4/18/2023 0 Comments Iron marines beam me up scotty![]() Ambrose's research and his research interests really cut across a wide range of different time periods. Movius and like the sort of mission of the Harvard Museum of Science and Culture, Dr. The other tie-in is that, I think, like Dr. Glenn Isaac, who then came here in 1983 as the second paleolithic archaeologist after Dr. He attended UMass Boston as an undergraduate, but he also received his PhD in 1984 at the University of California Berkeley under Dr. One is I just learned Stan is actually from the same hometown as Professor Movius, Newton, right here. Stanley Ambrose, which I'm very happy to do. So there's a tie-in here in that the point of me being up here is to introduce tonight's speaker, Dr. Importantly, with his appointment here in 1939 as curating in the Peabody and then later an appointment as a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology in 1948, he was the first paleolithic archaeologist working at Harvard. His work ranged from the Irish mesolithic to the sort of East Asian lower paleolithic, and probably most famously upper paleolithic sites, such as Abri Pataud in Southwestern France. He was really internationally recognized as a paleolithic archaeologist, but he did a wide range of things. Professor Movius was a distinguished scholar, a curator and archaeologist here at Harvard University. So as you've heard, tonight is the annual Hallam L Movius Jr. I don't know if you can work out the caption there in the lower side, but some nice work that he was doing as a graduate student in the early 1930s at a site in Israel called the Mugharet el-Skhul. It is sometimes about unearthing new information, new photographs, new images in the archives, and these are just a fun series of photographs that I recently came across in the archives in the Bancroft Library at University of California Berkeley, including my favorite, Movius on his first camel. ![]() ![]() Archaeology is not just about unearthing artifacts. Ambrose, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stanley Ambrose will discuss the behaviors that contributed to the competitive advantage of modern humans and the demise of Neanderthals.ΔΆ015 Hallam L. Neanderthals, on the other hand, behaved more like primate troops, living in small, closed territories with limited intergroup interaction. Archaeological evidence suggests that modern humans survived this era by creating cooperative intergroup social networks and behaving like tribes. The eruption of the Mount Toba supervolcano in the Indonesian island of Sumatra74,000 years ago brought about an era of severe environmental degradation that decimated populations of Neanderthals and modern humans. See also: Public Lectures, Archaeology, Evolution, Hallam L.
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