About Me

Dr. Pratt is an anthropological archaeology studying human-environment interactions at the intersection of two of the world's most extreme environments: the high-altitude Andes and the Amazon rainforest. Her research investigates when people first arrived in the Peruvian tropical montane cloud forests, how they adapted and altered their environments, and how these early foragers transitioned into sedentism and mixed subsistence systems.

In addition to her fieldwork, she is deeply interested in the process of field science. She specializes in data science and statistical computing, and has an ongoing project promoting reproducibility & replicability in the social sciences.

Rainy season fieldwork, 2023