About
Research Interests: Stable isotope analyses and proteomics, zooarchaeology, herd management and provisioning, pastoralism, ancient foodways, early urban living, risk mitigation and resilience
Research Areas: Southern Levant, Near East, Southern Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Co-Director, Tell el-Hesi Archaeological Excavation Project
Research Assocations: Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University. https://www.cobb.msstate.edu/node/79
Recent Publications:
Larson, Kara, Elizabeth Arnold, and James W. Hardin (2023)
Resource Allocation and Rising Complexity during the Iron Age
IIA: An Isotopic Case Study from Khirbet Summeily, Israel-Palestine.
Quaternary International 646: 68-80.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.03.022
Larson, Kara (2023)
Meat on the Hoof: A Zooarchaeological and Isotopic
Investigation of Herd Management at Khirbet Summeily
in the Iron Age. In New Discoveries from the Greater Hesi
Region, edited by John Spencer and Jeffrey Blakely. Penn
State University Press.
Larson, Kara, and James W. Hardin (2022)
Rethinking "Cultic" Herd Management: A Multi-Isotopic
Perspective on the Proposed Iron Age IIA Cultic Space at
Khirbet Summeily. In In Pursuit of Visibility: Essays in
Archaeology, Ethnography, and Text in Honor of Beth Alpert
Nakhai, edited by Jennie Ebeling and Laura Mazow. University
of Arizona Press.
Larson, Kara, James W. Hardin, and Sara Cody (2020)
Cultural Modification Analyses on Faunal Remains in Relation
to Space Use from Field VI EB IIIA Tell el-Hesi. Palestine
Exploration Quarterly 152(04): 365-389.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2020.1855383
Ludvik, Geoffrey, and Kara Larson (2020)
Identification of an EB IIIA Incised Bone Tube Workshop at Tell
el-Hesi, Israel-Palestine. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 152(04):
332-364.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2020.1848085
