Jo Osborn

Courses Taught

Educational Background

• PhD Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2022
• AB Anthropology, Harvard University, 2012

Selected Publications

• • Bongers, Jacob L., Kiahtipes, C. A., Beresford-Jones, D., Osborn, Jo, Medrano, M., Dumitru, I. A., Bergmann, C., Roman, J., Medina, C. T. Tantalean, H., Mesia, L. H., Stanish, C. 2025. Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe ('Band of Holes') in the Pisco Valley, Peru. Antiquity 1-19. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10237.
  • Robinson, M., Hampson, J., Osborn, J., Aceituno, F.J., Morcote-Ríos, G., Ziegler, M.J., Iriarte, J., 2024. Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 75, 101613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101613
  • Aceituno, F.J., Robinson, M., Morcote-Ríos, G., Aguirre, A.M., Osborn, J., Iriarte, J., 2024. The peopling of Amazonia: Chrono-stratigraphic evidence from Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon. Quaternary Science Reviews 237, 108522. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108522
  • Osborn, J., Hundman, B., Weinberg, C., Espino Huaman, R., 2023. Reassessing the Chronology of Topará Emergence and Paracas Decline on the Peruvian South Coast: A Bayesian Approach. Radiocarbon 65, 930–952. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.67
  • Weinberg, C., Osborn, J., Espino Huaman, R., 2022. Marine shellfish exploitation as a means of reducing vulnerability to resource uncertainty in southern coastal Peru (200 BCE–150 CE). The Holocene 32, 1503–1517. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221122633
  • Osborn, J., 2019. A Bayesian Approach to Andean Faunal Assemblages. Latin American Antiquity. 30, 354–372. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2019.21

Current Research Projects