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Graduate Students
Isotope Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Mortuary Rituals, Urbanization, Paleodemography, Migration
Human-environment interactions, island and coastal archaeology, estuarine and marine resource use, paleoecology, conservation policy, ethnohistory, zooarchaeology, GIS
Human evolution, bipedalism, functional morphology, bone biomechanics, trabecular bone, microCT, human osteology
Human-environmental interaction, settlement patterns, GIS, remote sensing, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary theory, spatial analysis, coastal & island archaeology, climate change
Human evolution, skeletal biology, bone biomechanics, physical activity, diet, trabecular bone, microCT
Human-environmental interactions, isotope biogeochemistry, GIS, paleoclimatology, modeling
Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, Paleoepidemiology, Paleopathology, aDNA, Human-environmental interactions
Economic anthropology, market integration, social and economic inequality, social network analysis
Mesoamerican Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, and Migration Studies
Human variation, hair morphology, evolution, pigmentation
Archaeometry, Geophysics, Paleohydrology, Agricultural Intensification, Mesoamerica, Remote Sensing, Complex Societies, Urbanism, Environmental Change, State Formation
Catherine Mendel, (she/her)
- Ph.D. Graduate Student
- NSF Research Trainee (LandscapeU Program)
Avian-human interactions, behavioral ecology, socio-ecological systems, domestication, zooarchaeology, and ethnoarchaeology.
archaeology, historical ecology, human-environmental interaction, marine resource use, coral, coral harvesting, zooarchaeology
Primatology, evolution, endocrinology, agent-based modeling, data science, machine learning
human-animal interactions, domestication, hunter-gatherers, ecology, animal behavior and cognition
Sterling Wright
- Ph.D. Graduate Student
- NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellow
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Ancient DNA, paleomicrobiology, bioarchaeology, urbanization, Classical and Mesoamerican archaeology, paleoecology