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2022 Dec 01

Department Seminar Series, "High Altitude Hunting and Early Pastoralism in the Mongolian Altai: New Perspectives from Melting Ice", a talk by Will Taylor (University of Colorado-Boudler)

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

"High Altitude Hunting and Early Pastoralism in the Mongolian Altai: New Perspectives from Melting Ice"

a talk by Will Taylor

(University of Colorado-Boulder)

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Read more about Department Seminar Series, "High Altitude Hunting and Early Pastoralism in the Mongolian Altai: New Perspectives from Melting Ice", a talk by Will Taylor (University of Colorado-Boudler)
2022 Nov 03

Department Seminar Series, "A Herring … Furnished by Winney”: The Resilience and Creativity of Enslaved Cooks", a talk by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman (University of Maryland)

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

"A Herring … Furnished by Winney”: The Resilience and Creativity of Enslaved Cooks"

a talk by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman

(University of Maryland)

...

Read more about Department Seminar Series, "A Herring … Furnished by Winney”: The Resilience and Creativity of Enslaved Cooks", a talk by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman (University of Maryland)
2022 Oct 06

Department Seminar Series, "Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China", a talk by Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth)

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

 

"Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves?

A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming...

Read more about Department Seminar Series, "Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China", a talk by Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth)
2022 Apr 27

Data Storage and Management for Anthropology Research

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Tozzer 102 or via zoom

Storing and managing research data can be a non-trivial task.  In order to assist graduate and undergraduate senior thesis students in these tasks, a panel of specialists from the Digital Scholarship Support Group at Harvard are coming to give an overview of the different options that Harvard supports as well as discuss options on an individual basis to provide guidance.  Please come with your questions about your types of data.

It will be hybrid, please email Kristine Richter for the zoom...

Read more about Data Storage and Management for Anthropology Research
2022 Apr 28

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

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

 

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...

Read more about Inka Kallawayas: Cuisine, identity and status negotiations in the eastern imperial fringes, a talk by Sonia Alconini (University of Virginia) Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar
2022 Mar 24

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

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

 

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...

Read more about Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Imperial narratives and empirical realities: society and environment in the Eastern Andes, a talk by, Anna Guengerich (Eckerd College)
2022 Mar 03

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

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom (register below)

 

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....

Read more about 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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