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Amanda Semanko

PhD Candidate
Amanda Semanko standing in from of wall with wooden ladder
asemanko@arizona.edu

About Amanda Semanko

Amanda is a PhD candidate studying archaeology with a minor in Geosciences. Her research investigates human and animal relationships and landscape use in the distant past. She combines traditional zooarchaeological analyses with stable and radiogenic isotope studies to provide insight into how ancient peoples in the American Southwest and Central Anatolia approached animal management and domestication.

 

Selected Publications

Byers, David A., Martin H. Welker, Amanda Semanko, Dozie Itie, Sarah Noe, Jonathan Vasquez, Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz, and Sarah B. McClure. 2024. Cranial Variability in North American Domestic and Wild Canids. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 57: 104590.

Welker, Martin H., and Amanda Semanko. 2023. Revisiting Harold S. Colton’s 1970 Analysis of Dogs in the Southwest. Kiva 89(3): 403-421.

Semanko, Amanda, and Frank C. Ramos. 2022. Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Implications for Isotopic Studies of Southwest Dogs. Kiva 88(3): 327-346.

 

Teaching Experience

Origins of Human Diversity (Instructor of Record)

World Archaeology (TA)

Humanity: A How-to Guide (TA)

Art History of the Cinema (TA)

 

Research Interests

Environmental Archaeology, American Southwest, Landscapes, Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes, Animal Management, Zooarchaeology, Human Migration