Changing Times: Radiocarbon Dating and the Rewriting of Huron-Wendat Archaeological Histories

Jennifer Birch is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia specializing in the archaeology of eastern North America. She holds PhD in anthropology from McMaster University (2010). Conceptually, her interests are underpinned by the desire to understand how the lived experiences of individuals and communities articulate with long-term, large-scale processes of social and cultural change. She has approached this question through reconstructing the dynamics associated with occupational histories, interaction networks, population movement, and the development of organizational complexity and diversity. She is the coauthor (with Ronald F. Williamson) of The Mantle Site: An Archaeological History of an Ancestral Wendat Community (2013), editor of From Prehistoric Villages to Cities: Settlement Aggregation and Community Integration (2013), and coeditor (with Victor D. Thompson) of The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America (2018).