Experts Guide

Tanasi is Director of the Institute for Digital Exploration at USF. His research focuses is on classical archaeology with a focus on ceramic studies in the central Mediterranean from prehistory to the end of the Roman empire. He applies 3D Digital Imaging techniques for the documentation, interpretation and global dissemination of endangered, inaccessible or neglected archaeological heritage with projects in Sicily and Florida.

Arthur has worked in Ethiopia since 1995 conducting ceramic ethnoarchaeological and Holocene archaeological research. He was part of a NSF sponsored research project that discovered a human burial dating to 4,500 years ago and led to the extraction of ancient DNA, sequencing for the first time an African ancient genome. He is an expert in African archaeology, North American archaeology, Native Americans, ceramic technology and Indigenous knowledge of beer.

Arthur's research focuses on community archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, gender, stone tool technology and heritage studies in Africa. Since 1996, she has collaborated with Boreda-Gamo people living in southern Ethiopia to help document their sacred forested landscapes and technologies.

Taylor's research is broadly focused on the emergence and maintenance of institutionalized social inequality in the ancient world. Specific areas of focus include linking topics in archaeology to applied anthropology, and she has performed work in areas including North America, Central America and South America, including the far North Coast of Peru.

Pluckhahn's research focuses on Eastern U.S. prehistory, Mesoamerican prehistory, cultural resource management, settlement pattern studies, household archaeology, environmental anthropology, ceramic analysis and GIS applications for anthropology.