Summary
Current status: M.A. candidate
Zoë Levit is an archaeology M.A. student with interests in California coastal archaeology and museum collections management. Her working thesis addresses the Orphaned Collections phenomenon through the development of a data collection methodology for coastal archaeological assemblages that allows for future research without withholding the physical collection from museum accession. Zoë received her B.A. in Anthropology and Geography from Cal Poly SLO in 2023. She has experience in archaeological lab methodology, exhibit curation, and collections management.
Selected publications
- Levit, Zoe M, Terry L Jones, and Brian F Codding 2023 Picking up the pieces: Assessing alternative methods for reconstructing whole red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) shell size from fragments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 52:104213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104213
- Jones, Terry L, Christina Hornbaker, Kate Knox, Zoe Levit, Sierra Lyman, Jake Wanzenreid, and Brian F Codding 2023 Anarchy Meets Hierarchy: Sociopolitical Implications of Diachronic Variation in Exchange Indices from Central California’s Pecho Coast. California Archaeology:1–32. DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2023.2174760.
Academic interests
Coastal prehistoric archaeology, California archaeology, Paleoclimatic reconstruction, Malacology, Archaeological collection management, Museum collection methodologies, Museum curation<
Education
B.A., Anthropology and Geography, California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, 2023