We are seeking highly motivated graduate students to join the team. Contact Dr. Kurt Rademaker at rademaker@tamu.edu
New paper out in Geoarchaeology by Sarah Meinekat, Emily Milton, Daniela Osorio, Susan Mentzer, Christopher Miller, Dan Sandweiss, and Kurt Rademaker: Microstratigraphy and Site Formation Processes at Quebrada Jaguay 280 (Peru). Geoarchaeology 41: e70054. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70054
Herzliche Glückwunsch to Dr. Sarah Meinekat for completing her PhD dissertation "Geoarchaeological Contributions to the Study of the Initial Settlement of the Southern Peruvian Andes" at the University of Tübingen!
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Milton for completing her PhD dissertation "A Multi-Isotopic Approach to Human-Environment Dynamics in the Central Andes, Peru" at Michigan State University! Emily is now a Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution.
The Paleo Andes team co-organized two symposia and gave five presentations at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado.
Congratulations to Texas A&M U. Anthropology student Ellie O'Connell on her Undergraduate Research Scholars Thesis "Ancient Andean Adornment: A Closer Look at Beads from Cuncaicha Rockshelter" !
When and by which routes did Paleoindians enter the Americas, and how did they adapt to inhabit different ecological zones?
Our group seeks to understand the timing, routes, and environmental setting of the earliest human dispersals in western South America.
We integrate archaeology, physical anthropology, genetics, and Quaternary science to study prehistoric settlement systems - linked archaeological sites situated in multiple ecological zones from the Pacific coast to the high Andes.
This work provides information about the long-term history and co-evolution of humans and ecological systems, and the formation of landscapes.
