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We run an exciting seminar programme in the Department of Archaeology, with speakers of diverse backgrounds, from South Africa and abroad. Our seminars are held on Mondays at 13:00 in the Seminar Room, Beattie 3.08, unless otherwise noted. All are welcome. 2011 SEMINARS: February 21st: Alex Mackay, Australian National University, Costs and benefits in technological decision making: examples from the late Pleistocene of southern Africa. February 28th: Martin Jones, Cambridge University, Food globalization in prehistory. March 8th: Vanessa Hayes, J. Craig Venter Institute, Genomics‑enabling research into defining the peoples of Southern Africa, both past and present [NB: Seminar at 3 pm on Tuesday]. March 14th: Katherine Kyriacou, University of Cape Town, Marine foods as a source of protein for Middle and Later Stone Age hunter‑gatherers on the Western Cape coast. March 22nd: Pippa Skotnes and Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town, ARC: The Visual University and its Columbarium [NB: Seminar on a Tuesday]. April 4th: David R. Braun, University of Cape Town, Early Pleistocene Aquatic Resource Exploitation in Northern Kenya. April 11th: Nicholas Conard, University of Tubingen, The Upper Paleolithic and the origins of food production in the Iranian Zagros. April 18th: Sylvia Tomaskova, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Origin Stories: Shamans and the Problem of Categories. May 3rd: Jenna C. Lavin, Heritage Western Cape, Variation in Oldowan Hominin Behavior: Evidence from the KBS Member, Northern Kenya. [NB: Seminar on Tuesday]. May 9th: John Parkington, University of Cape Town, Megamiddens of the West Coast.
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