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• Spring 2005 Calendar •


January 14
Organizational meeting

January 21
Professor Richard Burger, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Looking for Peruvian Obsidian Sources: The End of the Road

January 28
Claudia Brittenham, Department of History of Art, Yale University
The Artists of the Cacaxtla Battle Mural

February 4
Professor Karen Foster, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University
The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh

February 11
Professor James Stemp, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, ?Keene State College
Rockin' on Temptation Island: Stone Tool Use in the Maya Coastal Economy of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize.

February 18
Sharri Clark, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
Engendering Archaeological Myths: Terracotta Figurines from the Bronze Age Site of Harappa (Pakistan)

February 25
Archaeology Masterpiece Theatre: The Potters of Thrapsano (Narrated by Philip Betancourt)

March 4 (5:20 p.m.)
Adam Menzies, PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh
Problems and Prospects in the Archaeology of Central Pacific Panama

March 25
Dr. Nick Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archaeologist [arranged by Russell Schimmer, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University]
Lecture on Connecticut archaeology and the role of volunteers

April 8
Film: Kawelka: Ongka's Big Moka (by Andrew Strathern)
Related Talk (Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program)

April 12 (2:30 p.m.)
Dr. Michael Moseley, University of Florida
Convergent Catastrophe and Cultural Collapse in the Ancient Andes

April 15
Karina Yager, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University
High Altitude Archaeology in the Andean Puna

April 29
Dr. John Walker, Research Associate, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
South American Archaeology and the Commons


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