Jo Osborn

Visiting Assistant Professor

Photo: Jo Osborn

Archaeology

At UNM since 
2024
Email: 
joosborn@unm.edu
Curriculum vitae
 

Education:

BA, Harvard College (2012)

MA, University of Michigan (2015)

PhD, University of Michigan (2022)

Research:

Environmental archaeology, Economic archaeology and specialization, Maritime communities, Zooarchaeology, Ethnohistory, Bayesian modelling, South America, Andes, Amazonia

Recent Publications:

Robinson, Mark, Jamie Hampson, Jo Osborn, Francisco Javier Aceituno, Gaspar Morcote-Ríos, Michael
Ziegler, and José Iriarte. (2024) “Animals of the Serranía de La Lindosa: Exploring Representation and Categorisation in the Rock Art and Zooarchaeological Remains of the Colombian Amazon.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 75: 
101613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101613

Aceituno, Francisco Javier, Mark Robinson, Gaspar Morcote-Ríos, Ana María Aguirre, Jo Osborn, and José Iriarte. (2024) “The Peopling of Amazonia: Chrono-Stratigraphic Evidence from Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon.” Quaternary Science Reviews 237: 108522. doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108522.

Osborn, Jo, Brittany Hundman, Camille Weinberg, and Richard Espino Huaman. (2023) “Reassessing the Chronology of Topará Emergence and Paracas Decline on the Peruvian South Coast: A Bayesian Approach.” Radiocarbon, 65(4), 930-952. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.67

Osborn, Jo, and Camille Weinberg. (2023) “Subsistencia y producción en la comunidad marítima de Jahuay, Quebrada de Topará” [Subsistence and Production in the Maritime Community of Jahuay, Topará Quebrada]. Badilejos del Sur: Boletín de la RED MAP 1(1):7-11.

Weinberg, Camille, Jo Osborn, and Richard Espino Huaman. (2022) “Marine Shellfish Exploitation as a Means of Reducing Vulnerability to Resource Uncertainty in Southern Coastal Peru (200 BCE–CE 150).” The Holocene, 32(12), 1503-1517. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221122633

Osborn, Jo (2019) “A Bayesian Approach to Andean Faunal Assemblages.” Latin American Antiquity, 30(2), pp. 354-372. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2019.21