Dr.Julie S. Field

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Dr. Julie S. Field
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
4056 Smith Laboratory
174 W. 18th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
614.292.6233 (tel)
614.292-4155 (fax)
field.59@osu.edu

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Research Interests

I specialize in GIS-based analyses of archaeological data, and the application of GIS-based technologies to studies of landscape and human-environmental interaction.  I am also interested in the investigation of the emergence and persistence of human behaviors from the perspective of human behavioral ecology.  I am currently working on a collaborative project in the district of Kohala on the Island of Hawaii.  This research integrates excavation data, demographic calculations, and geochemical studies of agricultural soils to model population growth and expansion in prehistory.  I also conduct research in the Fiji Islands, and use GIS to model the development of competition and conflict in prehistory.  My future research projects will include fieldwork in the Western Pacific, with an emphasis on assessing Holocene climatic change and human response.

Links to Publications 

2007 Field, J., Petraglia, M., Lahr, M. M.  Dispersals into and through South Asia during OIS 4: GIS-based routes and environmental considerations.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 26:88-108. 

2006 Field, J., Lahr, M. M., Assessment of the Southern Dispersal: GIS-Based Analyses of Potential Routes at Oxygen Isotopic Stage 4. Journal of World Prehistory 19(1):1-45. 

2005 Field, J.  Land tenure, competition, and ecology in Fijian Prehistory. Antiquity 79(305):586-600.  

2004 Field, J.  Environmental and climatic considerations: A hypothesis for conflict and the emergence of social complexity in Fijian Prehistory.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 23:79-99.

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