{"id":829,"date":"2019-05-23T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=829"},"modified":"2021-12-08T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T22:59:49","slug":"lauren-knasin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/profile\/lauren-knasin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Knasin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Areas of Interest<\/h3>\n<p>Marine Science, Zooarchaeology, Environmental Science and Archaeology<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests &amp; Fieldwork<\/h3>\n<p>I am interested in tying together my passions in Marine Science and Zooarchaeology. During the Fall 202o semester, I sorted and identifed archaeological shell remains recovered from Chirikof Island, Alaska.\u00a0 These shells can potentially provide insight into possible food sources or religious practices that occurred when the island was inhabited.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, I was an intern for\u00a0<span>The Ancestral Alutiiq Foods Project, a community-focused effort\u00a0to chronicle the diversity of foods people have used for thousands of years in the Kodiak archipelago in Alaska. This project, which was\u00a0<\/span><span>developed by Professor Catherine West and the Alutiiq Museum, aims to utilize these ancient findings to help revitalize and support Native Alaskans and their identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/current-students\/undergraduate\/special-opportunities\/cas-social-sciences-undergraduate-internships-in-social-justice-and-sustainability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> for extended internship description)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14677,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14677"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/829\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}