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Don H. Butler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He specializes in geoarchaeology and is keenly interested in the diverse factors that shape socio-ecological resilience and vulnerability. His research utilizes micro-sedimentary archives to comprehend community-centered histories and societal changes, particularly focusing on the relationships between resource production, management, land-use mobility, and habitat reconfiguration, which inform ecosystem engineering. His ongoing work in Eastern Beringia is significant for tracking human-wildlife responses during the changing terminal Pleistocene parklands, with a focus on ecological zones that are intertwined with the proliferation of cultural keystone herbivores among early northern societies. Don's projects encompass a broad range of peoples and settings including Inuit mariners in the Torngats, Athabaskan caribou hunters in the Barrenlands, Mesolithic fishers in Lapland, and Byzantine farmers at the Negev borderlands. His collaborative research spans local environmental impacts related to the transnational exchange along the Incense Road in the Negev Desert, paleoenvironmental changes in the southern Kalahari, and the ecological legacies of agricultural niche construction in southern Ontario.
Department of Sociology