Dr Alex Wilshaw

Conference publication

Wilshaw A. 2023. Outnumbered but not necessarily outgunned: the effects of classroom gender imbalance on student outcomes 2023: Students at the Heart Conference, Students at the Hearth Conference 2023 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Journal article

Mounier A, Van Baelen A, Crivellaro F, Rivera F, Wilshaw A, Grün R, Foley R, Mirazón Lahr M. 2022. A new Upper Pleistocene hominin calvarium from West-Turkana (Kenya) Bulletins et mémoires de la société d'anthropologie de Paris, 33 DOI Publisher Url

Van Baelen A, Wilshaw A, Griffith P, Noens G, Maíllo-Fernández J-M, Foley RA, Mirazón Lahr M. 2019. Prospect Farm and the Middle and Later Stone Age Occupation of Mt. Eburru (Central Rift, Kenya) in an East African Context African Archaeological Review, 36 :397-417 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Mounier A, Correia M, Rivera F, Crivellaro F, Power R, Jeffery J, Wilshaw A, Foley RA, Lahr MM. 2018. Who were the Nataruk people? Mandibular morphology among late Pleistocene and early Holocene fisher-forager populations of West Turkana (Kenya) JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, 121 :235-253 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Wilshaw A, Muwonge H, Rivera F, Mirazon Lahr M. 2016. Aliel: A mid-Holocene stone platform with cairn and single pillar in West Turkana, Kenya Nyame Akuma, :51-59 Public Url

Wilshaw A. 2016. The Current Status of the Kenya Capsian. African Archaeological Review, 33 :13-27 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Mirazón Lahr M, Rivera F, Power RK, Mounier A, Copsey B, Crivellaro F, Edung JE, Maillo Fernandez JM, Kiarie C, Lawrence J, Leakey A, Mbua E, Miller H, Muigai A, Mukhongo DM, Van Baelen A, Wood R, Schwenninger J-L, Grün R, Achyuthan H, Wilshaw A, Foley RA. 2016. Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya. Nature, 529 :394-398 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Wilshaw A. 2012. Updated provenance information for 7 LSA sites from the Central Rift Valley, Kenya Nyame Akuma, 78 Publisher Url Public Url

Lahr MM, Foley R, Crivellaro F, Fernandez JM, Wilshaw A, Copsey B, Rivera F, Mattingly D. 2011. DMP XIV: Prehistoric sites in the Wadi Barjuj, Fazzan, Libyan Sahara Libyan Studies, 42 :117-138 DOI Publisher Url

Lahr MM, Foley R, Crivellaro F, Fernandez JM, Wilshaw A, Purdon A, Halladay-Garrett C, Veldhuis D, Mattingly D. 2010. DMP XI: Preliminary results from 2010 fieldwork on the human prehistory in the Libyan Sahara Libyan Studies, 41 :133-154 DOI Publisher Url

Lahr MM, Foley R, Crivellaro F, Okumura M, Maher L, Davies T, Veldhuis D, Wilshaw A, Mattingly D. 2009. DMP VI: Preliminary results from 2009 fieldwork on the human prehistory of the Libyan Sahara Libyan Studies, 40 :133-153 DOI Publisher Url

Chapters

Wilshaw A. 2018. The Out of Africa Hypothesis Trevathon W. The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, 3 Volume Set Wiley-Blackwell 9781118584422

Wilshaw A. 2018. Modern Humans, The Origins of The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 12 Volume Set Wiley-Blackwell 9780470657225

Wilshaw A, Mirazon Lahr M. 2018. 4. The Later Prehistory of the Turkana Basin The River Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area :22-31 Archaeopress Archaeology 9781789690330

Wilshaw A. 2018. Hominins and First Humans in the Lower Omo Valley Clack T, Britten M. The River Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area Archaeopress Archaeology 9781789690330

Wilshaw A, Lahr MM. 2018. The later prehistory of the turkana basin The River: Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area :22-32

Editorial/letter to the editor

Lahr MM, Rivera F, Power RK, Moonier A, Copsey B, Crivellaro F, Edung JE, Maillo Fernandez JM, Kiarie C, Lawrence J, Leakey A, Mbuas E, Miller H, Muigai A, Mukhongo DM, Van Baelen A, Wood R, Schwenninger J-L, Grun R, Achyuthan H, Wilshaw A, Foley RA. 2016. Contesting the massacre at Nataruk Reply NATURE, 539 :E10-E11 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Thesis/Dissertation

Wilshaw A. An Investigation into the LSA of the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin and surround, Central Rift Valley, Kenya: Technological Classifications and Population Considerations Mirazon Lahr M.

Award:

LJMU TLA Individual Teaching Excellence Award, https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/teaching-and-learning-academy/teaching-and-learning-awards/tla-2024-winners. 2024

Student Experience Award Outstanding Teacher (Science), https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2024/5/17/winners-announced-at-student-experience-awards-2024. 2024

Teaching qualification:

Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice. 2023

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. 2022

Professional Development Course for External Examiners (AdvanceHE). 2021

Public engagement:

Festival event, Local Adults and Members of the Public, Organisation, Pint of Science. 2023

Fellowships:

FRAI, Royal Anthropological Institute. 2023

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, AdvanceHE. 2022

External PGR examinations performed:

University of Cambridge, MPhil, A 2D Geometric Morphometric approach to the morphological diversity of European, Levantine, and African Handaxes. 2020