Jenny Chen, M.A.

Jennifer “Jenny” Chen is a fourth year graduate student in the dual-title program for Anthropology and Climate Science at Penn State. She received a BA with honors from University of California, Davis in Anthropology and English. Her research interests focus on Early to Late Archaic pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherers in the Andean Altiplano in the Lake Titicaca Basin. She uses stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes analysis to look at pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherer diets before the process of domestication of important food resources like camelids, tubers, and quinoa. She participated in archaeological field work with the Proyecto Arcaica del Lago Titicaca Basin in 2018 with Dr. Randy Haas. To contact Jennifer, email: [email protected]