Devon Graves (RMA) obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in 2017 from the University of Central Florida with a focus on Sociocultural Anthropology and the Archaeology of the Americas, with a minor in Sociology. Prior to pursuing her degree in anthropology, her studies were in the visual and studio arts and she focused on ceramics and drawing.
She attended Leiden University for her Research Master’s in Archaeology and graduated cum laude in 2020. Her thesis was entitled “Decoding Pottery Making Practices: technical and stylistic analyses of Late Ceramic Age traditions from the northern Caribbean (1000-1400 CE)”. Afterwards, she worked briefly at the commercial archaeology company of ARCHOL B.V., and later as a research assistant for the multidisciplinary Darién Profundo Collective, which investigates the deep history of human-environmental entanglements in the Darién region, Panama. She is now a member of the Darién Profundo Collective and a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.