Simon Fraser University
Graduate Seminar Series Schedule

Spring 2012 Graduate Seminar Series

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/).

 

Downloadable copy of schedule

 

 

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
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.

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
Fund and the SFU Ancient DNA Lab.

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.

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
Program and the UBC Archaeology Isotope Laboratory

 

 

For more information on the SFU Archaeology Grad Seminar Series, contact Merrill Farmer mfarmer@sfu.ca.

 

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