Fernanda Neubauer, PhD

My book Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis: A Guide to Function, Cooking and Interpretation is now published by Springer. The book is the first-ever manual for the study of fire-cracked rock (FCR), one of the most ubiquitous yet understudied classes of artifacts worldwide. The book is part of Springer’s series Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique…Read More

This summer of 2024 I will be in the Cabrillo College/Esselen archaeological field school, which is a collaborative effort, codirected by the Esselen Tribe and Cabrillo College. The archaeological site is located in Carmel Valley (Monterey County, California), on a historic ranch that is the traditional homeland of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County and…Read More

This summer of 2023 I will be one of the instructors/project team in the field school that is developed in partnership with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, the Washington State University Department of Anthropology, and Far Western Anthropological Research Group. It is located in the Kalispel homelands in Pend Oreille County, Washington State. The Kalispel’s…Read More

I am organizing a symposium on fire-cracked rock research at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). The meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon, from March 29-April 2, 2023. The session includes 13 presentations and 29 authors/coauthors with expertise on FCR and who are conducting research across time and space. Fire-Cracked…Read More

The volume on the archaeology of violence and warfare that I organized with Nam C. Kim for the peer-reviewed journal Habitus was just published. All articles are open access and therefore downloadable for free. The issue includes papers in English and Portuguese that were written by scholars around the world: EDITORIAL Sibeli Aparecida Viana PDF…Read More

I was interviewed by Brazilian magazine Istoé to comment on the new findings published at Nature Ecology & Evolution this week by Leder and collaborators, with the title A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour. If the bone was indeed carved by Neandertals and not by Homo sapiens, this discovery has the…Read More

The systematic study of warfare and violence in archaeology has led to advances in our understanding of the scale and roles that they played in the past, and how they relate to society and culture. A wide range of archaeological evidence has been used to identify warfare and violence across time and space, such as…Read More

The special issue that I organized and guest edited with Michael J. Schaefer is now published in The Wisconsin Archeologist. The volume comprises papers dedicated to the career of Dr. James M. Skibo, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University. Jim’s research and publications have included diverse topics across many regions, including the…Read More

My peer-reviewed article Use-Alteration Analysis of Fire-Cracked Rocks was just published in American Antiquity. This paper is part of my doctoral research and was awarded first place at the Midwest Archaeological Conference Student Paper Competition Award in 2016. Supplementary materials can be downloaded here. Because use-alteration analyses of fire-cracked rocks (FCR) are so scarce, I describe…Read More

The thematic issue on the archaeology of childhood that I organized for Revista de Arqueologia (peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Brazilian Archaeology) was just published. This represents the first volume on the archaeology of childhood published in Brazil. All articles are open access and therefore downloadable for free. The issue includes papers in English,…Read More