Daily Bread: Prehistoric Cooking Features in the Northern Sacamento Valley

Kristina Crawford, M.A. Anthropology
CSU, Chico graduate

Ms. Crawford shares some interesting highlights from her master's thesis, illustrating how the food and cooking methods used by Indians in the Northern Sacramento Valley reflected on land use, population changes, and other events in prehistoric times. She outlines the different ways the indigenous people cooked in an area that includes what are now Butte, Glenn, Shasta, and Tehama counties. Included is information about what was cooked, from acorns to fish to root vegetables. Ms. Crawford studied the cooking methods of six tribes.

Presentation time: 46 minutes

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Clean Water and Sanitation near Mt. Kilimanjaro: A Story of Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Dr. Walt Schafer
CSU, Chico Sociology Professor Emeritus

Dr. Shafer's presentation describes a program begun in 2008 through which Chico Rotary Club and 15 other Rotary clubs in Northern California have partnered with the Rotary Club of Moshi, Tanzania, and with Rotary International to bring clean water and sanitation to villages in the Mt. Kilimanjaro region of northern Tanzania. This multi-year, sustainable collaboration has become a model of community development. The presentation highlights needs assessments, opportunities, challenges, successes, individual stories, and future plans.

Presentation time: 47 minutes

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More Potholes, Goats, and Questions than Answers: The 2011 Field Season at Betty's Hope, Antigua

Dr. Georgia Fox
CSU, Chico Anthropology Department Faculty

Every summer since 2008, CSU, Chico students have traveled to the Caribbean island of Antigua to participate in an ongoing archaeological excavation there. Chico State Anthropology Professor Georgia Fox has led these trips, during which students gain valuable field experience. In this presentation, Dr. Fox describes the work of excavating the buried ruins of a colonial sugar plantation. The building foundations and artifacts that have been unearthed by the students reveal much about the history of early European settlers in Antigua. Another group of students will be traveling to Antigua with Dr. Fox in summer 2012.

Presentation time: 47 minutes

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Before the "Mouse" the Travel Agent was Your Dealer in Dreams

Dr. Valene L Smith
CSU, Chico Anthropology Professor Emeritus

Dr. Smith is a pioneer in the field of anthropological tourism, as well as a distinguished CSU, Chico Professor Emeritus. The anthropology museum on campus is named for her. Her studies have focused on the economic and social impacts of the tourism industry around the globe. In ths presentation, Dr. Smith gives an historical perspective of anthropological tourism, from the late 1950s (when she co-owned a travel agency) to the present. She shows how tourism patterns have changed due to changes in world population distribution and other factors. She also dicusses changes in the travel industry due to the rise of the personal computer.

Presentation time: 47 minutes

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Diet and Health in Prehistoric California - Lifeways of the Ancestral Ohlone

Karen Smith Gardner
CSU, Chico Anthropology Graduate Student

The subtitle of this presentation is "Insights from Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Bone from the Yukisma Mound." Karen Smith Gardner presents her research from studying an Ohlone native tribal burial site unearthed in Santa Clara County, near Milpitas, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. She discusses dietary patterns of the tribe that were discovered by analysis of the bones at the site, such as what the Ohlone of that area ate and how it compares with other tribes. She also presents an analysis of individual dietary patterns by sex, age, and markers of status/social roles. This presentation was co-authored by Rosemary Cambra, the Chair of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, who conducted the excavations at the site. Permission was granted to post this study for educational and research purposes.

Presentation time: 44 minutes

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The Archaeology of Antigua and Barbuda

Dr. Reg Murphy

Dr. Murphy lives and works on the Caribbean island of Antigua, located approximately 300 miles southeast of Puerto Rico. In this presentation he shows artifacts, many of them quite beautiful and detailed, and explained the information they provide about the thriving culture on the island many centuries ago. Dr. Murphy is well know to CSU, Chico anthropology students who have traveled to Antigua each summer with Professor Georgia Fox to participate in the Betty's Hope archeological project.

Presentation time: 50 minutes

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The Paleo Solution

Robb Wolf.
CSU, Chico graduate & author, "The Paleo Solution"

Robb Wolf graduated from CSU, Chico with a B.S. degree in biochemistry. He went on to write a New York Times bestselling book, "The Paleo Solution - Maybe there is something to this 'Evolution' thing." Wolff believes that humans should revert to a paleolithic diet, which he defines as gluten-free, dariy-free and low-carb,with an emphasis on meat and vegetables. He considers this "the original human diet."

