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Department of , Universidad Central de Pie de Cuesta, Zorca y Colinas de Queniquea: An approach to the ceramics style of the 12/9/2016 Miren Bilbao Venezuela Venezuelan in the Táchira state Professor of Archaeology and Prehistory, Department of Recent discoveries at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and their bearing on the eco-social 12/2/2016 Dr. Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo Archaeology and Prehistory, Complutense University, Spain behavior of early [co-sponsored with Biological Anthropology Colloquium] Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North (Re)turning to an Ontology of Souls in Maya Deep Time [co-sponsored with Yale Maya 11/11/2016 Dr. Patricia McAnany Carolina – Chapel Hill Lecture Series and Ethnography & Social Theory Colloquia] Reader, Department of Anthropology, University of St. Writing with Twisted Cords: Two Newly Discovered Narrative Khipus Epistles from the 11/8/2016 Sabine Hyland Andrews Andes

11/4/2016 Dr. Jason Nesbitt Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University Archaeological Investigations of Canchas Uckro, Gold, Jade, and Maya Blue: the Journey of Offerings to the Sacred Cenote of Chichen 10/28/2016 Dr. Mary Miller Professor, Department of the History of Art, Yale University Itza [co-sponsored with Yale Maya Lecture Series] PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Stanford University, Visiting Towards an Understanding of the Transition from Paracas to Nasca from a Household 10/14/2016 Stefanie Bautista Lecturer, Rochester University Perspective Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Searching for the Middle Holocene in the Tropical Rainforests: Excavations in 10/7/2016 Dr. Eduardo Goes Neves University Southwestern Amazonia Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Yale The Grolier Codex: A Voice from the 13th Century [co-sponsored with Yale Maya 9/30/2016 Dr. Michael Coe University Lecture Series] Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Yale 9/23/2016 Dr. Jessica Lamont University The Archaeology of Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome Professor, Department of the History of Art, Fashion Institute 9/16/2016 Dr. Anna Blume of Technology, State University of New York Ancient Architecture in the Mississippi Valley: Monumentality Seen and Unseen Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Goethe- 4/29/2016 Dr. Peter Breunig Universität Frankfurt am Main Rock Art Discoveries from the Namib Desert of Namibia Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University Braiding Knowledge: Community-based archaeology in Turkey and Native North 4/22/2016 Dr. Sonya Atalay of Massachusetts-Amherst America

4/15/2016 Dr. Antonia Foias Professor, Department of Anthropology, Williams College Ancient Maya Political Dynamics: Bureaucrats and Tribute Lists Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University Rise and Reorganize: Interdisciplinary research on Ancient Maya Political 4/1/2016 Dr. Scott Hutson of Kentucky Transformations [co-sponsored with Yale Maya Lecture Series] Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, 3/4/2016 Dr. Rowan Flad Harvard University Urbanism as Technology in Early China Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Skidmore Let’s keep it platonic: A reassessment of the Olmec man-jaguar painting of Oxtotitlán, 2/26/2016 Dr. Heather Hurst College Guerrero, Mexico Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, A Divergent Tradition: Zhou Sheng Bronzes and the Question about the Production 2/19/2016 Dr. Li Feng Columbia University System of Western Zhou Bronzes

1 Yale University Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series Date Name Affiliation Title of Talk

Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at 2/12/2016 Lindsay Bloch University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Earthenware Production and Consumption in the 18th-Century Chesapeake

2/9/2016 Dr. Paul Kockelman Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Time and Replacement among the Maya [co-sponsored with Yale Maya Lecture Series] PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, New York 1/22/2016 Katherine McCullough French University Interspecies Cremations in a Transitional World: the evidence from Bidford-on-Avon Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University, 11/13/2015 Dr. Shanti Morell-Hart Director of McMaster Paleoethnobotanical Research Facility Foodways, Ethnoecology, and Gastronomic Heritage in Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate in Archaeology at Cornell Persistent Peripheries: Archaeology at the Margins of Empire in Pre-Modern South 11/6/2015 Dr. Uthara Suvrathan University India

