Archaeology of waterscapes in northern Norway from the Iron Age to the present with an emphasis on linking cultural heritage issues to research themes.

•Coastal settlement and maritime activity (fishery development, harbors, boathouses as a social arena)

•Viking Age and medieval maritime trade and long distance transport of goods (stockfish, stone resources – bakestones, millstones, whetstones, soapstone)

•Fishery commercialization and globalization of the stockfish (dried cod) trade

•Medieval watercraft and maritime networks

•Development of boat technology in northern Norway from a multiethnic perspective

•Maritime interethnic relations (Sámi-Norse interaction)

•Role of waterways in coastal-inland interaction

•Marine resources and the development of maritime settlement mounds since the late Iron Age

Archaeological science

•geoarchaeology- geochemistry, geophysical methods

•tephrochronology

•paleoenvironmental reconstruction and human-driven landscape transformation (biomarkers and other proxy data from sediment cores)

Comparative heritage studies and museum narratives

Long-standing research interests in the western Pacific and Oceania. Projects include research on perceptions of heritage in Palau, western Micronesia and the materiality of Australian South Sea Islander identity in Queensland, Australia.

Dr. Heintzman uses degraded DNA to assess evolutionary and ecological questions surrounding a wide variety of different organisms (including insects, mammals, and plants). He is an expert in the application and development of ancient DNA methodologies, particularly within the emerging subfield of sedimentary ancient DNA. Using these expertise, he determined the most precisely-constrained timing of a prehistoric extinction event, for which he won the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize.

Ancient DNA, paleontology, zoology, sediments, evolution, paleoecology