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Alanna Ossa is an Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Anthropology Department at SUNY Oswego, serving as NAGPRA Coordinator. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Arizona State University (2011), with prior experience as a Senior Project Manager in Cultural Resource Management. Her research focuses on Mesoamerican archaeology, particularly Postclassic Veracruz and Hohokam studies, emphasizing ancient economies, ceramic analysis, network analysis, GIS, and archaeological data curation. Her work integrates quantitative methods to explore prehistoric exchange systems, urbanism, and market development.
Notable publications include studies on craft production in Veracruz (2024), Mesoamerican urbanism (2023), and plaza design in Mesoamerican cities (2017). She has secured grants from NSF and SUNY. Her fieldwork includes leading the 2022 Archaeology Field School at the Richardson Bates House, mentoring students in archaeological methods. Ossa advocates for database design to enhance legacy data accessibility.
Awards include the Early Start Competitive Grant and NSF Grant BSC-0742324. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges archaeology with computational models and environmental studies, contributing to understanding prehistoric economic and social structures.