10/30/2015 Dr. Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University Blood and Chocolate: Cacao and Sacrifice on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala former researcher from Institute of Archaeology, Chinese 10/16/2015 Dr. Shao Wangping Academy of Social Science The Paths of Chinese Civilization: In an Archaeological Perspective Professor of Archaeology and History of Art at Koҫ University, Appropriating Innovations: Early Bronze Age Tin Mines and Production Sites near 10/9/2015 Dr. K. Aslıhan Yener Istanbul Turkey Kültepe, Ancient Kanesh in Turkey Visiting Assistant Professor of of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at The Forum of Nerva in Rome: The Preservation of an Imperial Monument in the 10/2/2015 Dr. Margaret M. Andrews Brown University Christian City Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers: New Insights from Research in Southwestern 9/25/2015 Dr. Kathleen Sterling Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University-SUNY France The Ritual Cycle at Coles Creek Mounds: Feasting and Moundbuilding in the Lower 9/18/2015 Dr. Megan Kassbaum Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Mississippi Valley Ancient Egypt and Punt: An Archaeological Perspective from Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, 4/24/2015 Dr. Kathryn Bard Professory of Archaeology, Boston University Egypt Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Explaining the Evolution of Social Complextity: Cultural Selection of 'Ultrasocial' Norms 4/24/2015 Dr. Peter Turchin Connecticut and Institutions PhD student, Department of Anthropology, New York 4/10/2015 Taylor Zaneri University GIS Methods in Medieval Archaeology Professor of Archaeometry, Department of Geosciences, What is the Iron Age? Comparison between Africa and Europe…and some other 4/3/2015 Dr. Vincent Serneels Univesrity of Fribourg, Switzerland comments Local Communities and Early Chiefdom Dynamics: A Comparative Archaeological 3/27/2015 Dr. Robert Drennan Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh Perspective Subsistence Risk from Multiple Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives among Masikoro Farmers, Mikea Hunter-gathereres, and Vezo Fishermen of Southwestern 3/2/2015 Dr. Bram Tucker Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Madagascar Visiting scholar ar Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Understanding the Spread of Harappan Civilization during the third millennium BCE in 2/27/2015 Dr. Prabhakar Nandagopal Indoa Drishadvati River Valley: Recent Excavations in Karanpura, Rajasthan, India Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary and Climate 2/27/2015 Dr. Daniel Sandweiss Studies, University of Maine Human Ecodynamics of Early Settlement on the Central Andean Coast Professor of American Archaeology and Director of Columbia 2/20/2015 Dr. Terence D'Altroy Center for Archaeology, Columbia University Killing Mummies: On Inka Epistemology and Imperial Power

2 Yale University Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series Date Name Affiliation Title of Talk Professor at Centre National de la Recerche Scientifique, France, and visiting scholar for Yale's Council on East Asian Ancient Nomads of Central Asia between Agrarian Empires: Evidence from frozen 2/12/2015 Dr. Henri-Paul Francfort Studies burials of the Altai Mountains (5th - 3rd centuries BCE) Interaction and Complexity in the Tierra del Mercurio: Preliminary findings from Atalla, 2/6/2015 Michelle Young Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Huancavelica, Peru Visiting Assistant Professor of the Institute for the Study of the 1/30/2015 Dr. Adam Schwartz Ancient World, New York University Chinese Scribal Culture 1300 BC Directory of Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 1/23/2015 Dr. Jeffrey Quilter Ethnohistory, Harvard University The Peru Human Ecodynamics Project and Ancient Politics on the North Coast of Peru Exploring Early Medieval Urbanism: Fauna from 9th- and 10th-century Antwerp, 12/5/2014 Dr. Pamela Crabtree Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University Belgium 11/21/2014 Dr. Gary Crawford Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 15,000 Years of Success in Japan: The Jomon Niche Senior Program Officer, Nathional Geographic Society/Waitt 11/14/2014 Dr. Fabio Esteban Amador Grants Program Visualization and Imaging Technologies for Researchers From Battlefield to Burial: The of Human Sacrifice and Warfare among 11/7/2014 Daniela Wolin Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Late Shang Sacrificial Victims What was Sacrificed on the "Sacrifical Table" at Mystery Hill? A convergence of 10/31/2014 Dr. Kenneth Feder Professor of Archaeology, Central Connecticut State University Evidence

