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2008 Ohio Valley Archaeology Fieldschool
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Attend a lecture by Dr. Charles C. Mann, American journalist and author specializing in scientific topics, October 9, 2008, in Zimmer Auditiorium from 4:30-6 p.m. The topic is "New World Before Columbus – Charles Darwin’s Subsequent Influence on Our Interpretation of this History." Mann is author of "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" (2005) and "Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species" (1996), written with Mark L. Plummer. Dr. Mann will be at the University of Cincinnati October 9-10, 2008.
Congratulations
Lynne!
Lynne Schepartz just learned that she received a grant ($24,520) from
the National Geographic Society to continue her field excavations
in Panxian Dadong cave, China. She will go there this spring. This
is be the fifth season of excavations her team has held there. The
cave deposits are dated to approximately 250,000 years ago, and they
have found five fossilized human teeth, stone tools, and animal remains
showing evidence for human processing.
Some of the results of previous field seasons were reported in the
most recent special volume of the journal Asian Perspectives, which
Professor Schepartz co-edited, entitled "Asia in the Middle Pleistocene."
Professor Schepartz' research in China is growing exponentially and
in very exciting new directions. She now has 4 projects there! She
is collaborating with colleagues in the Chinese Academy of Sciences
on two other studies: one examines brain evolution in early humans
(her Chinese colleague was at UC for 6 months in 2004 as a visiting
scholar), and the other compares human evolutionary processes in East
Asia, Indonesia and Africa (they are working on the grants for this
one). As a really different kind of project, she has been invited
to study the human burials from an important new Shang Dynasty site--about
247,000 years more recent in time--with rich burials, evidence for
human sacrifice, and some of the earliest form of Chinese writing!
In all of these different projects she works as a paleoanthropologist
and a skeletal biologist, her two areas of training and teaching developed
at UC.
Martha Woodson
Rees, Head
Vern Scarborough:
His Research Efforts Hold Water
In the wake of two decades of nationally recognized research efforts,
anthropologist Vern Scarborough points out the best part of receiving
UC's Rieveschl Award for Creative or Scholarly Work: It'll be a moment
to get his head above water, take a moment to appreciate where he
is and where he's been, all before plunging back into work on his
next project.
Read the full
story on UC's web site.
Vanya Joseph
is a current graduate student at the University of Cincinnati in
the Anthropology department. She attended the University of Mysore
in Karnataka, India where she received a bachelor degree in general
science and a master's degree in Physical Anthropology. She has
always had and interest in Medical anthropology and that has been
her concentration here at the University of Cincinnati. She recently
completed her research for her Master's Thesis and is now preparing
to graduate in March. Joseph's research was on care giving for the
elderly in the Asian Indian community in Cincinnati.
Read more about her research.
Anthropos
Greetings and Salutations! My name is Carmen A McCormick (McCane)
the current president of the undergraduate Anthropology Club, Anthropos.
Anthropos is a new organization to the University of Cincinnati
this year. Anthropos is an organization designed as an outlet and
forum for people who share a common interest in anthropology. Intellectually
focused, Anthropos is intended to broaden exposure and experience
in anthropology and its related fields. The group also functions
as a student union for the Department of Anthropology, to socially
engage students, staff, and faculty, but, by no means, only open
to anthropology students so please invite your friends. Our next
meeting will be held on January 12th at 4:00pm, where our new logo
will voted upon, the 11th is the last day you can turn logos in
for the contest (the winner will receive a cash prize). Please submit
all entries by January 4th to myself or the other members of the
Executive Board: Miranda Horan (Vice-President), Jayme Csonka (Sectretary),
and Sean Arata (Treasurer). I am currently working on volunteer
opportunities and possible "field trips." Please feel
free to email me any ideas, mccaneca@email.uc.edu,
or if you would like to join our email list. I look forward to seeing
or meeting you for the first time at our next meeting.
Carmen A McCormick (McCane)
Anthropology
Graduate Students
Click here for a list of anthropology
graduate students and their profiles.
Kent Vickery: A Career in Ohio Valley Archaeology and Archaeological
Training at UC
Interview by Kate Harrell
Guest Lecture Series
With assistance from the Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund, the Anthropology Department invites guest lecturers throughout the school year. We
invite speakers who will be of interest to our students as well as the larger University community. Often they give a general public lecture and then have a seminar or informal session with our
students. Recent guest speakers include:
| 2006 |
Norman Hammond, Feb. 6, 2006, Taft Lecture |
| 2004 |
Charlotte Smith |
| 2004 |
Taft Lecture |
| 2004 |
Michael F. Brown, Lambert Professor of Anthropology & Director, Center for Technology in the Arts &
Humanities, Williams College |
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Jared Diamond, Professor of Physiology, UCLA |
| 2003 |
Christopher Scarre, Deputy Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge
University; Editor, Cambridge Journal of Archaeology |
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Raymond White, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Arizona |
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Miriam Stark, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i |
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Anne Underhill, Assoc. Professor & Curator of Anthropology, Field Museum & University of Illinois-Chicago |
| 2002 |
Peter Guarnaccia, Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers |
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Fred Bloom, Centers for Disease Control |
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Joyce Marcus, Curator of the Latin American Section at the Museum of Anthropology & Professor of Anthropology,
University of Michigan |
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Clark Larsen, Head, Dept. of Anthropology, Ohio State; Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
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