Research in my lab examines the long and complex history of peoples and cultures in the Americas, and how these ancient societies developed both by changing, and being transformed by, their surrounding environment. My lab uses zooarchaeology, or the identification of animal bones, shells, and...
This research expands knowledge about the archaeological ceramics of the Gran Cocle culture at the Cerro Juan Diaz Archaeological Site, which spans a period of occupation from 200 BC to 1550 AD and is one of the largest pre-Hispanic communities in central Panama.
A cutting-edge molecular lab
and launching point to the
Eastern Tropical Pacific
Exploring the tropical peoples
and ecosystems of the past
A rocky intertidal zone and sandy beach
at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
