JOURNAL ARTICLES
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Publications In Press
Bebber, Michelle R., Eren Metin I., Barzcok, Maximilian, Williams, Jeremy C. (In Press) “Current Evidence Does Not Support a Hopewell Age, Provenience, or Affiliation for the Figurine Allegedly from Hopeton Earthworks or the Hopewell Mound Group”. Accepted to Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.
Bebber, Michelle R. and Key, Alastair J.M., (In Press) “Optimal Linear Estimation Modeling (OLE) supports Early Holocene (9000-8000 RCYBP) Copper Tool Production in North America”. Accepted to American Antiquity.
Eren, Metin I., Meltzer, David J., Buchanan, Briggs, Story, Brett, Yeager, Don, Bebber, Michelle R. (In Press) “On the Efficacy of Clovis Points for Hunting Proboscideans”. Accepted to the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Eren, Metin I., Bebber, Michelle R., Knell, Edward J., Story, Brett, Buchanan, Briggs. (In Press) “Plains Paleoindian Projectile Point Penetration Potential”. Accepted to Journal of Anthropological Research.
Bebber, Michelle R., Chao, A., (In Press) “The Diversity of North America’s “Old Copper” Projectile Points”. Accepted to edited volume, Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology, eds. Buchanan, B. and Eren, M., Berghahn New York.
2021 Publications
Bebber, Michelle R., (2021) The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (6000 – 3000 BP): An experimental, ecological, and evolutionary approach. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
Mullen, D., Matney, T., Morrison, A., Fisch, M., Buchanan, B., Bebber, M.R., (2021). An Experimental Assessment of Neo-Assyrian Bronze Arrowhead Penetration: Comparing Bilobate versus Trilobate Morphologies. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Eren MI, Bebber M, Wilcox D, Story B, Buchanan B (2021) North American Clovis point form and performance II: an experimental assessment of point, haft, and shaft durability. Lithic Technology
Eren, M., Romans, J., Buchanan, B., Bebber, M., (2021). Validating chronograph measurement accuracy of stone-tipped projectile velocity. Measurement: Sensors.
Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, Anna Mika, Kat Flood, Leanna Maguire, Dusty Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Damon A. Mullen, Scott Centea, Chase Centea, Bob Christy, Rami Daud, Jermaine Jackson, Robert J. Patten, Brian G. Redmond, Briggs Buchanan, Richard Haythorn, G. Logan Miller, Mark A. Conaway, Rebecca E. Biermann Gürbüz, Stephen J. Lycett, J. David Kilby, Brian Andrews, Brandi MacDonald, Matthew Boulanger, David J. Meltzer (2021). The Nelson stone tool cache, North-Central Ohio, U.S.A.: assessing cultural affiliation. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Boulanger, M., Patten, R., Andrews, B., Bebber, M.R., Buchanan, B., Jorgeson, I., Miller, G.L., Eren, M.I., Meltzer, D. (2021) Antelope Springs: a Folsom site in South Park, Colorado. Paleoamerica.
Eren MI, Mullen D, Spurlock L, Christy B, Miller GL, Buchanan B, Bush J, Bebber M (2021) Technical descriptions of artifacts from the Dresden Mound Cache, Ohio. Current Research in Ohio Archaeology.
Eren, Metin I. and Bebber, Michelle R., (2021). Radiocarbon dating of a fish spine suggests there is not an archaeological site east of Edgewater View, Edgewater Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Current Research in Ohio Archaeology.
Mullen D, Miller G, Buchanan B, Diez-Martin F, St. John T, Eren MI, Bebber M (2021) Late Archaic and Early Woodland stone tools from Killbuck, Holmes County, Ohio. Current Research in Ohio Archaeology.
Eren, M., Romans, J., Buchanan, B., Bebber, M., (2021). Validating chronograph measurement accuracy of stone-tipped projectile velocity. Measurement: Sensors.
2020 Publications
29) Boulanger, M., Patten, R., Andrews, B., Bebber, M.R., Buchanan, B., Jorgeson, I., Miller, G.L., Eren, M.I., Meltzer, D. (2020) Antelope Springs: a Folsom site in South Park, Colorado. Paleoamerica.
28) Bebber, Michelle R., Michael Wilson, Andrew Kramer, Richard Meindl, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren (2020) The non-invention of the ceramic arrowhead in world archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 31, p. 102283.
