This research project involved travel to the community of Chiripa, Bolivia for the 2023 field season of the Taraco Archaeological Project. During the season, excavations were conducted at three sites in the Taraco Peninsula. Around 200 samples were processed via flotation, as well as about 60 which were processed via dry screening, yielding macrobotanical remains that were exported for anaysis at the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory .
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Research Interests:
Venicia's main research interests include household archaeology, paleoethnobotany, anthracology, foodways, historical ecology, agroecology, and ancient Latin America.
Bio:
Rob is a paleoethnobotanist working with a multidisciplinary research team to examine how Native Californians managed landscape resources through fire. This project, located in Ano Nuevo State Reserve, seeks to integrate data sets from archaeology, modern ecology, paleoecology, dendroecology, isotopic analysis, geomorphological analysis, and fire/vegetation/climate modeling to track indigenous landscape management practices during the Late Holocene.
