ANTH 4290/6290 Environmental Archaeology Image or Flier: Credit Hours: 3 Students will become informed users of the historical record of human resource use and of environmental change and stasis that is available from archaeological sites with emphasis on biological data from archaeological sites, the dynamic relationships between humans and their environments, and current environmental issues. Semester Offered: Spring Level: Graduate Undergraduate Read more about ANTH 4290/6290
Fields of Study Biological Anthropology is the study of human variation, adaptation, and evolution. Read more about Fields of Study
Suzanne Pilaar Birch Interviewed in Nature Magazine Faculty member Suzanne Pilaar Birch is interviewed about her experience of doing fieldwork while pregnant in this issue of Nature magazine. She shares the factors that went into her making that decision and relates the support she received. Along the way she initiated similar stories from women anthropologists on the website she runs as part of a team: trowelblazers.com. Read the Nature article here. Read more about Suzanne Pilaar Birch Interviewed in Nature Magazine
Geoarchaeology Laboratory The Geoarchaeology Laboratory is located in Barrow Hall 14. It is primarily a sedimentological and and pedological laboratory with analytical facilities to include particle-size determination and petrologic analysis using an Olympus stereo-microscope for hand samples and thin sections. More detailed petrographic microscopic analysis is done using an Olympus B20 research microscope located in GG307. The Laboratory has access to elemental and mineralogic analytical instrumentation such as a JEOL electron microprobe capable of EDS and WDS located in the GG Building. Read more about Geoarchaeology Laboratory
Suzanne Pilaar Birch and an international research team awarded significant funding for an ancient Near East project An international research team that includes assistant professor of anthropology and geography Suzanne Pilaar Birch has been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council UK funding for their four-year project on Radical Death and Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East. Read more about Suzanne Pilaar Birch and an international research team awarded significant funding for an ancient Near East project
Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies “The body is parchment where violence is written.” Read more about Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies
“Family Farms, Family Land: Customary Land Tenure and Change in Sierra Leone” Apero: African Brown-Bag Lecture, as part of the African Studies Institute lecture series. Lecture Flyer Read more about “Family Farms, Family Land: Customary Land Tenure and Change in Sierra Leone”
Jessica Cook Hale Sheds New Light on the Mysteries of Underwater Archaeology In her newest Southeastern Archaeology publication, Jessica Cook Hale explores the underwater world of the Econfina Channel site in Apalachee Bay, Florida. Hale takes the plunge into offshore submerged sites to obtain valuable data concerning many questions of interest to archaeology, including what form coastal occupations may have taken during periods before the establishment of modern coastlines and late Holocene climate and ecological conditions. Read more about Jessica Cook Hale Sheds New Light on the Mysteries of Underwater Archaeology
West meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia Read more about West meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia
