Wenner-Gren ICRG Project

After I complete my dissertation research, I will be collaborating in a research project with Dr. Michael Shott and Dr. José Luis Lanata funded by a Wenner-Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grant (ICRG). The project, "High-Latitude Hunter-Gatherers North and South: Variation and Adaptation in the Patagonian and Great Basin Holocene," will undertake a comparison of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene records of these two areas. It will constitute the first extensive test of formal models using a time-averaged approach to hunter-gatherer accumulations, in two cold-sesert locales at once, as a further measure of their robusticity.

I will collaborate with the researchers in the field research, as well as by conducting provenance analysis using the geochemical technique of Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to determine the elemental composition of obsidian tools for sourcing to quarries.

Project Directors

Dr. Michael Shott
Dept. of Classical Studies,
Anthopology and
Archaeology (CSAA)
237 Olin Hall
University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-1910
U.S.A.

Phone:
(330) 972-6890


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Dr. José Luis Lanata
Dept. of Anthropology
Uni. of Buenos Aires
Q. Bocayuva 127
C 1181 AAC
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Phone - fax:
(+54 11) 4958-1133


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