Dr. Marilyn Norconk traveled to Entebbe, Uganda to give a paper to the International Primatological Society, June 2006.

Drs. T. Kam Manahan, Richard Meindl, and Mark Seeman gave papers at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.

Dr. Richard Meindl will present a workshop in demographic anthropology to the faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma, Mexico City, November 2005.

Dr. Rick Feinberg gave a professional paper at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings in Charlottesville, Virginia, March 2007.

New Courses in Anthropology

A new course is The Archaeology of Death and Mortuary Practices, (ANTH 48225), an upper division course that examines the connections between the living and the dead as they pertain to rites and rituals of grieving, funeral, memorialization, and ancestor worship. The course includes not only a cross-cultural examination of such practices, but also a project involving the primary analysis & interpretation of mortuary data from an ancient cemetery.

An archaeological field school will be offered in the Summer of 2007. This will be offered locally and will involve the instruction of archaeological and forensic techniques. Dr. Linda Spurlock will be the instructor.