I am an archaeologist interested in ancient human-environment interactions, settlement patterns, and remote sensing techniques with regional interests in the Middle East and United States.  I am currently contributing to multi-year research projects in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and here at home in the United States.

I am presently a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas, a joint degree in the departments of Anthropology and Geosciences, where I am completing my dissertation: "Ancient Human Ecodynamics at Three Archaeological Sites in the Rub’al-Khali Desert, Dubai, UAE.”  My dissertation research is designed to develop models of settlement and climate change for prehistoric and early historic populations (~8,000 - 300 BC) in what are now the desert reaches of the UAE. To do this, I'm using data from both traditional archaeological methods and from remote sensing sources, specifically from ground-penetrating radar surveys.

More broadly, my interests are in landscape archaeology and archaeological remote sensing.  My work generally relies on spatial data and draws from multiple disciplines outside of anthropology including history, geology and remote sensing.

Please take the time to browse some of my research detailed here, and be sure to check out some of the links! Thank you for visiting.

- Jason