Richard W. Yerkes

Richard W. Yerkes is an archaeologist who studies prehistoric stone tools, farming, and craft activities using microscopic wear-pattern analysis of flaked-stone artifacts to reconstruct how ancient people used them (e.g., for woodworking or cultivating crops). His work spans multiple regions and time periods, including the Hopewell and Late Archaic societies of the Ohio Valley and Midwestern United States, Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Hungary and the broader Carpathian Basin, and lithic recycling practices in the Near East (Israel). He often works as part of collaborative, multi-author excavation and regional survey projects.</h3>

Publication output was more active and variable between 2017-2021 (with peaks of 7 papers in 2018 and 2021), but has slowed considerably since 2022, with little to no output most years and a mean of only 0.6 publications per year over the last five years.

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