Anthropology Colloquium: Professor Bill Green

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Professor Bill Green (Beloit College) will be discussing his ongoing research on the Archaeology of People and Place in the Mississippi River Valley on March 30th @ 3:30 PM in Sabin Hall G90.

Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Leila Porter

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join us for our next UWM Anthropology Colloquium! "Costs and Benefits of Cooperative Breeding in Saddleback Tamarins" (Leontocebus weddelli) Professor Leila Porter Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University Sabin G-90 3:30 Friday March 9, 2018 Professor Porter is a biological... Read More

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Archaeological Institute of America Lecture: Dr. Adam Rabinowitz

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

For more than three thousand years, the Crimean peninsula has been a meeting point for different worlds: the nomadic world of the great Central Asian steppe, the trade routes leading over land from the Middle East and Anatolia, and the interconnected maritime environment of the Mediterranean.

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Wisconsin Archaeological Society Talk: Dr. Richard W. Edwards

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join us on Monday, February 19th in Sabin Hall G90 for Dr. Edwards Wisconsin Archaeological Society talk, Risky Landscapes: Koshkonong Oneota Subsistence, Settlement, and Politics. He will be discussing his research into Late Prehistoric cultural and environmental shifts through examining Middle and Upper Mississippian material culture in the archaeological record of the Great Lakes region.

Archaeological Institute of America Lecture: Dr. Nicholas Blackwell

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

This presentation highlights the technology and tool types that masons and sculptors employed at Mycenae to produce some of the most well-known monuments in the Aegean Bronze Age. Analysis of preserved tool marks on the Lion Gate relief, Treasury of Atreus, and the Tomb of Klytemnestra reveal phases of construction, specific artisan choices, and variable stone-cutting techniques.

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Anthropology Colloquium: Professor Nam C. Kim

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

UWM Anthropology Colloquium series

Plumbing the Depths:Violence and Warfare in Our Earliest Pasts

Professor Nam C. Kim, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sabin G-90, 3:30 Friday February 9, 2018

Are we an inherently violent species? Has “warfare” always existed for humanity? This lecture highlights anthropological research regarding the antiquity and earliest cultural expressions of organized violence.

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Archaeological Institute of America Lecture: Tamara Thomsen

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Myths and Mysteries: Underwater Archaeological Investigation of the Christmas Tree Ship, Rouse Simmons Tamara Thomsen, Maritime Preservation and Archaeology Program, Wisconsin Historical Society Sabin Hall Room G90, 3413 North Downer Ave., UW-Milwaukee Campus   Description: On November 22, 1912, the... Read More

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Wisconsin Archaeological Society Talk: Ryan Howell

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A study on Archaeology Along the Upper Mississippi River Fur Trade Periphery: French and British-Period Sites at Prairie du Chien by Ryan Howell. Abstract: The early village that became the modern town of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin is the site of a deep and complex pre-historic and historic period occupation. At various times occupied and under they authority of Native Americans, the French, the British, the Spanish and finally Americans, the village appears to have been a neutral ground/trading center going back well before European times.

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Anthropology Colloquium: Professor Krisjon Olson

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Professor Olson is a cultural anthropologist (PhD UC-Berkeley), currently directing research in the Dept of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is also an honorary fellow in the Dept of Anthropology at UWM.

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Archaeological Institute of America Lecture: Sarah McClure

Sabin Hall G90 3413 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Cova de la Pastora – A Study of Death and Discovery in the Prehistory of Spain Sarah McClure, Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University Sabin Hall Room G90, 3413 North Downer Ave., UW-Milwaukee Campus   Description: In the 1940s, the discovery of... Read More

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