Nature Profiles Rademaker’s Pioneering Research in Peruvian Andes

The research of Kurt Rademaker, a University of Maine visiting assistant professor in anthropology and alumnus (Ph.D. 2012), is profiled in the Oct. 1 issue of the international weekly journal Nature. The story’s author, Barbara Fraser, accompanied Rademaker and his research team on a recent expedition high in the Peruvian Andes.

In recent years, Rademaker’s research has made international science headlines for his findings of the earliest evidence of extreme high-altitude occupation anywhere in the world. The “Nature” story traces Rademaker’s work in the Andes to understand when colonization began and what the hunter-gatherers did to survive, beginning with his research with UMaine anthropologist Daniel Sandweiss and, later, UMaine geologist Gordon Bromley.

Archaeology also published a report about Rademaker’s research.