Caleb Ranum

Caleb Ranum is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. He received his B.A., with a double major in biology and anthropology, from Pacific Lutheran University in
2017 and his M.A. in anthropology from The University of Alabama in 2021. His masters research focused on the paleoethnobotany of Alto Pukara, a Middle Formative site in the Bolivian Altiplano. His
current research focus is the plants and people of Central Europe in the Early Iron Age, particularly the foodways and cuisine of Eastern Hallstatt (Kalenderberg) and Scythian (Vekerzug) peoples in the Middle
Danube Region.