Janz (2012) Receives Tenure-track Appointment
Lisa Janz (Ph.D. 2012) has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, beginning July 1, 2021. Since 2013, Janz has co-directed the Gobi-Steppe Neolithic Project with Mongolian collaborators at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on post-glacial human-environment relationships including the adoption of herding during the Bronze Age. She currently holds grants from SSHRC and Wenner-Gren for her research on an 8500–7200 year-old sedentary habitation site in far eastern Mongolia, where intensive use of cattle suggests possible pre-domestication herd management. Recent publications in PLOS ONE, Antiquity, and Quaternary International focus on increasing sedentism and diet breadth during a period of climate amelioration and evidence for dairying and increasing trade during the Bronze Age. (Anthro News Digest date: 06/04/2021)