IGERT SEMINARS, SPRING 2004
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January 16
Joaquin Ruiz (Geosciences). Principles and Possibilities of Isotope Geochemistry for Archeological Research.
January 23
(Panel discussion led by Mike Schiffer, Steve Kuhn and David Killick). Anthropological approaches to the study of past technologies.
January 30
Kevin Anchukatis (Geosciences) “Paleoecology and Archaeology in the Chibchan-Chocoan Region of Central America” and Tim Shanahan (Geosciences) “Late Quaternary and Holocene hydrologic changes in West Africa from the varved sedimentary record of Lake Bosumtwi”.
February 6
Larry Anowitz (Oak Ridge National Laboratories) “Obsidian hydration dating: old problems and new approaches to glass corrosion”.
February 13
Eric Force (ex-U.S. Geological Survey). “Late Holocene behavior of Chaco and McElmo Canyon drainages (SW US)--a comparison based on archaeologic age controls"
February 20
Panel discussion led by William Dickinson (Geosciences, Emeritus), Elizabeth Miksa (Desert Archaeology Inc.) and Hector Neff (Cal State, Long Beach). How do we define a “source area” in ceramic provenance studies?
February 27
Dr. Ron Towner (Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research) "Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating: Procedures and Possibilities” and Dr. Jeff Dean (Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research) "Behavioral Sources of Variability in Archaeological Tree- Ring Dating: Navajo and Pueblo Wood Use."
March 5
James Mayer (Geosciences) “Paleoindian geoarchaeology and paleoenvironments of Middle Park, an intermontane basin in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado”, and Amanda Reynolds (Geosciences) “Applications of strontium isotopes to archaeological questions”.
March 8 (Monday in Anthro 216, 4.00-5.15)
Lewis Owen (University of California, Riverside) "Defining rates of landscape evolution and paleoenvironmental change using optically stimulated luminescence and cosmogenic radionuclide dating".
March 12
Helene Wallaert (University of Brussels) “Pottery-making apprenticeships in north Cameroon: how apprenticeship shapes style and social identity” and Susan Stinson “Fingerprints, Figurines, and Individuals in Hohokam Households of Southern Arizona”.
March 19 – Spring Break (no seminar)
March 26
David Killick (Anthropology) “Requiem for the Bloomery Process”.
April 2 – No seminar. (Society for American Anthropology Annual Meeting, Montreal).
April 9
Paul Goldberg (Boston University) “Transcending Micro-Geoarchaeology”
April 16
Mary Stiner (Anthropology) – “"Bone, Ash, and Shell Preservation in Hayonim Cave: Implications for Site Formation History"
April 23
Pamela Vandiver. (Materials Science and Engineering) “Case studies in ceramic characterization”.
April 30
Yaroslav Kuzmin (Visiting Scholar, AMS Radiocarbon Laboratory). ”The dynamics of woolly mammoth existence and extinction in Northern Asia”.
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