Amy started following the work of Sarah Cowie, University of Nevada, Reno, Anthropology.
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Amy started following the work of Emily A.S. Gelfman, Brandeis University, Anthropology.
Faculty Member, Anthropology
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
About
I am an anthropological archaeologist interested in hunter-gatherer ecology, and especially the technological adaptations of foragers living in marine and cold climates. My most recent research with archaeological collections has taken me to beautiful Kodiak, Alaska, home of Native Alutiiq peoples whose recent ancestors practiced a rich coastal economy. My work on skeletal technologies blends collections analysis with ethnohistory and materials science in order to better understand how various types of skeletal media can be used for technological purposes.
I am also interested in museums and the history of ethnological collecting. Oberlin College houses a unique 19th century ethnological collection that contains roughly 1600 objects acquired by missionaries and naturalists from a variety of regions, including southern Africa, Micronesia, Thailand, and the North American Arctic. A database, from which users can view images of each object in the collection and its associated metadata, will soon be available to the public.
