Allison L. Wolfe

Research

My research centers around investigating the relationships between humans, fauna, and the environment in the past, and applying that information to modern-day management and conservation. I utilize paleobiological and archaeological data to reconstruct past environments, determine how they changed through time, and identify how humans and other animals responded to and/or played a role in such change. These records of the past are much longer and span a wider range of conditions than the historical records commonly used to inform modern management and conservation strategies, and thus offer the potential to greatly improve these strategies insofar as climate change and human impacts on natural environments continue.

Education

2021 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Utah

2016 M.S., Anthropology, University of Utah

2014 B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

2014 B.A., Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Publications

Peer-reviewed

Wolfe, A.L., Broughton, J.M., 2021. More on overkill, the associational critique, and the North American megafaunal record: A reply to

Grayson et al. (2020). Journal of Archaeological Science 128, 105313.

Wolfe, A.L., Broughton, J.M., 2020. A foraging theory perspective on the associational critique of North American Pleistocene overkill.

Journal of Archaeological Science 119 (2020), 105162.

Wolfe, A.L., Broughton, J.M., 2016. Bonneville basin avifaunal change at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition: Evidence from Homestead

Cave. In: Oviatt, C.G., Shroder, J.F. (eds.), Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update. Elsevier, pp. 371–419.

Kirch, P.V., Molle, G., Nickelsen, C., Mills, P., Dotte-Sarout, E., Swift, J., Wolfe, A., Horrocks, M., 2015. Human Ecodynamics in the Mangarevan

Islands: A Stratified Sequence from Nenega-Iti Rockshelter (Site AGA-3, Agakauitai Island). Archaeology in Oceania 50, 23­–52.

Book Reviews

Wolfe, A.L., 2017. Review of Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats: Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin, by

Donald K. Grayson. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 37, 116–119.