Dakota Larrick

Dakota Larrick is a graduate student in the School of Anthropology and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR). She uses archaeological science, dendrochronology, and paleoclimate reconstruction to study human and environmental dynamics from the deep past to the present. Her current research entails using tree-rings to date cliff-dwelling sites in northwest Mexico and also reconstruct the regional climate spanning approximately the past millennium. She seeks to understand how people have responded to changing climatic conditions over this period with an emphasis on processes which led to modern vulnerabilities. She is also invested in science communication, community outreach, and collaboration within and beyond Mexico and the U.S. She obtained a master’s degree in Anthropology (Archaeology) and bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. Her master’s work involved writing a multi-century past cultural landscape analysis for indigenous groups on the southern North American Great Plains based on archaeological evidence recovered from two nearby sites occupied ~ 10,500-10,000 years before present.