Bob Benfer

Research by     

geographic area

Peru

Mexico

China

US and Other

Europe

Russia

Research by    

subdiscipline

Archaeology

Physical Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Methodology

Some examples of current research in progress with students and former students:

• "Parental Investment in Prehistory: Paloma, Perú" (with Dr. Julie Farnum and several other previous students).
• Dietary changes in the Late Neolithic of Northern China based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (CPI on grant proposal with Dr. Ekaterina Pechenkina and several other investigators)
• "Worldwide Human Responses to the End of the Global Climatic Optimum" (with Dr. Ekaterina Pechenkina and collaborators).
• Buena Vista, a Cotton Preceramic Site in the Chillón Valley of Perú (with Neil Duncan).
• Quipa: a Late Pleistocene Fishing Camp in the Chilca Valley of Perú (with Neil Duncan).
• "Head Shape of Adult Males as a Possible Indicator of Economic Changes in Northern Jordan (1900-1978)" (last author with Ahmad Abu Dalou and Abdel Halim Al-Shiya).