Tianna is a first-year Master’s student at Colorado State University studying Biological Anthropology under Dr. Mica Glantz. Her research interests center on hominin cannibalism, mortuary behaviors, and ritual. Her field experience includes work at Cova Gran de Santa Linya where she investigated Middle/Upper Paleolithic hominin activity at the Cova Gran rock shelter (50-40 kya) through archaeological excavation and laboratory analysis. She has additionally been a field crew member in a Museum of the Rockies paleontology dig and been a part of CSU’s Archaeological Field School at Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, followed by archaeological lab work at CSU’s Center for Research in Archaeogeophysics and Geoarchaeology (CRAG).

Research interests:

Paleoanthropology; Bioarchaeology; Cannibalism; Mortuary behaviors; Ritual; Funerary Archaeology; Human Evolution