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Audrey Horning to speak on “The Ever Present Past”

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Special Archaeology Fall Lecture at UMass Boston

Professor Audrey Horning of the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology at  Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland will speak:
Wednesday, October 1
3:00-4:00 pm McCormack Building, First Floor, Room 503

The title of her talk is:

“The ever present past: Colonial legacies and the archaeology of the Atlantic world”

All are invited….

Author: John Steinberg

Dr. John Steinberg has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2006. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1997. Before coming to UMass Boston, John taught at UCLA and California State University Northridge. He is interested in the economic problems of colonization, both in New England and across the North Atlantic. He uses GIS and shallow geophysics to study settlement patterns to understand broad trends over the landscape. In addition to John's New England work, he has been studying the settlement patterns of Viking Age Iceland. John is the director of the Digital Archaeology Laboratory at the Fiske Center.

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