Anthropology Dept. and Climate Change Institute to Host Smithsonian Experts
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Two renowned archaeobiology experts from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History will visit the University of Maine next week, for lectures presented by UMaine’s Dept. of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute.
Bruce Smith, Smithsonian curator of North American archaeology, will discuss “Everything You Need to Know About the Origins of Agriculture” on Monday Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in Room 100 of the Bryand Global Sciences Center. Melinda Zeder, the Smithsonian archaeobiology program director, will give a Wednesday Nov. 4 talk, “Pathways to Animal Domestication,” at 2 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Bangor Room.
The archaeobiology program is part of the Smithsonian’s anthropology program. It hosts more than 4,000 cubic feet of archaeobiological collections, conducts research in zooarchaeology and archaeobotany, and operates a significant outreach program. Its role within the Smithsonian is to explore “the history of human interactions with plants and animals.”
The public is invited to these UMaine lectures, which are free.