Archaeology Research Focus Group

	Next Meeting: Monday, 12 May, 5 pm McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Re-claiming the  Ruins  of  "Japan's" Imperial Antiquity: Colonial Archaeological Surveys and Heritage Tourism in the Korean Peninsula (1900-1943) Hyung Il Pai, Depts. of History and East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCSB more info • • • flyer• • • • past events

Additional Archaeological Events

Monday, 5 May, 7:30 pm
Farrand Hall, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
The Grammar and Syntax of the Dead:
An Analysis of Chumash Mortuary Practice
Ray Corbett, Ph.D., Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Presented by the Santa Barbara County Archaeological Society
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Statement of Purpose

The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Focus Group proposes to draw together faculty and graduate students across seven departments and two divisions within the College of Letters and Sciences.  The differing approaches now current in archaeological research are based in several factors: specialization in particular technologies, widely divergent temporal and cultural areas of research, and varying ways of integrating archaeological research with other disciplines in the human sciences.  This group is a forum for sustained conversation across disciplinary boundaries, in which projects are presented at a certain level of sophistication, not only for those working in the archaeology of specific subfields or cultural areas, but also for fellow archaeologists further afield. We hope that our discussions will be of interest not only to faculty and graduate students engaged in active fieldwork, but also to others from within and outside the UCSB community engaged or interested in archaeological research. 

Conveners and List of Participants:

Michael Jochim (Professor, Anthropology), jochim@anth.ucsb.edu
Christine Thomas (Associate Professor, Religious Studies), thomas@religion.ucsb.edu