Sean Hixon, Ph.D.

Sean Hixon recently graduated with his PhD in archaeology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation research focused on how human-introduced animals contributed to the past extinctions of native megafauna on Madagascar and whether relative drought tolerance predicts extinctions of large herbivores on Madagascar during the past 2,000 years. Sean is now at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. In Jena, Sean is assisting with the Dig Data collection through the IsoMemo Initiative. He is also continuing to research past animal introductions and extinctions on Madagascar through funding from a Humboldt Fellowship