Margie M. Burton is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California San Diego in 2004. She is currently Project Manager for the University of California San Diego – Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology Israel Initiative: Climate, Environmental and Cultural Change in Deep-Time. From 2005-2014 she was Research Director at the San Diego Archaeological Center, a non-profit curatorial, education and research organization located in Escondido. Her main research interests are prehistoric ceramic and ground stone technologies and their relationship to socio-economic change, employing analytical techniques such as use-wear analysis, petrography, pXRF and NAA, SEM-EDS, and X-radiography. She has worked on projects in the southern Levant, southern California and Puerto Rico. She earned her BA from Stanford University in Cultural and Social Anthropology (jointly with a BS in Biological Sciences) and her MBA from UC Berkeley.

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