Ben Schoville

Dr. Ben Schoville is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University and a member of the College of Liberal Arts AI Research Initiative. His research investigates the technological innovations that enabled human survival during the late Pleistocene through field excavations, experimental archaeology, and emerging quantitative methods. He also collaborates with Indigenous communities using community-led approaches to explore long-term human-environment interactions. He directs the North of Kuruman Palaeoarchaeology Project, which focuses on Early and Middle Stone Age archaeological sites in the southern Kalahari Basin. This work combines high-resolution archaeological data with paleoenvironmental records to understand how humans have adapted to water scarcity in arid environments over the past one million years.