Professor McInnis is an archaeologist with a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Oregon, a M.S. in quaternary studies from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Maine. Her doctoral research documents and analyzes the relationship between changing land and resource use, regional climatic fluctuations, and local environmental conditions at some of the earliest prehistoric coastal sites known in the southern coastal Andes. Her primary research interests are maritime adaptations, zooarchaeology, paleoenvironmental archaeology, and Andean studies, and she has conducted archaeological research in Peru, Oregon, Maine, New Hampshire, and the Southwestern, U.S. She is currently analyzing oxygen isotopes of shellfish from archaeological contexts to establish a proxy record of paleoenvironmental conditions on the south coast of Peru.

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