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Fall Waring Lecture
October 4, 2004
CARROLLTON, GA - The Anthropology Department and the Antonio J. Waring Anthropology Endowment of the University of West Georgia will play host to an internationally recognized historian and archeologist.
Dr.
Kathleen Deagan, Distinguished Research Curator of Archeology at the Florida
Museum of Natural History, will present a public lecture entitled, “Archaeology
at Columbus’ First American Town: La Isabela 1493-1498” at
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, in Kathy Cashen Hall on the first floor of the
Humanities Building. The lecture will discuss and illustrate new understanding
of the Columbian venture revealed by archeology.
Deagan is internationally recognized as one of the leading archeologists who specialize in the Spanish Colonial period. She has conducted research in St. Augustine, Fla. since 1972 and the Caribbean since 1979. Her research has focused on Spanish colonization in Florida and the Caribbean, particularly on cultural development in response to the environment and the social realities of colonization. She has meticulously documented the earliest Spanish occupation of the Caribbean in the town of La Isabela, Christopher Columbus' first town in the New World.
Deagan will also present a classroom lecture, "Historical Archaeology in St. Augustine, Florida; revealing the unwritten past," at 9 a.m. in room 1-303 of the TLC building discussing 30 years of archaeology in St. Augustine. After this lecture, she will meet with anthropology students at a noon reception in room 304 of the Pafford Building.
The Waring Distinguished Lecturers in Anthropology is a public lecture series of the Anthropology Department at UWG. All students and faculty are invited to attend and participate. For more information contact the anthropology department at 678-839-6455 or Dr. Karl Steinen, professor of anthropology, at 678-839-6454.
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