Harvard Anthropology Assistant Professor Amy E. Clark Featured in Harvard Gazette

Harvard Anthropology Assistant Professor Amy E. Clark was recently interviewed by the Harvard Gazette in a feature titled “Hearth and home — in Stone Age.”

The article shares:

When academics talk about early modern humans, especially those living way back in the Lower Paleolithic, the conversation frequently turns to hunting. When did our species start eating meat? What were the first animals we killed and consumed?

Amy Elizabeth Clark, a newly appointed assistant professor of anthropology, understands why. “A big part of our record comes from stone tools, and a certain number of those tools are weapons,” she said.

But Clark gravitates to other varieties of Stone Age artifacts. A specialist in the earliest reaches of the archaeological record, Clark is particularly fascinated by the first iterations of designated living spaces. Motivating this interest is what Clark calls a “feminist approach” to studying human history. “It’s a way of forwarding women when we think about the past,” she explained…

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