Research Interests:
Venicia's main research interests include household archaeology, paleoethnobotany, anthracology, foodways, historical ecology, agroecology, and ancient Latin America.
Bio:
I harvested modern littleneck clams from Tomales Bay and developed several predictive formulae in order to assess harvesting profiles and changes in population size from fragmented clam remains represented in the archaeological record from Tomales Bay.
Excavated sporadically for over thirty years, Ōgata in Kashiwara City and Mori in Katano City are the largest-scale Kofun Period ironworking sites in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Large numbers of forging slags have been unearthed from both sites, which alongside partially preserved hearth features, provide the bulk of evidence for ironworking. Following methods developed by French archaeometallurgists, novel analyses of these forge slags correlate different slag materials with different forging activities.
Archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers and small-scale societies; human-environmental dynamics; sedentism; landscape archaeology; sociopolitics of archaeology; climate change; local and global environmental issues; Japan, East Asia and the North Pacific Rim.
