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Last call for NSF-funded research fellowships at Koobi Fora Field School

Submitted 3 April 2016 by Ashley Hammond

Students applying to the Koobi Fora Field School by APRIL 8, 2016 have the opportunity …

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AACT Panel - AAPA 2016

Submitted 31 March 2016 by Lauren Butaric

The Committee of Diversity (COD), Anthropologists outside of Anthropology Departments, Contingent and Teaching focused faculty …

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New Summer Program added to Turkana Basin Institute's Origins Field School in Kenya

Submitted 30 March 2016 by Scott Bjelland

The Turkana Basin Institute is now accepting applications for its new Origins Field School Summer Program [ http://www.kenyastudyabroad.org/origins-summer/ ], which will inaugurate on May 26 of this year. The program is open to all majors, and participants will earn at least 9 upper-division or graduate credits in paleoanthropology, archaeology, and …

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Pose Questions for Title IX Workshop and Presidential Panel at the AAPA

Submitted 30 March 2016 by Susan Antón

Audience Questions for Title IX Workshop and Presidential Panel At the 2016 annual meeting in Atlanta, the AAPA will offer two sessions relating to harassment. A TITLE IX Discussion will be offered on Thursday April 14 from 5-6:30 pm that will address the resources and recourse offered by Title IX …

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Call for Case Studies in Ethics

Submitted 27 March 2016 by Graciela Cabana

The Ethics Committee of the AAPA is developing educational resources for a new section on the AAPA website to provide information and training tools about ethics in our profession.

We are calling for real cases of ethical issues to serve as the potential foundation for the development of discipline-specific case …

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MSc Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University

Submitted 21 March 2016 by Antony Hanner Hopwood

Have you considered applying to the MSc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University? We offer a fee-waiver scholarship to offer holders with significant experience working in primate habitat countries! Past recipients of the award include Josia Razafindramanana, who was presented the Whitley Award for inspirational conservation leadership in 2012 …

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Intensive Osteology Research Workshop - Living and Dying on the Edge of Europe (Transylvania, Romania)

Submitted 21 March 2016 by Andre Gonciar / Katie Zejdlik Passalacqua

This is an intensive osteology laboratory research workshop, aimed to prepare students for field osteology, …

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Pathology Osteology Research Workshop - Health and Crisis in Medieval Transylvania (Romania)

Submitted 21 March 2016 by Andre Gonciar / Anna Osterholtz

The human remains under study come from a medieval isolated funerary mound, separated from both …

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Adult Osteology Laboratory Research Workshop - Medieval Crisis Populations on the European Frontier (Transylvania, Romania)

Submitted 20 March 2016 by Andre Gonciar / Jonathan Bethard

As the 15th century ends, the battle for Europe begins! The southeastern European frontier collapses …

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Bioarchaeology of Children / Juvenile Osteology Laboratory Research Workshop (Transylvania, Romania)

Submitted 20 March 2016 by Andre Gonciar / Jonathan Bethard

The aim of this project is to evaluate to what extent and how these major …

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Forensic Anthropology Field School in Albania and Romania; May 16-June 9, 2016

Submitted 11 March 2016 by Thomas A. Crist, Ph.D.

Albania’s magnificent archaeological site at Butrint National Park is one of two primary locations for …

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Roots of Europe Summer School in linguistics, archaeology, anthropology and genetics 25 July - 7 August 2016

Submitted 10 March 2016 by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, PhD

Roots of Europe Summer School in linguistics, archaeology, anthropology and genetics University of Copenhagen 25 …

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Elwyn Simons, Fossil Expert and Primate Conservationist, Dies at 85

Submitted 10 March 2016 by Gregg F. Gunnell

DURHAM, NC - Duke scientist-explorer Elwyn Simons, who studied living and extinct primates for more …

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University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2016 Field School in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology

Submitted 9 March 2016 by Sarah Mathena

This UMass Amherst field course introduces students to the role of the biological anthropologist, archaeologist …

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NSF - Digging into Data

Submitted 7 March 2016 by Rebecca Ferrell

NSF's Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) is participating in the fourth round of Digging into Data (DiD), a grants competition open to international, collaborative projects that address research questions in humanities and/or social science disciplines by using new, large-scale, digital data analysis techniques.

Dear Colleague Letter (DCL): …

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Business meeting 2016

Submitted 5 March 2016 by Susan Anton

Information for the AAPA Annual Business Meeting (Friday April 15th, 2016 at 5:45 pm in Atlanta). All members are invited to join us for the presentation of lifetime achievement and student awards and for the discussion of association business. In an effort to be more eco-friendly, we will be posting …

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A Guide to Student Events at the 2016 AAPA Annual Meeting

Submitted 1 March 2016 by Melanie Beasley

While all events at the AAPA benefit from student involvement, the following highlighted events were compiled by the Student Committee as being of particular interest for students this year. The list includes AAPA and affiliated events not directly organized by AAPA. All AAPA events are indicated by a preceding ‘AAPA’ …

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International course on Network Analysis, October 24-28, Barcelona (check grants below)

Submitted 18 February 2016 by Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno

Registration is open for the course "Introduction to Network Analysis in Life Sciences – 3rd …

Conference

Working your fingers to the bone. An interdisciplinary conference on identifying occupation from the skeleton

Submitted 14 February 2016 by Ana Luisa Santos

The University of Coimbra (World Heritage) welcome you to the Working your fingers to the bone. An interdisciplinary conference on identifying occupation from the skeleton.

Conference on ALL aspects of the effect of occupation on the skeleton, including dentition. This is an interdisciplinary conference with keynote speakers from anthropology, Dr. …

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AAPA CAREER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 12:00-2:00 Friday April 15th in Atlanta

Submitted 13 February 2016 by Joan Richtsmeier

This year at the AAPA meetings in Atlanta, the Executive Committee has invited Randall Robaudo of SciPhD (http://sciphd.com/) to host a Career Development Workshop. In this two hour interactive workshop we will discuss the technical, business and social skills that are valued both within and outside academia and …

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