About
Briggs Buchanan, Ph.D., is an anthropological archaeologist with a research program that focuses on human paleoecology and methods to understand the past using the sparse archaeological record. His work concentrates on the earliest human societies in North America and specifically on how humans settled the continent and responded to the environmental changes of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. More broadly, his work examines questions having to do with how humans adapt to different environments and how technology plays a part in this adaptation and how cultural and technological diversity is created and maintained in small-scale societies. To address these questions, he uses quantitative approaches including statistical modeling and experiments, as well as methods, techniques, and tools used in evolutionary and complex system research.
Education
- Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Archaeology
- Stone tool analysis
- Statistical modeling
- Experiments
- Hunter-gatherers
- Technological evolution