10/30/2014 Dr. Michael Parker Pearson Professor of British Later Prehistory, University College London Stonehenge: New Research Changes in Personhood and Funerary Customs among the of Southern 10/17/2014 Dr. Jessica Cerezo-Roman Anthropology Fellow, Harvard University Arizona

10/10/2014 Dr. David Carballo Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Boston University In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, , Mexico

Salt-making Archaeology in Northern Shandong, China: An Introduction and a Case 10/3/2014 Yonggan Fu Ph.D. student, Shandong University Study of Productive Organization during Late Shang and Early Western Zhou Dynasties

9/26/2014 Dr. Jaime Ullinger Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Quinnipiac University Biological responses to early urbanization at Early Bronze Age Bab adh-Dhra', Jordan 9/19/2014 Dr. Rob Sternberg Professor of Geophysics, Franklin & Marshall College Magnetic Applications in Archaeology: Provenance, Dating, and Prospection

9/10/2014 Dr. Thomas Fenn Director, Yale Center for the Study of Ancient Pyro-Technology Isotopes and Ancient Pyrotechnology Between Archaeological Research and Improving the Life Conditions of Impoverished 4/18/2014 Gabriel Prieto Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Neighborhoods: A case from Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru

4/11/2014 Kristina Guild Douglas Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University The Archaeology of Antsaragnasoa, Southwest Madagascar Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Near Eastern Dr. Henry Wright 4/3/2014 Archaeology, University of Michigan Three Kingdoms of Madagascar: Betsimisaraka, Sakalava, Merina 3/28/2014 Dr. Andrew Scherer Assistant Professor, Brown University Ritual, War, and the Cartography of Classic Maya Kingdoms

3/7/2014 Dr. Gideon Shelach Professor of East Asian Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem The Origins of in North China Professor Emeritus, Departments of Near Eastern Studies & 2/28/2014 Dr. Norman Yoffee Anthropology, Univeristy of Michigan Early cities and the evolution of history

3 Yale University Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series Date Name Affiliation Title of Talk Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, 2/21/2014 Dr. Kate Pechenkina Queens College of CUNY Bioarchaeology of the Chinese Central Plains

2/14/2014 Colin Thomas Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Smelting and the Sacred at Dos Cruces Reassesing the Aesthetic of Graeco-Roman Alexandria in Light of Recent Archaeological 2/7/2014 Sara Cole PhD candidate, Yale Department of History, Yale Unviversity Discoveries Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of the Ancient 1/31/2014 Dr. Lorenzo D'Alfonso World (ISAW), New York University The Kingdom of Tuwana and the Project Kinik Hoyuk Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Colombia 1/24/2014 Dr. Zoe Crossland University Signs that grow: standing stones and markets in highland Madagascar Director of Middle American Research Institute, Associate 12/16/2013 Dr. Marcello Canuto Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University Road Warriors of the West: La Corona and Classic Maya Geopolitics 12/6/2013 Dr. Ian Hodder Professor, Stanford University Entangled at Catalhoyuk 11/15/2013 Dr. Isabelle Druc Ceramologist, Department of Anthropology, UW-Madison Ceramic : From the Potter to the Paste Associate Research Specialist in Digital Arhcaeology, Yale Dept 11/8/2013 Alberto Urcia of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Digitizing the Past: Some Experience within Yale Egyptology Professor, Yale Dept of Near Eastern Languages 11/1/2013 Dr. Colleen Manassa and Civilizations Echoes of Egypt: Curating the Land of the Pharaohs and its Legacy Transport Amphorae and Mediterranean trade 400-250 BCE: A View from Cyrenaica, 10/18/2013 Dr. Kristian Goransson Director, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies, Rome, Italy Libya 10/11/2013 Dr. Severin Fowles Professor, Barnard College An Archaeology of Comanche Imperialism in Colonial New Mexico Shaping an Ancient Maya Polity: Deforestation, Agroforestry, and Sustainable Land 10/4/2013 Dr. Cameron McNeil Professor, Lehman College, CUNY Management Practices at Copan, Honduras

