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Dr. Stefani A. Crabtree is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University's Quinney College of Natural Resources. She also serves as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and holds affiliations with the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage.
Her research integrates archaeology, ecology, and complex systems science to study human-environment interactions. She directs the ArchaeoEcology Project, a Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis-funded initiative examining human biodiversity networks through agent-based modeling and network analysis. Her work spans fieldwork in Northern Mongolia, Mesa Verde (USA), Gaulish France, and Australia's Western Desert.
Crabtree's 2021 paper in Nature Human Behaviour earned the Hyperion Research Innovation Excellence Award, marking the first archaeology-specific recognition for this NASA-sponsored prize. She focuses on identifying long-term sustainability patterns in socio-ecological systems by comparing modeled scenarios with empirical archaeological data.
Scientific Awards:
- 2021 Hyperion Research Innovation Excellence Award (NASA-sponsored)
She has published additional work on Ancestral Pueblo food webs (Journal of Archaeological Science) and Martu Aboriginal foraging impacts (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory), though these articles lack specific publication years in the provided text.
