George Hambrecht

George Hambrecht is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and an archaeologist with a specialty in environmental archaeology and zooarchaeology. Though his main area of research is in the North Atlantic, he is also part of the Barbuda Historical Ecology Project based on the island of Barbuda in the Leeward Islands. Hambrecht’s research interests in the Caribbean center on the environmental effects of Euro-African colonization in the post-Columbian era. He also has an interest in the use of animals as both agents of environmental change as well as ideological and religious symbols and tools.