Brian M. Wood Department of Anthropology Harvard University 11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 388-2394 bmwood@fas.harvard.edu
Education
Harvard University, Department of Anthropology: PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology, 2004 - present.
Ph.D. research: Food production and sharing among Hadza hunter-gatherers. Research interests include behavioral ecology and evolution of primates and humans, hunter-gatherers, spatial analysis, computer modeling, and ethnoarchaeology. Advised by Frank Marlowe, Richard Wrangham, and Marc Hauser. Visiting PhD Student, University of Copenhagen Department of Anthropology January 2008 - August 2008.
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Department of Computer Science: M.S. with distinction, Spring 2004.
M.S. Thesis: "Energetic Analyst: Software for the visualization and analysis of pedestrian travel over three dimensional terrain, and its anthropological applications". Advised by Zoë Wood. Coursework included mathematics, programming languages, software engineering, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, theory of computing, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed computing.
University of California, Davis, Department of Anthropology, B.A. with high honors, Spring 1999.
B.A. Thesis title: "Prehistoric Exploitation of the Annadel Obsidian Quarry". Advised by Robert L. Bettinger. Coursework and research focused on the behavioral ecology and archaeology of hunter-gatherers. Advised by Monique Borgerhoff Mulder in research on subsistence transitions amoung Sukuma agropastoralists.
University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, visiting student, Fall 1998.
Human Evolutionary Ecology field school among the Ache forager/horticulturalists of Paraguay. Training in ethnographic data collection methods and research design, advised by Kim Hill.
Fieldwork Experience
Behavioral Ecology of Hadza Foragers Frank Marlowe, dir.	Fieldwork and ethnographic data collection. Research focuses on food sharing, men and women's time allocation, foraging goals, and ethnoarchaeology. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (18 months).
Coastal Chumash Archaeology Terry L. Jones, dir.	Helped manage excavations of CA-SLO-9, a coastal Chumash archaeological site threatened by erosion. April – June 2004.
Contract Archaeology Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Holman and Associates, William Self and Associates, US Forest Service, Pacific Legacy, Inc.	Numerous archaeological excavations and surveys throughout California and Nevada. Laboratory work included management of artifact collections, documentation of archaeological sites, and contributions to reports in the form of technical writing, editing, and the generation of maps and artifact illustrations.  July 1997 - September 2001.
Human Evolutionary Ecology of Ache Foragers Kim Hill and Magdalena Hurtado, dirs.	Human Evolutionary Ecology field school in the Ache village of Arroyo Bandera and surrounding Mbaracayu Reserve. January - May 1998
UC Davis Archaeological Field School in Eastern California. Brian Ramos and Mark Giambastiani, dirs.	Survey and excavation of the Truman/Queen obsidian quarry and excavation of open air and rock shelter sites in the Volcanic Tablelands. Summer 1996
Center for American Archaeology Young Scholars Field School Jane Buikstra, dir.	Excavation of a Late Woodland village and analysis of archaeobotanical remains. Summer 1992
Other Professional Experience
GIS Analyst, System Administrator, and Programmer 1. Harvard University Anthropology Department, Biological Wing. Supervisors: Cheryl Knott and Frank Marlowe (November 2004 - January 2006). 2. Cal Poly University Center for Teacher Education. Supervisor: Elaine Chin (September 2002 – June 2004). 3. Cal Poly Geographic Information Systems Technology Lab, Landscape Architecture Department Supervisor: Walt Bremer (July 2002 – July 2003). 4. Cal Poly Kennedy Library. Supervisor: Sariya Talip Clay (April 2002 – June 2004).
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 (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 (2006) Wood, Brian. "Prestige or provisioning? A test of foraging goals among the Hadza" Current Anthropology 47(2):383-387. (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.
Invited Lectures
“Food Sharing and Paternal Investment among the Hadza” Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 15 July 2008 “Local wisdom and scientific knowledge” University of Copenhagen, 2 May 2008. Guest lecture for course titled “Anthropology and the Environment” “Hunter-gatherers and human evolution” Boston University, 3 October 2007. Guest lecture for course titled “Human Origins”. "Food sharing in a population of hunter-gatherers: are men providing public goods?" University of Copenhagen, 23 May 2007, Department of Economics, Workshop in Experimental and Behavioral Economics. “Ache material culture” 23 July 1998, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc., Occasional Speakers Series.
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
2007 Harvard Graduate Student Council Conference Grant. 2007 Harvard Department of Anthropology Advanced Studies Support. 2006 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Predoctoral Research Grant. 2006 Wenner Gren Foundation Research Grant.  2005 Jennifer Oppenheimer Graduate Grant Committee on African Studies, Harvard University. 2001-2004 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 1999 President's Fulmore Scholarship, UC Davis. 1998 President's Fulmore Scholarship, UC Davis. 1998 IGCC Undergraduate Research Award, UC Davis. 1996 President's Undergraduate Fellowship Grant, UC Davis. 1996 Edward Frank Kraft Scholarship Prize for freshmen, UC Davis.
Professional Organizations
American Anthropological Association Human Behavior and Evolution Society Evolutionary Anthropology Society
Other
Student Board Representative, Evolutionary Anthropology Society 2006, 2007 Webmaster, Evolutionary Anthropology Society 2007 - present. www.evanthsoc.org Volunteer, Cultural Survival, 2004 Photograph 'Hadza men from Gola hunting zebra' featured in Science June 29th, 2007 Photograph 'Mahia being cut as medicine after falling out of a Baobab tree'  featured in San Diego Museum of Man Exhibit "Body Ornamentation: Artistic Representations of Self" May 12, 2006 - March 27, 2007
Languages
Native English, advanced Swahili, intermediate Danish, intermediate Spanish.
Programming Languages
C/C++, C#, Java, PHP, HTML, Javascript, Visual Basic, Perl