Randy Haas

I am an archaeologist who studies human evolutionary ecology and the emergence of social complexity through the material record of prehistoric hunter-gatherer and early agricultural societies. My most recent research examines how (a) hunter-gatherer mobility gives rise to complex settlement patterns, or cultural geographies, (b) cooperative behavior evolves and persists in hunter-gatherer societies, and (c) large-scale demographic patterns among hunter-gatherer and early agricultural societies respond to changing ecological conditions. My primary areas of field research include the Andean highlands and US Southwest. My areas of technical expertise include quantitative methods,geographic information systems and spatial analysis, agent-based modeling, social network analysis, and lithic analysis.

September 2016