A MacArthur 'genius' gleans surprising lessons from ancient bones, shards and trash

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Kristina Douglass, an archaeologist at Columbia University, received an $800,000 MacArthur award for her research "investigating how past human societies and environments co-evolved and adapted to climate variability." She does her field work in Madagascar — "the most amazing landscape I

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.

(Image credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Foundation)

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