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Amy Margaris
About Me
I am an anthropological archaeologist interested in hunter-gatherer (forager) societies of the past, the colonial era, and the modern day. I have conducted fieldwork in the Near East and Europe, and my current regional focus is the Kodiak archipelago of subarctic Alaska, which is home to Native Alutiiq peoples.
I study the technological traditions of forager groups to better understand their economy and society. Skeletal materials such as bone, anter, and ivory are particularly compelling to me as tool media, and much of the research my undergraduate students at Oberlin and I conduct focuses on the material and mechanical properties of a range of skeletal tissues, to better understand the technological traditions of peoples in the past, and technological shifts through time.
