Her research experiences include fieldwork among the Amazonian Guaja hunter-gatherers, the Navajo, the Alabama Choctaw, and recently in Fiji. Her specializations are in cultural anthropology, historical ecology, ethnoprimatology, and medical anthropology. She has been teaching introductory cultural anthropology courses for fifteen years. Sharyn R. Jones, Ph.D., is an anthropologist who studies marine resource exploitation, ethnoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, tropical island chiefdoms, and gender. She has conducted research in Fiji, Polynesia and the Caribbean Islands, North America, Japan, and Micronesia. Her current research deals with issues of foodways, marine ecology, and cannibalism in Fiji. Jones is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Check out her blog at: http: //sjonesarchaeology.blogspot.com/"