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Graduate Advisor: Christina Torres
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Research Interests:
Her research interests include movements, ancient Egypt, archaeological applications of isotopic analysis, social inequality, paleopathology and food ways.
Bio:
Alyson Caine is a PhD Candidate at UC Merced. Her research focuses
on social inequality, representation, and social identity as embodied in skeletal remains. She is
currently studying the legacy collection from Lisht that was excavated in the early 20th century
in Egypt, under Dr. Christina Torres. This work is for her dissertation, Living at the Intersections
in Ancient Egypt, which addresses the expression of identity in mortuary practices and the
preferential collection and curation of remains from this early 20th century excavation.
Through her work in contract archaeology, she has expanded her research into Indigenous
Californian osteological samples. She co-directed the excavation of a shellmound site and is
working on a Mission Period site in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through these projects, she has
collaborated with scholars at the University of California, Davis and Santa Cruz.
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