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Health and Diet Among a Medieval Poorhouse Population

Please join us this Friday, January 11 at 3:30pm in Baldwin Hall Room 264 for visiting speaker, Dr. Karyn Olsen!  Dr. Olsen will be speaking about her research in exploring the relationship between diet, disease, and early forms of social care in a medieval poorhouse in Regensburg, Germany. We hope to see you there!


How To Rust: Explorations in the Relational Ontologies of a Postindustrial Landscape


West meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia


“Unearthing Georgia’s Deep Hispanic Heritage: Still Digging on St. Catherines Island”

David Hurst Thomas has served as curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1972, and, for seven years, served as the chairman of the department of anthropology. Thomas has conducted archaeological research on St. Catherines Island since 1974. Sponsored by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the department of anthropology.


Close to the Edge: New Research into the Archaic Colonization of the Eastern Subarctic


What do we know about early Urbanism? A zooarchaeological perspective on animal exploitation patterns during the Bronze Age periods in Northern Mesopotamia


Activist Research as Decolonizing Practice

Charles Hale gives the talk as part of the Franklin College Visiting Scholar Program. He holds a joint appointment with the departments of African and African Diaspora Studies and of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin. Professor Hale’s scholarly interests include identity politics, racism, neoliberalism, and resistance among indigenous peoples of LatinAmerica. His talk will explore shifts in…


Life and Death in Early Colonial American Settlements


The Fifth Beginning: What six million years of human history can tell us about our future

Read Professor Kelly's faculty page here. His recent book published by the UC press expands upon the themes he'll present in the talk; find the synopsis here.  


Visual Anthropology: From theory to fieldwork

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