Blegen, Nick (PhD Candidate). My interests: human evolution, archaeology of the African Stone Age and Eurasian Paleolithic, lithic technology, geoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology.
Advisor: Sally McBrearty
email: nick.blegen@uconn.edu
Glauberman, Phil (PhD Candidate). I Investigate upland Palaeolithic (lithic) surface scatters in the loess region of southern Limburg, The Netherlands and northeast Belgium as a case study for reconstructing regional Palaeolithic land-use patterns in northwest Europe.
Advisor: Dan Adler
e-mail: phil.glauberman@uconn.edu
Graham, Philip (PhD Candidate). I am interested in all aspects of the archaeology of the Egyptian Neolithic. Currently, I am studying settlement location and type as well as housing structure in relation to geographic placement. I am also interested in neolithic stone tools and pottery.
Advisor: Natalie Munro
e-mail: philip.graham@uconn.edu
Hart, Thomas (PhD Candidate). Research interests: Palaeoethnobotany, phytoliths, starch grains, the interaction between humans and their environment, the spread of agriculture into Europe, the domestication process, early state level societies, the role of plants in hominin diet and evolution.
Advisor: Alexia Smith
e-mail: thomas.hart@uconn.edu
Hill, Chad (PhD Candidate). I study the Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant with a focus on animal production and consumption. I am interested the timing and effects of the "Secondary Products Revolution". I am also interested in GIS applications in archaeology.
Advisor: Natalie Munro
e-mail: chad.hill@uconn.edu
Matarazzo, Tiziana (PhD candidate) studies Early Bronze Age cultures in Southern Italy from a micromorphological and geoarchaeological perspective. She focuses on the study of hearths, construction materials, occupation floors, storage features, and pits as indicators of the socio-economic life of the original inhabitants.
Advisor: Natalie Munro
e-mail: tiziana.matarazzo@uconn.edu
WALES, NATHAN (PhD Candidate)
Interests: My interests include processual archaeology, human evolution, the Paleolithic revolution, lithic technology, and the implementation of technology in archaeology.
Advisor: Daniel Adler
e-mail: nathan.wales@uconn.edu
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Johnson, Cara Roure (PhD 2007). My research interests include geoarchaeology, human evolution, landscape archaeology and the origins of modern human behavior. My current research project involves the geological/enviornmental reconstruction of a small basin in the Keyan Rift Valley and the correlation of behavioral traces within that basin to enviornmental types.
Advisor: Sally McBrearty
e-mail: cara.roure@uconn.edu
WAWERU, Veronica (PhD 2007)
Interests: Human evolution, African prehistory, projectile technology, origins of modern human behaviour, paleo-ecology, raw material resource utilization patterns and the Pastoral Neolithic.
Advisor: Sally McBrearty
e-mail: veronica.waweru@uconn.edu
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