| Natalie Munro (Asst Prof, BS Hons SMU, MA Simon Fraser U, PhD U Arizona, Tucson) investigates the forager to farmer transition in the Near East from a zooarchaeological perspective. She focuses on animals that were not domesticated as indicators of human population size, site occupation intensity, and as models for early stages of the domestication process. | Faculty
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Sally McBrearty (Prof, AB UC Berkeley, MA & PhD U Illinois, Urbana) studies the evolution of the East African human behavioral adaptation, particularly the changes that are symptomatic of the origin of Homo sapiens and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition. She uses lithic technology and geoarchaeology to examine the Middle Pleistocene of the Rift Valley of Kenya. CV |
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| Daniel Adler (Asst Prof, BA UConn, MA & PhD Harvard U) studies Neanderthal behavioral, economic, and technological evolution in Eurasia. He focuses on Neanderthal settlement, subsistence, and land use, and the nature of the interactions between Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic groups. | Alexia Smith (Asst Prof in Residence, BS, MS U Newcastle-upon-Tyne, MA, PhD Boston U) explores agriculture, palaeoethnobotany, climate change, and the ways that people use their environment. She integrates plant and animal datasets to examine the effects that climate change has had on food production in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Near East. CV | |||||
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