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Ms Suzanne Pilaar

Ms Suzanne Pilaar

Status: Scholar

Citizen: USA

Year of entry: 2008

Course: PhD Archaeology

College: St John's College

Education:

Rutgers University, Evolutionary Anthropology, Paleoecology, 2008

Interests:

Spending time with my husband Ryan, travelling, hiking, kayaking, reading, writing, archaeology, natural history, and human ecology and evolution.

Yearbook entry:

I earned a BSc in Evolutionary Anthropology and Paleoecology from Rutgers University in 2008 and completed the MPhil in Archaeological Science at Cambridge in 2009. I am especially interested in human response to environmental change and its visibility in the archaeological record. My PhD uses zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis to identify dietary and seasonal adaptations at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition in the Eastern Adriatic, working with Preston Miracle and Tamsin O’Connell.

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