Briggs Buchanan
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
The University of Tulsa
United States of America
Biography
Briggs Buchanan is an archaeologist primarily working on the Paleoindian period in the Americas. His research focuses on investigating population history, cultural interactions, and adaptation during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene in the Americas. Buchanan's approach is to define testable implications from archaeological hypotheses and then generate data to test those using quantitative analysis.
Research Interest
Paleoindian archaeology, Lithics, Morphometrics, Cladistics, Demography, Human-climate interactions, Evolutionary approaches, Experimental archaeology