All seminars will be on Fridays 3.00-5.30 pm in Haury 216 in the Emil Haury Anthropology Building. This is an open seminar, so any interested persons may attend. Lists of readings for the seminar will be distributed in advance through the IGERT listserv (or contact killick@email.arizona.edu).
January 18
Michael Barton (Arizona State University). “Landscape dynamics, modeling, and archaeological science around the ancient Mediterranean”
January 25
Julio Betancourt (US Geological Survey). "Fossil Rodent Midden Analysis in the Americas: Methods and Applications"
February 1
Christian Tryon (Smithsonian Institution). “Volcanic ashes as chronological tools for the archaeologist: examples from Pleistocene sites from Kenya and Turkey”
February 8
Irina Panyushkina (Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, U of A). "Tree-Ring Dating of Siberian Scythian Antiquities"
February 15
T.Douglas Price (University of Wisconsin). “Isotopes and Past Human Mobility”
February 22
Christine Hastorf (UC Berkeley). “Cooking and foodways in early settled life: The social life of Formative communities in the Titicaca Basin, Bolivia”
February 29
Nearly completed doctoral dissertations:
&nbps (1) Chris Roos, “Archaeologically-informed applied historical ecology: fire, climate, and land-use in east-central Arizona”
&nbps (2) Noah Thomas, “Researching Spanish colonial technology: integrating archaeology, ethnohistory and materials science”
March 7
Richard Terry (Brigham Young University). “Geochemical Analyses of Ancient Maya Activities in the Petexbatun region of Guatemala”
March 14
No Seminar (Geoarchaeology field trip)
March 21
No Seminar (Spring Break)
March 28
No Seminar (Society for American Archaeology Meetings)
April 4
Thilo Rehren (University College London). “Early Islamic technologies of Uzbekistan”
April 11
Hamdallah Bearat (Arizona State University). “Contribution of Natural Sciences to the Knowledge and Conservation of Archaeological Materials: Approach and Some Case Studies”
April 18
Fiona Marshall (Washington University in St. Louis). “African pastoral perspectives on animal domestication”
April 25
Rolfe Mandel (University of Kansas). “Stratigraphy, Paleoenvironments, and Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of Late Quaternary Valley Fills in the Central Plains of North America”
May 2
Round Table: Beyond IGERT: Future Directions in Archaeological Science