Don’t miss a talk by Jeffrey Schloss (Westmont College) that is part of James Barnett Lecture Series in Humanistic Anthropology. J. Schloss will present this upcoming Monday in Austin Building.
Month: March 2016
M. San Pedro received a Fulbright U.S. student award to Nicaragua
Congratulations to Michelle San Pedro, who has been selected as a Finalist for a 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Nicaragua! She will represent the country as a cultural ambassador while overseas, helping to enhance mutual understanding between Americans and the people in Nicaragua.
A new study by Gideon Hartman published in PNAS
Congratulations to Gideon Hartman, leading author on a study just published in PNAS. The co-authors also include Natalie Munro and a graduate student Alex Brittingham.
Hunted gazelles evidence cooling, but not drying, during the Younger Dryas in the southern Levant
Gideon Hartman, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Alex Brittingham, Leore Grosman, and Natalie D. Munro
The Terminal Pleistocene Younger Dryas (YD) event is frequently described as a return to glacial conditions. In the southern Levant it has featured prominently in explanations for the transition to agriculture—one of the most significant transformations in human history. This study provides rare local measures of the YD by deriving gazelle isotopic values from archaeological deposits formed by Natufian hunters just prior to and during the YD. The results provide evidence for cooling, but not drying during the YD and help reconcile contradicting climatic reconstructions in the southern Levant. We suggest that cooler conditions likely instigated the establishment of settlements in the Jordan Valley where warmer, more stable conditions enabled higher cereal biomass productivity and ultimately, the transition to agriculture…
A. Petrillo received an Honorable Mention in the NSF competition
Congratulations to Ashley Petrillo for receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship competition!!
Ashley will study the development of dairying economies in the Southern Levant using zooarchaeological and stable isotope methods for her dissertation research.
Summer Sessions 2016
Interesting summer courses offered by the Department of Anthropology from May to August 2016. There is still chance to register throughout the summer. For more information, visit UConn Summer Sessions webpage.
