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Izzy Osmundsen
Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My master's thesis is to examine extant plant patches as a result of past human niche construction to provide evidence of cultural modification for designation as traditional cultural places/landscapes.
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OLIVERA MASTERS
Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), Anthropology Department
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Russell Greaves
Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My training and research interests are in the comparative archaeology and ethnoarchaeologyy of hunter-gatherers and small-scale agricultural societies. I have archaeological experience in the American west. My ethnoarchaeological research includes foragers of Venezuela, agriculturalists in Mexico, and Native Americans of the Southwest. My research is multi-disciplinary, focusing on human ecology, material culture, and behavioral variability among modern and past subsistence peoples.
Research Keywords:
Hunters and gatherers,
Small-scale agricultural societies,
Technology,
Subsistence,
Human evolutionary ecology,
Ethnoarchaeology,
Geoarchaeology,
Ethnobotany and paleoethnobotany,
Zooarchaeology,
American archaeology,
Ethnology,
Museum studies
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JAMES F O'CONNELL
Distinguished Prof Emeritus, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: Contemporary hunter-gatherer ecology, ethnoarchaeology, human evolution, pre-European history of Australia and western North America
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ISHMAEL D MEDINA
Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My research consists of identifying where past maize farmers were able to farm in the Arid West and explaining how these populations settled across the landscape using spatiotemporal modeling. This includes tracking past adaptive responses to climate change.
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LISBETH A. LOUDERBACK
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Curator of Archaeology, Natural History Museum of Utah
Research Summary: I bring a strong interdisciplinary background to archaeology with technical expertise in archaeobotany and paleoecology. Plant remains found in archeological sites, provide clues to local resources and past climates that help define human dietary patterns through time. This allows me to explore how people coped with environmental change during the late Pleistocene and Holocene in western North America, with a particular focus on the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.
Equipment:
Zeiss Axioscope 2 (transmitted brightfield microscope fitted with polarizing filters and Nomarski optics)
Zeiss HRc (digital camera)
Zeiss Zen (imaging and measurement software)
Zeiss Discovery 8 (stereoscope)
Axiovision (imaging and measurement software)
Beckman TJ-6 Centrifuge