Fiber Perishable Chronologies in the Great Basin of Western North America
Co-chaired by Pat Barker, Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Nevada State Museum; Catherine S. Fowler, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada; and Eugene M. Hattori, Curator, Department of Anthropology, Nevada State Museum
An interdisciplinary team with research interests in the fiber perishable artifacts of the Great Basin met to better establish and understand regional cultural chronologies and their broader implications.
May 17–18, 2011
Warfare and the Epidemiological Transition
Co-chaired by Charles Cobb, Professor, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of South Carolina and Dawnie Steadman, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University
This project aimed to combine archaeological and biological methods to create an epidemiological model of the “topography of warfare” during the Mississippian period in the southeastern United States.
November 8–9, 2011
Waorani Warfare: A Biocultural Perspective
Co-chaired by Steve Beckerman, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University; Pam Erickson, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut; and Jim Yost, Independent Scholar
This NSF Research Team Seminar was created to focus on advancing the research of a group of scholars on violence among the Waorani of eastern Ecuador, while expanding its relevance to research on human violence in general.
Generous funding for the Research Team Seminars provided by the National Science Foundation.