Evin Frances Grody
Research Concentrations
Archaeology, Human-Animal Relations, Multispecies Approaches, Pastoralism, Environment
Regions
Southern Africa; Zambia, South Africa
Biography
Evin Grody’s conducts zooarchaeological research in Southern and South-Central Africa. Her dissertation research combines existing museum collections with newly excavated faunal material to examine human-animal relationships over the last 2,000 years (roughly the "Iron Age"). This project focuses on Zambian sites, and couples analyses of procurement and processing with new theoretical frameworks to reconsider the skill, technology, and responsiveness woven into animal use strategies. It seeks to reassess our understanding of human-animal relationships in this period, and their broader significance in the context of the economic, craft, social, and political changes in Southern and South-Central Africa over the last two millennia.
Education
Yale University, BA in Archaeological Studies, 2012
University of Pretoria, MA in Anthropology and Archaeology, 2016
2016. “Of Buffalo & Butchers: Coupling Traditional Procurement Studies with Taphonomic Analyses to Explore Wild Animal Processing Patterns at Two Early Iron Age Sites in the Kruger National Park.” African Archaeological Review 33, no. 4: 385-409.