Alec Apodaca is an environmental archaeologist documenting Indigenous landscape stewardship practices in central coastal California. This collaborative research focuses on integrative surveys of cultural landscapes and evaluating archaeobotanical data to help plan for the ecological revitalization goals of Tribes and resource agencies. He has recently co-authored papers in archaeology, such as stable oxygen isotope analysis, ground-penetrating radar, coastal resource sustainability, and integrative landscape ethnobotany using GIS and perspectives from historical ecology. He also has...
Rob is a paleoethnobotanist working with a multidisciplinary research team to examine how Native Californians managed landscape resources through fire. This project, located in Ano Nuevo State Reserve, seeks to integrate data sets from archaeology, modern ecology, paleoecology, dendroecology, isotopic analysis, geomorphological analysis, and fire/vegetation/climate modeling to track indigenous landscape management practices during the Late Holocene.
Rob's research interests include: California paleoethnobotany; microbotanical analysis including phytolith, starch...
Natasha Fernandez-Preston's major interests are food and colonialism in the Caribbean. Currently, her research is using contemporary archaeological methods to explore the agricultural history, food practices, and cuisine in Puerto Rico and how these relate to colonial and racial capitalism, and how more equitable, just, and food-sovereign futures could be envisioned.
Rebekah McKay is a Classical Archaeologist who focuses on the Bronze Age Aegean. She is interested in investigating the management practices associated with common-pool resources and the ways in which these strategies intersect with local economics, production, and group identity.
