PH.D. Candidate Archaeology Anthropology
Research Interests
Coastal hunter-gatherer archaeology, ceramic and durable container technology, foodways, cuisine, organic residue analysis, archaeology of the Arctic and Subarctic, zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany
About
Trevor Lamb’s research primarily focuses on how coastal hunter-gatherers in the North American Arctic and Subarctic used durable containers—like ceramics—to transform raw foods into meals. To address this question, he plans on applying a number of organic residue analysis techniques—including stable isotope analysis and lipid analysis—to residues associated with durable containers from ancestral Alutiiq sites in Alaska.
Before coming to Boston University, Trevor completed his BA at the University of Maine, and his MA at the University of New Brunswick, where he used stable isotope analysis and lipid analysis to examine how ceramic cooking-pots were used at an ancestral Peskotomuhkati site in Washington County, Maine. He also utilized photogrammetry to produce digital models of sherds modified during lipid sampling procedures.
Projects
Ancestral Alutiiq Foods Project, Alaska
Unalaska Sea Ice Project, Alaska
Publications
- Lamb, Trevor W. 2018. Incised Lines: Mortuary Ceramics and Their Role in Defining Protohistoric Chronologies in the Far Northeast. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 59(1):41-58.
Technical Reports
- Hrynick, M. Gabriel, A. Anderson, K. Patton, W.J. Webb, C. Brouillette, T. Lamb, and A. Pelletier-Michaud. 2019. Report on the 2017–2018 Universities of New Brunswick, Toronto, and New England Fieldwork in Washington County, Maine. Report submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission and the Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation Office.