IGERT SEMINARS, SPRING 2007
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All seminars will be on Fridays 3.00-5.30 pm in Haury 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 19
Jeff Altschul (Statistical Research Inc.). “How should we conduct ourselves? Ethics in archaeology”.
January 26
David Killick and Thomas Fenn. (Department of Anthropology, U of A) “Early Islamic contacts with sub-Saharan Africa: insights from archaeomety.”
February 2
Michael Evans (Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, U of A). “Tracking ENSO with tropical trees: chronology, calibration and case studies”.
February 9
Murray Cox (Hammer Laboratory, U of A). “Reconstructing Indo-Pacific Prehistory from Genetics: A Case Study in Molecular Anthropology”
February 16
Ben Sternberg (Mining and Geological Engineering, University of Arizona). "Geophysics and Archaeology"
February 23
Jeff Pigati & Jay Quade (Geosciences, U of A). “Beyond radiocarbon's "black hole" : 14C dating samples older than 40,000 years”.
March 2
Paul Goldberg (Boston University). “Geoarchaeology, Context, and Site Formation”
March 9
Kathleen Nicoll (University of Utah). “Emerging Chronologies & Geoarchaeology of Prehistoric Sites in the Egyptian Sahara”
March 16
Spring Break
March 23
James Feathers (University of Washington). "Recent developments in luminescence dating, and applications in American archaeology."
March 30
Dave Meltzer (Southern Methodist University). "Cacophony or convergence? Making sense of multi-disciplinary evidence in Paleoindian studies."
April 6
Mary van Buren (Colorado State University). "Mining the past in Porco, Bolivia: The challenge of integrating history and science".
April 13
Fred Andrus (University of Alabama). “Upwelling, anchovies, and the foundation of Andean civilization”.
April 20
Dave Steadman (Florida Museum of Natural History). “Variation in the timing and extent of prehistoric human-caused vertebrate extinction on oceanic islands”.
May 7 Monday, 3.30 pm in Anth 402
Ilit Cohen-Ofri (Weizmann Institute, Israel). “Modern and fossil charcoal: aspects of structure and diagenesis”.
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