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Digital reconstruction for the shìshàlh Archaeological Research Project showing the face of a high-status man who lived 4,000 years ago. (Philippe Froesch / Visual Forensic)

Archaeology and Anthropology 50th Anniversary Lecture Series

Archaeology as Reconciliation: Community-Based Heritage Projects in Canada

Event

The fifth lecture in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology's 50th Anniversary Lecture Series: Archaeology and Anthropology in an Era of Engagement and Reconciliation.

Thursday, Feb. 7
4:30–6 pm
Arts Building Room 102, 9 Campus Dr.

Free and open to the public

Archaeology as Reconciliation: Community-Based Heritage Projects in Canada

A talk by Dr. Terry Clark (PhD), assistant professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Clark came to the U of S in 2016 from the Canadian Museum of History. He is the director of the shìshàlh Archaeological Research Project (sARP), a community-based collaboration of the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Toronto and the shìshàlh Nation. This project looks at long-term resource use, status inequality, mortuary practices, settlement patterns, territoriality and ritual within shíshálh lands. He is also engaged in several other heritage projects in Canada and around the world.


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