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香港六合彩中特网 Archaeology research expertise on show at SAA 2024

17 April 2024

香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Archaeology research expertise is on show at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) being held in New Orleans, Louisiana, this week.

A woman with curly hair and glasses behind a table/stall advertising a university department (purple and orange curtains in the background)

The mission of the SAA is to expand understanding and appreciation of humanity's past as achieved through systematic investigation of the archaeological record. The society leads the archaeological community by promoting research, stewardship of archaeological resources, public and professional education, and the dissemination of knowledge.听

Institute staff and student research being presented includes

  • Summer Austin - Tut on Tour: Thirty Years of Demand Creation through Exhibition in the Symposium on Public-Facing Archaeology
  • Michael D鈥橝prix, Nicola Sheyhing and Jesper de Raad - The Reality of Commercial Archaeology for Early Career Archaeologists in the Symposium on Education and Archaeological Careers
  • Jahleen Sefton, Ian Freestone and Laura Adlington - Interpreting Recycling in the Roman Glass from Colchester in the Symposium Craft Industries and Interaction Networks in European Archaeology.听
  • Cristina Castillo and Dorian Fuller - Vegeculture Agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands: The Archaeobotany of Enset in the Symposium on The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance听
  • Yawei You听and Dorian Fuller - Transcending the Niche of a Wild Progenitor: An Ecological Niche Perspective on the Spread of听Archaeological Soybeans in China in the Symposium on Asian Subsistence and Foodways听
  • Elizabeth Graham is the Chair of the Symposium on Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part I: Reconsidering "Human Sacrifice," Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and other European-derived concepts. Within this session, research听by Institute PhD researchers and recent alumni听include:听Rosamund Fitzmaurice - Forced Labor versus 鈥淪lavery鈥: European Ideas and Indigenous Realities in Mesoamerica (CE 600鈥1521); 听Xin Lin and Guopeng Chen - Demand or Control? Reconsidering the Production and Consumption of Maya Jade; Tamara Moore and Jim Aimers - The Sloppy Science of Ancient Maya E-Groups;听Carmen Ting - The Curse of Classic: Rethinking the Agency of Maya Ceramic Production; Eponine Wong - Is This Democracy? Consensus Decision-Making and Collective Self-Governance in Mesoamerica; as well as Honorary Associate Professor,听Elizabeth Baquedano - Mesoamerican Death Imagery Oversimplified.
  • Gabriela Salda帽a and Elizabeth Graham - Revisiting the Polychromatic Stucco of Lamanai, Belize in the Symposium on Cultural Heritage in Mesoamerica.
  • Diane Chase, Elizabeth Graham and Melissa Badillo - The Shadow Realm: How Belizean Archaeology Has Illuminated the Maya Postclassic Era;听Brett Houk, Elizabeth Graham and James Garber - Historical Archaeology in Belize: Maya Continuity amid Colonial Landscapes;听Adrian Chase, Brett Houk, Elizabeth Graham, John Morris and Amy Thompson - Cities on the Cutting Edge: Urban Research in Belizean Archaeology听in the Symposium entitled 鈥淭he Center and the Edge": How the Archaeology of Belize is听Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya.听
  • Panos Kratimenos - Anachronology in the Study of the Precolumbian Maya: Toward a Post-Postclassic听in the Symposium on Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part II: Reconsidering "Human Sacrifice," Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and other European-derived concepts.听Elizabeth Graham is also giving a paper on听The Spurious Claim of 鈥淗uman Sacrifice鈥 in the same symposium.
  • Natalia Lozada Mendieta, Patrick Quinn and Jos茅 Oliver - Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Ceramic Traditions on the Precolonial Colombian Middle Orinoco Archaeological Sites in the Poster Sympsium on Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances.
  • Lisa Monetti - Arch Street Project: Sustainable Collaboration and Learning after Reburial Using Digitized Remains in the Symposium on The Arch Street Project: Multidisciplinary Research of a Philadelphia Cemetery
  • Stephen Shennan - The COREX Project: Explaining Patterns of Genetic and Cultural Diversity in Prehistoric Europe in the Symposium on Big Ideas to Match our Future: Big Data and Macroarchaeology
  • David Wengrow is a Discussant in the Symposium entitled In Defense of Everything! Constructive Engagements with Graeber and Wengrow's Provocative Contribution

The 香港六合彩中特网听Institute of Archaeology听is also exhibiting at the听SAA Annual Meeting and look听forward to meeting prospective students as well as former staff and alumni.听 Lisa Daniel, our Graduate Admissions Administrator, is covering a booth in the Exhibitors area, together with current PhD researcher, Hanna Gibbs,听promoting the Institute's Masters and Research programmes.听听

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