Raven Garvey

I am Curator of High Latitude and Western North American Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and Faculty Affiliate at the Research Center for Group Dynamics.

I study the influences of ecological, demographic, and social factors on Holocene hunter-gatherers’ behaviors and broader cultural change through time. My current field projects in farthest southern South America--Patagonia--combine archaeological data with evolutionary modeling to address questions at the intersection of human behavioral ecology and cultural transmission theory. My current lab-based projects are designed to test and develop models of cultural transmission and technological evolution, and I was recently awarded a fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2022-2023) to train in engineering and explore the the effects of wind on hunter-gatherers' livelihoods and technologies.