2021-2022 Archaeology Seminar Series

Archaeology Fall 2021 Seminar

Brought to you by Elena Sierra, Lauren Clark, and Dr. Jon Driver

Date Speaker Title
Thu September 16
3:30pm
Peter R. Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida Heritage and Archaeological Co-Practice with the Haya People: Ending the Dominance of Western Archaeological Theory 
Thu September 23
3:30pm
Genevieve von Petzinger Signs, Symbols and the Paleolithic Origins of Graphic Communication
Fri October 1
10:00am
Marina Elliott Homo naledi and the Rising Star Cave
Thu October 7
3:30pm
Ian Randall
 
Thu October 14
3:30pm
Gordon Myers & Arthur Robson, SFU Economics
Infanticide and Human Self Domestication
Thu October 21
3:30pm
Jennifer Austen, Postdoctoral Fellow at SFU Archaeology Exploring Aetiology in Bioarchaeology: A careful consideration of the challenges in palaeopathology through the example of cribrous lesions
Fri October 29
10:00am
Lauren Schroeder, Assistant Professor at U of T Exploring evolutionary process in human evolution: lessons from quantitative genetics and mammal models
Fri November 5
10:00am
Ammie Kalan, Assistant Professor, UVic
Chimpanzee Behavioural Flexibility: A Pan African Perspective
Thu November 11
No Seminar, Remembrance Day
   
Thu November 18
3:30pm
Jonathan Dombrosky, Post-doc at Crow Canyon
Individuals form Isotopes: Can Stable Isotopes Distinguish the Skeletal Remains of Individual Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter cooperii)
Thu November 25
3:30pm
Shauna Huculak, City of Vancouver Archaeologist
Archaeological Practice in an Urban Municipal Setting
Thu December 2
3:30pm
Marc Stevenson
Reconciliation! Really?
Thu December 9
3:30pm
Andrew Martindale, Aviva Rathbone, Eric Simons, and Alison Wylie Listening to Ancestors: Ground-Penetrating Radar in Residential School Landscapes

        

Archaeology Spring 2022 Seminar

Brought to you by Dr. Jon Driver

Date Speaker Title
Thu, January 13
3:30 pm
Adam Rorabaugh, SFU
A Social Network Analysis of Traditional Labrets and Horizontal Relationships in the Salish Sea Region
Thu, January 20
3:30 pm
Natalie Munro, U Connecticut
The Late Natufian (11,500-13,000 cal BP) fauna from Nahal Ein Gev II and the emergence of agriculture in the Jordan Valley
Thu, January 27
3:30 pm
Christyann Darwent, UC Davis
The Inglefield Land Archaeology Project in Northwestern Greenland
Thu, February 3
3:30 pm
John Speth, U Michigan A Slow-Burning Crisis in Paleolithic and Paleoindian Studies:
Too Much Testing and Too Little Thinking About Underlying Assumptions
Thu, February 10
3:30 pm
Lauriane Bourgeon
A zooarchaeological and radiometric approach to understand the place of Bluefish Caves in the debate regarding the first people of the Americas
Thu, February 17
3:30 pm
Bryn Letham, SFU Deep-time Indigenous History and Landscape Change on the Outer Northwest Coast of North America
Thu, February 24 NO SEMINAR, Reading Break
 
Thu, March 3
3:30 pm
Scott Ortman, U of Colorado
Partnership Archaeology at K’uuyemugeh
Thu, March 10
3:30 pm
Ian Kuijt, Notre Dame
Neolithic proto-urbanism?: Reconsidering human demography and population pressure in the world’s first villages
Fri, March 18
10:00 am
Christopher Knusel, Bordeaux Çatalhöyük (7100-5950 cal BC): Social Violence and Early Vestiges of Social Inequality in the Western Asian Neolithic?
Thu, March 24
3:30 pm
Jon Driver, SFU Archaeological context and Paleoindian memory
Thu, March 31 NO SEMINAR
 
Thu, April 7
3:30 pm
Maria Nieves Zedeño and Francois Lanoe, U of Arizona
The Materiality of Collective Action in the Plains Archaic