Dr. Philip Charles LaPorta

PUBLICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS (* Peer Reviewed) (# Most Referenced Papers, as of May, 2024, papers referenced in 195 peer scholarly papers)

*In prep.          LaPorta, P.C., The Cambrian-Ordovician Kittatinny Supergroup of northwestern New Jersey and southeastern New York: Revisions in Formation and Member Level Stratigraphy in The Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.

*In prep.          LaPorta, P.C., Brewer-LaPorta, M., and Minchak, S., Sedimentological and Stratigraphic Constraints on Prehistoric Bedrock Quarries in the First Tectonic Cycle of the Cambrian-Ordovician Appalachians, Archaeologica Polonia.

*In prep.          LaPorta, P.C., Brewer-LaPorta, M., Minchak, S., From Quarries to Fish Weirs; the Allocation of Raw Materials from Quarries of the Great Valley Sequence to the Estuaries of the Piedmont., UISPP, Paris.

*2020              LaPorta, P.C., Brewer-LaPorta, M., and Minchak, S., The Extraction of Chert Boudinage from the Lower-Middle Ordovician Ontelaunee Formation, Wallkill River Valley, Northwestern New Jersey-Southeastern New York in Collet, H., and Hauzeur, A., eds., Etudes & Document Archeologie: Anthropologie et Prehistoire.

*2018              LaPorta, P.C., Minchak, S., and Brewer-LaPorta, M.C. The Prehistoric Bedrock Quarries Occurring within the Chert Bearing Carbonates of the Cambrian-Ordovician Kittatinny Supergroup, Wallkill River Valley, Southeastern New York-Northwestern New Jersey, U.S.A. in Budziszewski, J., Werra, D., and Wozny, M., eds.  Between History and Archaeology: Dedicatory Volume to Professor Jacek Lech, Neolithic Prehistoric Mining and History of Archaeology, p. 133-146

*#2017            Lothrop, J.C., LaPorta, P.C., Diamond, J., Younge, M.H., and Winchell-Sweeney, S., New Data on PaleoIndian Sites and Isolated Finds in the Wallkill/Rondout Valley of New York and New Jersey in Gingerich, J., ed., Eastern Fluted Point Tradition II,  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

*2017              Lothrop, J.C., Beardsley, M., Clymer, M., Diamond, J., LaPorta, P.C., Younge, M., Winchell-Sweeney, S., PaleoIndian Landscapes in Southeastern and Central New York: PaleoAmerica, Center for the Study of First Americans, Texas A&M University, Routledge Press.

*2010              LaPorta, P., Minchak, S., and Brewer-LaPorta, M., The Life and History of Quarry Extraction Tools Excavated from the Skene Motion and Workshop, Hartford Basin, Champlain Valley, New York, USA  in Brewer-LaPorta, M., Burke, A., and Field, D. (eds.), Ancient Quarries and Mines: A Transatlantic Perspective: Oxbow Press, Oxford, U.K., p. 109-119.

*#2008            Schneider, J., and LaPorta, P.C., Geological Constraints on Ground Stone Production and Consumption in the Southern Levant, in Rowan, Y., and Ebeling, J., (eds.), New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts:  Equinox Publishing, Ltd., 386 p.

*#2005            Barkai, R., Gopher, A., and LaPorta, P.C., Middle Pleistocene Landscape of Extraction: Quarry and Workshop Complexes in Northern Israel, in, Gorring-Inbar, N., and Sharon G., (eds), Axe Age: Acheulian Toolmaking from Quarry to Discard: Equinox Publishing, Ltd. p. 7-44.

2004                LaPorta, P.C., A geological model for the development of bedrock quarries, with an ethnoarchaeological application, in Topping, P., and Lynott, M., eds., The Cultural Landscape of Prehistoric Mines, Oxbow Books, U.K, 214 p.

*#2002            Barkai, R., Gopher, A., and LaPorta, P.C., Paleolithic Landscape of Extraction: Extensive Lower-Middle Paleolithic flint surface-quarries and workshops at Har Pua, Upper Galilee, The Journal Antiquity, v.76: p. 672-680.

2000                LaPorta, P.C., The geology of Iron Hill, Delaware and its characterization as a source of ferruginous chert, in Kellogg, D., ed., Current Issues in Mid-Atlantic Geoarchaeology: Society for American Archaeology Geoarchaeology Interest Group, Guidebook for the First Annual Field Trip, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 5, 2000.

*#1999            Petraglia, M., LaPorta, P.C., and Paddayya, K., The first Acheulian quarry in India: Stone tool manufacture, biface morphology, and behaviors: Journal of Anthropological Research, v. 55, p. 39-70.

#1996              LaPorta, P.C., Lithostratigraphy as a predictive tool for prehistoric quarry investigations: Examples from the Dutchess Quarry Site, Orange County, New York, in Lindner, C., ed., A Golden Chronograph for Robert E. Funk: Occasional Papers in Northeastern Anthropology No. 15: Bethlehem, Connecticut, Archaeological Services, p. 73-84.

1996                Bergman, C.A., Doershuk, J.F., LaPorta, P.C., and Schuldenrein, J., An introduction to the Early and Middle Archaic occupations at Sandt’s Eddy: Pennsylvania Archaeologist.

1994                LaPorta, P.C., Lithostratigraphic models and the geographic distribution of prehistoric chert quarries within the Cambro-Ordovician lithologies of the Great Valley Sequence, Sussex County, New Jersey, in Bergman, C.A. and Doershuk, J.F., eds., Recent Research into the Prehistory of the Delaware Valley, Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, v. 10, p. 47-66.

1993    Bergman, C.A., LaPorta, P.C., Doershuk, J.F., Fassler, H., Rue, D., and Schuldenrein, J., The Padula Site (36Nm15) and chert resource exploitation in the Middle Delaware River Valley: Archaeology of Eastern North America, v. 20, p.