/\/olduvaiproject.org\" href=\"https:\/\/olduvaiproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-ogsc=\"\">Olduvai Gorge<\/a>, Tanzania, and Swartkrans, South Africa. Both are part of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and preserve important records of regional climate change and human evolution over the past two million years. The second is the study of modern bones on savanna landscapes. As animals die and decompose, the bones they leave behind reflect the ecological dynamics of specific times and places. I therefore use these bones as models for ancient environments, archives of climate change, and sources of information for land-use and conservation policy. The third project is an NSF-funded&nbsp;<a id=\"LPlnk293892\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2051541&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2051541&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\" data-ogsc=\"\">study<\/a>&nbsp;that brings together a team of archaeologists and computer, data, and cognitive scientists to reconstruct how Ice Age hunter-gatherers used social networks to navigate post-glacial environments in western Europe.<\/p>\n<h3>Photo Gallery<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- default-view.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview default-view\n\t ngg-ajax-pagination-none\t\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-f5305e2e1a0853ab444130852cee2169-1\">\n\n\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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