Archaeological & Biological Anthropology Lunch Talks
Wednesdays at 12:00pm in 261 Social Sciences 1
Spring 2017
April 19
Jannine Forst
Cold Case in the Arctic: Ancient DNA and Private William Braine of the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1845
April 26
Dustin McKenzie
Experimental Archaeology: Fishing for the Past
Lauren Zephro
Applied Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction to Casework and Professional Careers
May 17
Edward M. Luby
The Museum Studies Program at SFSU: Creating a Student-FOcused Campus Museum from the Ground Up
Grad School Workshop
The Whats, Whys, and Hows of Applying to Graduate School
Winter 2017
January 18
Career Workshop
Albert Gonzalez
February 15
Holley Moyes
The Ancient Maya Collapse: A View from the Cave
March 1
Sarah Peelo, John Ellison, Ryan Phillip, and Alyssa Cheli
Public Uses of Household Spaces: Archaeological Data Recovery of Room 102 at Rancho San Andres Castro Adobe
*Students enrolled in -- or thinking about enrolling in -- ANTH 189 (Archaeology Field Methods) for Spring 2017 are highly encouraged to attend this talk.*
FALL 2016
October 5
J. Cameron Monroe; Associate Professor, UCSC Department of Anthropology
The Three Phases of Sans Souci: Recent Discoveries and Heritage Archaeology at the Palace of Henry Christophe
October 19
Nathan Acebo, Graduate Student, Stanford University
Reassembling the Black Star Canyon Village
October 26
Barry A. Price, Vice President/Principal, Applied Earthworks, Inc.
Archaeology and the Law
November 9
Iain McKechnie, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
The Maritime Fur Trade before the Maritime Fur Trade on the Pacific Coast of North America
Field School Workshop
SPRING 2016
April 13
Graduate School Workshop
Anthropology Faculty, UCSC
Mario Castillo, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Pathway Analysis: Towards an Intensive Methodology in Landscape Archaeology
May 11
Kenneth G. Kelly, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Sugar and Slavery in the French West Indies: Transformations from the Ancien Régime through the Revolutionary Period
Gabriel Sanchez, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Reconstructing the California Landscape: Insights from written records and archaeology from Point Reyes
WINTER 2016
January 20
Careers Workshop
Erik Zaborsky (BLM), Lauren Zephro (Santa Cruz County), and Stella D'Oro (Albion Environmental)
February 3
Cat Jarman
Ph.D. Student, University of Bristol
Mobility, Massacres, and Marauding Maidens: The Viking Age from a Bioarchaeological Perspective
February 10
Dr. Cris Hughes
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Temporal Patterns of Mexican Migrant Genetic Ancestry: Implications for Identification
Dr. Emily Egan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
FALL 2015
October 14Adela Amaral, UC President's Postdoc, UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology
The Archaeology of a Black Runaway Slave Reducción in Colonial Mexico
October 21
Field School Workshop
November 4
Tsim Schneider, Assistant Professor, UCSC Department of Anthropology
Native Resistance and Resiliency in Colonial California
November 18
Peter Nelson, Coast Miwok (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria), Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Indigenous Archaeology in Central California: Social Memory and the Maintenance of Indigenous Homes and Landscapes
December 2
Anne Austin, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University Department of History
Embodying the Goddess: The Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt
SPRING 2015
April 8
David Ingleman, Graduate Student, UCSC Department of Anthropology; Director of the Flagstaff Community Archaeology Project
Kojo's Legacy: Rekindling the True Spirit of Our Ancestors
April 22
Alex Bentley, Professor, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, Bristol University
Neolithic Kinship, Land Use, and Community Differentiation
May 6
Kenneth Ames, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropolog, Portland State University
Entangled in the Fur Trade on the Lower Columbia River with Complex Hunter-Gatherers
May 20
Anneke Janzen, Doctoral Candidate, UCSC Department of Anthropology
Exploring Early Pastoral Mobility in Kenya Through Stable Isotope Analysis
June 3
Graduate School Workshop
WINTER 2015
Jan. 14
Kelly Harkins, PhD, UCSC Dept. of Anthropology/UCSC Human Paleogenomics Lab
Paleogenetic analysis of pre-Columbian tuberculosis from the New World
Jan. 28
Charlotte Goudge, Postgraduate Researcher and Teaching Assistant, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol
Liquid Power: The Socio-Economic Impact of Rum on the 18th and 19th Century Atlantic World
Feb. 11
Jobs Workshop, with Erik Zaborsky and Dr. Lauren Zephro
Finding Employment in Archaeology and Physical Anthropology
Feb. 25
Fanya Becks, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Stefan Prost, Post-Doc, UC Berkeley
A Primer to International Forensic Investigations of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
FALL 2014
Oct. 8
Sarah Schrader, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, UCSC
Bioarchaeology of the Everyday
Oct. 22
Monica L. Smith, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
City and Countryside in Ancient India: Excavations at Sisupalgarh and Talapada
Nov. 5
Field School Workshop
Nov. 19
