January 6th 1954 – February 5th 2022 “Researcher at CONICET- CADIC (Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego) and Professor at the National University of Tierra del Fuego (Ushuaia), Maria Estela Mansur was part of the first generation of western traceologists to establish the fundamentals of the discipline. Working in Patagonia, she quickly called upon ethnographic and historical data to enrich her interpretations. Researcher at CONICET in Ushuaia (Argentina), she created and directed a res

January 31st 1952 – February 26th 2021 “Sadly Linda Owen was taken by the Coronavirus on 26 February, 2021. With Günther Unrath, Linda designed and organized the first multi-analyst blind test of microscopic analysis; this work was published in 1986 as Technical Aspects of Microwear Studies on Stone Tools, in a triple volume of Early Man News 9/10/11. In 1997 she co-organized with Martin Porr the conference Ethno-Analogy and Reconstruction of Prehistoric Artefact Use and Pr

August 24th 1948 – October 11th 2017 “With sadness we report that another one of our colleagues, archaeologist Larry Keeley (U. Illinois, Chicago Circle), passed away this week. I overlapped with Larry at Oxford University in the 70’s and we collaborated in the 1980’s on his pioneering microwear analysis of stone tools from Koobi Fora, Kenya (1.9-1.4 million years old). He was a good friend and would visit us in Bloomington on occasion, and advised several of our Chinese and

1942 – October 14th 2011 “[…] George was an early champion of low- power microscopy in the study of lithic use- wear (Odell 1978, 1979, 1981a; Tringham et al. 1974) and, over the years, became its most accomplished practitioner. He applied his impressive expertise to the archaeological record of the Belgian Neolithic (Odell 1978, 1980), to an Illinois Valley record that spanned millennia (Odell 1987, 1996), and to the southern Plains. Along the way, George made major substant