15 Facts About Kathy Schick

Kathy Schick is professor emeritus in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University and is a founder and co-director of the Stone Age Institute.

Kathy Schick's father was an engraver, who inspired Schick for her interest in crafts and tools as a child.

Kathy Schick then went on to apply to UC Berkeley to pursue her doctorate's degree in 1980, which was where she met her eventual husband, Nicholas Toth, who she married in 1976.

Kathy Schick received a PhD in Anthropology, human evolutionary studies, Paleolithic archaeology, and African Prehistory from UC Berkeley.

Kathy Schick began her career as a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town's Archaeology Department in 1985 and UC Berkeley's Anthropology Department in 1986, specifically within their Old World Lithics Laboratory.

Since 2000, Kathy Schick has held a position at the Stone Age Institute as an executive board member and secretary, and later became the co-director of the institute in 2003.

Kathy Schick has travelled to many countries around the world as a part of her fieldwork in anthropology.

Kathy Schick has analyzed early tools in different regions through excavations and studying how they were developed and used by humans who lived in the Stone Age era.

Kathy Schick's fieldwork entails the study of human fossil ancestors through excavations and subsequent laboratory analyses.

Kathy Schick has participated in fieldwork relating to her areas of interest across the world for decades.

Kathy Schick has observed archaeological sites and lithic collections in Oldowan and Acheulean sites such as Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia, Gona and Middle Awash in Ethiopia, Nihewan Basin in China, Lake Natron in Tanzania, Ambrona in Spain, and Koobi Fora in Kenya.

Kathy Schick has investigated the acheulean since the beginning of her anthropological and educational career.

Kathy Schick started her research of the acheulean during her years at UC Berkeley.

Kathy Schick then traveled back to Spain for another project, which was directed by Clark Howell, in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, Spain.

In 1990, Kathy Schick began a long-term collaborative research project, along with Nicholas Toth and psychologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, to observe the bonobo Kanzi as he learned to make and use stone tools.