Archaeology


Archaeologists study the material remains of past and present human
societies and cultures in order to understand how they functioned and
how they changed through time. The use of a long-term temporal
perspective enables archaeologists to test questions about
sociocultural adaptations and evolution.

The research interests of the archaeology faculty are diverse yet
there are shared strengths in topical and regional themes such as
palaeoanthropology, sociocultural evolution, urbanism, and historical
archaeology.


Current faculty research includes: the transition from archaic Homo sapiens to anatomically modern humans through the study of faunal materials in
France; the emergence of social inequalities in the Neolithic of the
Iberian Peninsula; the study of preindustrial urban demography and
world systems theory in the archaeology of the Roman empire; the
political, economic, and social dimensions of the emergence of state
level urban societies in Mesoamerica; and regional interaction and migration in late prehistoric North America.

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