Christine Hastorf FSA is an archaeologist and is currently Professor in the Anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research focuses on agriculture, political complexity, gender, archaeobotany, and the archaeology of the Andes.
In the late 1970s Hastorf undertook research on the stable isotope composition on Andean grains.
[2] She has produced several key volumes in archaeology, including Current Paleoethnobotany with Virginia Popper, The Uses of Style with Margaret Conkey.
[4] Hastorf has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation for the project 'Multi-Community Formation in the Lake Titicaca Basin Bolivia',[5] and National Geographic.