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I am an anthropologist and archaeologist, interested primarily in human ecology, applied anthropology, and pre-contact northern North America. Below are synopses of some recent projects.VOSviewer
Courses
- PAPrinciples of Archaeology
Grants
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ST. PIUS X MISSION SCHOOL SITE, SKAGWAY, ALASKA
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$111.5K
Active - MT DAK Western Montana Cultural Landscapes: Interactive Mapping and Virtual Reality Educational Resource
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$79.9K
Active - Integrating Archaeological and Indigenous Data Sources to Explore the Peopling of the North American Continent Along the Ice-Free Corridor
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$1.2M
Active - Integrating Archaeological and Indigenous Data Sources to Explore the Peopling of the North American Continent Along the Ice-Free Corridor
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$309.4K
Active - Four Horns Lake Archaeological and Historical Assessment
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$25.0K
- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Human Ecological Integration In Beringia
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$18.9K
News
- Those Earrings Are So Last Year – But the Reason You're Wearing Them is Ancient
2021
- A Woman's Dying Wish Leads to Returning a Piece of History
2021
Publications (21)
Recent
- BrGDGT temperature reconstruction from interior Alaska: Assessing 14,000 years of deglacial to Holocene temperature variability and potential effects on early human settlement
2023
- Current Understanding of the Earliest Human Occupations in the Americas: Evaluation of Becerra-Valdivia and Higham (2020)
2022
- Glacial kettles as archives of early human settlement along the Northern Rocky Mountain Front
2022
- Evaluating claims of early human occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico
2022
- Oral tradition as emplacement: Ancestral Blackfoot memories of the Rocky Mountain Front
2021
- Early middle stone age personal ornaments from Bizmoune Cave, Essaouira, Morocco
2021
- Ancient Beringian paleodiets revealed through multiproxy stable isotope analyses
2020
- The micromorphology of loess‐paleosol sequences in central Alaska: A new perspective on soil formation and landscape evolution since the Late Glacial period (c. 16,000 cal yr …
2020
- McKean in the northern Rocky Mountain Front: economic landscape and ethnogenesis
2020
- Small mammals and paleovironmental context of the terminal pleistocene and early holocene human occupation of central Alaska
2020
- Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use
2019
- Task-specific sites and Paleoindian landscape use in the Shaw Creek Flats, Alaska
2018
- The Keystone Dune Site: A Bølling-Allerød Hunting Camp in Eastern Beringia
2018
- Human paleoecological integration in subarctic eastern Beringia
2017
- The Rosa-Keystone Dunes Field: The geoarchaeology and paleoecology of a late Quaternary stabilized dune field in Eastern Beringia
2016
- Animals as raw material in Beringia: insights from the site of Swan Point CZ4B, Alaska
2016
- Saiga antelope hunting in Crimea at the Pleistocene–Holocene transition: the site of Buran-Kaya III Layer 4
2015
- The Middle to Upper Paleolithic sequence of Buran-Kaya III (Crimea, Ukraine): new stratigraphic, paleoenvironmental, and chronological results
2013
- La Adam Cave, Romania: A Carnivore Den Visited by Palaeolithic Hunters.
2013
- Détermination de Vulpes corsac (L., 1768) au sein d'assemblages fossiles du Pléistocène supérieur: données ostéométriques et clef morphologique dentaire
2012