Global Issues, Local Choices: How The Palm Oil Project is encouraging discussions on sustainability 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. Read more about Global Issues, Local Choices: How The Palm Oil Project is encouraging discussions on sustainability
Re-examining Property through Women’s Claims to Gardens in Northern Sierra Leone Read more about Re-examining Property through Women’s Claims to Gardens in Northern Sierra Leone
Jennifer Birch and Megan Conger coauthor paper Title: Dating Iroquoia in American Antiquity Read more about Jennifer Birch and Megan Conger coauthor paper
Suzanne Pilaar Birch had a paper published 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. Read more about Suzanne Pilaar Birch had a paper published
Title: "Creating new connections between archaeology, paleoecology, and fire science to evaluate long-term human impacts on fire regimes" Georgia Initiative for Climate & Society Fall 2019 Seminar Series Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Archaeological Sciences Read more about Title: "Creating new connections between archaeology, paleoecology, and fire science to evaluate long-term human impacts on fire regimes"
Title: "The arguments are sound, but does science really have a chance to save the Amazon?" Upcoming guest lecture of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory on "The arguments are sound, but does science really have a chance to save the Amazon?" Read more about Title: "The arguments are sound, but does science really have a chance to save the Amazon?"
Lecture: "Stuck Within the Caves" "Stuck Within the Caves?" Tackling the Lack of Upper Paleolithic Open Air Sites in Two European Micro Regions Read more about Lecture: "Stuck Within the Caves"
Studying the impact of climate change on Georgia archaeology sites 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. Read more about Studying the impact of climate change on Georgia archaeology sites
Roberta Salmi had a recent article published 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. Read more about Roberta Salmi had a recent article published
Andrew Bonanno Receives Fulbright Award 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. Read more about Andrew Bonanno Receives Fulbright Award
