Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, Foodways, Human-Animal Relationships, Domestication, Maritime Trade, Urbanism, Paleopathology, Stable Isotope Analysis, Mediterranean Archaeology, Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Near East, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Levant, and Archaeological Drawing
About:
India is a PhD student in the Archaeology program at UC Berkeley with an interest in zooarchaeology, domestication, human-animal relationships, and subsistence methods in early urban centers in the Mediterranean and Near East. She is also interested in ancient economies, trade networks, and handicrafts like weaving and knitting.
India earned her BA in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she completed an honors thesis that used paleopathologies in faunal assemblages as a proxy to learn about animal health and herding strategies in at two Bronze Age sites in the Northern Negev Desert.