IGERT SEMINARS, SPRING 2006
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All seminars will be on Fridays 3.00-5.30 pm in Anth 216. Anyone is welcome to attend. Lists of readings for the seminar will be distributed in advance through the IGERT listserv (or contact killick@email.arizona.edu).
January 13
Introductions; course structure; discussion of precirculated paper “Why does the USA lag behind Britain in archaeological science?”
January 20
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman (Arizona State Museum/Dept of Anthropology, University of Arizona) “Zooarchaeology and Historical Archaeology”.
January 27
Suzanne Fish (Arizona State Museum/Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona) “Integrated Approaches to Reconstructing Productive Landscapes".
February 3
Vance Holliday (Departments of Anthropology & Geosciences, U of Arizona) “Soil phosphorus analysis in archaeology”.
February 10
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Anatomy of a Project: A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research on Archaeological Questions on the Pacific Coast"
February 17
Gary Christopherson (Center for Applied Spatial Analysis, University of Arizona) “Modeling the Past: using geographic information systems to understand settlement patterns on the Madaba Plain in Jordan”.
February 24
Andy Cohen (Dept of Geosciences, University of Arizona) "Reflections on Rift Lakes: Environmental change and implications for humans at Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi".
March 3
Reid Ferring (University of North Texas) “Geoarchaeology of Dmanisi, Georgia”.
March 10
David Abbott (Arizona State University) “Pottery Composition and the Hohokam Sedentary/Classic period Transition”.
March 11-19 SPRING BREAK
March 24
Mark Aldenderfer (Dept. of Anthropology/University of Arizona) “Archaeology, Historical Ecology, and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: Two Case Studies from Peru and Tibet”
March 31
Alison Wylie (U Washington/Stanford Institute for Women & Gender) “Philosophy from the Ground Up: Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology”
April 7 Dissertation previews:
(1) Amy Margaris (Department of Anthropology) "Koniag Engineering: The Mechanics and Design of Skeletal Technologies in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago"; and
(2) Patrick Wrinn (Department of Anthropology) “"Paleolithic Archaeology in the Former Soviet Union: Interdisciplinary Approaches at Obi-Rakhmat, Uzbekistan". (Geosciences students excused for GEODAZE).
April 14
Lisa Kealhofer (Santa Clara University) and Peter Grave (University of New England) “The Anatolian Iron Age Project: the care and feeding of a collaborative archaeological project”.
April 21
Noreen Tuross (Harvard University) “Isotopes and ancient DNA: what they tell you”.
April 28 No seminar (Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan)
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