Graduate Students
Zoarchaeology lab
Frank, Emilie (Undergraduate Honor Student).
Emilie is interested in zooarchaeology, human osteology, ecology and evolutionary biology. Her honors thesis investigates the history of deposition of gazelle carcasses in a unique human grave at the Natufian site of Hilazon Tachtit in Israel.
Emilie.Frank@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
philip.graham@uconn.edu
Hill, Chad (PhD Candidate). Zoarchaology.
Advisor: Natalie Munro
chad.hill@uconn.edu
Kennerty, Michael (Graduate Student).
Interestests: I study animal remains (zooarchaeology) to learn if food preference was an expression of social identity during the early Neolithic time period. Also, I am interested in policy issues involving anthropology: how federal agencies fund anthropological studies, the role of anthropology in the judicial system, and anthropologists' influence on policy makers.
Advisor: Natalie Munro
Michael.Kennerty@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
tiziana.matarazzo@uconn.edu
Peck, Penny M. , DVM (Graduate Student).
My interests include Zooarchaeology,especially pre-domestication and domestication of animals, animal and zoonotic diseases in the archaeological record, human osteology and forensic anthropology.
Advisor: Natalie Munro
Penny.Peck@uconn.edu