Brelade a site where preserved deposits provide a record of hominin behaviour from 238-40 thousand years (kya). The archaeological material studied is from La Cotte de St. This area was occupied repeatedly by Neanderthals during the Middle Pleistocene but is now mostly submerged due to Holocene sea levels. This thesis is concerned with understanding how Neanderthal populations made stone procurement decisions in the La Manche region, specifically the Normano-Breton Gulf, which is located between Brittany and Normandy. Reconstructing these pathways in the landscape brings a human perspective to the deep past, shedding light not just on the areas moved through but also economic and organisational choices. Their significance is not limited to form and function but how and where raw material was collected from. Wong grew up in Yuba City, CA and attended UCLA as an undergraduate.Flint is a raw material that has been used by humans for millennia and lithic artefacts are ubiquitous throughout the hominin record. Harvard) and voting rights (Shelby County vs.

She has co-authored amicus briefs in support of affirmative action (SFFA v. Her opinion writing has been featured in national and local news media. Her advocacy work has focused on support for affirmative action and other Asian American issues. She was a co-principal investigator on the 2016 National Asian American Survey, a nation-wide survey of Asian American political and social attitudes, and is co-principal investigator on the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey (funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation).įrom 2014 to 2017 Wong served on the national board of the Association for Asian American Studies. Wong is the author of Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change (2018, Russell Sage Foundation), Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (2006, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics, including Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities (2011, Russell Sage Foundation), based on the first national, multilingual, multiethnic survey of Asian Americans. She received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She uses mixed-methods, and specializes in muliti-ethnic, multilingual surveys of Asian Americans and other groups. Wong's research focuses on race, ethnicity and politics ( Wong's CV). Janelle Wong is Professor in the Departments American Studies and Government and Politics and a core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program.

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