Overview
Ashlyn Cartier earned her B.A. in Anthropology with a focus on Archaeology at the University of Connecticut. Her undergraduate thesis used zooarchaeological metadata to analyze early animal domestication in the Neolithic Northern Levant.
Ashlyn’s Masters research primarily focuses on notions of daily life and diet on the fringe provinces of the late Roman Empire using faunal remains and analysis. Ashlyn has spent several seasons working at Archaeological Site Stobi in North Macedonia examining faunal material at the decline of the Roman Empire, which is the subject of her current work. She has also participated in excavations at Castiglione del Lago in Italy. More broadly, Ashlyn is interested in the entanglement of cultures on the edges of the Roman Empire, especially within and around the Balkans, and how this is reflected in daily life, individuality, and social inequality using zooarchaeological data.