John Joseph Shea (born 9 May 1960 in Hamilton, Massachusetts) is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist.

Shea has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Israel, Jordan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Belize, New Mexico, and Massachusetts.

[2] He is married to Patricia L. Crawford and resides in Stony Brook, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Shea's research focuses on stone tools and how they relate to major issues in human evolution.

In 2014 he earned the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.