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The Conversation publishes article featuring The Dating Iroquoia project

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The Dating Iroquoia project is co-directed by Dr. Jennifer Birch and is made up of researchers at Cornell University, New York State Museum, and the University of Georgia, including Research Assistant, Megan Conger. The Conversation published an article today highlighting the work and research The Dating Iroquoia project has conducted.

Dr. Elizabeth Reitz and alumni, Dr. Fred Andrus, published in PNAS

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Professor Emerita, Dr. Elizabeth Reitz and alumni, Dr. Fred Andrus, along with Daniel Sandweiss, Alice Kelley, Kirk Maasch, and Paul Roscoe wrote an article that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The article is titled, "Archaeological climate proxies and the complexities of reconstructing Holocene El Niño in coastal Peru."  

Katie Foster awarded a 2020 IDRF Fellowship

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The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program awarded PhD candidate, Katie Foster, a 2020 IDRF Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IDRF offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled in PhD programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research on non-US topics. Learn more about the IDRF here. Congratulations Katie!

An Institutional Approach For Archaeology

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UGA Department of Anthropology's Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Megan Conger, Travis Jones, Dr. Jennifer Birch, and Dr. Stephen Kowalewski published a recent paper in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. The article, entitled "An Institutional Approach for Archaeology," details a method for analyzing ethnographic and archaeological data that focuses on social institutions, instead of other common socio-spatial referents.

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