Jacqueline S. Meier

As an Environmental Archaeologist, I study human-animal relations across pivotal shifts in human history. My research spans the decline of Neanderthals in Paleolithic France, the beginning of animal domestication in Neolithic Israel, and the rise and fall of urban centers across Bronze–Iron Age Greece. I integrate zooarchaeological (animal remains) and contextual taphonomic methods to detect daily meals, past rites (i.e. feasting), and norms of refuse management. By examining this evidence through social zooarchaeology and ecological anthropology frameworks, I aim to form more complete models of past ecologies in the Mediterranean.