David FreidelProfessor of ArchaeologyWashington University, St. Louis
May 9, 20144:00-5:30 PM317 Silsby HallRead more about Queens of the West: Classic Maya History and Archaeology from El Peru-Waka', northwest Peten, Guatemala
Professor Rogaia AbusharafAssociate Professor of AnthropologySchool of Foreign Service, QatarGeorgetown UniversityRead more about Debating Darfur
James W. FernandezDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of Chicago
April 24, 2014317 Silsby Hall4:00 - 5:30 PMRead more about The Fate of Fictive Kinship and the Fiction of Culture
Alexia SmithAssistant Professor, Department of AnthropologyUniversity of ConnecticutRead more about Climate Change, Food Production, and Societal Collapse: Considering Sustainability within Ancient Mesopotamia
Mark Aldenderfer, Professor and DeanSchool of Social Sciences, Humanities and ArtsUniversity of California, MercedRead more about Tracking ancient human migrations in the High Himalayas
The Department of Anthropology offers a foreign study program (FSP) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. It is the only off campus program in the South Pacific, and is held during winter term in Hanover, which is of course summer in New Zealand. Themed around an exploration of "Colonialism and its Legacies," the program offers students intensive introductions to anthropology of the region, and to Maori studies, the Maori being the indigenous people of New Zealand.
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.”
Read more about 40th Anniversary Celebration Wraps Up With NAS Symposium
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.”
Read more about Kes Schroer's takes her "Your Inner Chimpanzee's" class climbing
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.
Read more about Student Studies Prehistoric Canals in a Mexican Metropolis
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.
Read more about Undergraduate Searches for ‘Cultures Lost to Time’
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