Kristine Korzow (Richter)
  • Assistant Professor
  • Director, Modern DNA Laboratory
  • Pronouns: She/Her
  • Phone: 979-458-5989
  • Email: kkorzow@tamu.edu
  • Office: ANTH 235 C
Research Areas
  • Biomolecular Archaeology

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 202- Introduction to Archaeology

Current Research Projects:

My current work is on identification of animal remains and animal products in the archaeological and historical records in order to better understand the relationships between animals, humans, and the environments they inhabit.  My work is both in understanding these relationships and technical development in the field of ancient biomolecules, mostly proteins.  Currently I work on material with a wide temporal and spatial range to understand the variety of roles wild animals, particularly aquatic animals, play in the lives of people in the past.

Research Interests

  • Ancient Biomolecules
  • Palaeoproteomics
  • Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS)
  • Palaeoecology
  • Past animal-human interactions

Educational Background

  • PhD, Biology and Astrobiology, Pennsylvania State University, 2014
  • MSc, Archaeological Science, University of Bradford, UK, 2010
  • MS, Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

Selected Publications

  • J Bayarsaikhan, T Turbat, C Bayandelger, T Tuvshinjargal, J Wang, I Chechushkov, M Uetsuki, N Isahaya, M Hudson, N Shiraishi, Y Li, C Zhang, G Eregzen, G Caspari, P Lopez Calle, G Hodgins, KK Richter, C Warinner, WTT Taylor. (2023). The origins of saddle and stirrup technology in East Asia: new discoveries from western Mongolia. Antiquity 98(397): 102-118.

    L Tang, S Wilkin, KK Richter, M Bleasdale, R Fernandes, Y He, S Li, M Petraglia, A Scott, FKY Teoh, Y Tong, T Tsering, Y Tsho, L Xi, F Yang, H Yuan, Z Chen, P Roberts, W He, RN Spengler III, H Lu, S Wangdue, N Boivin (2023). Palaeoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau. Science Advances 9(15): eadf0345.

    MC Codlin, K Douka, KK Richter. (2022). An application of ZooMS to identify archaeological avian fauna from Teotihuacan, Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 148: 105692.

    C Warinner, KK Richter, MJ Collins. (2022). Palaeoproteomics. Chemical Reviews 122(16): 13401-13446.

    KK Richter, M Codlin, M Seabrook, C Warinner. (2022). A primer for ZooMS applications in archaeology. PNAS 119(20):e2109323119.

    ST Goldstein, A Crowther, ER Henry, A Janzen, M Katongo, S Brown, J Farr, C Le Moyne, A Picin, KK Richter, N Boivin. (2021). Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the timing of social and subsistence transitions in Iron Age southern Africa. African Archaeological Review 38(4): 625-655.

    S Brown, K Douka, MJ Collins, KK Richter. (2021). On the standardization of ZooMS nomenclature. Journal of Proteomics 235: 104041

    M Bleasdale, KK Richter, A Janzen, S Brown, A Scott, J Zech, S Wilkin, K Wang, S Schiffels, J Desideri, M Besse, J Reinold, M Saad, H Babiker, R C Power, E Ndiema, C Ogola, FK Manthi, M Zahir, M Petraglia, C Trachsel, P Nanni, J Grossmann, J Hendy, A Crowther, P Roberts, ST Goldstein, N Boivin. (2021). Ancient proteins provide evidence of diary consumption in eastern Africa. Nature Communications 12:632.

    S Brown, S Hebestreit, N Wang, N Boivin, K Douka, KK Richter. (2020). Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) – pretreatment protocols for bone material. Protocols.io

    KK Richter, K McGrath, E. Masson-MacLean, S Hickinbotham, A Tdder, K Britton, Z Bottomley, K Dobney, A Hulme-Beaman, M Zona, R Fischer, MJ Collins, CF Speller. (2020). What's the catch? Archaeological application of rapid collagen-based species identification for Pacific Salmon. Journal or Archaeological Science 116: 105116.

    KK Richter, J Wilson, AKG Jones, M Buckley, N van Doorn, and MJ Collins. (2011). Fish 'n chips: ZooMS peptide mass fingerprinting in a 96 well plate format to identify fish bone fragments. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(7):1502-1510.