Zenobie S. Garrett

Ph.D. in Archaeological Anthropology

NYU Department of Anthropology

Email:  zenobie.garrett@nyu.edu

curriculum vitae

Research Interests

Current Research

I am an archaeologist specializing in GIS and landscape approaches to political and social complexity, particularly outside of conventional states and hierarchies.  In my current research, I use spatial analyses to address questions regarding landscape and its role in social investment in the ancient world. My dissertation, Dynamic Communities in Early Medieval Aquitaine: A GIS Analysis of Roman and Medieval Landscapes in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France, examined changes in community, social, and political practice in the face of global events, including the dissolution of the Roman Empire, the Late Antique Little Ice Age, and the migration of groups across Europe. In addition to my work in France, I have worked in Peru, North America, Ireland, and Oman.  Currently, I am the Geospatial Specialist and a field school supervisor at the multi-period ceremonial site of Dun Ailinne.  I am actively involved in teaching and outreach and have experience working in the commercial archaeology sector as well. 

Publications

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Wright, R. & Garrett, Z. S. 2018. Engineering Feats and Consequences in the Indus: Workers in the Night, in N. Gonlin & S Nowell (Eds.) Archaeology of the Night. pp. 287-306. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Dollarhide, E., Garrett, Z. S., & Rissman, P. 2017. Mapping Magan Archaeology Survey Report to the Omani Ministry of Heritage and Culture.  Mapping Magan-Bat Archaeology Project.

Johnston, S. A., Crabtree, P. J., Campana, D. V., & Garrett, Z. S. 2017. Final Report. Excavations at Dún Ailinne, Co. Kildare, 2016.  Report prepared for The National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Ireland.

O’Hara, J. F., White, R., Garrett, Z. S., Higham, T., & Roussot, A. 2015. A History of Archaeology at the Aurignacian Site of the Abri de la Souquette (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). P@lethnology 7: 98-117.

O’Hara, J. F., White, R., Garrett, Z. S., Higham, T., & Roussot, A. 2015. Le site Aurignacien de l’Abri de la Souquette (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne): son histoire archéologique. P@lethnology 7: 99-118.

Garrett, Z. S. 2011.  Une première approche du register post Paléolithique du versant Est du vallon de Castel-Merle et des secteurs voisins, in R. White (Ed.) Abri Blanchard operation de diagnostique et d’autres interventions dans le vallon de Castel-merle (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). Rapport de fouille programmée.  Bordeaux: Service Régional de l’Archeologie. 189 pp.

Selected Presentations

Garrett, Z. S. Dynamic Communities in Early Medieval Aquitaine: A GIS Analysis of Roman and Medieval Landscapes in the Vézère Valley, France, Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL, April 6-10, 2016.

Garrett, Z. S. Mind the Gap: Archaeological Approaches to Null-Data Spaces (session organizer), Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA, April 15-19, 2015.

Garrett, Z. S. Bridging the Gap: Understanding the empty Medieval landscape of Post-Roman Aquitaine, Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA, April 15-19, 2015.

Garrett, Z. S. Teaching Recitations and Labs for the Social Sciences, NYU GSAS Teaching Conference, New York, NY, August 25, 2014.

Garrett, Z. S. Finding Your Teaching Style, NYU GSAS Teaching Conference, New York, NY, August 25, 2014.

Garrett, Z. S. Transitional sites in the post-Roman world: Site Survey Analysis of the Roman and Early Medieval Periods in the Vézère Valley, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX, April 24-27, 2014. 

Garrett, Z. S. Site Survey and Analysis in the Vézère Valley (Dordogne, France), Conference on Medieval Archaeology, Cortlandt, NY, October 4-6, 2013.

Garrett, Z. S. Exploring Holocene Impacts on the Record of Aurignacian “Genius” in the Vézère Valley[poster], Aurignacian Genius Conference, New York, NY, April 8-9, 2013.

Garrett, Z. S. 2012. Reassessing Aurignacian site location: the effects of postglacial populations on Upper Paleolithic sites in the Vallon de Castel-Merle, Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN, April 18-22, 2012. 

Garrett, Z. S. Theoretically Incompatible or Incompatible in Theory? European and American approaches to early medieval Europe, Theoretical Archaeology Group, Buffalo, NY, May 17-20, 2011.

Garrett, Z. S. Sutton Hoo: a case study in the chaîne opératoire of burial technology in Anglo-Saxon England, Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, April 22-26, 2009. 

Garrett, Z. S. Setting Beowulf in the Archaeological Landscape: Integrating Literature and Archaeology, Theoretical Archaeology Group, Atlanta, GA, May 23-25, 2008.

Garrett, Z. S. Myth in the Making: The Repercussions of the proposed Highway through the Buried Landscape of Tara, Folklore and Nationalism Symposium, Cambridge, MA, February 8-10, 2008.