Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Loyola University Chicago
Lake Shore Campus, BVM 716
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL   60660
Office Phone: 773.508.7649
Email: ehallett2@luc.edu

 

Research

Emily Yuko Hallett received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University in 2018 with a focus on Homo sapiens origins in Africa.  She is an archaeologist researching prehistoric human ecology and diet, and she studies animal remains from archaeological sites to reconstruct past habitats and hunting patterns.  Her most recent fieldwork is in Morocco and Italy, where she focuses on caves that have early human archaeological deposits from the Late Pleistocene.  Dr. Hallett also uses computational modelling to reconstruct the ecological niche of early humans.

 

Teaching

During Fall 2022 Dr. Hallett is teaching:

• ENVS 101:  The Scientific Basis of Environmental Issues
• ANTH 241:  Principles of Archaeology

She encourages students interested in archaeological fieldwork, zooarchaeology, or computational archaeology to contact her for research opportunities.

 

Recent publications

in press     Olszewski, D.I., Aldeias, V., Alvarez-Fernandez, E., Blackwell, B., El-Hajraoui, M.A., Hallett, E.Y., Jacobs, Z., Rezek, Z., Richter, D., Skinner, A., Steele, T.E., Talamo, S.  The Middle and Later Stone Age at Contrebandiers Cave in Rebat-Temara, Morocco.  In A. Beyin, D.K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar & D.I. Olszewski (Eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africe:  Hominin behavor, geography, and chronology.  Springer.

in press     Thompson, J.C., Bertacchi, A., Keller, H.M., Hallett, E.Y., & Pobiner, B.  The Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Africa.  In A. Beyin, D.K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar & D.I. Olszewski (Eds.),  Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa:  Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology.  Springer.

in press    Cerasoni, J.N., Hallett, E.Y., Farr, L., Orijemie, E.A. & Scerri, E. M. L. Iho Eleru.  In A. Beyin, D.K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar & D.I. Olszewski (Eds.) Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa:  Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology.  Springer

2022         Leonardi, M., Hallett, E.Y., Beyer, R., Krapp, M., & Manica, A. (2022) pastclim: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions bioRxiv, 2022.2005.2018.492456. https://doi.org/10.1101.2022.05.18.492456.

2022         Cerasoni, J.N.*, do Nascimento Rodrigues F., Tang, Y., Hallett, E.Y. Do-It-Yourself Digital Archaeology:  Introduction and Practical Applications of Photography and Photogrammetry for the 2D and 3D Represntation of Small Objects and Artifacts.  PLOS One.

2022          Cerasoni, J.N. *, Hallett, E.Y.,  Ben Arous, E., Beyer, R., Krapp, M., Manica, A., Scerri, E.M.L. Archaeological sites and palaeoenvironments of Pleistocene West Africa.  In F. Henselowsky, C. Willmes, and M. Smith (Eds.) "PaleoMaps: representations of Quaternary paleoenvironments, human-environment interaction and human dispersal"  special issue.  Journal of Maps. D.O.I: 10/1081/17445647.2022.2052767.

2021          Hallett, E.Y.*, Marean, C.W., Steele, T.E., Alvarez-Fernandez, E., Jacobs, Z., Cerasoni, J.N., Aldeias, V., Scerri, E.M.I., Olszewski, D.I., El-Hajraoui, M., & Dibble, H.L. A worked bone assemblage from 120,000-90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco, iScience, 24(9), p. 102988. DOI: 10.1016/j/isci.2021.102988.