Name: Allison Champ
Project: Ghost Ranch Collaborative Zooarchaeology
Bio: Allison is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley pursuing a double major in anthropology and psychology. As a research assistant on the Ghost Ranch project, she utilized Filemaker Pro to enter/manage data on faunal remains excavated in New Mexico. Additionally, she analyzed animal bone assemblages (in legacy collections from the late 1990s and early 2000s) to determine how small mammals impacted the social dynamics and ecology of the Ghost Ranch site. Overall, Allison is most interested in researching the ways in which material culture can tell us about the social lives of prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups.