Petra Cunningham-Smith

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Graduate Student
Email: pcunninghamsmith@ufl.edu

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress
M.A. Anthropology, University of Central Florida, 2011
B.A. Psychology, St Leo University, 2001

Subfield

Archaeology

Chair

Dr. Kitty Emery

Research Interests

Environmental Archaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Animal Domestication, Dogs, Coastal Archaeology, Coastal to Inland Trade, Fishing Strategies, Animal-Human Interactions

Selected Publications

Emery, K., Thornton, E., Sharpe, A., Cunningham-Smith, P., Duffy, L., & McIntosh, B. (2016). Testing osteometric and morphological methods for turkey species determination in Maya faunal assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 607-631.

Cunningham-Smith, P., Chase, A. F., & Chase, D. Z. (2014). Fish from afar: Marine use at Caracol, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 11, 43-53.

Therrien, C. L., Gaster, L., Cunningham‐Smith, P., & Manire, C. A. (2007). Experimental evaluation of environmental enrichment of sea turtles. Zoo Biology, 26(5), 407-416.

Cunningham-Smith, P., Colbert, D. E., Wells, R. S., & Speakman, T. (2006). Evaluation of human interactions with a provisioned wild bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) near Sarasota Bay, Florida, and efforts to curtail the interactions. Aquatic Mammals, 32(3), 346.

Anthropology