Nami Shin

Currently: Wood Charcoal Specialist, UCLA/RUG Fayum Project, Egypt

BA 2015, Archaeology
Boston University
nami93@bu.edu

Areas of interest: Paleoethnobotany; Environmental Reconstruction; Near East; Bronze Age Egypt

Research

I am interested in studying the dynamic relationship between ancient populations and their environments, as well as environmental reconstruction in the ancient Near East. I am particularly interested in how people responded to different environmental events, such as drought or soil salinity, and the socio-political and economical changes that may have resulted.

Projects

UROP, Kaymakçı Archaeological Project:
I work under the supervision of Professor John M. Marston on the archaeobotanical material collected from Kaymakçı, a Bronze Age citadel site in western Turkey.

Conference Presentations

Shin, Nami, and John M. Marston. 2015. “Reconstructing Late Bronze Age agriculture at Kaymakçı, western Turkey.” Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology.