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Fall Instruction Begins!

Fall Instruction Begins Thursday September 28th!

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Two courses added for Fall!

AN 167, People of the Ice Age, and AN 132TS, Ceramic Analysis just added for Fall 2017.

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Prof. Stuart Tyson Smith appointed Director of ISBER

Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research names new Director


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Prof. Emeritus David Brokensha Flag Lowering

Our campus flag will be lowered this Wednesday, July 12, in honor of Prof. Brokensha's memory and his many contributions.

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Prof. Emeritus Michael Jochim wins Dickson Award, will teach class Fall 2017

Dickson Emeriti Professorship Award for 2017-18


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In Memoriam: David Brokensha

It is with great regret that I must inform you of the passing of one of our former department colleagues, Professor Emeritus David Warwick Brokensha. Following a year of chronic cardiac issues, Professor Brokensha passed away peacefully in his home in Fishoek, South Africa on the morning of June 15th, 2017. Professor Brokensha was born on May 23, 1923 and received his PhD in Anthropology from Oxford University in 1963. He joined the UCSB Anthropology faculty in 1966 and was active in teaching, research, and service until he retired in 1989.

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Graduate Student Khan Receives Teaching Award

The Graduate Student Association (GSA) Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA) recognizes graduate students who have shown excellence and gone above and beyond as teachers at UC Santa Barbara.

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Graduate Colloquium

Farming, Foraging, and Daily Life in the Moche World
 
DANA BARDOLPH, PhD Candidate
 
The Moche civilization of northern Peru is one of the best-known and most intensely studied archaeological cultures of the ancient New World, but often overlooked is the labor of men, women and children in the rural households that supported the growth and florescence of this complex society. Recent excavations by the Moche Origins Project afford a closer look at the daily lives and domestic labor practices of the pre-Hispanic occupants of this region. Analysis of data from these excavations for my dissertation reveals how shifts in agricultural strategies influenced the development of political complexity in the Moche world.

 

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