Sanjuana (“SJ”) Casillas Chavez is currently working on his master’s thesis, which focuses on a zooarchaeological analysis of the Jones-Miller site, a 10,000-year-old bison butchery site of the now-extinct species, Bison antiquus. This assemblage is housed at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and yielded approximately 41,000 bison bones during its initial excavation in the 1970s. In addition to his thesis, SJ is working on a Postclassic Maya faunal assemblage from Colha, Belize. SJ will be presenting on both of these research projects at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in April.
