SHEPARD Benjamin

Dr. Benjamin Shepard is an Adjunct Instructor in Anthropology at Los Angeles Pierce College. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. He has been a participant in the BAP since 2007.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ritual and political dynamics in small-scale societies, mobility and social change, the political economy of burial ritual, long-distance exchange networks, Eurasian prehistory (focusing on Lake Baikal), history of archaeology, archaeology in public education