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Brita Lorentzen

I am an environmental archaeologist and maritime archaeologist with an appointment in the Department of Anthropology and direct the Laboratory of Tree-Ring and Archaeological Wood Analysis at Georgia (TRAWG). My research uses dendrochronology, wood anatomy, stable isotope geochemistry, and wider archaeobotanical methods to investigate human interactions with climate and environment and their long-term impact legacies on forest and coastal…


Danielle Riebe

My research focuses on utilizing multiple lines of evidence (including compositional, ceramic stylistic, and lithic analyses) to reconstruct interactive networks and model socio-cultural boundaries at various scales in the past. While I primarily work in Southeastern Europe where I direct the Prehistoric Interactions on the Plain Project (PIPP; https://www.pipproject.org/), I also conduct research in the American Southwest and American Southeast…


Attila Gyucha

My multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary research explores long-term social, cultural, and ecological dynamics during prehistory, with a specific focus on the transformative role of population aggregation and disintegration in early farming societies of Southeast Europe. This research is complemented by my interest in comparative, cross-cultural and cross-temporal studies of population centers and both bodies of research aim to contribute to…


Amanda D. Roberts Thompson


Jason J. González

Dr. González teaches many of the introductory course sections and a few smaller upper level courses.  Dr. González has not done anthropological research in a while, being focused on teaching, but his past research focused on Classic Maya archaeology in Belize, with interests in built environments, political/domestic/ritual landscapes, political and social organization, human/environmental dynamics, and the negotiation of daily power…


Meredith Welch-Devine

My primary research interests include climate change perceptions and adaptation, management of common-pool resources, and policy and practice related to conservation and sustainability. Along with colleagues at several U.S. and international institutions, I have an NSF-funded Dynamics of Integrated Socio-environmental Systems (DISES) project that is examining linkages between climate change, land management, landscape, and policy to understand…


Roberta Salmi

My research goals are to understand proximate and ultimate mechanisms underlying primate communication, cognition, and sociality, and to advance primate conservation. My current work on animal communication aims to advance our understanding of how dominance style relates to vocal usage and evolution. I focus on constraints and flexibility in structure and function of vocal signals, the selective forces that shape them and the cognitive abilities…


Bram Tucker

I am fascinated by the economic lives of people in rural places, where food and other resources come from the land, forest, and sea.  Rural economies are highly diversified, partially integrated into markets, and vulnerable to risk and uncertainty.  We often think of them as "traditional," and traditions are important; but they have experienced long histories of social change.  I study a range of topics related to economic choices…


Victor Thompson

I study big turning points in human history, especially how people have come together to form societies and how they've interacted with their environments over time. I focus on wetland and coastal areas, mainly along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S., where I use archaeology to understand how people and climate have shaped each other over thousands of years. A big part of my work looks at how Indigenous communities governed themselves,…


Susan Tanner

I study how the environment, biology, and culture shape human health and disease. My recent research in Panama focuses on Zoonotic diseases and deforestation, while in Bolivia, I study nutrition, health, and life history. I am interested in how individual and household conditions may shape disease patterns, and also how they shape childhood growth, diet, and nutrition. My research also aims to identify key practices in field-based stress…
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