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Sept. 14, 2006 -- The rapid dispersal of the world's human populations will be the topic of the eighth annual George C. Frison Institute lecture, Thursday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m. in Room 216 of the University of Wyoming S.H. Knight Geology Building.
Gary Haynes, professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, will give the free lecture, titled "The Quick and the Dead: Rapid Human Dispersals." He will discuss the facts, unanswered questions, and current research to explore how the world's scattered and small human populations could have dispersed so far and fast in the last 100,000 years.
In addition to his ongoing studies of elephants and other large African mammals, he is developing a major human biogeography initiative for the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). Haynes, who is president of INQUA's Commission on Palaeoecology and Human Evolution, collaborates with archeologists, paleontologists, and earth scientists worldwide to study the long-distance dispersal of modern people and the colonization of new continents.
In 1998, UW created the George C. Frison Institute, providing a focus for the study of cultural dynamics and prehistory in North America. Frison is a UW professor emeritus of anthropology known internationally for his contributions to archaeology, particularly in the area of paleoindian research. He was the first UW professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
This lecture is sponsored by the George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month, the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists and the UW Department of Anthropology.
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Gary Haynes, professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada. (Courtesy Photo)
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006
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