Gene Shev
Postdoc/ Guest
- Name
- Dr. G.T. Shev
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- g.t.shev@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5762-8665
Gene Shev is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.
More information about Gene Shev
Office days
Monday
Research
I have extensive fieldwork experience in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Aruba, having excavated and analysed fauna from precolonial Indigenous sites located in these countries as part of the ERC-Synergy project NEXUS-1492 and now as part of CaribTrails at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Caribbean and Southeast Asian Studies (KITLV). My recent research involves a continuation of zooarchaeological research of the site of El Carril, Dominican Republic. I also am running a pilot study investigating the potential for reconstruction of past climates using isotopic analyses of rodent skeletal remains and land snails from Archaic (pre-ceramic) sites in the islands of Aruba.
Curriculum Vitae
Gene Shev completed his Bachelor of Archaeology with First Class Honours at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia in 2013, with a thesis that investigated the initial spread of domestic horses in the Near East during the Early to Middle Bronze Age. After finishing his undergraduate degree in 2014 he participated in the Australian Research Council funded project, ‘Ice Age Villagers of the Levant’, excavating the Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27 in the Kingdom of Jordan and assisting with the analysis of faunal material. Subsequently he worked as a research assistant and teaching assistant at La Trobe University, and as a project archaeologist within the local cultural heritage industry, specializing in Aboriginal heritage.
In 2016, the choice was made to leave the heritage industry and to pursue postgraduate study, and after receiving the Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS), moved to the Netherlands to undertake a Research Masters in the Archaeology of the Americas department at the Faculty of Archaeology. His RMA research focused on the implementation of zooarchaeological and isotopic analyses to investigate aspects of mobility and diet and the social role of domestic dogs in the precolonial Dominican Republic. In 2018, Gene was the recipient of the NWO PhD in the Humanities grant, allowing him to pursue doctoral research for the next four years.
Postdoc/ Guest
- Faculty of Archaeology
- World Archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Shev E.T., Thomas R. & Beier Z. (2022), Zooarchaeological and isotopic findings from White Marl, Jamaica: insights on indigenous human-animal interactions and evidence for the management of Jamaican hutias, Journal of Caribbean Archaeology 22: 1-30.
- Shev E.T. & Laffoon J.E. (2022), Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 32(5): 976-995.
- Shev G.T. (6 December 2022), Indigenous animal management practices on the eve of Columbus' landfall: Isotopic and zooarchaeological investigations in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica (PhD thesis, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Hofman C.L., Laffoon J.E.
- Shev G.T., Laffoon J.E. & Hofman C.L. (2021), Human and hutia (Isolobodon portoricensis) interactions in pre-Columbian Hispaniola: The isotopic and morphological evidence, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37: .
- Shev E.T., Ali Z., Almonte M.J.N., Casale S.C., Djakovic I. & Hofman C.L. (2021), Coastal-hinterland exchange and garden hunting practices prior to the European invasion of Hispaniola, Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology : 1-22.
- Shev G., Laffoon J.E., Grouard S. & Hofman C.L. (2020), An isotopic and morphometric examination of island dogs (Canis familiaris): comparing dietary and mobility patterns in the pre-Columbian Caribbean, Latin American Antiquity 31(3): 632-638.
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