Jordan Brown

Jordan Brown
Graduate Student

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Region(s): 
Eastern Mediterranean
Research Theme(s): 
Geoarchaeology, Geomorphology, Environmental Archaeology, landscape archaeology; community-based participatory research, stewardship; socioecological systems, coupled human-natural systems, water management, pastoralism, settlement patterns, mobility, Lithic Technology, social learning, knowledge transmission; Bayesian statistics, quantitative methods, uncertainty analysis, data management, reproducibility

M. Steven Shackley

Steve Shackley
Affiliated Faculty emeriti
Research Website: 
Geoarchaeological XRF Lab

The energy-dispersive (EDXRF) x-ray fluorescence laboratory provides access to analyses of archaeological and source standard obsidian and other volcanic rocks on a per-sample basis under the direction of Steven Shackley, who has worked on various archaeological projects worldwide, particularly in the greater North American Southwest for over 30 years.

Region(s): 
US Southwest and Mexico
Research Theme(s): 
Obsidian geochemistry, Geoarchaeology

Lisa Maher

Lisa Maher
Affiliated Faculty
Research Website: 
Kharaneh IV Project Website
Teaching Website: 
Anthropology Department Profile

Research Description:   My research focuses on hunter-gatherer societies in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, with the aim of reconstructing human-environment interactions during the Late Pleistocene.

Region(s): 
Eastern Mediterranean, Jordan, Cyprus, Northern Iraq, Japan
Research Theme(s): 
Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Human Evolution, Lithic Technology, Mortuary Archaeology