Amy Cromartie

Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology

Overview

Amy is an environmental archaeologist who focuses on human environmental landscape interactions in mountain zones. Trained as an archaeobotanist and paleoecologist, Amy combines macrobotanical, microbotanical, and molecular biomarkers, from lake and archaeological sediment with statistical models to reconstruct the climate and vegetation history of the Holocene in the Southern Caucasus.

Her research focuses on how social and political structures in mountain regions adapt to and enact change on their local landscape. Specifically, she studies how the Bronze and Iron Age communities living around Mount Aragats in today’s Armenia adapted their plant acquisition and agricultural strategies in this dynamic mountain ecological zone.

Amy received a BA in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles and has received training in paleoethnobotany as a visiting scholar at the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

In addition to archaeology, Amy has received paleoecology training at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier at the Université de Montpellier, the Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc, and Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon Terre Planètes Environnements at ENS Lyon.

She is currently conducting pollen and biomarker analysis on sediment cores retrieved from Armenia and is a team member of Project ArAGATS. Prior to joining academia, Amy worked as a Linux systems engineer. 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles: 

  • 2023, M., Peyron, O., Ménot, G., Brugiapaglia, E., Wulf, S., Appelt, O., Blache, M., Vannière, B., Dugerdil, L., Paura, B., Ansanay-Alex, S., Cromartie, A., Charlet, L., Guédron, S., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Joannin, S. Climate changes during the Lateglacial in South Europe: new insights based on pollen and brGDGTs of Lake Matese in Italy. Climate of the Past Discussions, 1-43.
  • 2022 Lindsay, I. Greene, A.F., Marshall, M., Badalyan, R., Cromartie, A., Azatyan, K., Aghikyan, L. , Khatchadourian, L.,  Mkhtaryan, A., Smith. A.T. The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons. American Journal of Archaeology126(2), 261-303.
  • 2020 Cromartie, A., Blanchet, C., Barhoumi, C., Messager, E., Peyron, O., Ollivier, V., Sabatier, P., Etienne, D., Karakhanyan, A., Khatchadourian, L., Smith, A.T., Badalyan, R., Perello, B., Lindsay., I., Joannin, S., The vegetation, climate, and fire history of a mountain steppe: A Holocene reconstruction from the South Caucasus, Shenkani, Armenia. Quaternary Science Reviews246, 106485.
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