MOSES AKOGUN

Profile

I am a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a visiting scholar in the Trent Environmental Archaeology Lab (TEAL) at Trent University, Canada. I specialize in zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis as complementary methodological approaches for reconstructing past human–animal–environment interactions.

My research integrates archaeological evidence with scientific approaches to investigate subsistence strategies, environmental adaptation, and social organization in past societies. By combining zooarchaeology and isotope analyses, I examine how humans and nonhuman animals responded to ecological change across time and space, contributing to broader discussions of human and animal biogeography, human resilience, and long-term human–environment interactions.

Interests

Human–animal–environment interactions; foodways; palaeoecology; mobility and landscape use; animal management; pastoralism; hunter-gatherer lifeways; the archaeology of complex societies.

Methods

Zooarchaeology; Stable Isotope Analysis; Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS).

Regions

East Asia; West Africa.

Affiliation

Room 508, 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON. Canada. M5S 2S2

Address

(Postal and Delivery)

Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto