Three Decades in the Cold and Wet: A Career in Northern Archaeology

Authors

Sophia Perdikaris, Brooklyn College, City University of New YorkFollow
George Hambrecht, City University of New YorkFollow
Ramona Harrison, City University of New YorkFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2010

Citation

Archaeologia Islandica 8 (2010), pp. 40–50.

Comments

Copyright © 2010 Archaeologia Islandica

Abstract

Thomas H. McGovern has been a pioneering researcher in the North Atlantic region for most of the past 40 years. He has taken his specialty in zooarchaeology beyond counting bones to actually addressing questions about human environment interactions and human response to extreme environmental events. A prolific writer and researcher with a multitude of publications and an impressive funding record, McGovern has always been a proponent of multidisciplinarity and international collaboration. His vision resulted in the creation of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) that currently has more than 400 scientific partners and has been leading projects throughout the Circum Atlantic for over 25 years. The interconnectivity of regions and global events has always been the key to his research, and as of last year, with support from the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, it resulted in the creation of the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA) that is now taking interdisciplinarity and international collaboration to a global perspective.