Madeleine McLeester
Assistant Professor · Dartmouth College · Dartmouth College
⭐ **Currently accepting graduate students interested in archaeobotanical analyses in the Great Lakes region**
Research interests
environmental archaeologist who investigates anthropogenic landscapes, plant collection, human-environment entanglements, early colonial encounters, and sports. She specializes in ancient agricultural practices in marginal environments in precontact eastern North America and employs pollen and stable isotopic approaches as well as historical record analyses.
Selected publications (since 2023)
2025. McLeester, M., Ferwerda, C., Alperstein, J., Overstreet, D., Grignon, D., and Casana, J. Archaeological evidence of intensive indigenous agriculture in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA. Science, 388(6751): 1083-1085.
2024. McLeester, M. and Casana, J. (Eds). Finding Fields: The Archaeology of Agricultural Landscapes. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association: Volume 35, Issue 1.
2023. McLeester, M., Anastasio, A., and Grignon, J. Enduring Legacies of Agriculture: Long-term Vegetation Impacts of Ancestral Menominee Agriculture, Wisconsin, USA, Ethnobiology Letters, 14(1): 80-91.
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