Evolutionary Anthropology Capstone Presentations

ANT 216: Capstone Presentations

Friday, June 6 in 302 Young Hall

15 min presentations with questions following

11:00 – 12:30

Tamar Boussina — Gut Micro-flora Analysis of Barbary Macaques in Gibraltar: Assessing Potential for Interspecies Disease Transmission

Xinjun Zhang — Genetic Influences on Susceptibility of Cynomolgus Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) to Infection with the Malarial Parasite Plasmodium knowlesi

Kelly Eldridge — Identifying Culture Change during a Known Migration Event: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in Shaktoolik, Alaska

Cai Thorman — Questioning the Origins of Hellenistic Ruler Cult: Evidence for a Shared Cultural and Religious Tradition among the Indigenous Kingdoms of Ancient Turkey

BREAK

1:10 – 2:40

Laura Brink — Reconstructing Post-Marital Residence Patterns using Stable Isotope Analysis on an Early Period Site in Central California

Houston Martin — Investigating Early to Middle Holocene Mobility, Storage, and Technological Organization in Southeastern Wyoming

Kevin Smith — Lithic Crescents of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene in California and the Great Basin

Naomi Martisius — Specialized Bone Tools: Investigating a New Technology in the Middle Paleolithic