Profile of Clark Spencer Larsen

摘要

The Ohio State University biological anthropologist Clark Spencer Larsen has conducted pioneering research on biocultural adaptation that occurred during the last 10,000 years of human evolution. He was among the first to apply multidisciplinary approaches to the study of temporal trends in diet, health, mobility, and interpersonal conflict. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2016, Larsen was part of a 25-year project at Çatalhöyük, a site in south-central Turkey that was continuously occupied for more than 1,150 years (7100–5950 BC). Larsen’s Inaugural Article ( ) synthesizes his team’s bioarchaeological findings. These findings shed light on how early farming affected Çatalhöyük’s Neolithic societies and others, with impacts continuing to the present.