Kaitlin Brown and Mallory Melton, graduate students of anthropology at UC Santa Barbara, have published separate papers in the distinguished journal American Antiquity. Brown and Melton are members of the Social Archaeology Research Group headed by Gregory H. Wilson, a UCSB associate professor of anthropology. Melton is also a member of the Integrative Subsistence Laboratory, directed by Amber VanDerwarker, a UCSB professor of anthropology.