Department Seminar Series

Spring 2020 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)

This term organized by: Christina Giovas and Dave Burley.

For further details contact goarch@sfu.ca

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/).

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan 09	Dave Burley	Department of Archaeology, SFU	The Chiefly Sport of Pigeon Snaring and its Role in the Dynastic Tongan Chiefdom
Jan 16	Dongya Yang	Department of Archaeology, SFU	Human Osteoarchaeology in China: Past, Present and Future
Jan 23	Adrian Bell	Department of Anthropology, University of Utah	Measuring the value of motifs as group signals: A new method and study from the Kingdom of Tonga
Jan 30	Ed Carrier and Dale Croes	Suquamish Tribe, Washington State; Department of Anthropology, Washington State University	Generationally-linked archaeology: Experimental Archaeology on the Northwest Coast of North America
Feb 06	Farid Rahemtulla	Dept. of Anthropology, University of Northern British Columbia	Smokehouse Island: An Update on the Babine Archaeology Project
Feb 13	Paul Szpak	Dept. of Anthropology, Trent University	Isotopic Explorations of Holocene through Anthropocene Arctic Ecosystem
Feb 27	Katerina Harvati	Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Paläoanthropologie, University of Tübingen	The role of South-East Europe in human evolution: new results from the field and the lab
Mar 05	Rolf Mathewes	Dept of Biology, SFU	Charcoal as proxy evidence for early human occupation at the Kilgii Gwaay site, southern Haida Gwaii
Mar 12	Barbara Winter and Bob Muir	SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology	Pentlatch pebbles and the 2019 field school
Mar 19		Canceled
Mar 26	Greg Dow	SFU Economics	The Origins of Inequality: Insiders, Outsiders, Elites, and Commoners
Apr 02	Jenny Adams	Desert Archaeology, Inc., Tucson, AZ	Analytical Constructs for Identifying the Interactions of People with Their Stone Tools
Apr 09		TBD	TBD

*In keeping with traditions, we’ll have raffle prizes (tickets $2 each or 3 for $5) and a bake sale. All profits go to the graduate caucus to help fund student travel and research.

The Archaeology Student Society book sale is back! These are books from retired faculty, donations, etc. New items will be added each week. Michael from the student society has kindly agreed to sell books at the back of the seminar room, before and after our weekly seminars.