PI: Harper Dine

Harper Dine’s dissertation research centers on foodways and agricultural strategies in the northern Maya lowlands. This project involves the use of paleoethnobotanical and archaeological methods to examine local household foodways and local landscape features in the context of grand-scale political and economic change in central Yucatán. Currently, Harper is examining phytoliths, starch grains, and macrobotanical remains from artifact extractions and soil samples collected during excavations at Yaxuna and nearby Joya. More broadly, she’s interested in food security/food sovereignty, political economy, and people-plant relations.