Jennifer Kahn

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies: Anthropology

Office: Rm 125 Washington Hall
Phone: 757-221-1054
E-mail: [[jgkahn01]]
Areas of Specialization: Archaeology; Oceania; Household Archaeology; House Societies; Social Complexity; Monumental Architecture and Ideology; Human-Landscape Interactions; Exchange and Geochemistry; Lithic Analysis; Chronometric Techniques

Background

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Education

BA University of California, Berkeley 1992
MA University of Calgary 1996
PhD University of California, Berkeley 2005

Courses Taught

ANTH 100-01: World Archaeology: From Cavemen to Kings
ANTH 150: Archaeology and Popular Cinema
ANTH 201: Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 350: The Politics of Representation: Exhibition, Film, and Material Culture
ANTH 350-05: People and Cultures of Polynesia
ANTH 470/570: Methods in Archaeological Science
ANTH 470/600: Household Archaeology
ANTH 470/600: Wealth and Power in Prehistory
ANTH 603: Archaeological Theory
ANTH 640: Paper and Presentation
ANTH 671: Grants

Research

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Investigating Marine Adaptations over 1,000 Years in the Pre-Contact Society Islands and Hawaiian Islands (Lab-Based)
Over the course of the last ten years I have amassed large archaeological collections from coastal sites excavated on Maupiti, Raiʻatea, and Moʻorea in the Society Islands and Kauaʻi in the Hawaiian Islands. While much of the fishbone and shell assemblage analysis has been completed, there remains a wealth of analysis to be completed to track potential resource depression and raw material use. Potential student projects include use-wear analysis of shell scrapers, detailed analysis of cut shell and shell tool artifacts, analysis of crab and urchin remains, and DNA analysis of fishbone collections.

Read more about Dr. Kahn's human-environmental interactions research.