Traci Billings is a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology. She is interested in the role of plant/human relationships in shaping human subsistence choices, cultural practices, and exchange in Central Asia.

Traci is analyzing macro-botanical remains from Turkmenistan in collaboration with the Togolok Archaeology Project. She is also collecting isotopic data from North America as part of the IsoMemo initiative. Her primary doctoral research combines biomolecular methods and archaeological science to understand past behavior associated with plants' medicinal, social, and ritual value.