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Research interests
I am an anatomist, biological anthropologist and field researcher. My research focuses on human evolutionary anatomy, paleoecology, and human dispersal patterns in Southeast Asia during the past 80,000 years. Specifically, I investigate how climate, environment, and competition for resources may have influenced initial human dispersal pathways to Australia. I use paleoclimate niche modeling and GIS with the goal of increasing the success of traditional fossil survey methods. I am also a National Geographic Explorer and, since 2014, have been a part of an international team of researchers doing human origins excavations in the Lao PDR in concert with the Lao Ministry of Heritage, Culture, and Tourism, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the Musee de l’Homme, Paris.
Teaching
I am the Anatomy Thread Director of the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Interest Keywords
- Climate Change
- Anthropology
- Human environment interaction
- Human migration and dispersal
- Paleoanthropology
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Defense Resiliency Platform Against Extreme Cold Weather - Year 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2/2/23 → 2/1/24
Project: Research project
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Defense Resiliency Platform Against Extreme Cold Weather
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2/2/22 → 2/1/23
Project: Research project
Research output
- 7 Article
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A Middle Pleistocene Denisovan molar from the Annamite Chain of northern Laos
Demeter, F., Zanolli, C., Westaway, K. E., Joannes-Boyau, R., Duringer, P., Morley, M. W., Welker, F., Rüther, P. L., Skinner, M. M., McColl, H., Gaunitz, C., Vinner, L., Dunn, T. E., Olsen, J. V., Sikora, M., Ponche, J. L., Suzzoni, E., Frangeul, S., Boesch, Q., Antoine, P. O., & 20 others , Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 2557.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Scopus citations -
Geographically diverse canid sampling provides novel insights into pre-industrial microbiomes
Yarlagadda, K., Zachwieja, A. J., De Flamingh, A., Phungviwatnikul, T., Rivera-Colon, A. G., Roseman, C., Shackelford, L., Swanson, K. S. & Malhi, R. S., 2022, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289, 1974, 20220052.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
A multi-proxy approach to exploring Homo sapiens’ arrival, environments and adaptations in Southeast Asia
Bacon, A. M., Bourgon, N., Welker, F., Cappellini, E., Fiorillo, D., Tombret, O., Thi Mai Huong, N., Anh Tuan, N., Sayavonkhamdy, T., Souksavatdy, V., Sichanthongtip, P., Antoine, P. O., Duringer, P., Ponche, J. L., Westaway, K., Joannes-Boyau, R., Boesch, Q., Suzzoni, E., Frangeul, S., Patole-Edoumba, E., & 5 others , Dec 2021, In: Scientific reports. 11, 1, 21080.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes
Bourgon, N., Jaouen, K., Bacon, A. M., Dufour, E., McCormack, J., Tran, N. H., Trost, M., Fiorillo, D., Dunn, T. E., Zanolli, C., Zachwieja, A., Duringer, P., Ponche, J. L., Boesch, Q., Antoine, P. O., Westaway, K. E., Joannes-Boyau, R., Suzzoni, E., Frangeul, S., Crozier, F., & 12 others , Dec 2021, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 161, 103075.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access8 Scopus citations -
Understanding Late Pleistocene human land preference using ecological niche models in an Australasian test case
Zachwieja, A. J., Bacon, A. M., Nguyen, T. M. H., Nguyen, A. T., Westaway, K., Duringer, P., Ponche, J. L., Patole-Edoumba, É., Sichanthongtip, P., Sayavongkhamdy, T., Dunn, T. E., Demeter, F. & Shackelford, L. L., Oct 20 2020, In: Quaternary International. 563, p. 13-28 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Scopus citations
Datasets
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Y1 T1 Archival Dataset for DRP/CRREL
Zachwieja, A. J., Verstraete, E. L. & Kuhlke, O., ZENODO, 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7508093, https://zenodo.org/record/7508093
Dataset
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Y1 T1 Archival Dataset for DRP/CERRL
Verstraete, E. L. & Zachwieja, A. J., ZENODO, 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7487460, https://zenodo.org/record/7487460
Dataset