Current Lab Members
- Microbotanical analysis
- Great Lakes Archaeology
- Early Agriculture, Foodways
- Macrobotanical analysis, Microbotanical analysis, Paleoethnobotany
- Foodways, Social Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology
- Near East Archaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology
- Warfare, Risk Management Theory, Middle Range Societies, Human Behavioral Ecology
- Bioarchaeology, GIS
- Peruvian Andes, Colorado Plateau
- New World Archaeology (Guatemala, Midwestern & Southeastern U.S.)
- Food and Sociopolitical Dynamics, Middle-Range and Early Complex Societies
- Commensal Politics, Emergent Complexity, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Colonial Encounters
- Archaeobotanical Analysis (Macrobotanicals, Starch Grains, and Phytoliths); Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates; Crop Stable Isotope Analysis; Quantitative Methods
- California Archaeology, Andean Peru
- Historical Ecology, Coastal and Island Adaptations
- Environmental Archaeology, Coupled Human-Natural Systems
- Zooarchaeology, Paleoethnobotany
- Complex hunter gatherers, incipient social complexity
- Microbotanical analysis, ancient starch grains, groundstone tools
- Resource intensification, household and communal organization
Former Lab Members
- New World Archaeology (Peruvian Andes, Southeastern U. S.), Paleoethnobotany
- Culture Contact and Colonialism, Gender and Identity Studies, Foodways
- Macrobotanical Analysis, Spatial Analysis
- Discipline Sociopolitics, Ethics, Gender Equity
- Social Archaeology, Foodways, Culture Contact
- Paleoethnobotany, Colonial Encounters, Andean Prehistory
- Wari Empire, Subsistence Economy, Feasting
- California Archaeology, Island and Coastal Archaeology
- Paleoethnobotany, Macrobotanical Analysis
- Historical Cultural Ecology
- Coastal Hunter-Gatherers, Channel Islands, Santa Cruz Island, Chumash
- Middle Holocene
- Shellfish
- Paleoethnobotany, Starch, Phytoliths
- Coastal and Santa Barbara Channel Island archaeology, California
- Paleoethnobotany, foodways
- Paleoenvironmental reconstruction through wood charcoal identification
- Culture contact
- Andean South America, California
- Strategies of chiefly and state power
- Prehistoric colonialism and interregional interaction
- Collapse and regeneration
- Migration and ethnogenesis
- Regional approaches and GIS
- Bioarchaeology
- Zooarchaeology
- Evolutionary Ecology, Human-Environment Interactions, Coastal Hunter-gatherers, Phenology & Food Risk
- California (Northern Channel Islands) & Mesoamerica
- Zooarchaeology (especially fish & shellfish…just can’t get enough!)
- Paleoethnobotany (macrobotanical)
- Archaeometry (?18O analysis)