27) Perrone, A., Bebber, M.R., Boulanger, M., Buchanan, B., Miller, G. L., Redmond, B., and Eren, M.I., (2020) Description, geometric morphometrics, and microwear of five Clovis fluted projectile points from Lucas and Wood Counties, Northwest Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.
26) Rutkoski, A.R., Miller, G.L., Maguire, L., Eren, M.I. and Bebber, M.R., (2020) The Effect of Heat on Lithic Microwear Traces: an Experimental Assessment. Lithic Technology, 45(1), pp.38-47.
25) Mika, A., Flood, K., Norris, J.D., Wilson, M., Key, A., Buchanan, B., Redmond, B., Pargeter, J., Bebber, M.R., and Eren, M.I., (2020) Miniaturization optimized weapon killing power during the social stress of late pre-contact North America (AD 600-1600). PloS one, 15(3), p.e0230348.
24) Perrone, A., Wilson, M., Fisch, M., Buchanan, B., Bebber, M.R., and Eren, M.I., (2020) Human behavior or taphonomy? On the breakage of Eastern North American Paleoindian endscrapers. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
23) Eren, M.I., Story, B., Perrone, A., Bebber, M., Hamilton, M., Walker, R. and Buchanan, B., 2020. North American Clovis Point Form and Performance: An Experimental Assessment of Penetration Depth. Lithic Technology, pp.1-20.
2019 Publications
22) Bebber, Michelle R., Norris, J.D., Flood, K., Fisch, M., Meindl, R.S. and Eren, M.I., (2019). Controlled experiments support the role of function in the evolution of the North American copper tool repertoire. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 26, p.101917.
21) Bebber, Michelle R., Alastair Key, Michael Fisch, Richard Meindl, and Metin I. Eren
(2019) The exceptional abandonment of metal tools by North American hunter-gatherers, 3000 B.P. Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42185-y
20) Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber (2019) The Cerutti Mastodon and experimental archaeology’s quiet coming of age. Antiquity.
19) Bebber, Michelle R. and Metin I. Eren (2019) Temper and temperament of prehistoric craft: temper type evolution and clay body “workability.” Journal of Craft Research.
18) Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, James D. Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Ashley Rutkoski, Michael Wilson, and Mary Ann Raghanti (2019) Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen feces do not work. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
17) Williams, Jeremy, Diana Simone, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren (2019) A nine thousand year record of continuous optimal toolstone selection through the North American Holocene. Antiquity.
16) Eren, Metin I., G. Logan Miller, Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Michelle R. Bebber, Brian G. Redmond, Charles Stephens, Lisa Coats, Patty Boser, B. Sponseller, Matt Slicker (2019) The Black Diamond Site, Northeast Ohio: A new Clovis occupation in a proposed secondary staging area. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.
15) Bebber, Michelle R., Ashley M. Rutkoski, Anna Mika, James D. Norris, Michael Wilson, Heather Smith, Leanna Maguire, and Metin I. Eren. (2019) Archaeological survey of the Berlin Lake Reservoir Coast, Mahoning, Portage, and Stark Counties, Ohio. Current Research in Ohio Archaeology. (*Editor Reviewed)
2018 Publications
14) Bebber, Michelle R., Metin I. Eren (2018) Toward a functional understanding of the North American Old Copper Culture “technomic devolution”. Journal of Archaeological Science.
13) Kirgesner, Samantha, Michelle R. Bebber, Ashley Rutkoski, G. Logan Miller, Metin I. Eren (2019) Toward recognizing the prehistoric butchery of frozen meat: an archaeological experiment and stone tool microwear analysis. Lithic Technology.
12) Rutkoski, Ashley, Michelle Rae Bebber, and Metin I. Eren (2018) Invention or diffusion: on the appearance of limestone temper in the late Holocene archaeological record of Southern Ohio, U.S.A. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
11) Eren, Metin I., Michelle Rae Bebber, G. Logan Miller, Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, and Robert J. Patten (2018) Description, morphometrics, and microwear of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene artifacts from Northern Kentucky, U.S.A.. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
10) Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber (2018) Comment on “Apprenticeship in early Neolithic societies; the transmission of technological knowledge at the flint mine of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain), c. 5300-5200 cal BC” by Nuria Castaneda. Current Anthropology.
