My research focuses on hunter-gatherer societies in the Old World, specifically in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, with the aim of reconstructing human-environment interactions during the Late Pleistocene. I am interested in the 10,000-20,000 years leading up to farming, when dramatic changes in human social organization, economy, technological innovation, and ideology first appear in the archaeological record in the form of intensified and novel relationships with plants and animals, increased sedentism and population aggregations, architecture, complex site organization, far-reaching social interaction networks, and elaborate mortuary practices. I explore these significant shifts in human behavior through the study of material culture and the interactions of people and the landscapes they live in.