New Research Explores How Fish Became a Bigger Part of Pueblo People's Diet

Departmental News

Posted:  Oct 16, 2020 - 10:00am

In his latest published research, Jonathan Dombrosky, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, examined how a change in climate may have changed the diets of Ancestral Pueblo people. The recently published paper Resource risk and stability in the zooarchaeological record: the case of Pueblo fishing in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences is the first article to come out for Dombrosky’s dissertation and is related to a $30,298 National Science Foundation grant he received to further research the impact of a changing environment on the incorporation of new foods into human diets. Read more about his research