Kara Larson

Kara Larson is a PhD candidate in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include food and foodways of early urban settlements, human-environmental interactions regarding food production and management, and the political and economic underpinnings of foodways. She is currently conducting research at numerous Early Bronze Age (3100-2500 BCE) urban locales in the Southern Levant. Her methodological expertise includes zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, ZooMS, and SEM-based morphometrics.

Co-Director, Tell el-Hesi Archaeological Excavation Project

Research Assocations: Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University. https://www.cobb.msstate.edu/node/79