The University of Georgia has joined the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium to facilitate scholarly exchange and academic collaboration. 

The University's participation in the consortium follows the November 2019 awarding of a grant to a 21-member UGA academic team to study the history of slavery at UGA from the institution’s founding in 1785 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

The legal evaluation of Indigenous claims to history in settler-colonial contexts present significant evidentiary, methodological, and interpretive challenges to the discipline of archaeology. Indigenous records of and scholarship on history are often framed within distinct epistemological and philosophical domains that can be opaque or insubstantial to archaeological outsiders. However, archaeology itself occupies a cultural space that creates similar opportunities for the construction of claims of objectivity that are vulnerable to ethnocentrism.

"To Shell with It: the Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Submerged Ertebølle Midden"

Special Information: Contact Dr. Ervan Garrison for additional details.

https://geology.uga.edu/events/content/2019/shell-it-zooarchaeological-analysis-submerged-ertebolle-midden

Vector-borne diseases—those transmitted by biting insects like mosquitoes and ticks—pose a significant health threat to more than half of the world’s population. Finding ways to control these diseases—many of which are zoonotic, meaning they can spread among wildlife, domestic animals and humans—requires understanding both the social and ecological contexts in which they occur.

The Palm Oil Project, or POP@UGA, is a student-run organization that was established in Fall 2019. The goals of the organization are to raise student awareness of the negative environmental and social impacts of the global palm oil industry and to encourage students to make more sustainable choices when shopping for food and household products.

Title: Dating Iroquoia in American Antiquity

Title: Spread of domestic animals across Neolithic western Anatolia: New stable isotope evidence from Uğurlu Höyük, the island of Gökçeada, Turkey 

This paper focuses on the combination of bone collagen and tooth enamel stable isotope data with existing archaeological data to develop a fine-resolution picture of the spread of the Neolithic, particularly the importation and management of domestic fauna on Gökçeada, with broader relevance for understanding Aegean-Anatolian interactions.