Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch
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Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch

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I am based at the University of Georgia as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the departments of Anthropology and Geography. I am also director of the Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Lab (http://research.franklin.uga.edu/quaternary/), located at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies. My research is focused on human adaptation and resilience to climate change and natural resource unpredictability in prehistory, and how our understanding of past human response to environmental change informs current thinking about these issues. I combine archaeology and biogeochemistry to investigate changes in diet, mobility, and settlement systems in the period spanning the end of the last ice age to the arrival of farming. In addition, I am an active advocate of open access publishing and online data and research sharing, acting as co-Chief Editor of the journal Open Quaternary. I also co-founded and moderate the website TrowelBlazers, which highlights women in the fields of archaeology, paleontology, and geology. My other research interests include the initial domestication of livestock, diffusion of domesticates across Eurasia, the transition from hunting to herding, seasonality and human mobility, multispecies archaeology, and advancing methodologies in zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis.
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