9) Bebber, Michelle Rae, Linda B. Spurlock, Michal Fisch (2018) A performance-based evaluation of chemically similar (carbonate) tempers from Late Prehistoric (AD 1200-1700) Ohio: implications for human selection and production of ceramic technology. PLOS ONE.
8) Bebber, Michelle R., Linda B. Spurlock, David M. Price, Metin I. Eren (2018) Description and Thermoluminescence (TL) Dating of an Alleged Hopewell Mobiliary Clay Human Figurine from Hopeton Earthworks, Ross County, Ohio. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.
7) Miller, G. Logan, Michelle Rae Bebber, Ashley Rutkoski, Richard Haythorn, Matthew T. Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Jenn Bush, C. Owen Lovejoy, Metin I. Eren (2018) Hunter-gatherer gatherings: stone tool microwear from the Welling Site (33-Co-2), Ohio, U.S.A. supports Clovis use of outcrop-related base camps during the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas. World Archaeology.
6) Werner, Angelia, Andrew Kramer, Crystal Reedy, Michelle Rae Bebber, Justin Pargeter, and Metin I. Eren (2018) Experimental assessment of proximal lateral edge grinding on haft damage using replicated Late Pleistocene (Clovis) stone projectile points. Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences.
2017 Publications
5) Bebber, Michelle Rae (2017) Tempered Strength: a controlled experiment assessing opportunity costs of adding temper to clay. Journal of Archaeological Science 86: 1-13.
4) Bebber, Michelle Rae, Stephen J. Lycett, Metin I. Eren (2017) Developing a Stable Point: Evaluating the temporal and geographic consistency of Late Prehistoric unnotched triangular point functional design in Midwestern North America. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 47: 72-82.
3) Werner Angelia, Kathleen Jones, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Alastair J.M. Key, Crystal Reedy, Michelle R. Bebber, Metin I. Eren, (2017) The morphometrics and microwear of a small Clovis assemblage from Guernsey County, Southeastern Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15: 318-329.
2) Bebber, Michelle R., G. Logan Miller, Matthew T. Boulanger, Brian N. Andrews, Brian G. Redmond, Donna Jackson, Metin I. Eren (2017) Description and microwear analysis of Clovis artifacts on a glacially-deposited secondary chert source near the Hartley Mastodon discovery, Columbiana County, Northeastern Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12: 543-552.
1) Lowe, Corey and Michelle R. Bebber, 2015. Tracking Trafficked Antiquities. Practicing Anthropology 37(2): 27-30.
PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS
Eren, Metin I., Bebber, Michelle Rae, 2017. Book review of “Settlement, Society, and Cognition in Human Evolution: Landscapes in Mind”, edited by Fiona Coward, Robert Hosfield, Matt Pope, and Francis Wenban-Smith. The Prehistoric Society.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
4/11/19 – SAA: Society for American Archaeology Annual Conference – Albuquerque, NM. Poster Session – A comparative functional analysis of Old Copper Culture utilitarian implements via artifact replication, materials testing, and ballistic analyses
4/13/19 – SAA: Society for American Archaeology Annual Conference – Albuquerque, NM. Symposium: Diversity in Archaeology – The Diversity of Old Copper Culture Projectile Points
6/4/18 – UISPP: Union Internationale des Sciences Prèhistoriques et Protohistoriques XVIII Congrès – Paris, France: Ballistics Session – Why weren’t ceramic arrowheads invented?
4/12/18 – SAA: Society for American Archaeology Annual Conference – Washington D.C. – Why weren’t ceramic arrowheads invented?: Theoretical Morphology for understanding the human past.
4/14/18 – SAA: Society for American Archaeology Annual Conference – Washington D.C. – Invention or Imitation: Assessing the Incipient Use of Limestone Temper in Southern Ohio via the hydrochloric acid method
10/20/2017 – MAC: Midwest Archaeological Conference – Indianapolis, IN. Description and Thermoluminescence dating of an alleged Hopewell clay mobiliary figurine from Hopeton Earthworks, Ross County, OH.
5/12/2017 – CAA: Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Conference – Ottawa, ON. Tempered Strength: a controlled experiment assessing opportunity costs of adding temper to clay.
4/1/2017 – SAA: Society for American Archaeology Annual Conference – Vancouver, BC. A performance-based evaluation of chemically similar tempers from Late Prehistoric (AD 1200-1700), Ohio and their behavioral implications.
Michelle Rae Bebber, Ph.D. 