Matthew Joseph Walsh

• Cultural evolution
• Cross-cultural studies
• Hunter-gatherer archaeology
• America

Matthew J. Walsh is a senior researcher in Native American Studies at the National Museum of Denmark. His research focuses are evolutionary archaeology, cultural transmission studies and comparative ethnology in wide-ranging contexts. He has also studied the evolution and nuances of ritualized violence and human sacrifice in both a global and more localized Scandinavian contexts.

He holds a PhD in anthropological archaeology (2015), an MA in anthropology with a specialization in archaeology (2012) both from The University Montana, and a BA (with honors) in anthropology from the University of Washington. He has held postdoc positions with the Arctic Research Center at Aarhus University, The National Museum of Denmark and with the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo.