Professor Karen Milek
| Research Interests | Migrations and invasions and relationships between incomers and indigenous peoples Impacts of culture contact on material culture, especially residential architecture and objects used in everyday life Ethnoarchaeology and ethno-historic archaeology, especially to help develop new methodologies for the interpretation of activity areas Experimental archaeology Geoarchaeology, including soil survey, archaeological soil micromorphology, geochemistry, magnetic techniques, and lipid biomarkers Early medieval period, especially the Viking Age, in: Scandinavia, the North Atlantic Region, NW Siberia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Isle of Man 19th and early 20th century in: Scotland, the North Atlantic Region, and Canada Excavation and environmental sampling methods Ground-truthing of remote sensing anomalies, including multi-spectral satellite imagery Microrefuse analysis Space syntax analysis in archaeology Human-environment-animal interactions Social archaeology of houses, farmsteads, and transhumant/nomadic pastoralist sites |
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