2020-2021 Archaeology Seminar
Spring 2021 Seminar Series
Spring 2021 seminars are online.
This term organized by: Earl Stefanyshen, Deanna Smith, Elena Sierra Serrano, Alex Derian, and Hugo Cardoso.
For further details contact archgrad@sfu.ca
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 15, 10:30am | Jon Driver, Department of Archaeology | Testing the “Garden Hunting Hypothesis” in the American Southwest |
| January 22, 10:30am | Harold Joe, archaeological consultant and a traditional Cowichan formal gravedigger in B.C | Ancestral Protocols |
| January 29 10:30am | Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge | Recent excavations and new Neanderthal discoveries at Shanidar Cave, Iraq |
| February 5 10:30am | Steve Wolverton, University of North Texas | Threading Antiracism Through Archaeology: An Account |
| February 12 10:30am | Deborah Olszewski, University of Pennsylvania | The Early Epipaleolithic in Jordan and the Levantine |
| February 26 10:30am | Ivaylo Lozanov, Adjunct professor at SFU Archaeology | Ancient gold in ritual and historical context: the Panagyurishte treasure from Thrace (modern Bulgaria) |
| March 5 10:30am | Sarah Carr Locke, Director of Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and Adjunct Professor at SFU Archaeology | Archaeology and the NWT: Managing and presenting heritage in a northern territory |
| March 12 10:30am | TBA | |
| March 19 10:30am | Gyles Iannone, Trent University | Searching for Peri-Urban Neighborhoods at the Ancient Burmese Capital of Bagan, Myanmar |
| March 26 10:30am | Shannon McPherron, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | Pliocene field research in eastern Africa, early tool use and production, and the origins of cumulative culture |
| April 9 10:30am | Thomas Urban, Cornell University | Campfires and Footprints: Small Geophysical Targets with Big Potential |
| April 16 09:00am | Nicole Smith | Bringing Archaeology into K-12 Classrooms of British Columbia |
Fall 2020 Seminar Series
Fall 2020 seminars are online.
Organized by: The faculty members of SFU Archaeology. Speaker information organized and provided by Ellie Gooderham.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Thu Sept 17, 3:30 pm | Charlotte Primeau, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFU Archaeology | Through the looking-glass: Assessing childhood health from adult skeletons |
| Thu Sept 24, 3:30 pm | Hugo Cardoso, Department Chair and Associate Professor, SFU Archaeology | The Study Leave Diaries: Reflections on a Research Path |
| Fri Oct 2, 3:30 pm | Fernando Astudillo, Universidad San Francisco - Quito | Quito, City of Earthquakes. Modeling the Spiritual City with Digital Archaeology |
| Thu Oct 8, 3:30 pm | Iain McKechnie, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria | Domestic dogs and wild canids on the Northwest Coast: zooarchaeological & isotopic perspectives |
| Fri Oct 16, 10:30 am | John Albanese, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Soc/Anth/Crim at the University of Windsor, Ontario | Finds from the Tholos Tomb and Ossuary at Tzannata, Kefalonia: New Perspectives on the Lives and Deaths of Mycenaeans |
| Fri Oct 23, 10:30 am | Ross Jamieson, Associate Professor, SFU Archaeology | Pacific Packaging: Cans and Bottles in BC and Ecuador before the Great War |
| Fri Oct 30, 10:30 am | Elizabeth Sawchuk, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta | Megaliths, Mosaics, and Molecules: Tracing the Spread of Food Production in Holocene Eastern Africa |
| Fri Nov 6, 10:30 am | Harlan Pruden (nēhiyo/First Nations Cree Nation) | WHAT DO YOU MEAN TWO-SPIRIT DOESN’T SIMPLY MEAN AN LGBTQI+ INDIGENOUS PERSON? WHAT AND WHO IS TWO-SPIRIT DISCUSSION |
| Fri Nov 13, 10:30 am | Luísa Marinho, PhD Candidate, SFU Archaeology | THE ROLE OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY ON RESOLVING THE MISSING: LESSONS FROM A RECENT EXPERIENCE WITH VICTIMS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR (1936-?) |
| Fri Nov 20, 10:00 am | Carolina Mallol | FINALLY! LIPIDS AS PART OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD! AND THEY'RE IN THE SEDIMENT |
| Thu Nov 26, 3:30 pm | George Nicholas, Professor, SFU Archaeology | DECOLONIZING WHAT, FOR WHOM, AND WHY? PRAGMATIC REFLECTIONS ON A PERSONAL JOURNEY |
| Fri Dec 4, 10:30 am | Inês Caldas | HUMAN IDENTIFICATION USING DENTAL TECHNIQUES |