Lori Barkwill Love is a senior project director at Statistical Research Inc. in Tucson, Arizona and a research associate with the University of Texas at San Antonio. She earned her Ph.D. in anthropology with a focus in archaeology from the University of Texas at San Antonio in May 2020. She has conducted archaeological research in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Her research interests include village formation, transition to agriculture, ceramic analyses, radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modeling. She has published chapters in edited books and articles in American Antiquity, Kiva, and Caddo Journal.