She has also contributed her scientific knowledge to numerous book publications as an editor, reviewer and author and has over 30 published Conference papers nationally and internationally including Society of American Archaeology, International Conference for Zooarchaeology, Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Australian Archaeological Association Conference and Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics ( CAVEPS ).
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In 1968, Olsen accepted Hale G . Smith s invitation to join the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University where he established one of the first zooarchaeology teaching laboratories in the country ( along with those at Harvard University, the University of Tennessee, the Field Museum in Chicago, and the University of Florida ).
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Most of her academic career has been spent teaching as an Assistant Professor ( 1996-2002 ), an Associate Professor ( 2002 2011 ) and as Professor ( 2011 to present ) at the University of Albany SUNY . She has taught and teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate level classes, including Aztec Inca Maya, Maya Art and Archaeology, Stone Tool Analysis, Zooarchaeology, Archaeological Lab Methods, The Archaeology of Urban Life, Current Theories on the Ancient Maya, and Ethnohistory and Archaeology.
