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February 5 Dr. Karen Leslie Kramer
Evolutionary Ecologist and Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah; Research: evolution of human sociality and behavior, cooperative breeding, parenting and childhood. Field work in a traditional Maya Yucatec village documenting and modeling children’s time allocation, juvenile cooperation, intergenerational resource flows, female energetics, and high fertility in a pretransitional population. Research among the Venezuelan Pumé, mobile hunter gatherers addressing questions on children’s growth, development and reproductive strategies and seasonal resource availability issues on fertility and child mortality. Collaboration: conservation biologists & primatologists working in Madacascar highlands. Previous teaching: Harvard University, Stony Brook University.
Our Cooperative Nature: Contrasting Child Development in Traditional Indigenous and Industrialized Societies

February 12 Dr. Lisa J. LeCount
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama; Archaeologist researching social and political practices, such as feasting, gift giving, market exchange, & cooperative undertakings that built alliances and created identities in ancient state-level polities. Former director, Actuncan Archaeological Project investigating roles households played in the rise and fall of Maya kingship at Acuntan, Belize. She has also conducted field excavations in Peru, Ecuador, and North America, including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California. Her technical specialty is Pre-Columbian pottery. Co-Editor (w/BJ Myers), The Only True People: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present; (w/J Yeager), Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands.
Like Water for Chocolate: Ka’kaw in Domestic & Political Rituals Among Ancient Maya of Central America

February 19 Dr. John H. Blitz
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology & Curator Emeritus of Southeastern Archaeology, University Museums, University of Alabama; Directed excavations at prehistoric site of Moundville, Alabama by graduate and undergraduate students; Speaks and writes about the archaeology of indigenous US Southeast and the Maya Lowlands. Participation in investigations at Actuncan ancient political center in Belize, Central America. Co-Author: (w/PM Bingham & J. Souza, ‘Social Complexity and the Bow in the Prehistoric North American Record’ and (w/ES Porth), ‘Social Complexity and the Bow in the Eastern Woodlands’ both in Evolutionary Anthropology; (w/L.J. LeCount) ‘A Comment on “Funerals as Feasts: Why Are They So Important?” ‘, in Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
Death from a Distance: How our Ability to Throw, Create Stone Tools & Use Projectile Weapons Affected Human Evolution.

February 26  Dr. Joseph H. Suina (Pueblo of Cochiti)
Former Governor, Pueblo of Cochiti and Professor Emeritus of Education, University of New Mexico; Tribal Council Member; Professor Emeritus, Department of Education (ret.); and Former Director, Institute for American Indian Education (IAIE), University of New Mexico; Former Board Member, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; Study Leader: Travels With a Scholar, Southwest Seminars  and Pueblo World Tour, Amerind Foundation; Author, ‘And Then I Went to School’, in Teaching for Joy and Justice; Chapter Author, in Research, Education, & American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; Study Leader, Pueblo World Tour, Amerind Foundation;  Author, ‘And Then I Went to School’, in Teaching for Joy and Justice.
Water is Life

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