Research Interests:
Venicia's main research interests include household archaeology, paleoethnobotany, anthracology, foodways, historical ecology, agroecology, and ancient Latin America.
Bio:
With Stahl funding, multi-sited collaborative research in the greater Palenque region in Chiapas, Mexico, continued. This grant supported the first season of excavations in a ritual structure at Palenque by Lisa Johnson.
David is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley and a research scientist at the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center at the US Geological Survey (Menlo Park, CA). He received a PhD in Geography from UC Berkeley in 2005. Since joining the USGS in 2004, he has worked to understand drivers and impacts of Quaternary environmental change in North America.