Presentation time: 44 minutes

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Monastic Archaeology at the Cistercian Abbey of Ourscamp

Dr. Kyle Killian

Dr. Killian shares some results from his recent excavations at the Cistercian Abbey in Ourscamp, France. He briefly describes monastic life and traces its history, starting with St. Anthony in the Third Century A.D. Dr. Killian shows how the artifacts excavated from the site of the ruined abbey can provide insights into monastery life many centuries ago.

Presentation time: 50 minutes

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Taphonomic Signature of Animal Scavenging

Lisa Bright, M.A.
CSU, Chico, Anthropology graduate

Graduate student and now master's degree recipient Lisa Bright, who is specializes in forensic anthropology, presents her research regarding scavenging patterns in wildlife.  She arranged to have several dead pigs placed in various areas in the mountains above Chico, with a video camera focused on each.  She then recorded the daytime and nocturnal approaches of various animals to the pig carcasses.  The result is some fascinating footage, including visits by bears and other predators.  She used the videos along with analysis of the carcass bones to determine scavenging patterns.

Presentation time: 49 minutes

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From Chico to Sharjah: Emerging Cross Cultural Dialogues and Opportunities

Dr. Gayle Hutchinson Dean, CSU, Chico College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Dr. Hutchinson shares highlights from two recent trips to Sharjah, the third largest Emirate in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Hutchinson talks about her visit with her Highness Sheikha Jameela Al-Qasimi, who is providing services to children and adults with cognitive disabilities. Sheikha Jameela Al-Qasimi graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Anthropology from CSU, Chico, and was honored at the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Distinguised Alumnae 2009/2010. Dr. Hutchinson also shows pictures of the University of Sharjah and the American University of Sharjah.

Presentation time: 50 minutes

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2007 Electoral Crisis in Kenya: Ethnography of an International Response

Ariane Belanger-Vincent
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada

Ms. Belanger-Vincent  presents highlights from her research paper on the Kenyan elections. Her paper draws largely from an ethnographic research on the notion of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), that is slowly becoming the new intervention doctrine in international circles. The main objective of the paper is to show why, and how, the 2007 and 2008 Kenyan crisis is important vis-à-vis R2P and its implementation as a norm of action within the practice of international politics.

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Presentation time: 50 minutes

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Zanzibar to the Inland Sea

Dr. David Eaton, Jr., Professor, CSU, Chico Anthropology Department

Dr. David Eaton narrates images from his recent travels in east Africa as they illuminate historical, social, and political trends in this region.  Eaton first outlines the world of the Swahili coast in its Indian Ocean setting, setting it in relation to the east African interior over many centuries of trade and cultural exchange.  After a musical reunion from the early years of independence in Tanzania's coastal capital of Dar es Salaam, Eaton returns to the island of Zanzibar after twenty years away to see the burgeoning cultural tourism and archaeological rehabilitation that's changing the island today.  Contrasting his subsequent southwestward travels by bus with Burton's and Livingstone's mid-19th century voyages, he stops in booming Morogoro, with its deforested Uluguru mountains, and Tukuyu, in the tea country of Tanzania's southern highlands.  The final section of the talk gives perspectives on life in the dusty town of Karonga in northern Malawi, on the western shores of Lake Nyasa, one of the world's purest, deepest, and most biodiverse bodies of fresh water." 

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Presentation time: 49 minutes

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Community Archaeology and Optimal Foraging Theory: A Journey from Eagle Lake to Paris, France

Kevin Dalton
M.A. Anthropology, CSU, Chico

Kevin Dalton’s talk is actually two presentations.  The first part is about a report he made at a zooarcheology conference held at Eagle Lake, near Susanville, in Shasta County, California.  In the report, he outlines a community Archaeology project in Talus, New Mexico.  The second is a report from the 11th conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology, held in Paris, France in 2010. In this report, Mr. Dalton looks at group size and hunting landscapes in the prehistoric western great basin.  Zooarchaeology (or Archaeozoology,as it is known in Eurasia and Africa) is the study of animal bones from archaeological sites.

Presentation time: 48 minutes

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