ANTHRO GRADUCATION
Learning from Anthro Grads
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Areas of Study
Explore What Three Humble Grad Students Research
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Credit: Museum of Ontario Archaeology
Resilience at the
Lawson Site
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Dana González Zavala
My research focuses on an archaeological site called the Lawson Site, which is located in London, Ontario next to the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. Dating back to the Late Woodland period (approx. 500-1650 AD), the Lawson site boasts of a rich history of Indigenous occupancy. In my research, I compare all the different and interesting types of artifacts from each longhouse excavated at the site. By comparing each longhouse, I seek to add to our understanding of the social dynamics of the Lawson village, and how they defined their individual and community identity. Through this research, I hope to contribute to the discourse of the resilience, vastness, and continuity of the Late Woodland communities and their descendants.
The Effects of Climate
on Skeletons
Cristina Lama
My research is still in its early stages of development, but my main goal is to determine how climate affects the skeleton. I will look for climate-related patterns in the limb structure of modern hunter-gathering groups from across the globe. using a pre collected dataset of hundreds of modern human groups.
The results of my project will advance existing research on the relationship between limb size and climate by exploring a much larger sample. Understanding variation in modern humans in relation to climate, will provide a comparison with early hominins to see if they had similar trends based on the environment.
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Migration and
Headstones
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Rory Succee
My research focuses on how migration from Alsace, a border state between France and Germany, impacted burial practices in D'Hanis, Texas. My study takes me to St. Dominic's cemetery (pictured on the left). I specifically focus on the different kinds of headstones. My work is comparative, meaning I use headstones from Europe and compare them to ones in D'Hanis, and I look for what has changed between the two. Headstones tell us how people interacted with death and what it meant to them. To contextualize headstone design and D'Hanis' culture, I look at burial records and historical archives to understand how people made sense of their world. Overall, my research bridges the gap between artistic creation, migration politics, and what burials mean. Finally, my research will encourage conservation of St. Dominic's, which is collapsing.