POSITIONS HELD
Research Fellow. 1996-present. Buffalo Museum of Science
Curator. Holland Lithics Laboratory, Buffalo Museum of Science RESEARCH
Stone or lithic materials used prehistorically by humans for stone tool construction. Describe and understand the geographic and geological sources for materials used in stone tool manufacture. Develop a classification system for chert through field and laboratory work RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Developed the first visual comparative classification system for analyzing chert and other lithics resources (mostly chert or flint) in North America. Over a period of 25 years collected approximately 22,000 samples covering the entire the United States, most of Canada, and some other parts of the world to establish the most comprehensive North American collection of lithic materials (Holland Lithics Collection). This collection is made available for research by anthropologists and archeologists. AWARDS
2001 Crabtree Award from the Society of American Archeology 2001
2001 J Alden Mason Award from the Society of Pennsylvania Archeology
2001 Recognition of Achievement from the Buffalo Museum of Science
1998 All-College Conference, 1st Place State Essay Award from the Empire State College SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS
2005 Field archeologist by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
1998 Research Fellow by the New York State Archeological Association
1993 Anthropology Research Fellow by the Buffalo Museum of Science
1987 Anthropology Research Assistant by the Buffalo Museum of Science
1986 Field Associate by the Carnegie Museum, Anthropology Division SERVICE
Former president, Houghton Chapter, New York Archeological Association TEACHING
1988-1992 Instructor, stone tool making. Empire State College (SUNY) EDUCATION
1986 Anthropology, B.A. Empire State College. Buffalo, New York
1985 Flintknapping Technology. Malheur Field Station, Pacific University. Princeton, Oregon
1983 Stone tool making Workshop, Center for American Archaeology. Kampsville, Illinois
1983 Art of Flintknapping. Crow Haven. Branson, Missouri WORKSHOPS
2008 Invited participating scholar for the Paleoamerican Origins Workshop, University of Texas
2007 Invited keynote presenter for the West Virginia chipped stone materials workshop, Council
for West Virginia Archeology, Tamarack, Beckley PUBLICATIONS
2008 Holland, J.D. Illinois chert types, Illinois Antiquity 43, 3-17.
2008 Holland, J.D., Ashton, W. Indiana Chert Types. Illinois Antiquity 43, 18-26.
2007 Holland, J.D. West Virginia lithics of potential prehistorical significance. West Virginia
Archeologist 53, 19-24.
2006 Holland, J.D. Virginia lithic types: chert, quartzite, and others. The Quarterly Bulletin 61,137-152.
2005 Holland, J.D. Types and varieties of archaeologically relevant Ohio chert. Ohio
Archaeologist 55, 20-22.
2005 Holland, J.D. Chert and other lithic materials of prehistoric New Jersey. Bulletin of the Archaeology Society of
New Jersey 60, 54-61.
2004 Holland, J. D. Lithic types of New York. The Bulletin 120, 17-36.
2004 Holland, J.D. New data on late-Pleistocene lithic artifacts from the Hiscock site (Western New York). Current
Research in the Pleistocene 21, 46-48.
2003 Ellis, C.J., Tomenchuk, J. &Holland, J.D. Typology, Use and Sourcing of the Late Pleistocene Lithic Artifacts
from the Hiscock Site. In The Hiscock Site: Later Pleistocene and Early Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology
of Western New York State, R. S. Laub (ed.), pp. 221-237. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 37.
2003 Holland, J. D. A guide to Pennsylvania lithic types. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archeology 19, 129-150.
2003 Storck, P.L. & Holland, J.D. From Text to Context: Hiscock in the Paleoindian World. In The Hiscock Site:
Later Pleistocene and Early Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology of Western New York State, R. S. Laub
(ed.), pp. 281-300 Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 37.
1999 Ellis, C.J., Tomenchuk, J., & Holland, J.D. The Flately Brook Quarry: A source of Normanskill Chert Located
in Washington County, New York. The Bulletin 115, 13-16
1999 Holland, J. D. Lamb Site Lithics: Local and Exotic - An Analytical Assessment. American Society for Amateur
Archaeology 5, 103-104.
1998 Smith, K.P., O'Donnell, N. & Holland, J.D. The Early and Middle Archaic in the Niagara Frontier: documenting
the 'missing years" in Lower Great Lakes Prehistory. In Contributions to the Natural Sciences and
Anthropology: a Festschrift in Honor of George F. Goodyear, convened by Ernst E. Both. Bulletin of the Buffalo
Society of Natural Sciences 36, 1-79.
1997 Tankersley, K. B., Vanderlaan, S., Holland, J.D. & Bland, S. Geochronology of the Arc Site: A Palaeoindian
Habitation in the Great Lakes Region. Archaeology of Eastern North America 25, 31-44.
1996 Holland, J.D. Geoarchaeology of the Kilmer Site: A paleoindian habitation site in the Appalachian Uplands.
North American Archaeologist 17, 93-111.
