Fall 2012
Settlement Pattern Studies and the Emergence of the Current Model of Ancient Maya Civilization
Dr. Jeremy Sabloff
President, Santa Fe Institute
Fall 2011
Mapping Places: Trade, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Ancient Near East
Dr. Rita P. Wright
Professor, Department of Anthropology & The Center for Human Origins
New York University
Fall 2010
Peopling the Red Continent: The Pleistocene Colonization of Australia
Dr. James F. O'Connell
Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
Fall 2009
Tuberculosis: A Deep Time Perspective
Dr. Jane E. Buikstra
Professor of Bioarchaeology and Director, Center for Bioarchaeological Research
Arizona State University
Fall 2008
The Origins of Agriculture - Everything You Need to Know
Dr. Bruce D. Smith
Senior Research Scientist and Curator of North American Archaeology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Fall 2007
In Praise of "Older" Women: Women's Work and Women's Lives 25,000 Years Ago
Dr. Olga Soffer
Professor of Anthropology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2006
Those Elusive Spanish Missions: Romance and Reality in America's Mystical Mission Past
Dr. David Hurst Thomas
Curator of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
Fall 2005
Co-Evolution of War and Society in Ancient Mexico
Dr. Joyce Marcus
Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor
University of Michigan
Fall 2004
From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Social Evolution in Ancient Hawai'i
Dr. Patrick V. Kirch
Class of 1954 Distinguished Teaching Professor
University of California at Berkeley