Marvin Kay did his undergraduate degree in anthropology at the University of Missouri and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in 1975. He has had a lifelong facination with prehistory and has participated in a variety of interdisciplinary projects that concern the Quaternary Period.

Dr. Kay's research interests are broadly based in human ecology and culture change. His most recent field research has been in the Crimea of the Ukraine. Working with an international consortium of prehistorians, Kay is assisting in the investigation of mainly Middle Paleolithic sites and complexes. Concurrent with this ongoing research are other studies of the Middle Missouri subarea of the Northern Plains of North America and technofunctional studies of stone tools from Paleoindian sites.