Evolution and Variation in Pleistocene Homo
Seminar
This seminar will touch on a variety of subjects related to variation and evolution of Pleistocene Homo, including virtual reconstructions of fragmentary fossils, quantitative approaches to cranial shape variation and development of the calvaria in juvenile individuals. These different avenues more…
Masterclass with Yancey Orr
Seminar
Masterclass objectives: Advancements in both anthropology and science followed their departures from the use of broad moral frames to understand information. 100 years after Boas developed the concept of historical particularism, anthropology has returned to moral language, moral debates, and…
Indigenous and Scientific Research Methods: Deception, Myth in Academic Psychology and American Indian Communities
Seminar
The emerging movement to decolonize the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has emphasized the differences between Indigenous and Western scientific ways of knowing. Paradoxically, emphasizing the difference between these systems has also been the principle undergirding modern science’s claim…
Of Spriggans, Periwigians and Cornish ancient monuments: Hidden treasures in British Library Additional Manuscript 51020 of the early 18th Century
Seminar
This is a hybrid seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Archaeological Research and Centre for Early Modern Studies. Please register if you are attending online. Registration is not necessary for in-person attendance. BL Additional Manuscript 51020 is misidentified in the…
Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
Seminar
Bengaluru, a city whose high technology firms serve as signposts of a ‘modern’, ‘caste-less’ India, is perpetually plagued by garbage pileups, clogged sewers, and leaching landfills. Vernacularly referred to as ‘black spots’, such sites of public litter contain objects city inhabitants once desired…
Postgraduate Student Short Talks
Seminar
In this seminar, we will be having three prostgraduate students to give short talks: Iona Claringbold: Zooarchaeology and Polynesian Ritual Sites: New regional approaches to human-animal relationships Emily Nutman: Geological sourcing in Sahul: documenting 50,000 years of human…
Tracing the threads of linguistic and genetic diversity in New Guinea
Seminar
New Guinea is the heart of global linguistic diversity. New Guinea makes up 1% of the global land area as an island, containing less than 0.2% of the world's population and 20% of all languages. The obvious linguistic and anthropological question is why? There are many social and evolutionary…