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Bio

Reagan Johnson is a second-year graduate student in the department's Archaeology PhD program. His dissertation research explores the peopling of late-Pleistocene North America. He is interested in how the use and possible exchange of style-laden lithic technology, namely Clovis Points, may have helped small, fast-moving forager groups maintain social ties as they rapidly dispersed across an unfamiliar landscape. He is a research assistant for the at SMU, and has previously been a Hamilton Research Scholar (2022 and 2023), Robert Mayer Research Fellow (2022), and U.S. Fulbright Alternate to Mongolia (2023). In 2022, he received the American Anthropological Association's Ina Urey-Rosenthal Award.

Research Interests

Hunter-Gatherers • Peopling • Lithic Technology • Exchange •  Late-Pleistocene North America

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