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Sarah Newman
Title: Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
Expertise: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, Human-animal Relationships, Human-environment Interactions, Landscape Archaeology, Mesoamerica, Petra, Waste, Zooarchaeology
Departmental website: https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Sarah-Newman