UC Davis

Faculty Member, Anthropology

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I am a Professor of Anthropology at UC Davis, specializin in archaeology. My research interests include Hunter-Gatherer adaptations to different environmental and social conditions, the origins and transmission of technologies, especially lithic and pottery technologies, the development of incipient leadership, and land tenure and resource ownership. I employ a broad range of analytical techniques to gather data, a field generally referred to as archaeometry. This includes Stable Isotope Analysis, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA), X-Ray Flourescence (XRF), Electron Microprobe (EM), and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS). I conduct fieldwork in California and Southern Peru.

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