DR. KRISTIN D. SOBOLIK

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1991

My main research interests include prehistoric populations of the southern North American deserts and adaptations to desertic environments. My research involves reconstructing environmental and ecological surroundings that may have influenced prehistoric population movement and structure. Presently I am conducting archaeological fieldwork in the Chihuahuan Desert to answer questions centering on chronology, population patterns through time and across space, prehistoric use of diverse ecotones and microhabitats, and the effects environmental shifts had on human populations using diverse resources. I specialize in paleonutrition, zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, and coprolite analyses. See also Climate Change Institute.

Representative Publications:

Sobolik, Kristin D. 2000. Dietary Reconstruction as Seen in Coprolites. In: The Cambridge World History of Food, Vol. I, K.F. Kiple and K.C. Ornelas (eds.), pp. 44-51, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Sobolik, Kristin D. and Richard Will 2000. Calcined turtle bones from the Little Ossippee North Site in Southwestern Maine. Eastern North American Archaeology 28:15-28.

Mead, Jim I., Arthur E. Spiess, and Kristin D. Sobolik 2000. Skeleton of Extinct North American Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon). Quaternary Research 53:247-262.

Sobolik, Kristin D., Laurie S. Zimmerman, and Brooke Manross Guilfoyl. 1997. Indoor vs Outdoor Firepit Usage: A Case Study from the Mimbres. The Kiva 62(3):283-300.

Spiess, Arthur E. and Kristin D. Sobolik. 1997. Blanding's Turtle Specimens from the Turner Farm Archaeological Site, North Haven, Maine. Herpetological Review 28 (1):24-25.

Sobolik, Kristin D. 1996. Lithic Organic Residue Analysis: An Example from the Southwestern Archaic. Journal of Field Archaeology 23:461-469.

Sobolik, Kristin D., Kristen J. Gremillion, Patricia Whitten, Patty Jo Watson. 1996. Sex Determination of Prehistoric Human Paleofeces. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 101(2):283-290.

Gremillion, Kristen J. and Kristin D. Sobolik. 1996. Dietary Variability Among Prehistoric Forager-Farmers of Eastern North America. Current Anthropology 37(3):529-539.

Sobolik, Kristin D. and D. Gentry Steele. 1996. An Atlas of Turtles to Facilitate Archaeological Identifications. The Mammoth Site, Inc., Hot Springs, South Dakota, 117 p.

Sobolik, Kristin D. 1996. Nutritional Constraints and Mobility Patterns in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. In: Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, Elizabeth J. Reitz, Lee Newsom, and Sylvia Scudder (eds.)., Chpt. 11, pp. 195-214, Plenum Press, New York.

Sobolik, Kristin D. (ed.). 1994. Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans, Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper Series 22, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 321 pp.

Sobolik, Kristin D. 1994. Microscopic Epidermal Identification of Some Common Desertic Plants. North American Archaeologist 15(4):359-372.

Sobolik, Kristin D. 1993. Direct Evidence for the Importance of Small Animals to Prehistoric Diets: A Review of Coprolite Studies. North American Archaeologist 14(3):227-244.

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