[OR_Archaeology] PSU Archaeology presentation this Thursday, 12/2

[Susan White]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please join us for the archaeology presentation on Thursday, Dec. 2nd at 
4:00 pm on the campus at Portland State University (Smith Center, Rm 
328/329).

Ben Fitzhugh (University of Washington)  will present :
Attenuated Interactions: Archaeology of the remote Kuril Islands, NW 
Pacific

The remote and geologically active Kuril Islands stretch from northern 
Japan to the Kamchatka peninsula and were partially to fully occupied by 
maritime foragers for much of the past 7000 years.  The Kuril 
Biocomplexity Project has explored the history of human 'ecodynamics' in 
this remote northwest Pacific region since 2006 to develop a better 
understanding of the history of human settlement and of environmental 
changes and hazards in this volcanic and tsunami prone subarctic zone.  
This research is beginning to shed light on questions of the 
paleodemographic history of the archipelago, the resilience of small 
scale societies to 'natural disasters', and the role of social networks 
in human adaption to remote and vulnerable places.  This talk will 
summarize some of these findings and seek to generalize insights from 
this research to propose a model for the dynamic evolution of social 
networks in the Kuril context.


Please note, the talk will be held in SMITH CENTER, Room 328/329

The presentation is hosted by the Anthropology Student Association and 
the Department of Anthropology at PSU.   It is free and open to the public.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

-- 
Virginia L. Butler
Department of Anthropology
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207
503.725.3303
butlerv at pdx.edu