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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