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Call for abstracts for AGU GeoHealth Special Session: Learning from our Ancestors

Submitted 15 July 2018 by Ken Verosub

Do you work at the interface between earth science and human health? Please consider taking advantage in December of a unique opportunity to present your work to a broad spectrum of colleagues with similar interests. The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary with a meeting in Washington, …

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Course ANATOMICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS (AnNA)

Submitted 18 June 2018 by Soledad De Esteban Trivigno

Open registration for the intensive course ANATOMICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS (ANNA).

Dates: October 22nd-26th, 2018.

Place: …

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Anthroengineering

Submitted 15 June 2018 by Michael Berthaume

LAUNCH OF THE ANTHROENGINEERING NETWORK

We are delighted to launch the Anthroengineering Network to bring together people working at the interface of anthropology and engineering! This network is inclusive of all (sub)disciplines of engineering (e.g., mechanical, chemical, civil) and anthropology (e.g., design, biological, and archaeological) to integrate all those working …

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Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Submitted 13 June 2018 by Leslie Aiello

The recent National Academy of Sciences report on Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and …

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Mass Disaster and Post Bomb Blast Scene Recovery Class

Submitted 8 June 2018 by Dorianis Perez

Course Summary: The goal of the course is to provide participants with a working knowledge …

Conference

Languages and migrations in prehistoric Europe

Submitted 7 June 2018 by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead

LANGUAGES AND MIGRATIONS IN PRE-HISTORIC EUROPE

Roots of Europe Summer Seminar at NorS and the National Museum of Denmark 7–12 August 2018

LINGUISTS, ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND GENETICISTS DIG INTO EUROPE’S PREHISTORIC PAST IN A NEW, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION

Prehistory – defined as the time period before the emergence of written records – …

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Archaeological Organizations Combine Resources to Develop New Ethics Database

Submitted 4 June 2018 by Caren Madsen Consulting

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 4, 2018 Contact: Caren Madsen 301-943-8240

Archaeological Organizations Combine Resources to Develop New Ethics Database Register works with counterpart in the United Kingdom to offer international resource

BALTIMORE, MD – The Register of Professional Archaeologists (the Register) and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), based in …

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European Body Size and Bone Structural Database

Submitted 25 May 2018 by Christopher Ruff

A database of osteological dimensions and long bone biomechanical properties of more than 2000 European skeletons spanning the Upper Paleolithic to the 20th century is available at the following web address: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/fae/CBR.html. Please note that a previous on-line version of this database was corrupted; the correct database was uploaded …

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Digital Dilemma Conference (University College London)

Submitted 22 May 2018 by M Shruti Kamath

Digital Dilemma 2018 is a one-day conference hosted by the Department of Archaeology, University College …

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2018 Applied Genomics in Anthropological Research (AGAR) Workshop

Submitted 22 May 2018 by Joanna Malukiewicz

Registration now is open for the 2018 Application of Genetics to Anthropological Research (AGAR) Bioinformatics Workshop. This year’s workshop will provide students and scholars with experience in analyzing genomic data from installing and combining software to running variant call analyses, visualizing data, and testing for functional enrichment of significant regions. …

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