Unless otherwise indicated, the seminars will take place 3:30 - 5:00 pm in the Department's seminar room in Saywell Hall on SFU's Burnaby Campus (SWH 9152).
For further details please email the organizers:Mark Collard mcollard@sfu.ca and Bethany Mathews bethanymathews@hotmail.com
Changes to the schedule will be posted on the department’s website (http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/) and Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/groups/166962033349031/).
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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| Jan 12 | Peter Stahl | University of Victoria Department of Anthropology |
“Humans, Foxes, and Dogs in Ancient South America” |
| Jan 19 | Jon Scholnick | Simon Fraser University Human Evolutionary Studies Program and Department of Archaeology |
“Cultural Evolution and Rapid Stylistic Change in Historic New England Gravestones” |
| Jan 26 | Jessica Munson | University of Arizona Department of Anthropology |
“Building on the Past: Continuity and Disjuncture in Prehispanic Maya Temple Construction at Caobal Petén, Guatemala” |
| Feb 2 | Jon Driver | Simon Fraser University Department of Archaeology |
“Variation in Human Impacts on the Environment in the American Southwest” |
| Feb 9 | James Chatters | Applied Paleoscience | “Old Cordilleran and the Macroevolution of Northwest Cultures” |
Seminar supported by the Cathy and Jon Driver Endowment Fund. |
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| Feb 16 | No Seminar | Reading Break | |
| Feb 23 | No Seminar | Ritual Spaces and Places Workshop at SFU | |
| March 1 | No Seminar | Department External Review | |
| March 8 | Brian Kemp | Washington State University Department of Anthropology |
"Everyone Poops and Other Tales from Prehistory " |
Seminar supported by the Cathy and Jon Driver Endowment |
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| March 15 | April Nowell | University of Victoria Department of Anthropology |
“Pornography is in the Eye of the Beholder: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender in the Study of European Upper Palaeolithic Figurines” |
Seminar co-sponsored by the SFU Human Evolutionary Studies Program. |
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| March 22 | Christine White | University of Western Ontario Department of Anthropology |
“Finding Private Lawless: The Isotopic (and other) Forensics of a World War I Casualty” |
| March 29 | Alvaro Higueres | Simon Fraser University Department of Archaeology |
“An Indigenous Amazonian Society under Attack: Monitoring Heritage Risk and Social Decay in the Peruvian Amazon” |
| April 5 | Alison Sheridan | National Museums of Scotland Archaeology Department |
“The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Britain and Ireland: Competing Models” |
Seminar co-sponsored by the SFU Human Evolutionary Studies |
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For more information on the SFU Archaeology Grad Seminar Series, contact Merrill Farmer mfarmer@sfu.ca.
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