Dr. Elizabeth Grace Veatch

Independent Junior Research Group Lead Experimental Archaeology

Universität Tübingen
Exzellenzcluster HUMAN ORIGINS

Burgsteige 11
72070 Tübingen

R 116
Telefon +49 7071 29-77323
elizabeth.veatch@uni-tuebingen.de

Dr. E. Grace Veatch is a paleoanthropologist specializing in the evolution of the human diet using zooarchaeological, taphonomic, and experimental archaeological methods. Her research focuses on the incorporation of human behavioral ecological approaches to inferring hominin dietary strategies and prey choice during the Pleistocene and Holocene of Island Southeast Asia. Specifically, Dr. Veatch is interested in understanding the diet of the extinct human relative Homo floresiensis, from the archaeological cave site Liang Bua located on the Indonesian island of Flores, and its ecology within an insular environment. Other notable projects involve mammalian taxonomy and evolution (Veatch et al., 2023; Flannery et al., 2022a,b; Roos et al., 2020) and African archaeology (Cerezo-Roman et al., 2024; Brooks et al., 2018; Potts et al., 2018).

Dr. E. Grace Veatch is currently a Junior Research Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology within the Cluster of Excellence in Human Origins at the University of Tuebingen. Dr. Veatch is undertaking experimental archaeological methods to build a research program aimed to isolate specific variables involved with the butchery and consumption process of large and small animal tissue and applying these results to interpret the archaeological record. Dr. Veatch's primary goal is to build a reference collection of bone surface modifications, postdepositional damage, and diagenetic processes (including relevance for recovering aDNA from bone) to aid in the interpretation of past dynamic processes unique to Island Southeast Asia.

Publications

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
Peer-Reviewed

Cerezo-Roman J., Sawchuk E., Bertacchi A., Hanson A., Walsh M., Veatch E.G., Kaliba P., and Thompson J. 2024. Detailed Recovery Methods Show the Complexity of Ancient Mortuary Practices in Later Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers of Southern-Central Africa. Bioarchaeology International, https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2024.0027

Veatch E.G., Fabre P.H., Tocheri M.W., Sutikna T., Saptomo E.W., Musser G.G., and Helgen K.M. 2023. A new giant shrew rat (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) from Flores, Indonesia and a comparative investigation of its ecomorphology. In Contributions to Mammalogy and Zooarchaeology of Wallacea, ed. K. M. Helgen and R. K. Jones. Records of the Australian Museum 75(5): 741–764. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1781

Veatch E.G., Julianto A., Sutikna T., Jatmiko, and Tocheri M.W. 2023. Prey body size generates bias for human and avian agents: Cautions for interpreting small game assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science, 160: 105883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105883

Flannery T.F., Rich T.H., Vickers-Rich P., Veatch E.G., and Helgen K.M. 2022. The Gondwanan origin of Tribosphenida (Mammalia). Alcheringa, 46(3-4): 277-290. DOI.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2132288

Flannery T., Rich T.H., Vickers-Rich P., Ziegler T., Veatch E.G., and Helgen K.M. 2022. A review of Monotreme (Monotremata) evolution. Alcheringa, 46(1): 1-18. DOI:10.1080/03115518.2022.2025900

Veatch E.G., Ringen E.J., Kilgore M.B., Jatmiko. 2021. Using niche construction theory to generate testable foraging hypotheses at Liang Bua. Evolutionary Anthropology, 30: 8–16. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21884

Roos C., Helgen K., Portela R.M., Thant N.M.L., Lwin N., Lin A.K., Lin A., Yi K.M., Soe P., Hein Z.M., Myint M.N., Ahmed T., Chetry D., Urh M., Veatch E.G., Duncan N., Kamminga P., Chua M., Yao L., Matauschek C., Meyer D., Liu Z., Li M., Fan P., Quyet K., Hofreiter M., Zinner D., Momberg F. 2020. Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Asian colobine genus Trachypithecus Reichenbach, 1862, with special focus on Trachypithecus phayrei (Blyth, 1847) and description of a new species. Zoological Research, 41(6): 656-669. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.254

Veatch E.G., Tocheri M.W., Sutikna T., McGrath K., Saptomo E. W., Jatmiko, and Helgen K.M. 2019. Temporal shifts in the distribution of murine rodent body sizes at Liang Bua: New insights into the paleoecology of Homo floresiensis and other endemic fauna. Journal of Human Evolution, 130: 45-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.02.002

Brooks A., Yellen J., Potts R., Behrensmeyer A.K., Deino A.L., Leslie D., Ambrose S., Ferguson J., D’Errico F., Zipkin A., Whittaker S., Post J., Veatch E.G., Foecke K., & Clark J. 2018. Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age. Science, 360(6384): 90-94. DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2646

Potts R., Behrensmeyer A.K., Faith J.T., Tryon C.A., Brooks A., Yellen J., Deino A.L., Kinyanjui R., Clark J., Haradon C., Levin N., Meijer H., Veatch E.G., Owen R.B., & Renaut R. 2018. Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa. Science, 360(6384): 86-90. DOI: 10.1126/science.eaao2200

Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

Tocheri M., Veatch E.G., Jatmiko, Sutikna T. 2022. Homo floresiensis. In Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia. Charles F.W. Higham and Nam C. Kim (editors). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355358.013.2

Helgen K.M. and E.G. Veatch. 2015. Recently extinct Australian marsupials and monotremes. Handbook of Mammals of the World, Volume 5, Monotremes and Marsupials, D.E. Wilson and R.A. Mittermeier (editors), Lynx Editions, Barcelona. Pp. 17-31.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Veatch E.G. 2023. Extinguishing the Idea that Hobbits used Fire. Sapiens.org