9/27/2013 Lucy Salazar Archaeologist and research associate, Yale Peabody Museum The Machu Picchu Solution: A New Model for Cultural Patrimony Disputes

9/20/2013 Andrew Womack Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Remote Sensing in China: Recent Research in Statellite and Geophysical Techniques PhD student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Our Daily Bread: Modeling day-to-day food production and consumption in Ancient 9/17/2013 Elizabeth Lang Civilizations, Yale University Egypt 5/2/2013 Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen Professor, Department of Art History, UCLA Thoughts about Recent Developments in Chinese Archaeology Everything Including the Kitchen Pots: Integrative Approaches to the Study of Late 4/26/2013 Dr. Maria Masucci Professor, Department of Anthropology, Drew University Prehispanic Coastal Ecuador Lecturer, Yale Dept of Astronomyand Director of the Leitner Dating the Origin of Constellations: Using historical astronomical observations to find 4/19/2013 Dr. Michael Faison Family Observatory dates and locations Prospecting for New Research Questions: How integrating a geophysical approach can 4/12/2013 Dr. Tim Horsley Associate research scientist, Yale Department of Anthropology go well beyond locating archaeological features 3/8/2013 Bejamin King MA student, Archaeological Studies, Yale University Archaeology in Media: creating science-driven content in a ratings-driven age Excavations at the Fishing Village of Gramalote: Reconsidering the Subsistence Patterns 3/1/2013 Gabriel Prieto Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University of Early Complex Societies in the Moche Valley, North Coast of Peru

2/22/2013 Erin Gredell Repatriation Compliance Coordinator, Yale Peabody Museum NAGPRA: Negotiationg Native American, Archaeological and Museological World Views Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in An Epigenetic Understanding of Culture, Participation, and Non-uniform Institutional 2/15/2013 Dr. Michael Franchetti St. Louis Complexity

