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E. Dalyn Grindle
My research interests center on understanding human-nonhuman animal interactions and relationships. I take the approach of taking Indigenous knowledge seriously, fusing that with recent ecological and ethological findings, and treat animals as beings rather than automotons. Specifically for my PhD project, I focus on the changing behavior states of nonhuman animals to the selective pressures presented by a the changing human practices of a, largely, human-constructed environment. I'm interested in what this insight this perspective can bring to the physiological and behavioral adaptations of the past in both nonhuman animals and humans that result in ‘domestication’ relationships.
I am conducting my dissertation research on elk and elk management in the Rocky Mountain West, specifically western Wyoming and eastern Idaho. My methods are largely ethnoarchaeological. I am using this case study to investigate some previously proposed hypotheses that generalize animal behavior and human selection choices. By observing and participating in elk-human interactions and relationships across different geographical and cultural senarios, I hope to interrogate assumptions in archaeological domestication models. I am specifically challenging binary and dichotomous thinking that undercuts 'domestication.'
I hope to conduct my dissertation research on reindeer and reindeer pastoralism in Siberia. I would like to approach my questions from osteological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. I would also like to incorporate research from fields like ecology, such as research on lichen and plant community structures, to better understand how those impact reindeer behavior – and therefore reindeer use and ‘domestication.’
I want to investigate some previously proposed hypotheses that generalize animal behavior and human selection choices by observing and participating in reindeer-human interactions. I think this direction has the potential for me to utilize multiple analytical perspectives at once. I envision myself collecting bone samples for genetics, attempting to attribute bone pathologies to the animal’s use in life, and incorporating microbial work.
Supervisors: Richard H. Meadow
I am conducting my dissertation research on elk and elk management in the Rocky Mountain West, specifically western Wyoming and eastern Idaho. My methods are largely ethnoarchaeological. I am using this case study to investigate some previously proposed hypotheses that generalize animal behavior and human selection choices. By observing and participating in elk-human interactions and relationships across different geographical and cultural senarios, I hope to interrogate assumptions in archaeological domestication models. I am specifically challenging binary and dichotomous thinking that undercuts 'domestication.'
I hope to conduct my dissertation research on reindeer and reindeer pastoralism in Siberia. I would like to approach my questions from osteological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. I would also like to incorporate research from fields like ecology, such as research on lichen and plant community structures, to better understand how those impact reindeer behavior – and therefore reindeer use and ‘domestication.’
I want to investigate some previously proposed hypotheses that generalize animal behavior and human selection choices by observing and participating in reindeer-human interactions. I think this direction has the potential for me to utilize multiple analytical perspectives at once. I envision myself collecting bone samples for genetics, attempting to attribute bone pathologies to the animal’s use in life, and incorporating microbial work.
Supervisors: Richard H. Meadow
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