Mark Hylkema, Santa Cruz District Archaeologist, California State Parks
Tule Balsas and the San Francisco Bay Economy
Dec. 10
Rob Cuthrell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Archaeology for Cultural Revitalization and Ecological Conservation on the Central California Coast
SPRING 2014
April 16
Workshop - "Applying to Grad School"
April 30
Matthew Des-Lauriers, Cal State Northridge
Fishermen, Pirates, and Corporations on Isla Cedros, Baja California: Contemporary Encounters and some Perspectives on the Past
May 7
Kathleen Hull, UC Merced
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Building Community in Native California
May 14
Julie Wesp, UC Berkeley
Bodies of Work: The Organization of Everyday Life Activities in Urban New Spain
May 21
Neil Duncan, Stanford University
Integrating Paleoethnobotanical Approaches in the Study of Food: a Case Study from the Peruvian Preceramic
June 4
Kelila Jaffe, NYU
Dogs, Domestication, and Disgust
WINTER 2014
January 15
Cranial Variation among Ancient Americans:
A Test of the Coastal Migration Hypothesis using 3D Methods
Susan Kuzminsky, UCSC
February 5
Cultural Heritage Research Program at Ikh Nart Nature
Reserve, Dornogobi Aimag, Mongolia
Jennifer Farquhar, Albion Environmental
February 12
Quantifying Stone Tool Production Behaviors in the
Oldowan of East Africa
Jay Reti, UCSC
February 26
Employment Workshop
Archaeology/Physical Anthropology Faculty, UCSC
March 12
Winged Lions and Bronze Horses: the Role of Animals in
Venetian Republican Expansion
Krish Seetah, Stanford University
FALL 2013
October 9th
Ancient DNA & the Population History of South America
Lars Fehren-Schmitz, UCSC Anthropology
October 16th
3D Saqqara:
Reconstructing Landscape at an Ancient Egyptian Necropolis with 3D GIS
Elaine Sullivan, UCSC History
November 6th
Re-Envisioning Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California
Tsim Schneider, UCSB Postdoc
November 13th
Opening New Fields:
The Origins and Development of Complex Society in Ancient Sichuan, China
Rowan Flad, Harvard Anthropology
December 4th
Everything You Need to Know about Field Schools!
TBA
SPRING 2013
April 10th
Adventures as a Fossil Hunter
Stephanie Melillo, UCSC Anthropology
April 24th
All's "Well" That Throws "Well":
The Metals of the Cenote Sagrado at Chichen Itza
Bryan Cockerel, UC Berkeley Anthropology
May 8th
Getting a Job in Archaeology and Physical Anthropology
UCSC Faculty and Alumni Panel
May 29th - NEW DATE!
Wrestling with Palimpsests:
Ceramics, Settlement, and Landscape Archaeology on the Abomey Plateau, Benin
J. Cameron Monroe, UCSC Anthropology
June 5th
Petroglyphs of a Death Valley Slot Canyon
Chester Liwosz, UCSC Anthropology
WINTER 2013
January 16th
Workshop - Archaeological Field Schools: What, Why and How
Archaeology Faculty Panel, UCSC Anthropology
January 30th
TBA
Christie Boone, UCSC Anthropology
February 13th
When Religion Was Radical:
The Very Formative Site of Chavin de Huantar, Peru
John Rick, Stanford Anthropology
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February 27th
TBA
Julie Teichroeb, UCSC Anthropology
March 13th
Mobility of Early Pastoralists Assessed by Isotopic Analysis of Herd Animal Tooth Enamel:
Preliminary Results from the Central Rift Valley and Athi Plains of Kenya, 3000-1200 BP
Anneke Janzen, UCSC Anthropology
FALL 2012
October 17th
Life in an Industrial Village:
The Archaeology of Cabin B at the Cowell Lime Works Historic District, Santa Cruz, California
Patricia Paramoure, Holman and Associates
October 24th
Pilgrimage, Politics and Gender in Mesoamerica
Shankari Patel, UC Riverside
November 7th
Getting into Graduate School: A Workshop
UC Santa Cruz Faculty
November 28th
The Archaeology of "Empty" Spaces:
2011 and 2012 Fieldwork at Mission San Antonio
Chelsea Blackmore, UC Santa Cruz
Sarah Peelo, Albion Environmental
SPRING 2012
April 11th
Society for American Archaeology Round-Up
Chelsea Blackmore, Emma Britton and Cameron Monroe
April 25th
Persistence of Indigenous Identity and the Legacies of Colonialism in Spanish California
Lee, Panich, Santa Clara University
May 2nd
Jobs Workshop: Looking for Long-term and Summer Employment
May 9th
Computer-Assisted Reconstruction of the Wuzhaishan Site
Anthony Barbieri-Low, UC Santa Barbara
May 16th
Rethinking Archaeological Practice and Relationships, Past and Present:
Lessons from Honduras and Mexico
Doris Maldonado, Stanford University
May 30th
Isotopes and the Future of Region of Origin Identification:
Geochemical Boundaries, Political Boundaries and Modeling Methods with a Mexican Sample Population
Chelsey Juarez, UCSC Anthropology
WINTER 2012
January 25th
Foragers, Farmers, Missionaries and Traders:
Cultural and Environmental Change on the Fringe of the Kalahari Desert
David Cohen, UC Berkeley
February 1st
Field School Open House
Archaeology Panel: Chelsea Blackmore, UCSC; Melissa Chatfield, Stanford University; Dustin McKenzie, Cabrillo College
February 15th
Domestication of Water Buffalo in China
Li Liu, Stanford University
February 29th
Isotopes and the Future of Region of Origin Identification: Geochemical Boundaries, Political Boundaries and Modeling Methods with a Mexican Sample Population
Chelsey Juarez, UCSC Anthropology
March 7th
Political Vessels: Preliminary Perspectives on the Organization of Ceramic Production and Exchange
in Precolonial Dahomey
Mary Ann Fanning and Cameron Monroe, UCSC Anthropology
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