2018-2019 Archaeology Seminar
Spring 2019 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 3, 3:30pm | Dave Burley, Department of Archaeology | Triangular Voyageurs on a Very Long Journey - A Story Inscribed in the Rock Art of Tonga |
| January 10, 3:30pm |
Bryn Letham, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology |
Sea Level, Settlement, and LAndscape Histories of Laxgalts'ap (Old Town), British Columbia |
| January 17, 3:30pm | Sarah Walshaw, Department of History |
Where Rice is King? Archaeobotany of the Merina Kingdom (Madagascar) and the Kilwa Archipelago (Tanzania) |
| January 24, 3:30pm | Ryan Espersen, Saba Archaeological Center |
From Hell's Gate to the Promised Land: Perspectives on Poverty in Saba, Dutch Catibbean, 1780 to the Mid-Twentieth Century |
| January 31, 3:30pm | G. Biké Yazıcıoğlu-Santamaria | Immigration, Political Instability and The Human Experience at Kanesh (Kültepe, Turkey) in 2nd millennium BC |
| February 14, 3:30pm | Camilla Speller, UBC Anthropology | Paleoproteomics: Promises, potentials and pitfalls in the study of ancient proteins |
| February 21, 3:30pm | Lesley Harrington, University of Alberta, Anthropology | Bioarchaeological perspectives on child health in the South African Later Stone Age |
| February 28, 3:30pm | Lindsay Der, UBC Okanagan Anthropology | Beyond Bones: Animal Materializations and Human-Animal Relationships at Çatalhöyük |
| March 7, 3:30pm | Christina Cheung and Hua Grace Zhang, SFU Archaeology | Please pass the noodles - correlation between climate change and subsistence economy in ancient China revealed by stable isotopic and dental pathology data |
| March 21, 3:30pm | Joost Schokkenbroek, Vancouver Maritime Museum | Oceans of Opportunities. Non-written Sources and Maritime Research |
| March 28, 3:30pm | Alison Wylie, UBC Philosophy | Histories of Archaeology – In and For Practice |
Fall 2018 Seminar Series
Organized by Dennis Sandgathe.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 13, 2018 | SFU Archaeoogy students and faculty | "What did you do last summer?” |
| September 20, 2018 | Sabrina Higgins – SFU Hellenic Studies and Archaeology | Picturing the Virgin: The Development of Marian Iconography in Late Antique Egypt |
| September 27, 2018 | Robyn Woodward – SFU Archaeology | Ghost Ships of the Klondike Gold Rush |
| October 4, 2018 | NO SEMINAR | PALAEO-OLYMPICS |
| October 11, 2018 | Ben Raffield - Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University | Captivity and unfreedom in the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an invisible institution |
| October 18, 2018 | NO SEMINAR | |
| October 25, 2018 | Olga Vasileva, SFU Psychology | Handedness and the development of language |
| November 1, 2018 | Christina Giovas, SFU Archaeology | English Scoundrels and Imposter Pigs: 87Sr/86Sr and 14C Evidence for a Historical Reappraisal of the 1657 Ligon Map of Barbados |
| November 8, 2018 | Bill Walker, Department of Anthropology, New Mexico State University | Arrowheads, Sorcerers, and Pueblo Village Abandonment |
| November 15, 2018 | Natalie Dinsdale, Department of Biological Sciences, SFU | Practice for Parturition: A Novel Hypothesis for the Adaptive Significance of Female Sexuality |
| November 22, 2018 | Megan Wong, SFU Archaeology | Investigating Mobility in Roman and Byzantine Ephesos Using Isotopic Analysis |
| AND | Joe Hepburn, SFU Archaeology | A Multi Isotope Isoscape of British Columbia for Forensic Identification |
| November 29, 2018 | Carolyn Sparrey, SFU’s School of Engineering Science | Analyzing accidents and injuries to determine how and why they occurred |