4 Yale University Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series Date Name Affiliation Title of Talk The YUAL Malaria Project Phase 2: Results of Preliminary Sampling and an Initial Research Projection Utilizing Historical and Archaeological Skeletal Remains Housed at 2/1/2013 Jamie Inwood Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Le Labratoire d'Archaeologie IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal 1/25/2013 Dr. Martin Bale Visiting Port-doctoral fellow Agriculture and Storage: How did the first complex societies in Korea develop? Prehistory of the Great Hungarian Plain: Reconstructing Ancient Dietary and Mobility 12/7/2012 Dr. Julia Giblin Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Quinnipiac University Practices using a Multi-Isotope Approach 11/30/2012 Chris Milan Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Up in the Highlands, Down in the Valley Early Monumentality of Northern Mongolia: Preliminary Results of Arhcaeological 11/16/2012 Jargalan Burentogtokh Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Research in the Tarvagatai Valley, Mongolia 11/9/2012 Dr. Roderick Campbell Institute for the Study of Ancient World, NYU War, Sacrifice and Forgetting: Violence and Humanity in Early China Nicholas Bellantoni + Dr. Gary P. Connecticut Office of State Archaeology and Yale Department From Pine Ridge SD to Danbury CT, and back again: the recovery and repatriation of 11/2/2012 Aronsen of Anthropology Albert Afraid of Hawk (1879-1900) French Archaeological Work in Central Asia 2011-2012: ew research on Sourkhan Darya 10/12/2012 Arnaud Bertrand PhD student, Yale University and Ferghana Valley ancient history 10/5/2012 Dr. Jose M. Luzon Twice destroyed: The house of the Archaizing Diana at Pompey MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Yale 9/28/2012 Dr. Frank Hole University The Khoton Lake Project, Western Mangolia 9/21/2012 Jane Skinner MA student, Archaeological Studies, Yale University New Excavations at Tel Akko, Israel Bones, Bushes, and Beakers: the Use of and Potential for Isotopic Analysis and 9/14/2012 Evin Grody Recent Graduate of Yale College, BS in Archaeological Studies Evolutionary Ecology in the of Southern Africa 4/13/2012 Dr. Jose Oliver Professor, University College of London Salado revisited: The excavation by Cruxent and Rouse in the lower Orinoco PhD student, Dept of Near Eastern Languages and Philosophy, The Landscapes of Ancient Egyptian Religion: Rock Art as Indicator for Formal Ritual 3/1/2012 Lauren Lippiello Yale University Spaces during the Formative Stage of the Egyptian State 2/24/2012 Film Screening: "Justice at Agadez" Professor of Archaeology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Modeling the World, Symbolic Architecture and Landscape among the Moche of 2/17/2012 Dr. Luis-Jaime Castillo Butters Peru Northern Peru Postdoctoral fellow, Yale Department of Geology and 2/10/2012 Dr. Colin Cooke Geophysics Environmental Archives of Archaeometallurgy in the Andes 2/3/2012 Dr. Alison Richard Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Science in the Service of Conservation: A Case Study from Southwest Madagascar Between the Andes and the Amazon: Initial Excavation results from the site of 1/27/2012 Ryan Clasby Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Huayurco in Northeastern Peru 1/21/2012 Dr. Luis Jaime Castillo Butters Professor, Poltificia Universidad Catolica del Peru Ongoing excavations in San Jose de Moro, in Peru 1/20/2012 Helen McCreary BA student, Archaeological Studies, Yale University Recent work in Mali (this past semester) Professor, Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient 12/8/2011 Dr. Yuval Yekutieli Near East, Ben-Gurion University The Egyptian Mining Operation at Timna - a Lanscale Archaeology Perspective

12/2/2011 Yann Desailly-Chanson Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University The Political Shift at the Late Classic Maya Site of Sak'Nikte

11/14/2011 Carlos Chiriboga Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University At the heels of chicleros: archaeological in the Northwest Peten of Guatemala

11/7/2011 Dr. Caitlin Barrett Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Reinterpretation of Egyptian Religion

11/4/2011 Dr. Robert Dewar Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Connecticut Early settlers in Madagascar

5 Yale University Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series Date Name Affiliation Title of Talk

10/28/2011 Dr. John Krigbaum Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida Isotopic inferences on Holocene human diet and seasonality in tropical Southeast Asia Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of 10/21/2011 Dr. Thomas F. Tartaron Pennsylvania A Harbor for Mycenae? Investigations at Kalamianos in Southern Greece, 2007-2011 10/13/2011 Film Screening: "The African King"

