Faculty Profile: Cynthia J. Klink
Cynthia Klink
is an archaeologist who is currently completing her Ph.D. in Anthropology from
the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also received her MA in
anthropology. She earned BA degrees in Anthropology and Geology at the
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Cynthia also received interdisciplinary
graduate training in archaeology, geology, and paleoenvironmental studies
through the Institute for Quaternary Studies at the University of Maine, Orono.
Her dissertation research examines the process of human colonization and
“settling in” to new landscapes, through the analysis of changing land use
patterns during the Preceramic Period (before 3500 BP) in the Lake Titicaca
basin, Peru. A major focus is identifying and understanding the temporal
development of “place-oriented” adaptations and cultural ties to the natural
landscape.
Her primary
research and teaching interests including Andean prehistory, lithic (stone
tool) technology, human-landscape relations, the archaeology of social
identities (especially gender and ethnicity), hunter-gatherers, and North
American archaeology. The bulk of her research has been conducted in Peru, but
she also has fieldwork experience in multiple areas of the United States.
She is senior
author of the highly regarded “A projectile point chronology for the
South-Central Andean Highlands” (Cynthia Klink and Mark Aldenderfer,
Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology – 1, Cotsen Institute, University of
California, Los Angeles.). Her examination of Preceramic lithic technological
organization at the site of Kasapata and the process of emerging sedentism in
the Cusco Valley, Peru will be published this year, also by the Cotsen
Institute. Cynthia has just accepted an invitation to become the
associated investigator in charge of Peruvian and Bolivian data for the new
international direction of the Paleoindian
Database of the Americas (PIDBA).
Click here for a copy
of Ms. Klink's vitae.
Courses
taught by Ms. Klink:
ANTH 140
Principles of Archaeology
ANTH 252 The
Incas and Their Ancestors
ANTH 253 Women
& Gender in Prehistory
ANTH 342
Understanding Stone Tools
ANTH 390 Issues
in Anthropology
E-Mail: Cynthia.Klink@oneonta.edu