Department of Sociology and Anthropology Fall 08 Lecture Series
All lectures are from 3:30-4:30 in Leavell 105.

September 19th
COMDV 101: Intro to the McLean Insitute for Community Development
by Vaughn Grisham, Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Director of the McLean Insitute

Monday, October 20
Jim Pritchard
Vice President Brockington and Associates

How to be a Professional Archaeologist! Cultural Resource Management as a Career.

Ever wondered how to turn your love of archaeology and history into a career? Jim Pritchard works as a senior archaeologist at one of the nation's largest and most well-known Cultural Resource Management companies. His company is responsible for survey and excavation of archaeological sites all around the country that are threatened by development. His talk will focus on the history of contract archaeology in the United States, and will discuss the types of jobs available in archaeology and how to get them.

Friday, October 31
Kristian J. Carlson
Assistant Professor Department of Anatomy
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

Bone has an ability to (re)distribute itself to reinforce the skeleton where needed. To a certain extent, this happens during the lifetime of an animal. In their natural settings, primates exhibit a wide variety of movements, and each of these will subject the skeleton to stresses. By comparing similarities and differences in the behaviors of several primates with similarities and differences in the bones of these primates, relationships can be made between the form of bones and the function that these bones serve. It is these relationships that we can apply to fossils in order to infer what we don't know - the locomotor activities of extinct animals.

M ore Lectures TBA!

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