MARY C. STINER (PhD 1990) is Regents' Professor of Anthropology in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. She is also Curator of Zooarchaeology at the Arizona State Museum. She conducts archaeological research on human ancestors, paleoeconomics, and social evolution. Her book, Honor among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology (1994, Princeton University Press), won the first Society of American Archaeology book prize in 1996. Her most recent book, entitled The Faunas of Hayonim Cave ( Israel ): A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography & Society, was published in 2005 with Peabody Museum Press of Harvard University. Some recent articles include "Changes in the 'connectedness' and resilience of Paleolithic societies in Mediterranean ecosystems" (Stiner & Kuhn, 2006, Human Ecology), "What's a mother to do? A hypothesis about the division of labor and modern human origins" (Kuhn & Stiner, 2006, Current Anthropology 47), "Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel" (Stiner et al. J Human Evol 2011), "Finding a common band-width: Causes of convergence and diversity in Paleolithic beads" (2014, Biological Theory 9(1): 51-64), and "Love and death in the Stone Age: What constitutes first evidence of mortuary treatment of the human body?" (2017, Biological Theory 12(4): 248-261).