Arctic Forager Mobility and Information Exchange, ca. 2500-Contact era: a Study of Beringian Ceramic Technology
- Date: Monday, March 18, 2019 - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Building: DNA Building
Room: Room B104
The final lecture in the 2018-2019 North at Trent Series takes is presented by Shelby Anderson from Portland State University.
"Arctic Forager Mobility and Information Exchange, ca. 2500-Contact era: a Study of Beringian Ceramic Technology"
The lecture is open to the public, no charge, fully accessible location.
About the lecture:
Beringia was a critical pathway for the peopling of North America and has since continued to be a source of ideas, technology, and human movement for thousands of years. While archaeologists have established broader past patterns of interaction and migration, many questions remain about the ways that people expanded, contracted, and invested in Beringian social networks in relationship to forces of cultural change. The socially and environmentally dynamic mid-late Holocene period is of particular interest, as this is when multiple migrations of people moved across Beringia. Prior ceramic research established that ceramic technology was part of Beringian information exchange networks over the last 1000 years, and that networks changed over time in relationship to shifting settlement patterns. New ceramic analysis is directed at understanding longer term patterns of cultural exchange between northwest Alaskans and the broader Beringian region over the last 2500 years.
About our speaker:
Shelby Anderson (PhD University of Washington) is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. Her interests include past hunter-gatherer societies, human ecodynamics, evolutionary theory, ceramic technologies, and archaeology of the Arctic, Subarctic and Pacific Northwest. Cross-cutting these interests is a commitment to community engagement and collaborative interdisciplinary research.
CONTACT INFO:
Cathy Schoel frostcentre@trentu.ca
Posted on March 1, 2019