Associate Professor of Anthropology
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Contact Anne Pike-Tay
Anne Pike-Tay, began teaching at Vassar College in 1990. Anne is a paleoanthropologist specializing in zooarchaeological analyses and seasonality studies of fauna (animal bones) from Middle and Upper Paleolithic (Neandertal & CroMagnon, Ice Age) sites in Europe and Upper Paleolithic-aged sites in Tasmania. Students in her classes at Vassar study human evolution and prehistory, archaeozoology, the anthropology of art, and the behavior and ecology of non-human primates. Aspects of Anne's archaeological research have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia of Spain. Vassar student participation in Anne's research has been supported by National Science Foundation REU grants and by Vassar College's URSI funds. Results of this work is presented at professional paleoanthropology and archaeology meetings, public lectures, and in publications. Her work been published in journals such as American Anthropologist, Journal of Human Evolution, and Current Anthropology. Anne's books and monographs include her recently edited volume Assessing Season of Capture, Age and Sex of Archaeofaunas ArchaeoZoologia monograph series, vol. no. XI, La Pens�e Sauvage, Paris; Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Early Upper Paleolithic (co-editors: H. Knecht & R.White, CRC Press, 1993), and Red deer Hunting in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwest France: A Study in Seasonality (solo author, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1991).
