“Beyond the Benton Type: Morphology, Learning, and Interaction in the Mid-Holocene Southeast” Please join us for James Strawn's dissertation defense “Beyond the Benton Type: Morphology, Learning, and Interaction in the Mid-Holocene Southeast” on Friday, March 20th at 2:00 PM in Baldwin Hall, Room 264. Virtual attendance is possible. See flyer for details. Read more about “Beyond the Benton Type: Morphology, Learning, and Interaction in the Mid-Holocene Southeast”
Lessons Learned from (Almost) Six Decades of Mountain Gorilla Research Please join the department on Wednesday, March 25th at 12:30 PM in the Miller Learning Center, Sidney Thomas Reading Room (303) for a talk by Dr. Tara Stoinski titled "Lessons Learned from (Almost) Six Decades of Mountain Gorilla Research". Dr. Stoinski is the President and CEO/Chief Scientific Officer of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Learn more about what they do here. Read more about Lessons Learned from (Almost) Six Decades of Mountain Gorilla Research
Laboratory of Tree-Ring and Archaeological Wood Analysis at Georgia (TRAWG) The Laboratory of Tree-Ring and Archaeological Wood Analysis at Georgia (TRAWG) is in Room 170 of the Riverbend North Research Labs and is directed by Dr. Brita Lorentzen. The TRAWG Lab team investigates past human interactions with climate and environment, primarily using dendrochronology (tree-ring science), stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon, and wood anatomy and broader archaeobotanical methods. Read more about Laboratory of Tree-Ring and Archaeological Wood Analysis at Georgia (TRAWG)
Sarieh Amiribeirami Receives 2026 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship This fellowship honors the legacy of Dienje M. E. Kenyon, a pioneering zooarchaeologist, by supporting early-career women archaeologists conducting graduate-level research in zooarchaeology. The fellowship provides financial support for MA and PhD students to conduct their research projects, promoting the training and development of women in the field. Its goal is to promote high-quality zooarchaeological research while fostering the next generation of scholars in the field of archaeology. Read more about Sarieh Amiribeirami Receives 2026 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship
Coffee Hour Hosted by the Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Lab! Join us for coffee and networking! Visit their website here! Read more about Coffee Hour
Dissertation Prospectus Defense: Rui Bai Rui Bai will defend her dissertation prospectus titled "From Space to Society: Settlement Structure and Social Organization in Neolithic China" in Baldwin Hall, Room 302. Please contact anthro@uga.edu if you'd like to attend virtually, via Zoom. Read more about Dissertation Prospectus Defense: Rui Bai
Research Seminar and Workshop led by Dr. Nathan Cook Join us for a qualitative and quantitative research seminar and workshop led by Dr. Nathan Cook, Assistant Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Sponsored by the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, the Department of Anthropology and the River Basin Center. Read more about Research Seminar and Workshop led by Dr. Nathan Cook
Landscapes of Encounter Join us for four 15-minute presentations followed by a roundtable discussion with scholars collectively working to develop enhanced understanding of the social landscape in the centuries preceding, during, and after the Spanish Entradas led by DeSoto (1539-1543) and Juan Pardo (1566-1568). Questions we will consider include: How can we better situate spaces and places associated with Indigenous presence and colonial encounters in absolute time? How can we see beyond the time-stamped descriptions of Spanish colonial observers into the landscapes that contextualized those encounters? Read more about Landscapes of Encounter
Rhiannon Schultz: Dissertation Defense Captivity and its implications for western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) nutrition, physiology, and cardiovascular health Please join us for the Doctoral Dissertation Defense for Rhiannon L Schultz. You can join virtually on zoom. Email anthrograd@uga.edu for the registration link. Read more about Rhiannon Schultz: Dissertation Defense
