Scott Lyons
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J. Scott Lyons is an anthropological archaeologist focused on historical ecology and archaeometallurgy in Japan. His dissertation combined a new synthesis of legacy paleoenvironmental data with archaeometallurgical analyses to recover landscape management practices embedded in ironworking technology at the fifth- and sixth-century ironworking site of Ōgata in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Scott completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, and previously received an A.B. in Japanese and Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.A. in Archaeology from Kyoto University. Prior to coming to Yale, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyushu University where he began ethnoarchaeological research in collaboration with traditional ironworkers.