Past Events
Past events in the Department of Anthropology
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium: "Emerging Infectious Disease and Local Knowledge: A View from Ecological Anthropology", Dr. Alex Nading, Franklin & Marshall College
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium: "Great Expectations: The Potential and Perils of Employing Neutral Theory to Study Cultural Transmission in the Archaeological Record", Dr. Luke Premo, Washington State U.
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Sarah K. Brown (UCD) "Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of the Domestic Dog: From Village Dog to Ancient DNA
- Evolutionary Anthropology Capstone Presentations
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Nicolas Zwyns (UCD) "Excavations at the Upper Paleolithic Site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): New Results, Implications and Perspectives"
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Ann Horsburgh (Otago) "Becoming Farmers and Herders: The First Ancient DNA Evidence for the Origins of Southern Africa's Domestic Cattle
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Raven Garvey
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium
- Capstone Presentations Bryna Hull: Diachronic isotopic investigation into human foraging decisions in response to prolonged drought Neetha Iyer: Elucidating eco-evolutionary dynamics of disease, sociality, and movement patterns in Grauer's gorillas Gregory Wada: Evolution of the human microbiome: metagenomic insights into dietary adaptation, demographic patterning, and disease transmission from archaeological dental calculus
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium
- Capstone Presentations Erika Ebel: 1000 years of dovekies: investigating a focal resource in prehistoric northern Greenland Corey Johnson: Raw material constraints on Lower Pleistocene technological strategies: Perspectives from the Nihewan Basin Patricia McNeill: Understanding hunter-gatherer mobility using Sr isotopes in ostrich egg shell
- Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium
- Capstone Presentations Giulia Gallo: Interglacial Neanderthal fuel strategies: Evaluating the role of bone fuel in the Middle Paleolithic Sara Watson: Nature, origins, and development of technological strategies during the Middle to Later Stone Age transition along the southern coast of South Africa
- Evolutionary Colloquium: Dr. Robert Bettinger, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, UC Davis
- Evolutionary Colloquium: Dr. Mhairi Gibson, Reader in Anthropology, University of Bristol (UK)
- Applying evolutionary anthropology to population health interventions for the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia.
- Evolutionary Colloquium: Dr. Tsim Schneider, Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
- Evolutionary Colloquium: Dr. Amy Boddy, Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
- Evolutionary Wing Capstone Talks, June 7, 2023 at 4:10 pm: Alaina Brenner, Merrill Stuart, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
- Alaina Brenner, Merrill Stuart, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis: Titles TBD
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: Nov. 28, 2022: Giulia Gallo, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. Anthropology, UC Davis Exit Exam
- Giulia Gallo, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. Anthropology, UC Davis: A Zooarchaeological Approach to Combustion Features: an Investigation into Neanderthal Fire Using Behaviors.
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: Oct. 3rd 2022, Dr. Tony Di Fiore, Professor, Dept. Anthropology, UT Austin
- Dr. Tony Di Fiore, Professor, Dept. Anthropology, UT Austin: Comparative Mating Systems of Atelin Primates.
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: March 6, 2023: Dr. Xinjun Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan
- Dr. Xinjun Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan: "A Genetic Legacy from Archaic Humans — on the History, Selective Effects, and Detection of Archaic Introgression”
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: June 5, 2023: Dr. John Bunce, Senior Researcher, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Dr. John Bunce, Senior Researcher, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany: “Cultural Dynamics and Health in an Amazonian Population: New Theory and New Tools”
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: Nov. 21, 2022: Natalie Swinford, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. Anthropology, UC Davis: Exit Seminar
- Nov. 21, 2022: Natalie Swinford, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. Anthropology, UC Davis: How Demographic History Shapes Genetic Architecture and Influences Fertility and Immunity Phenotypes in Southern African Populations.
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: May 15, 2023: Erika Ebel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis: Exit Seminar
- Erika Ebel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis: “Interpreting High Arctic Subsistence Practices: A Multi-Component Faunal Analysis of Iita, NW Greenland"
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: June 12, 2023: Peiqi Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis: Exit Seminar
- Peiqi Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis: “The early Upper Paleolithic of the Tibetan Plateau and Northwest China: mapping modern human dispersal from the Steppe zone to the Tibetan Plateau”
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: April 24, 2023: Sara Watson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis: Exit Seminar
- Sara Watson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis: A Microlith by Any Other Name: Reevaluating Form and Context of Small Tool Technologies in the late Pleistocene of Southern Africa
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: April 3, 2023: Dr. Rebecca Chancellor, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Psychology/Sociology, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
- Dr. Rebecca Chancellor, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Psychology/Sociology, West Chester University “A Fifteen-Year Investigation of the Behavioral Ecology of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) living in Gishwati, a Remnant Forest in Rwanda”
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: Nov. 7, 2022: Dr. Deborah Bolnick, Associate Professor Dept. Anthropology, U. Connecticut
- Dr. Deborah Bolnick, Associate Professor Dept. Anthropology, U. Connecticut: Excavating the Sociohistorical Roots of Human Genomic Diversity in North America.
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: Dec. 5, 2022: Dr. Chris Morgan, Associate Professor, Dept. Anthropology, U. Nevada, Reno
- Dr. Chris Morgan, Associate Professor, Dept. Anthropology, U. Nevada, Reno: South Andean High Altitude Settlement as Evolutionary Process.
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium: February 6, 2023: Dr. Shannon Tushingham, Associate Professor/Museum Director, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman
- Dr. Shannon Tushingham, Associate Professor/Museum Director, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman: Human Autonomy and Ecocultural Diversity in Western North America
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium
- Title: The Mousterian from Trou al’Wesse (Modave, Belgium): site formation processes, lithic assemblage curation and implications for Late Neanderthal mobility Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Zwyns, UC Davis Dept. of Anthropology
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium
- Title: Reindeer Hunters of the Middle Paleolithic: Investigating Neandertal Subsistence Strategies in Quina Mousterian Contexts of Southwestern France Speaker: Dr. Susan Lagle, UC Davis Dept. of Anthropology
- Evolutionary Wing Colloquium
- Title: The Middle Stone Age from Varsche Rivier 003 (South Africa): innovation, environmental variation, and behavioral diversity in southern Africa during MIS 5 Speaker: Dr. Teresa Steele, UC Davis Dept. of Anthropology