Brunson’s Research (Summer 2024) Summer 2024Reported by Katherine Brunson In summer 2024, Kate Brunson and Avnish Kulkarni (Class of 2024) conducted zooarchaeological research at the…
Brunson Participates in Panel on Local Native American History Reported by Katherine Brunson In 2023 and 2024, students in the Environmental Archaeology Lab contributed to…
Animals in China East Asia was once home to a wide variety of animal species that have been displaced over the last few thousand years…
Oracle Bones in East Asia Project Photo by Katherine Brunson Oracle bones are a special type of bone artifact used for divination rituals. They are…
Archaeologists normally spend our summers excavating. Due to COVID-19, several Wesleyan students and archaeology faculty members spent this summer digging into data! Audrey Lam (class…
Zooarchaeology in China Professor Brunson conducts fieldwork in China annually in order to investigate past human-animal interactions in East Asia. She collaborates with zooarchaeologists across…
Ancient DNA Ancient DNA (aDNA) reveals that animal domestication was a complex process in which there was frequent feralization and interbreeding between wild and domestic…
