Cameron Griffith
Cameron Griffith began conducting archaeological field research in 1990, and for the past 15 years he has focused his efforts in Belize, Central America, as a member of the WBRCP and BVAR projects. He is currently teaching in the Northern Arizona University department of anthropology while completing his Ph.D. in archaeology at Indiana University. His research interests include the prehistoric use of caves, rock art, and remote sensing. The focus of Cameron's dissertation is the ancient Maya use of caves in western Belize. He is interested in identifying the difference in the ritual and mundane uses of caves and the interrelationship between these activities and similar practices in neighboring ancient Maya cities.
Cameron is also involved in using agent-based modeling (ABM) in the social sciences. For the past few years Cameron has been working on a research project that uses ABM to evaluate behavioral patterns of early Pleistocene hominids, such as Homo erectus and Australopithecus boisei. He has also recently started his own limited liability company named FIGARO, L.L.C. (The Foundation for Interdisciplinary Global Anthropological Research Opportunities), through which he is doing applied computational demography on a
contract basis, as well as establishing a cave tourism and management program for cave sites in the Dominican Republic in conjunction with the Museo de Hombre in Santo Domingo.
