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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 Georgia 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 Bioarchaeology 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 Hohokam of Southern