Karen Leone, MA conducts all of the archaeobotanical analyses at Ohio Valley Archaeology. Karen received her MA in 2007 from the Ohio State University, Department of Anthropology. Her thesis work focused on plant use practices at a Middle Woodland period settlement (the Strait site) in central Ohio. In this work she analyzed 80,000+ carbonized plant remains and identified many hundreds of seeds from a wide variety of taxa, including many from the Eastern Agricultural Complex. Since graduation, Karen has completed dozens of archaeobotanical analyses for clients from all over the eastern U.S., including Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Download Karen's vita as a PDF file.