Lydia Pyne

Lydia Pyne is a writer interested in deep time, material culture, and narrative nonfiction.  She has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in biology (history and philosophy of science) from Arizona State University. Over the years, her fieldwork and travels have taken her to South Africa, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Italy, France, Monaco, Spain, the UK, Mexico, and Chile, as well as the American Southwest.

Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Nautilus, Slate, History Today, Hyperallergic, and TIME, as well as Archaeology. She is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Lydia lives in Austin, where she is an avid rock climber and mountain biker.