2019-2020 Archaeology Seminar
Spring 2020 Seminar Series
Organized by: David Burley and Christina Giovas
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 9 | David Burley, Department of Archaeology, SFU | The Chiefly Sport of Pigeon Snaring and its Role in the Dynastic Tongan Chiefdom |
| Jan 16 | Dongya Yang, SFU Archaeology | 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 Tong |
| 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 6 | Farid Rahemtulla, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Northern British Columbia | Smokehouse Island: An Update on the Babine Archaeology Project |
| Feb 13 | Paul Szpak, Department 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 5 | Rolf Mathewes, Department of Biological Sciences, SFU | Charcoal as proxy evidence for early human occupation at the Kilgii Gwaay site, southern Haida Gwaii |
| Mar 12 | Barbara Winter, Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography; Bob Muir, Department of Archaeology, SFU | Pentlatch pebbles and the 2019 field school |
Fall 2019 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Thu Sep 12, 3:30 pm | Logan Born, Department of Computer Science, SFU | Computer-assisted decipherment of ancient Near Eastern scripts: topic modeling and sign clustering in proto-Elamite |
| Aurora Camano, Department of Archaeology, SFU | Byzantine Numismatics and Sigillography at Dumbarton Oaks | |
| Ailidh Hathway, Department of Archaeology, SFU | Wondering what I was doing at Wonderwerk? | |
| Walter Homewood, Department of Archaeology, SFU | TBD | |
| Kristin Kokkov, Department of Archaeology, SFU | Archaeological Interpretation as Iterative Process | |
| Robin Woodward, Department of Archaeology, SFU | Adventures of an Arctic Archaeologist | |
| Dennis Sandgathe, Department of Archaeology, SFU | Microstratigraphic Excavation of Pech IV Layer 8 | |
| Thu Sep 19, 3:30 pm | Dr. Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia | Zooarchaeological stable isotope datasets for Neolithic Anatolia: a regional synthesis |
| Thu Sep 26 | NO SEMINAR | PALEO-OLYMPICS |
| Thu Oct 3, 3:30 pm | Hannah Herrick, Department of Archaeology, SFU | ‘Talkative Tree-Rings’ at San Xavier Mission |
| Thu Oct 10, 3:30 pm | Rudy Reimer, SFU Archaeology and First Nations Studies | The Indigenous cultural significance of volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest |
| Thu Oct 17, 3:30 pm | Dennis Sandgathe, SFU Archaeology | Microstratigraphic Excavation of Pech IV Layer 8 |
| Thu Oct 24, 3:30 pm | Wendy Wickwire, History and Environmental Studies,University of Victoria | Ethnography as Political Advocacy: The Life and Legacy of James Teit, 1864-1922 |
| Thu Oct 31, 3:30 pm | Kimberly Plomp, Dept of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool | TBD |
| Thu Nov 7, 3:30 pm | Tom Royle, SFU Archaeology | Ontario Iroquoian Fisheries Management: The View from Ancient DNA |
| Thu Nov 14, 3:30 pm | Hartley Odwak, Sources Archaeological & Heritage Research | The 2018-19 Boundary Bay Road Wet Site Excavations - Findings and Preliminary Results |
| Thu Nov 21, 3:30 pm | Virginia Butler, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University | Exploring Human Ecodynamics of Northwest Coast Socio-Ecological Systems using Archaeo-Faunal Records from Coastal Washington State |
| Thu Nov 28, 3:30 pm | Nick Hedley, Department of Geography, SFU | Adventures in Three Dimensions |