简介

I am an anthropological archaeologist with research interests in the U.S. Southwest and Great Plains. My research addresses food habits, cooking practices, and culinary equipment (especially ceramic vessels). These behaviors and related material culture shape and are shaped by cultural traditions, household tasks and labor schedules, population movements, exchange and interaction, and adaptation to different physical and social environments. I investigate these topics with multiple techniques and approaches, including analyses of ceramic vessel form and use alteration, ceramic composition, and site and assemblage formation. I support my archaeological inferences through actualistic research, such as my ethnoarchaeological study of ceramic discard and midden formation in the Philippines as part of the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project and my experimental research on use and vessel performance characteristics. Two current projects explore relationships between groups with different economies and social identities, considering how and why people from different ethnic or social groups live together, and how they use food and material culture to maintain their identities or adapt to new conditions. One project in southwestern Arizona addresses relationships between agricultural village residents (Hohokam) and neighboring mobile groups (Lowland Patayan), focusing on their overlapping territories near the Hohokam western frontier between A.D. 700-1000 and the movements by Patayan groups after A.D. 1000-1100 into traditional Hohokam territory to the east. Another project is part of a larger reinvestigation of Scott County Pueblo (14SC1), a 7-room pueblo dated to about A.D. 1700 in western Kansas. My reanalysis of the Kansas State Historical Society ceramic collection addresses the possibility of Puebloan immigrants at the site, focusing on the archaeological evidence of food preparation and food serving and how Puebloan traditions may be reflected in ceramics apparently made on the Plains.