Darcy Bird is a PhD student in anthropology at Washington State University, an affiliated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, and the early career network liaison for the PAGES working group PEOPLE 3000. She received the BA degree in archaeology, technology, and historic structures from the University of Rochester (NY, USA) in 2014, and the MS degree in anthropology with a focus on archaeology and cultural resource management from Utah State University in 2019. She has published 5 articles and has 2 in-press articles in PNAS, Nature: Scientific Data, Philosophical Transactions B, and the Journal of Archaeological Science, among other journals. She is interested in complex adaptive systems, environmental archaeology, the adoption of agriculture, and paleodemography.