Congratulations to U-M archaeology PhD candidate Ian Beggen on his new article in Quaternary International, titled “Evaluating Outcomes of Survey Methodology Dissimilarity: Understanding Purported Marginality of Environments for Quaternary Foragers Across the Americas.”
His work challenges long-standing assumptions about “marginal” environments by showing how differences in survey methods can skew interpretations of where foragers actually lived and thrived. By reexamining datasets across the Americas, the study argues that what looks like marginality is often just a product of uneven archaeological visibility, not past human behavior. Read the article at Science Direct.com.
