Jessica Thompson | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Jessica Thompson specializes in human evolution, and especially those aspects that can be revealed through the analysis of ancient animal bones found at archaeological sites (zooarchaeology). She leads the Malawi Ancient Lifeways and Peoples Project in Malawi, central Africa, where she has maintained a field site since 2009. This multidisciplinary work combines archaeological science, evolutionary theory, and hunter-gatherer ethnography to develop and interpret the first cultural and paleoenvironmental chronologies in the region that span the transition from the last Ice Age. Her other research, based on collaborative work in Ethiopia, targets the opposite end of the archaeological record, at its origin in the Pliocene. Thompson is PI of the Yale Paleoarchaeology Laboratory.

Twitter: @YalePaleoarch (public lab) and @archaeochica (private)

URLs:

https://anthropology.yale.edu/people/jessica-thompson

https://campuspress.yale.edu/jcthompson/

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/jessica-corrine-thompson

Primary Areas of Expertise:

Archaeology, Biocultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Ethnoarchaeology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Indigenous, Aboriginal, and/or Local Community Engagement, Zooarchaeology

Symposium Speaker

Listed here are the 2 symposium sessions for which this person is a speaker.

Date	Media	Session	Symposium
2024-04-06		How the paleo diet worked for Lucy—and led to us	Lucy 50th Anniversary Symposium: The Impact of "Lucy" on Human Origins Science
2022-05-13		Human Transformation From Environmental Managers to Ecosystem Damagers	Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes