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PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Arizona State University NSF Urban Ecology IGERT Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental Studies
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I am an archaeologist finishing my PhD at Arizona State University. I specialize in human-ecological relations, with an emphasis on pre-urban and urban ecology in the arid regions of the United States and Mexico. My dissertation focuses on the relationships between the development of indigenous agriculture, village formation, and environmental impacts, using a case study from the Mogollon culture area in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. My research is multidisciplinary, drawing on archaeological settlement information, palaeobotanical and palynological remains, remotely sensed satellite imagery, and isotopic analysis of prehistoric fields. My involvement in the IGERT Urban Ecology program at ASU provides training in interdisciplinary research, helping me to form valuable collaborations with students from other disciplines in my research. Links to the left will take you to pages discussing some interesting projects I've worked on, including archaeological research in Arizona, spatial analyses of environmental and archaeological data, and my recently published thesis research. In that I used GIS and a spatial "bootstrapping" technique to analyze prehistoric hilltop features in Chihuahua, demonstrating that these were part of a large signaling network between AD 1200 and AD 1450. Last Updated April 2004 |
