User:Cschindler3

Dr. Bill Schindler, archaeologist & chef
Dr. Bill Schindler (born January 20, 1973) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and also the Director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab. As both an experimental archaeologist and primitive technologist, his research and teaching, both in and outside of the college, revolve around a comprehensive understanding of prehistoric technologies including lithic (stone tool) technologies, prehistoric ceramic technologies, projectile technologies, hunting, foraging, hide working, fiber technologies and all aspects of prehistoric food acquisition, processing, storage, and consumption. {| class="wikitable"

Bill Schindler


Born:            William Schindler III born January 20, 1973 (47)

Alma Mater  The College of New Jersey& Temple University

Occupation  Professor, Experimental Archaeologist, Chef

Spouse         Christina Schindler

Website        drbillschindler.com
 * }

A Modern Stone Age Diet Approach
Dr. Schindler believes that the better understanding of prehistoric life made possible through the archaeological record and a practical understanding of the technologies that created it can contextualize our place in the world and help provide answers to many of the issues facing us today. Bill is a strong advocate of traditional foodways and is constantly seeking new ways to incorporate lessons learned from his research into the diets of modern humans. His outlook on food has revolutionized the way in which he and his family eat and he attributes much of the health his wife and three children enjoy to the hunted, gathered, and fermented foods that comprise a significant portion of their diets. He chronicles his family's approach to eating on his website and through social media outlets @drbillschindler

Bill is currently writing a book detailing the year he lived abroad with his family and his Modern Stone Age Diet approach to learning to eat like a human again.

Research & Teaching
Bill Schindler has been trained by some of the world’s leading archaeologists, experimental archaeologists and primitive technologists. His research and teaching combine both academic and hands-on approaches resulting in unique teaching and learning opportunities and he is equally at home in the middle of the forest armed with a hand-made bow stalking a deer or in a college classroom delivering a lecture to a group of students. He truly lives what he teaches and teaches what he lives. His teaching style is based on the belief that students are active learners and are best served by doing and solving real-world problems whenever possible; his approach is what he calls sole authorship, project based, hands-on learning where students are engaged in a project for its entirety – immersed from the very beginning to very end.

The Great Human Race
In 2016, Dr. Schindler literally traveled the world learning about and interpreting the life of our ancestors by attempting to recreate life during the many different technological milestones from the past 2.5 million years as a host for the National Geographic television series, "The Great Human Race."  This intensive learning experience has literally transformed the manner in which Dr. Schindler looks at the world, interprets the past, and teaches his classes.

Select Media

 * Wise Traditions: Eating Nose to Tail| PODCAST
 * How to Make Stone Tools | Basic Instincts | WIRED | VIDEO
 * How to Start a Fire in the Wilderness | Basic Instincts | WIRED | VIDEO
 * The Modern Stone Age Diet: Our Dietary Past - The Technological Link between Nature, Man and Food at FRUTO in Brazil | LECTURE
 * The 40,000 year old diet: Bill Schindler goes caveman and (barely) survives for Milk Street Radio | PODCAST
 * The Modern Stone Age Family on Curiosity Stream | TV SHOW
 * Hungry to Learn | Edible Delmarva | Article
 * Reinventing the Diet Wheel | South African Sunday Times | ARTICLE
 * Meet the Schindlers: a modern stone-age family | London Times | Article
 * Professor Caveman | The Atlantic Monthly | Article
 * Food Foraging, and Evolution of The Human Diet | The Paleo Solution with Robb Wolf | Podcast
 * Live it: A Professor teaches the cell-phone generation about prehistory - blood, guts and all | Washington Post | ARTICLE
 * Maryland Professor roughs it for National Geographic and primitive experience | Baltimore Sun | ARTICLE
 * The Great Human Race | National Geographic | TV Show
 * Lecturing in a Loincloth | The Chronicle of High Education | ARTICLE
 * Education by the plateful: College course uses food to teach basic skills. | Washington Post | ARTICLE