1995 Ennis, R., Hess, M. Holland, J.D., Honsinger, V., Smith, K.P., Tankersley, K.P. & Vanderlaan, S. Survey
and test excavations at the Arc site, Genese County, New York. Current Research in the Pleistocene 12, 9-10.
1995 Tankersley, K.B., Holland, J.D., & Kilmer, R.L. The Kilmer Site: A Paleoindian Site in the Allegheny Plateau.
Current Research in the Pleistocene 12, 46-48.
1994 Holland, J.D. English flint on the coast of Maine. Chips 5, 6-7.
1994 Holland, J.D. Mount Jasper rhyolite. The Flintknappers Exchange.
1994 Holland, J.D. Lithic Procurement at the Paleo Crossing Site, Medina County, Ohio. Current Research in
the Pleistocene 11, 61-63.
1994 Tankersley, K.B., Holland, J.D. Lithic procurement patterns at the paleo crossing site, Medina County,
OH. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11, 61-63.
1993 Holland, J.D. Glass of the Fire Mountains. Chips 5,
1994 Holland, J.D. The ABC’s of flintknapping: A flintknapper’s alphabet. Bulletin of PrimitiveTechnology
1994 Holland, J.D. Paleoindians of Western New York. In Prehistory of Western New York (ed. Elaine Herold), State
University of New York at Buffalo and F.M. Houghton Chapter, New York State Archaeology Association.
1992 Holland, J.D. Some Dover billets. Twentieth Century Lithics 1, 93-6.
1992 Holland, J.D. Onondaga Chert. Chips 4,
1992 Holland, J.D. Burlington Chert. Chips 4, 3-4.
1992 Holland, J.D. Knife River flint. Chips 4,
1989 Holland, J.D. Paleoindian Conference in Maine. Chips 4, 3-4.
REPORTS
2007 Smith, D., Schieppati, F., Holland, J.D., Emans, R., Steinbeck, M. & Cinquino, M. Phase III Cultural
Resources Investigation of the Prehistoric Component (AO.0236502940) within the Erie Canal Harbor
Archaeological District, City of Buffalo, Erie County, New York.
1994 Holland, J.D. Arc Site (MDA 17-4) Genesee County, New York, Artifact Inventory: Stanley Vanderlaan
Collection. Holland Lithic Laboratory, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York.
1992 Holland, J.D. R. Haas Site II (UB 1061), Orchard Park, NY: Artifact assemblage & lithic analysis. Prepared for
R. M. Braun, Watch Hill Development Corp., Orchard Park, New York. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2006 Holland. J.D. Eyewitness Account of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Historic 70th Year Anniversary of his, “I Hate
War”, Presentational Campaign Speech at the Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY, August 17, 1936.
2006 Rush, L., Holland, J.D., Wood, A. & Schulz, M. Lithic sourcing and site Evaluation in the context of large
scale survey. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2003 Storck, P.L. & Holland, J.D. From Text to Context: Hiscock in the Paleoindian World. The Hiscock Site:
Smith II Symposium 2001, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York.
2001 Ellis, C.J., Tomenchuk, J. & Holland, J.D. Typolgy, Use, and Sourcing of the Late Pleistocene lithic artifacts
from the Hiscock Site. Smith II Symposium, 2001. Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York.
2000 Holland, J.D. Lithic materials of prehistoric Pennsylvania. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for
Pennsylvania Archaeology,. Williamsport, PA.
1999 Holland, J.D. & Dincauze, D. The Shoop site revisited – again. 64th Annual meeting of the Society for
American Archeology, Chicago, IL.
1999 Holland, J.D. The Holland Lithic Laboratory. Middle Atlantic Archeological Conference, Harrisburg, PA.
1999 Holland, J.D. The cherts of northwestern Pennsylvania: Indigenous and otherwise. 70th Annual Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Society for Archaeology, Brookville, Pennsylvania.
1999 Holland, J.D. Chert and other lithics of upstate New York: Their types and usage. 83rd Annual Meeting of the
New York State Archaeological Association, Sparrowbush, New York
1999 Holland, J.D. The Closet cherts of Ohio. Eastern States Archeological Federation, Kings Island, OH.
1999 Holland, J.D. A Visual reference collection approach to lithic Identification. Middle Atlantic Archaeology
Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1997 Holland, J.D. & Jarvis, H.W. A preliminary study of the Conrail site (36LU169) in Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania. Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Conference, Wilkes Barre, PA.
1994 Smith, K.P., Holland, J.D. & Tankersley, K.B. Wanderers of the wetlands? The Late Pleistocene Occupation
of Eastern New York. Paper presented at the 59th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology
Conference, Anaheim, CA.
1993 Holland, J.D. Visual reference collection comparison identification of lithic material. Archaeometry Conference,
State University of New York at Buffalo
1986 Holland, J.D. A replicated flake tool edge-wear study of broadly provenienced lithic material. Northeastern
Anthropological Association Conference. Buffalo, NY.
1985 Holland, J.D. Prehistoric Stone Toolmaking. All-College Conference, Empire State College Saratoga
Springs, NY.
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