10/7/2011 Kristina Guild Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Her summer research in Madagascar 9/13/2011 Yale Students Yale undergraduate Archaeological Studies majors summer fieldwork reports 5/13/2011 Rheta Lanehart PhD Candiate, University of South Florida Ancient Diet at Liangchengzhen 4/28/2011 Jason Nesbitt Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University A 9th Century Decapitated Head from Huaca de la Cruz, Moche Valley 4/21/2011 Dr. Richard Blanton Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Collapse 4/15/2011 Dr. Lutz Martin Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin Presentation of latest excavations and research at Tell Halif, Syria 4/8/2011 Dr. Christopher Thornton National Geographic Society Beginnings of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Old Questions, New Problems 4/1/2011 Jargalan Burentogtokh Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Funeral practices of Southern Mongolia during the Bronze Age 3/21/2011 Dr. James Webb Expert in Historical Epidemiology, Colby College The Historical Epidemiology of African Malaria 3/21/2011 Dr. Stanley Ambrose Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana The Habitat of Early Hominids in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia Community Organization, Copper Production and Warfare: Recent Field Research on 3/4/2011 Dr. Brian Hanks Professor, University of Pittsburg the Middle Bronze Age Sintashta period in the Southern Urals, Russia Formative Period Agriculturall Adaptations to High Elevation Farming in a Semi-Arid 2/25/2011 Dr. Dudley Gardner Professor, Western Wyoming Community College Climate in Northwestern Colorado 2/23/2011 Dr. Jim Stoltman Professor, University of Wisconsin as a Co-Craft in the Production of Shang Bronzes Diet and Landscape Change during the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic at Franchthi 2/18/2011 Dr. Natalie Munro Professor, University of Connecticut Cave, Greece 2/11/2011 Dr. Lisa Hildebrand Professor, Stony Brook University Early Herding and Monumental Architecture around Lake Turkana, Kenya Professor, Yale Department of Near Eastern Languages and 2/10/2011 Dr. Eliezer Oren Civilizations Archaeology of Cult: New Evidence from Middle Bronze Age Canaan Professor, Yale Department of Near Eastern Languages and 2/9/2011 Dr. Eliezer Oren Civilizations Ways of Horus - An Archaeological Perspective from North Sinai 2/9/2011 Orestis Kourakis Arhchaeological Photographer The Past Through Photo-Frames Pampas Gramalote: Re-excavating an early Initial Period fishing villiage of the Peruvian 2/4/2011 Gabriel Prieto Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University North Coast 1/28/2011 Dr. Christopher Thornton The National Geographic Society Beginnings of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Old Questions, New Problems Director, Oriental Institute and Professor of Near Eastern Social Identity, Mixed Marriages, and Commensal Politics in an Ancient Mesopotamian 1/26/2011 Dr. Gil J. Stein Archaeology, University of Chicago Colony A View from the Margin: The Initial Period Occupation of the Middle Lurin Hamlets of 1/21/2011 Chris Milan Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Anchucaya, Quebrada San Francisco, Sisicaya, and Chillaco 12/3/2010 Jacqueline Meier PhD candidate in Zooarchaeology, University of Connecticut No More Games: An Experimental Study of Worked Bone Astragali Artifact Function 12/1/2010 Dr. Frederick Lamp Curator of the Afrian Collection, Yale Art Gallery African Art in Antiquity: Yale Gets a New (Old) Collection 11/16/2010 Yann Desailly-Chanson Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Latest Research at the Site of Sak Nikte 11/12/2010 Alice Kehoe Beinecke Visiting Fellow Post-Colonial Perspective in Archaeology: Why Delgamuukw Matters 11/5/2010 Jamie Inwood Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Overview of new area of achaeological inquiry Interregional Interactions and Emergence of Complex Societies in the Peruvian South- 10/29/2010 Dr. Yuichi Matsumoto Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Central Highland

6 Yale University Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series Date Name Affiliation Title of Talk Professor, Yale Department of Near Eastern Languages and Two Seasons at Umm-Mawagir in Kharga Oasis: an Industiral Landscape of the Late 10/22/2010 Dr. John Darnell Civilizations Middle Kingdom/Second Intermediate Period, and the Legacy of Monthuhotep II 10/15/2010 Peter Coutros Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Gorbi Valley Film Screening: "Grass" 1924 Documentary film tracing the annual migration of the 10/8/2010 Bakhtiari tribe of Persia 10/1/2010 Dr. Jeffrey Blomster Professor, George Washington University Olmec and Early Formative Archaology: Revisiting the Past, Negotiating the Future 9/29/2010 Dr. Phillip Edwards Professor, Latrobe University in Australia Ritual and Symbol in the Natufian World 9/22/2010 Dr. Yuji Seki National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka Recent Discoveries at Paco Pamp: A Northern Center of Early Peruvian Civilization 9/15/2010 Yale Undergrads Yale undergraduate Archaeological Studies majors summer fieldwork reports 9/10/2010 Dr. Nick Bellantoni Archaeologist, State of Connecticut Office of Archaeology The Roles of a State Archaologist: Preservation, Research, and Forensics

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