{"id":22,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:54:23","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My current research interests lie in Eastern Africa, where my students, colleagues and I are engaged in projects on Late Pleistocene refugia and the evolution of modern cultural behavior, the establishment of agriculture and nomadic pastoralism, the ethnoarchaeology of lithic production and hide working, and the protection and conservation of Africa\u2019s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li role=\"listitem\"><a title=\"activity name\" href=\"https:\/\/vivo.ufl.edu\/display\/n1392708972\">The Life and Death of Ancient Ethiopian Priests: a Bioarchaeological and Osteological Investigation of Mummies From&#8230;..<\/a> \u00a0awarded by\u00a0<a title=\"awarded by\" href=\"https:\/\/vivo.ufl.edu\/display\/n2044226881\">National Geographic Society<\/a> <span class=\"listDateTime\">2013\u00a0&#8211;\u00a02014<\/span><\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\"><a title=\"activity name\" href=\"https:\/\/vivo.ufl.edu\/display\/n353400292\">UF-Wolaita Sodo Cultural Heritage Management Ethiopia<\/a> \u00a0awarded by\u00a0<a title=\"awarded by\" href=\"https:\/\/vivo.ufl.edu\/display\/n1330471222\">US Department of State<\/a> <span class=\"listDateTime\">2011\u00a0&#8211;\u00a02012<\/span><\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\"><a title=\"activity name\" href=\"https:\/\/vivo.ufl.edu\/display\/n1743299795\">Evaluating Sw Ethiopia As a Late Quaternary Refugium: Archaeology and Paleoenvironment<\/a> \u00a0awarded by\u00a0<a title=\"awarded by\" href=\"https:\/\/vivo.ufl.edu\/display\/n28779\">National Science Foundation<\/a> <span class=\"listDateTime\">2006\u00a0&#8211;\u00a02009<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/sbrandt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}