Projects
Digitizing Archaeological Research Collections at SMU
At the Archaeological Research Collections in the Anthropology Department at Southern Methodist University, I am currently digitizing photo slide collections produced in the 1980s in the field.
Osteological Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Great Basin
Working in a team, I performed osteological and taphonomic analysis on a mixed faunal assemblage of North American terrestrial animals like ungulates and lagomorphs from the site of Floating Island in the Great Basin.
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Lupo, Karen D., Dave N. Schmitt, McKenzie J. Alford, Gwen M. Bakke, Nicolette M. Edwards, Spencer F.X. Lambert, Leanna Maguire, and Anne B. Parfitt
2021 The Floating Island Cave mammals: Paleoecology,
abundance indices, and human subsistence through a taphonomic lens. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 37:102997
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Digitizing Collections at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology
At the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in the Anthropology Department at Texas A&M University, I worked to preserve and digitize slides and excavation reports from work on underwater excavations in the 1970s and 1980s.
Archaeological Fieldwork in the Interior of Alaska
In 2015, I had the opportunity to work at an archaeological field school in the interior of Alaska at the Walker Road and Little Panguingue Creek sites and conducted mapping, survey, and ecological and lithic analysis.
