David Freidel
Professor of Archaeology
Washington University, St. Louis
May 9, 2014
4:00-5:30 PM
317 Silsby Hall
Debating Darfur
Professor Rogaia Abusharaf
Associate Professor of Anthropology
School of Foreign Service, Qatar
Georgetown University
May 2, 2014
4:00-5:30 PM
317 Silsby Hall
The Fate of Fictive Kinship and the Fiction of Culture
James W. Fernandez
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
April 24, 2014
317 Silsby Hall
4:00 - 5:30 PM
James W. Fernandez (PhD, Northwestern 1962), a prominent American anthropologist, is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College at the University of Chicago. Prior to his tenure at the University of Chicago, he had been a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, and from 1965 to 1972 had taught anthropology at Dartmouth.
Climate Change, Food Production, and Societal Collapse: Considering Sustainability within Ancient Mesopotamia
Alexia Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Connecticut
April 16, 2014
317 Silsby Hall
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Tracking ancient human migrations in the High Himalayas
Mark Aldenderfer, Professor and Dean
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced
March 31, 2014
001 Rockefeller Center
4:00 - 5:30 PM
40th Anniversary Celebration Wraps Up With NAS Symposium
Dartmouth will host a group of distinguished academic and tribal scholars and elders for two panel discussions next week as part of a symposium on the “Collaborative Research in the Study of Native American Cultures.”
Kes Schroer's takes her "Your Inner Chimpanzee's" class climbing
Dartmouth’s Kes Schroer has taken her students on an unusual adventure “in order to put themselves into the mind of a chimpanzee,” she says. “Chimpanzees provide a critical counterpoint for understanding the potential uniqueness of human behaviors.”
Student Studies Prehistoric Canals in a Mexican Metropolis
Support from the Lucas Family Fund for Undergraduate Research and the Claire Garber Goodman Fund for the Anthropological Study of Human Culture enabled Andres Mejia-Ramon to conduct investigations at the pre-Columbian metropolis of Teotihuacan.
Undergraduate Searches for ‘Cultures Lost to Time’
Genevieve Mifflin '14 took part in an archaeological dig this summer at the site of Zincirli Höyük in southern Turkey, where she spent five weeks working with Dartmouth professors Virginia and Jason Herrmann.
Colin Quinn ’15 Digs for Clues About Ancient Nicaraguans
Colin Quinn ’15 worked on the Chiquilistagua archaeological project in Nicaragua. The site, thought to have been occupied between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D., may have been a conduit for trade between the cultures of Mexico to the north and South America.