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Cynthia Kocik
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Research Intern
Archaeology Center
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Cynthia Kocik Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Research Intern
Archaeology Center
Specialty area(s)
Cultural Resource Management, Midwest Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Dendrochronology
Education
MA, Archaeology, Cornell University, 2014
BS, Archaeological Studies, UW-La Crosse, 2012
Career
Professional history
Cynthia worked at the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center (MVAC) at UWL as a field and lab technician after graduating from UWL in 2012.
After a year spent gaining valuable experience in practicing archaeology at MVAC, she traveled to Ithaca, New York, in 2013 to pursue a master's degree in archaeology at Cornell University. Upon graduating, she joined the staff of the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory as a service technician and later a research aide. There she honed her skills in dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) on a variety of projects involving analysis of wood from historical buildings and archaeological sites in New York State, Mexico, and beyond.
Cynthia returned to MVAC in 2018 as a research intern, and she currently participates in field and lab work for cultural resource management projects, aids with basic collections management, and assists with public outreach efforts such as lab tours for grade school groups and the MVAC video series.
Research and publishing
Manning, Sturt W., Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, and Jed P. Sparks
2023 Severe Multi-Year Drought Coincident with Hittite Collapse around 1198-1196 BC. Nature 614:719-724. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05693-y.
Cremaschi, Mauro, Carol Griggs, Cynthia Kocik, Angela Mutti, Andrea Zerboni, and Sturt W. Manning
2021 Dating the Noceto Vasca Votiva, a Unique Wooden Structure of the 15th Century BCE, and the Timing of Major Societal Change in the Bronze Age of Northern Italy. PLoS One 16(6):e0251341. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0251341.
Griggs, Carol, Cynthia Kocik, Thomas M. Urban, and Sturt W. Manning
2019 Dendrochronology of Swift Water Place and Other Tree-Ring Samples from Northwest Alaska. In Life at Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact, edited by Doug D. Anderson and Wanni W. Anderson, pp. 129-154. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.
Kocik, Cynthia A.
2017 The Edges of Wood: Dendrochronological Analysis of Three Seneca Iroquois Log Structures at Letchworth State Park, New York. Historical Archaeology 51(2):194-217.
Kudos
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