Lisa Anderson

Curator of Bioarchaeology and NAGPRA Coordinator
lisa.anderson@nysed.gov
518-486-2020

My research is concerned with the biological impact of lifeways on populations in New York before and after the time of European contact. The main focus has been on developing baseline osteological data to examine general questions about human adaptation to the natural and cultural environment. Specific areas of interest include the effects of subsistence practices on diet and health; the movement and interaction of people on the landscape; and skeletal evidence of ritual warfare, enslavement, and inequality.

My Research Projects

Publications

2010

R. Feranec, N. Garcia, J. Arsuaga, J. Diez 2010, Understanding the Ecology of Mammalian Carnivorans and Herbivores from Valdegoba Cave (Burgos, Northern Spain) Through Stable Isotope Analysis, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297, 263-272. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.08.006

2009

R. Feranec, L. DeSantis, B. MacFadden 2009, Effects of Global Warming on Ancient Mammalian Communities and Their Environments, Plos One 4, e5750. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.. 10.1371/journal.pone.0005750
R. Feranec 2009, Implications of Radiocarbon Dates from Potter Creek Cave, Shasta County, California, USA, Radiocarbon 51, 931-936.
R. Feranec, A. Paytan, E. Hadley 2009, Stable Isotopes Reveal Seasonal Competition for Resources Between Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison) and Horse (Equus) from Rancho La Brea, Southern California, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 271, 153-160. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.10.005
R. Feranec, N. Garcia, J. Arsuaga, J. de Castro, C. Carbonell 2009, Isotopic Analysis of the Ecology of Herbivores and Carnivores from the Middle Pleistocene Deposits of the Sierra de Atapuerca, Northern Spain, Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 1142-1151. 10.1016/j.jas.2008.12.018
J. Hart, R. Feranec, W. Lovis, G. Urquhart 2009, Non-linear Relationship Between Bulk d13C and Percent Maize in Carbonized Cooking Residues and the Potential of False-negatives in Detecting Maize, Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 2206-2212. 10.1016/j.jas.2009.06.005
J. Cryan, R. Feranec, J. Kirchman 2009, Evolution Every Day. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 10-11
R. Feranec 2009, Evolution of Ecology in Mammals. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 13

2008

R. Feranec, J.L. Blois, E.A. Hadly 2008, Environmental Influences on Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Body-size Variation in California Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi), Journal of Biogeography 35, 602-613. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01836.x
R. Feranec 2008, Growth Differences in the Saber-Tooth of Three Field Species, Palaios 23, 566-569. 10.2110/palo.2007.p07-079r