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.

Title: Nutritional composition of the diet of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla): Interspecific variation in diet quality

Research Highlights

• Fruit (40%) and herb (35%) accounted for 75% of mean monthly food intake in western gorillas (G. gorilla), with leaf (20%) and termite (5%) composing only a quarter of the annual diet.

Congratulations to Andrew Bonanno, who was awarded the Fulbright award.

Andrew Bonanno of Tivoli, New York, is a Ph.D. student in anthropology. He will spend his Fulbright year in Sierra Leone studying land tenure change and economic well-being.

Congratulations to Cydney Seigerman, who was awarded the Fulbright award.

Cydney Seigerman of Detroit, Michigan, will conduct research in Ceará, Brazil. A Ph.D. student in anthropology and integrative conservation, she plans to study water insecurity at the individual and household levels, as well as the social and political relations that shape and are shaped by these experiences.