Brian Wood

Brian M. Wood
PhD Candidate
Biological Anthropology
Harvard University
Detailed CV here

My PhD research addresses foraging, food sharing, and paternal investment among Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania. I seek to understand the social motivations and ecological constraints that guide Hadza in their choices of which foods to acquire, and how they share the foods they acquire. My theoretical perspective is that of human behavioral ecology. I am interested in the questions of how and why the Hadza compare to other hunter gatherers, and how human foragers differ from non-human primate societies. My other interests include ethnoarchaeology, human landscape ecology, and visual anthropology.

Current Research Affiliations

Harvard University Biological Anthropology
University of Copenhagen Department of Anthropology
University of Copenhagen Laboratory for Experimental Economics

Publications

(2007) Mallol, Carolina, Marlowe, F., Wood, B., Porter, C., and Bar-Yosef, O. "Earth, Wind, and Fire: Archeological signals of Hadza fires". Journal of Archaeological Science In Press.

(2006) Wood, Brian. "Prestige or provisioning? A test of foraging goals among the Hadza" Current Anthropology 47(2):383-387.

(2006) Wood, Brian and Wood, Z. "Energetically optimal travel across terrain: visualizations and a new metric of geographic distance with archaeological applications" Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, January 2006

(2000) Wood, Brian, and Hill, K. "A test of the ‘showing-off' hypothesis with Ache hunters" Current Anthropology 41(1):124-125.

Conference Papers

(2007) Wood, B. and Marlowe, F. "Do Hadza children benefit from the father's foraging?" The Father Effect Symposium, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meetings.

(2007) Wood, B. "Food sharing in a population of hunter-gatherers: are men providing public goods?" Invited lecture, University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Workshop in Experimental and Behavioral Economics.

(2007) Marlowe, F., and Wood, B. "The Hadza male's dilemma: Good father or Good Citizen?" Paternal Care Symposium, American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings.

(2005) Wood, Brian "Hadza foraging goals". 4th annual meetings of the New England Biological Anthropology Society, March 19, 2005.

(2004) Jones, Terry, Hylkema, M., Wood, B., and Barrios, A. “Colonization, culture, and chaos on the central California coast” 34th annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, April 20, 2004.

(2003) Wood, Brian, Chin, E., and Taylor, A. “Analyzing alternative teacher certification programs with GIS”.
3rd annual ESRI Education User Conference, San Diego, California, July 7, 2003.

(2000) Wood, Brian. “Prehistoric exploitation of the Annadel obsidian quarry”. 30th annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, April 21, 2000.

(1999) Wood, Brian. “Why men hunt: testing the ‘Showing Off' hypothesis” Undergraduate Research Conference, UC Davis. April 24, 1999.

(1998) Wood, Brian. “Ache material culture” Occasional speakers series, Far Western Anthropological Research Group. July 23, 1998