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.

Georgia Initiative for Climate & Society

Fall 2019 Seminar Series

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Archaeological Sciences

Upcoming guest lecture of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory on "The arguments are sound, but does science really have a chance to save the Amazon?"

"Stuck Within the Caves?" Tackling the Lack of Upper Paleolithic Open Air Sites in Two European Micro Regions

Image: Lindsey Cochran taking water samples on Sapelo Island, Georgia.

In the world of climate change studies, there are extensive global and regional models but fewer site-specific models. Lindsey Cochran, a postdoctoral research associate with the University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology, is working with digital data from the Georgia coast to recreate models that simulate site-specific changes from now until 2100.