Ben Marwick

Ben Marwick

Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington

Ben Marwick is an associate professor of Archaeology. His research combines models from evolutionary ecology with analyses of archaeological evidence to investigate past human behavior.

Articles by: Ben Marwick

a woman wearing a hat leans over to excavate a tool in reddish soil.

Unknown human species in East Asia used sophisticated tools at the same time Neanderthals did in Europe

By Ben Marwick published

A stone tool discovery in China rewrites the human story of Middle Paleolithic era in East Asia

a photo of the detonation of an atoll during operation ivy in 1952, showing a mushroom cloud above the sea

Anthropocene? Humans Have Been Changing the Planet for Millennia.

By Ben Marwick, Erle C. Ellis, Lucas Stephens, Nicole Boivin published

So how do we mark the beginning of this human age?