Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology

The Ohio State University

4034 Smith Laboratory

174 West 18th Ave.

Columbus, OH 43210 USA

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Contacts:

E-mail: field.59[at]osu.edu

Phone: (614) 292 6233

Fax: (614) 292 4155

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 also have a long-standing interest in evolutionary theory, in particular the use of evolutionary models to understand and explain cultural change.

As an archaeologist I conduct research in the Pacific, and have ongoing research projects in the archipelagos of Fiji and Hawaii.  I am interested in the processes of colonization, landscape change, climate change, agricultural production, and the unique trajectories of population growth and cultural elaboration that developed on Pacific Islands.  

2008 excavations in Leeward Kohala, Hawaii Island. Photo by K. Kawelu..