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I am an environmental archaeologist. My research examines how humans adapted in the face of growing populations and resource stress in the Mediterranean region. I employ a novel combination of approaches from social zooarchaeology, contextual taphonomy, and behavioral ecology to elucidate changing strategies of subsistence, ritual practice, and refuse management across the Middle Paleolithic–Iron Age. Understanding human adaptation over time in the Mediterranean is critical for understanding the rise of the social inequality, because it is where humans first transitioned from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist life ways.
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