Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

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Dr.
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
University of California Santa Cruz
Websitehttp://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=dianegg

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez is an American

animal domestication and the origins and development of African pastoralism.[1]

Biography

Gifford-Gonzalez attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her B.A., M.A., and her Ph.D.[2]

She has been the past President of both the Society for American Archaeology and the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, and has served on boards for the International Conference of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), and the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association.[2] She was also on the Academic Advisory Council of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Long-Range Planning Committee of the American Anthropological Association.[2] In addition, she is on the editorial boards for the African Archaeological Review, Journal of African Archaeology, California Archaeology, and Teals d’Arqueologia.[2]

She retired from teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz at the end of the academic year in 2015.[2] She has also taught at the University of Nairobi, the University of Tromsø, la Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.[2] In 2018, she release the textbook "An Introduction to Zooarchaeology".[3]

Research

Gifford-Gonzalez's work at

domesticated animals farther south in eastern Africa,[1] which may have been due to threats of livestock diseases such as Bovine Malignant Catarrhal Fever (MCF), which is almost 100% lethal for cattle.[4] Other livestock diseases affect humans as well, such as Rift Valley Fever (RVF), East Coast Fever (ECF), foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), and trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).[4] It is impossible, though, to tell if coming into contact with cattle caused epidemics of unfamiliar diseases in early pastoralist societies.[4]

Gifford-Gonzalez has also studied early evidence for fishing around

Omo River Valley, and they found that the Dassanetch were relied entirely on their own livestock and on fish from the nearby river.[5]
Gifford-Gonzalez and Stewart were then able to study the material remains found at Dassanetch fishing camps, providing a useful point of reference for ancient archaeological finds from places such as Olduvai Gorge.

She has also written about the use of

animal domestication is an ongoing, dynamic system of interaction with animals that causes lasting changes to that animal.[6]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1006/jaar.1998.0322
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  2. ^ a b c d e f "Diane Gifford-Gonzalez". University of California-Santa Cruz. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
  3. ^ Grad, Rachel (June 5, 2018). "Prof. Gifford-Gonzalez Releases Text "Twenty-Five Years In The Making"". anthro.ucsc.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
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    S2CID 161391486
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  5. ^
    doi:10.1006/jaar.1999.0337
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  6. ^
    doi:10.1007/s10963-010-9042-2
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