February 10th, 2021 @ 6:30pm via online link (see bottom of page) Do Neandertals have to be just like us? The perpetual debate about Neanderthal and early modern human behaviour Dr. Dennis Sandgathe, Simon Fraser University. Since the discover of Neanderthals in the mid-1800s there has been an ongoing debate about how different or similar …
Ancient Environments and Archaeology of the Proposed West Coast Route of First Peopling of the Americas.Dr. Quentin, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Victoria Recent paleoenvironmental and archaeological work along the NW Coast of North America strongly suggests human occupation by 14,000 years ago, and probably earlier. The deglacial process on the coast …
November 18th, 2020 6:30pm-8:00pm Prospects for the southern Ice-Free Corridor: What lies in store at Wally’s Beach Gabriel M. Yanicki (Canadian Museum of History) & William T. D. Wadsworth (University of Alberta) Abstract: A little over a decade ago, work by a team of researchers from the University of Calgary moved the goalposts for the …
Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Holy Land in Victorian Popular CultureOctober 21st, 6:30 pm- 8:00 pm Kevin McGeough, ProfessorBoard of Governor’s Research Chair in Archaeological Theory and ReceptionCo-Editor, Alberta Archaeological Review Department of Geography & Environment (Archaeology)University of Lethbridge As European and North American archaeologists began exploring the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century, reports of …
Presentation Title Building a Maya Boomtown: Architectural Decisions within an Environmental Frontier Dr. Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown, Athabasca University Abstract There is no shortage of architectural studies focused on the form, placement, construction, and style of impressive, corbel-vaulted, limestone buildings of the ancient Maya heartland of the Yucatan Peninsula. The study of such features has the potential …
***CANCELLED*** MARCH 18th (Calgary Public Library – Central Location, Patricia A. Whelan Room) @ 7:30 pm:Chris Jass, Royal Alberta Museum Beneath the Surface: Bison, Lakes, and Public-influenced Research in Alberta Research on the Quaternary palaeontological record in Alberta takes many forms, ranging from prospecting in gravel pits to excavating cave deposits. As a result of …
FEBRUARY 19th (Calgary Public Library – Central Location, Patricia A. Whelan Room) @ 7:30 pm:Michael Parker-Pearson, Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonStonehenge: New Discoveries In the last 15 years there has been a transformation in our knowledge about this iconic and mysterious stone circle. Not only have new excavations revealed unexpected discoveries but a battery …
JANUARY 15th (Calgary Public Library – Central Location, Patricia A. Whelan Room) @ 7:30 pm:Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum-Bowdoin CollegeOn the Edge of the North Water: Cultural Contact at the Gateway to Greenland Foulke Fjord, in northwestern Greenland lies at the northern end of the North Water polynya, an area of open water that …
NOVEMBER 20th (University of Calgary, ES 162) @ 7:30 pm:Bill Perry, Parks CanadaArchaeological Resource Management in a post wildfire environment: Waterton Lakes NP. Waterton Lakes National Park is part of a rich cultural landscape that stretches back around ten thousand years primarily within the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nation. The Kenow Wildfire of 2017 …