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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Anthropology Department Seminar, "Exploring Hominin Dietary Strategies and Ecologies in Island Southeast Asia," a talk by Grace Veatch
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SUMMARY:Anthropology Department Seminar, "Exploring Hominin Dietary Strategies and Ecologies in Island Southeast Asia," a talk by Grace Veatch
DESCRIPTION:<span style="neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"><span>Abstract:<span style="display:inline!important"> As a taphonomist, Dr. E. Grace <span class="il">Veatch</span>’s research focuses on how archaic and modern humans exploited different resources and ecologies within the temporal and environmental contexts of the Pleistocene/Holocene. Dr. <span class="il">Veatch</span>’s approach to reconstructing the past is rooted in Middle Range Theory where she incorporates ethnoarchaeology, experimental taphonomy, and stable isotope analyses to understand the ecological relationship between humans and the environment. Specifically, Dr. <span class="il">Veatch</span> is interested in ‘meat-eating’ behavior and how smaller animals may have been included in ancient human diets – a resource group frequently overlooked in favor of larger game. For example, her ongoing taphonomic research at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) using the abundant faunal remains is revealing new and exciting details about the foraging behavior of the enigmatic hominin </span><em style="color:14.666666984558105px;font-variant-caps:inherit;">Homo floresiensis. </em><span style="display:inline!important">She has discovered evidence that </span><em style="color:14.666666984558105px;font-variant-caps:inherit;">Homo floresiensis </em><span style="display:inline!important">consumed both small and large mammals while her most recent research critically examines whether </span><em style="color:14.666666984558105px;font-variant-caps:inherit;">Homo floresiensis </em><span style="display:inline!important">had primary or secondary access to </span><em style="color:14.666666984558105px;font-variant-caps:inherit;">Stegodon</em> <em style="color:14.666666984558105px;font-variant-caps:inherit;">florensis insularis, </em></span><span style="display:inline!important;"><span>an extinct proboscidean and the largest herbivore from the Late Pleistocene of Flores. Beyond her research in Island Southeast Asia, Dr. <span class="il">Veatch</span> has conducted fieldwork in South Africa, Kenya, Malawi, and France. Dr. <span class="il">Veatch</span> received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Emory University in 2021, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.</span></span></span>
LOCATION:Tozzer 203
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