2024-2025 Archaeology Seminar Series
Archaeology Spring 2025 Seminar
Brought to you by Dr. Michael Richards.
All seminars are held in person in the Archaeology Seminar Room, SWH 9152 from 3:30-5:00pm. If you鈥檙e able, join us in person for the seminar and afterwards in the Biercraft Pub or the Archaeology Lounge.
| Week | Speaker(s) | Affiliation | Topic |
| Jan 9 | Cancelled | ||
Jan 16 |
Cancelled |
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| Jan 23 | Eric Guiry | SFU | 鈥�Reconstructing aquatic pasts: isotopic approaches and complexities鈥� |
| Jan 30 | Alyssa Currie | Tse鈥橩鈥橶a Heritage Society | "Combining Scientific and Traditional Knowledge at Tse鈥檏鈥檞a" |
| Feb 6 | Matt Sponheimer | University of Colorado, Boulder | 鈥�Dinner with Lucy: what does Paranthropus boisei bring to the table鈥� |
| Feb 13 | Niels N酶rkj忙r Johannsen | Aarhus University | "Northern Europe, the Steppe and migration in the early 3rd millennium BCE: lay of the land 10 years after the advent of ancient DNA" |
| Feb 20 | Reading Week - no seminar | ||
| Feb 27 | Lesley Chesson | DPAA Laboratory/SFU | 鈥�Using Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis for Forensic Human Identification鈥� |
| March 6 | Julio Mercador | University of Calgary | 鈥�Early Homo adapted to diverse, unstable, and extreme environments 2-1 Ma:The evidence from Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania鈥� |
| March 13 | Paul Szpak | Trent University | 鈥�The Landscape of Llama Husbandry in the Andes before the Arrival of Europeans鈥� |
| March 20 | Laura McAtackney | University College Cork (Ireland) | "Ways of Knowing Difficult and Contested Pasts: Researching the 鈥楾roubles鈥� and Peace Process in the North of Ireland鈥� |
| March 27 | Farid Rahemtulla | UNBC | 鈥�Mid Holocene Indigenous Cultural Seascapes on the Central Coast of British Columbia鈥� |
| April 3 | Cara Tremain | SFU | 鈥�What in the (virtual) world? Issues with the digitization of cultural heritage鈥� |
Archaeology Fall 2024 Seminar
Brought to you by Dr. Catherine D'Andrea and Dr. Rudy Reimer.
All seminars are held in person in the Archaeology Seminar Room, SWH 9152 from 3:30-5:00pm. If you鈥檙e able, join us in person for the seminar and afterwards in the Biercraft Pub or the Archaeology Lounge.
| Week | Speaker(s) | Affiliation | Topic |
| Sept 5 | Department Meet and Greet at 3:30pm | ||
Sept 12 |
Dr. Cathy D鈥橝ndrea |
51社区黑料Archaeology |
Archaeology in Post-Conflict Tigrai, Ethiopia |
Sept 19 |
Dr. Colin Grier |
Washington State University Vancouver |
Coastal Archaeology and Shoreline Protection Efforts in the southern Gulf Islands of BC: Integrating Stakeholders under an Indigenous-driven Framework |
Sept 26 |
Dr. John Marston |
Boston University |
Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia |
Oct 3 |
Dr. Bill Anglebeck |
Douglas College |
TBA |
Oct 10 |
Dr. Meaghan Efford |
UBC Global Modelling Lab |
Unsettling the record: modelling the devastating cumulative effects of selected environmental stressors and loss of human life caused by colonization in Burrard Inlet, Canada |
Oct 17 |
Dr. Brandi Lee MacDonald |
Archaeometry Lab at MURR |
TBA |
Oct 24 |
Dr. Angela Silva Bessa |
51社区黑料Archaeology |
The importance of taphonomic research in the management鈥痮f Portuguese public cemeteries |
Oct 31 |
Dr. Valentina Martinoia |
51社区黑料Archaeology |
Food for thought: understanding Roman subsistence strategies under Langobard rule (6th-7th centuries AD) in northern Italy using stable isotope analysis |
Nov 7 |
Dr. Aleksa Alaica |
UBC Anthropology |
TBA |
Nov 14 |
Dr. Elizabeth Peterson |
Royal BC Museum |
Cultural restitution, repair, and regrowth: how DRIPA is changing the RBCM鈥檚 Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Department |
Nov 21 |
Dr. Christina Giovas and team |
51社区黑料Archaeology |
Update on work at Curacao |
Nov 28 |
Dr. Kisha Supernant |
University of Alberta |
Heart-Centered Archaeology for Reclamation and Restorative Justice |