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Cold War’s Nature: The Korean Demilitarized Zone and Mid-Century American Science, a talk by, Eleana Kim (UC Irvine)

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Talk details & Register here. Harvard University Korea Institute, SBS Seminar, co-sponsored by Harvard Anthropology Chaired by Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Inka Kallawayas: Cuisine, identity and status negotiations in the eastern imperial fringes, a talk by Sonia Alconini (University of Virginia) Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar

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ABSTRACT: The Inka province of Kallawaya sat to the east of the Titicaca basin. Their residents, the Kallawayas were valued traveling shamans, traders and herbal healers of the Tawantinsuyu. Based on shared cultural practices and language, they served as...

Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: South American Archaeology Through the Eyes of Moxos: from Past to Present, a talk by, Carla Jaimes Betancourt (Universität Bonn)

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ABSTRACT: For a long time, the archaeology of the Amazon occupied a marginal p lace in the pre-Columbian cultural history of the Americas. However, i n recent decades, multidisciplinary research has uncovered a surprising complexity and diversity of...

Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Imperial narratives and empirical realities: society and environment in the Eastern Andes, a talk by, Anna Guengerich (Eckerd College)

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ABSTRACT: The Eastern Andes—a “biodiversity hotspot” of high-altitude tropical rainforest sandwiched between the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Basin—has been portrayed as a place of social and political disorder as far back as the Inka Conquest of this...

Searching for the Origins of Chili Peppers in the Americas: An Archaeological Perspective, a talk by Katie Chiou (University of Alabama)

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ABSTRACT: Chili peppers (Capsicum spp.) are one of the extremely rich and varied crop genetic resources of the Americas. The independent domestication of five chili pepper species (C. annuum, C. baccatum, C. chinense, C. frutescens, and C. pubescens)...

Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Early monumentality and climate change: Developing social complexity on a preceramic Andean desert, a talk by Cecilia Mauricio Llonto (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)

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ABSTRACT: Monumentality and monumental structures are worldwide associated with complex societies and civilizations, which can be understood as those societies that developed formal government institutions (states), urban centers, organized religions, art...

Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Out of the Mine and Into the Furnace: Life and Labor in the Silver Refineries of Colonial Peru, a talk by, Sarah Kennedy (Carleton College)

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ABSTRACT: In this talk, Sarah Kennedy presents the results of her research at the site of Trapiche Itapalluni (AD 1600-1800), a colonial period silver refinery located in the western Lake Titicaca Basin of southern Peru. In her research, Kennedy employs a...

Water, Mud, and Mounds: Archaeology and Dynamic Landscapes of the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana, a talk by Chris Rodning (Tulane University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

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ABSTRACT: The lower reaches of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana encompass a complex array of deltaic landforms. These landscapes and "waterscapes" were and are home to Native American groups such as the Chitimacha, Houma, and others; the...

Archaeological Praxis in the UAE: The roles of Critical Pedagogy and Public Engagement in testing the limits of the discipline, a talk by Uzma Rizvi (Pratt Institute) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

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ABSTRACT: Tracing almost a decade of work and archaeological inquiry in the UAE, this presentation draws our attention to how we can do archaeology in the service of equity and transformational justice. A key component of this approach foregrounds...

The Earliest Strung Beads, a talk by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer (Harvard Anthro, Peabody Museum, and Tel Aviv University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

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ABSTRACT: Beads made of mollusc shells form an integral part of modern humans’ material culture. Middle Palaeolithic sites in South Africa and the Levant yielded non-utilitarian shells, in particular complete Glycymeris valves that were collected from at...