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Amy Klemmer

  • Teaching Assistant Dissertator, Anthropology

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 525 - Analysis of Faunal Remains

Research Interests

  • Zooarchaeology
  • South American archaeology
  • Human eco-dynamics
  • Cultural heritage
  • Coastal archaeology
  • Environmental archaeology
  • Climate change
  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
  • Subsistence practices
  • Ethnoarchaeology
  • Ichthyology

Dissertation Title: "Climate Change and Human Ecology in Coastal Ecuador: A Zooarchaeological Study" (working title)

Awards and Honors

  • UWM Distinguished Graduate Student Fellow, 2020-2021

Biographical Sketch

Research Interests: zooarchaeology, South American archaeology, human eco-dynamics, cultural heritage, coastal archaeology, environmental archaeology, climate change, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, subsistence practices, ethnoarchaeology, ichthyology\nDissertation Title: "Climate Change and Human Ecology in Coastal Ecuador: A Zooarchaeological Study" (working title)\nAdvisor: Dr. Jean Hudson\nAmy is a Teaching Assistant for ANTH 525, Zooarchaeology: Analysis of Faunal Remains and a UWM Distinguished Graduate Student Fellow, 2020-2021\n 

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.