Field Schools & Internships
- Summer Archaeological Field School
- Field Methods in Rock Art
- Belize (Archaeological)
- Mexico (Ethnographic)
- Maya Hieroglyphics Workshop
- Culture and Globalization in Quintana Roo
- Internships
Centers & Institutes
- Center for Archeological Studies (CAS)
- Center for the Arts & Symbolism in Ancient America
- Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS)
- Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
- Cemetery Research Projects
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UPCOMING EVENTS
University Lecture Series presents
Dr. Tom Huffman Lecture - April 6, 2010 - 7pm - Centennial Hall
On April 6, 2010 Dr. Tom Huffman, professor emeritus at The University of the Witwatersrand, will give a lecture entitled Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe: pathways to social complexity in Southern Africa. Dr. Huffman has conducted field work in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa for over 40 years where he excavated at Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe and many other sites. He served at the Head of Archaeology and later the Chair of Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for over 30 years and he is a world renowned scholar on the spread and development of Bantu societies in Southern Africa. He recently published Handbook to the Iron Age, the archaeology of pre-colonial farming societies in Southern Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press).
RECENT EVENTS
Previc Lecture-In November 2009 the Departments of Anthropology and Psychology invited Dr. Fred Previc to speak on this new book, The Dopaminergic mind in human evolution and history (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Previc has argued that the evolution of modern human cognition is an epigenetic process that resulted in the increased presence of chemical neurotransmitters in human brains. According to Previc this was due to major changes in diet and physical activities during the Pleistocene era.
The History Department’s Public History Program and the Anthropology Department co-sponsored the presentation of The Search for Amelia Earhart, an illustrated lecture by Thomas F. King, PhD, author of Thirteen Bonesand Amelia Earhart’s Shoes on November 11, 2009.
- Captured by the Japanese and executed
- Hidden as part of an elaborate espionage operation by the U.S., Great Britain, or others
- Trapped in a time/space warp
- Became Tokyo Rose
- Returned to the U.S. and died in the 1990’s
- OR the Nikumaroro Hypothesis—landed, survived for a while, and died on Nikumaroro atoll in the Phoenix Islands