Giovanni Bennardo

Cecil Brown

Winifred Creamer

Daniel Gebo

Michael Kolb

Sibel Kusimba

Judy Ledgerwood

Mark Mehrer

Andrea Molnar

Susan Montague

Leila Porter

Ronald Provencher

Rob Ridinger

Susan Russell

Kendall Thu

Katharine Wiegele

Ann Wright-Parsons

Kenneth Honea

Ph.D., Vienna, 1958
Associate Professor Emeritus

Professor Honea is a prehistoric archaeologist with specific interests focused on temporal and cultural adaptation strategies of Palaeolithic technocomplexes in Southeast Europe.  For over 14 years, his research has centered on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites in Romania by application of conventional radiocarbon and accelerator mass spectrometry methods.  He has also worked widely in Mediterranean Europe and in the American Southwest.  Emeritus Professor Honea taught courses on prehistoric archaeology, archaeology of Europe, archaeological dating methods, and lithic and ceramic technology.

Selected Publications

"Southeast Charentian Technocomplex in Romania: Borosteni-Cioarei Cave, Gorj County, Radiometric Values", In Actes du XIIe Congres International des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, Bratislava, Vol. 2, 66-73, 1993.

Chronostratigraphy of Mitoc-Malu Galben, Botosani County, Middle Prut Valley, Romania: Variability of Aurignacian-Gravettian Surfaces, In Actes du XIIe Congres International des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, Bratislava, Vol. 2, 231-239, 1993.

Dating and Periodization Strategies in the Romanian Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, In Pleistocene Perspectives, Vol. I, London: Allen and Unwin, pp. 1-53, 1986.

Contact Information

Dr. Kenneth Honea
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115