Trent University Presents the Annual Kenneth Kidd Lecture January 26

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Public welcome to lecture by visiting archaeologist

Monday, January 23, 2012, Peterborough

The Department of Anthropology at Trent University will host the 2012 Kenneth Kidd Lecture on Thursday, January 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Bagnani Hall at Catharine Parr Traill College, with a presentation by Dr. Tristan Carter, McMaster University anthropology professor,.

Dr. Carter's presentation, entitled 'Through a Glass Darkly: Reconstructing Neolithic Interaction via Obsidian Sourcing in the Eastern Mediterranean,’ is free and open to the public.

Dr. Carter is an archaeologist whose research focuses on eastern Mediterranean prehistory, primarily the Aegean, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia, spanning the epi-palaeolithic to late bronze age. Working mainly with stone tools, his studies consider modes of production and consumption as reflections of past cultural habits. His recent work has involved a series of obsidian techno-typological / sourcing studies as a means of investigating inter-community relations in bronze age (‘Minoan’) Crete, household traditions at Aceramic Neolithic - Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, and the ‘materiality of pilgrimage’ in northern Mesopotamia.

The Kenneth Kidd Lecture series is named for the late Kenneth E. Kidd, first chair of Trent's Anthropology Department. Lectures in this series are given by visiting guests, Trent faculty and research fellows, and graduate students in Anthropology.

All members of Trent and the Peterborough community are welcome to this free event.

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For more information, please contact: Judy Pinto, 705-748-1011 x7825, jpinto@trentu.ca