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.
