Visiting professor David J. Meltzer will present the 20th Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture “The 70 Year Itch: Controversies over Human Antiquity & their Resolution.” The lecture will be held Thursday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM Anthropology lecture hall, room 163.
Meltzer is the Henderson- Morrison professor of pre-history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Meltzer will show how excavations at Brixham Cave in Southern England and Monte Verde in Chile have – after considerable controversy and debate – fundamentally changed views and knowledge of human antiquity.
He will also present a special seminar titled “In the Belly of the Beast: A New Look at the Folsom Site,” Friday, April 15, at noon in Anthropology room 178.
Both events are free and open to the public. For more information call (505) 277-4544.
The University of New Mexico in the interest of general anthropology has published the Journal of Anthropological Research quarterly since 1945. Editor of the journal is UNM Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Straus.
Contact: Greg Johnston (505) 277-1816