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Wednesdays from 12-1pm, Archaeology Center, Bldg. 500
Lunch provided.

2012-2013 academic year

May 22nd - "Community Engagement in and as Archaeological Scholarship: A North American Example" presented by Steve Silliman (UMass Boston) Flyer here

May 15th - "The Historical Resource Curse: Heritage, Development and the South African Diamond Fields" presented by Lindsay Weiss (Stanford University) Flyer here

May 1st - "Nomadic Archaeology and the Making of Colonial New Mexico" presented by Lindsay Montgomery (Stanford University) Flyer here

April 24th - "Xiongnu Archaeology in the Context of Ancient East Asia," presented by In Uk Kang (Kyung Hee University, Korea) Flyer here

April 17th - "Intellectual Tyranny and Violence in the United States," presented by Terry L. Jones (CalPoly) Flyer here

April 10th - "Brazilian Archaeology: History, Trends and Outlook" presented by Pedro Paulo A. Funari  (Brazilian Professor of the Department of History, University of Campinas, Brazil) Flyer here

March 13th - "The Mauritian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Project: Archaeological Insights Into Post-Medieval Labour Diasporas" presented by Krish Seetah (Stanford University) Flyer here

March 6th - "Archaeological Heritage Policies in Europe: the French Experiment" presented by Pascal Depaepe (French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, INRAP) Flyer here

February 27th - "This is (not) A Talk About Rocks: Thoughts on Source- Entanglement and Raw Material Procurement" presented by Adam Nazaroff (Stanford University) Flyer here

February 20th - "Understanding and Stewarding the Kashaya Pomo Landscape: A Community-Based Approach" presented by Kathy Dowdall (Associate Archaeologist at Caltrans, Lecturer at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College) Flyer here

February 13th - "From Landscape to Politics- the Gordion Regional Survey, Turkey" presented by Lisa Kealhofer (Santa Clara University) Flyer here

February 6th - "Pottery and Petsas House: Recent Research on Late Helladic IIIA 2 Mycenae" presented by Kim Shelton (University of Berkeley) Flyer here

January 30th - "Material Contexts of Social Inequality in the Southern Andes (Valle de Ambato Argentina, c. VI- X A.D.)" presented by Andrés Laguens (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Flyer here

January 23rd - "Materializing Difference in the South Indian Iron Age" presented by Carla Sinopoli (Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan) Flyer here

November 14th - "Decolonizing the Canadian Museum of Civilization: Barriers and Possibilities" presented by Stacey Jessiman de Nanteuil (Visiting Student Researcher at the Stanford Archaeology Center) Flyer here

November 7th - "Colonialism in California: Taking a Fresh Look at Complex Hunter-Gatherers" presented by Kent Lightfoot (Professor of Anthropology, University of Berkeley) Flyer here

October 31st - "Stanford Southwestern Ethnographic Field School Experiences" presented by the Undergraduate Students

October 24th - "What is a Biocultural Model?- A Defense of Why Biocultural Models are Essential for the Future of Bioarchaeology" presented by Patrick Beauchesne (PhD, University of Berkeley) Flyer here

October 17th - "Modeling for the Masses: Advances and Applications of Photogrammetry" presented by John Rick (Stanford University) Flyer Here

October 10th - "Why Archaeology is Always Political" presented by Professor Martin Hall (University of Salford) Flyer here

October 3 - "I Know What You Did Last Summer" presented by the undergraduate students on their summer field work Flyer here

2011-2012 academic year

April 11 - "The Priestesses of San Jose de Moro, Female Power and the Collapse of the Moche of Ancient Peru" presented by Luis Jaime Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del  Peru) Flyer here

April 4 - "Changing Practices in Turkish Archaeology" presented by Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol, England) Flyer here

March 7- "Digital Outerfaces to Archaeological Investigation" presented by Ruth Tringham (UC Berkeley). Flyer here

February 29- "“Rethinking Archaeological Practice and Relationships, Past and Present: Lessons from Honduras and Mexico” presented by Doris Maldonado (IHUM Fellow, Stanford University). Flyer here

February 22- "Archaeological Resource Management: relations between academia and heritage management” presented by Willem J.H. Willems (University of Leiden). Flyer here

February 15- "A Transition Towards Standardization at Cerro del Oro" presented by Francesca Fernandini (PhD Student, Stanford University). Flyer here

February 8- “What do the Great Stones of Chavín Want?” presented by Prof. Mary Weismantel (Professor of Anthropology & Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University). Flyer here

February 1- "From osteometry to cruise ship dollars: Archaeology and economic development in Nunavik" presented by Elspeth Ready (PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University). Flyer here

January 25 - “'New and Shiny Ruins” presented by Dr. Stratos Nangolou (Greek Archaeological Service). Flyer here

January 18 - “'Death and Destruction at La Real: Mortuary Rituals and Social Change in Pre-Columbian Southern Peru” presented by Justin Jennings (University of Toronoto & Royal Ontario Museum). Flyer here

November 30 - “'I Just Couldn't Wait to Start Digging!' - An Overview of Stanford's Big Dig Educational Outreach Project” presented by Lisa Newble (Stanford University). Flyer here

November 16 - “Experiences in Community-Oriented Archaeology in Three New World Settings” presented by Prof. John Rick (Stanford University). Flyer here

November 9 - “Between Susa and Anshan: Results of research in the Mamasani Region, southwestern Iran” presented by Daniel Potts (University of Sydney). Flyer here

November 2 - “Fixing CRM Archaeology” presented by Adrian Praetzellis  (Sonoma State University). Flyer here

October 26 - “Distance learning applications in the field of archaeological heritage” presented by Arek Marciniak (University of Poznań, Poland). Flyer here

October 19 - "Anthropologies of Ivory: A Report on Field Work and Dissertation Brainstorming" presented by Alexandra Kelly (PhD Candidate, Stanford University). Flyer here

October 12 - "Architecture as Materialization: An Archaeological Glance" presented by Felipe Criado-Boado (Spanish National Research Council & Institute of Heritage Sciences). Flyer here

October 5 - Undergraduates’ summer fieldwork presentations. Flyer here