Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events - Spring 2019
Heather Hurst, associate professor of anthropology, has received an award from the
Rust Family Foundation for a project entitled 鈥淧reparing a High-Resolution Chronology
of Xultun, Guatemala,鈥� which will enable examination of the critical periods of social
change in the Mayan civilization spanning the Middle Preclassic to Terminal Classic
periods (1000 BCE to CE 950).Hurst will also make an appearance on the new National Geographic Channel series 鈥淟ost Treasures of the Maya鈥� at 9 p.m. March 25. In the episode, 鈥淪ecrets of the Lost City,鈥� lost pyramids and hidden treasures reveal the epic scale of the ancient Mayan civilization.
S贸nia Silva, associate professor of anthropology, published an article in French for
the Quebecois journal of anthropology, Antropologie et Socie虂te虂s. The article鈥檚 title
is 鈥淭emps, pre虂diction et avenir dans la divination re虂trospective: Une e虂tude de
cas en Zambie,鈥� which translates to 鈥淭ime, Prediction, and the Future in Retrospective
Divination: A Case from Zambia.鈥