About Me
Christina Carolus is an anthropological archaeologist with interests in human-environmental interaction, domestication processes, paleoecology, archaeological scientific methods and theory, foodways, identity, multispecies approaches, and cultural heritage issues. Her research primarily concerns the study of prehistoric lifeways through paleoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological investigation. She is currently the co-director of two archaeological projects, both located in Mongolia: the Khölönbuir Archaeological Project (Dornod Province) and the Shiriin Chuluu Archaeological Project (Dornogovi Province).
Since 2010, she has excavated and carried out paleoethnobotanical field research in North America (USA), Central America (Belize; Mexico; Guatemala), South America (Peru; Argentina), Polynesia (Hawaii), and East Asia (Mongolia). She also manages a series of collections-based research projects at the Yale Peabody Museum and in the Yale Department of Anthropology, ranging from materials characterization and sourcing to analyses of faunal skeletal remains.
Both her collections research and her dissertation research fall under a set of unifying themes connected to subsistence, domestication, human-nonhuman (i.e. multispecies) relations, and material evidence of long distance interactive networks, as revealed through multiproxy archaeological scientific methods.
She is currently completing a research exchange at the BioArch Research Centre (University of York), where she is receiving analytical training in paleoproteomic and lipid residue techniques and completing dissertation analyses.
Education
PhD (in Progress), Yale University
M.Phil Anthropology (Archaeology Concentration), Yale University (2021)
B.A. Anthropology, UC Berkeley (2015)