ALEX GREENWALD

Dr. Greenwald’s expertise is in North American prehistoric archaeology and ethnography, behavioral ecology, biological anthropology, and bioarchaeology. Research conducted in Greenwald’s Archaeometric and Ethno-Experimental Lab (AELab) seeks to reconstruct prehistoric lifeways and understand the cultural continuity between ancient people and their historic and contemporary descendants using ethnography, archaeological data, collections-based research, and experimental methods. Projects include cross-cultural isotopic reconstruction of breastfeeding behavior and early childhood diets, mobility, and kinship in collaboration with descendant communities, archaeological investigations into the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in California and the Colorado Plateau, energetics and behavioral ecology of Indigenous cradle technology, the biomechanics of ancient footwear, and collections-based ethnographic work with tribal communities across the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest.