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The Anthropology Department hosted a very well-attended presentation by Dr. Duncan Earle on the December 2012 end of the Maya "long-count" calendar titled "2012: What's the Story?". According to one attendee, around 130 people attended the presentation, held in the WFU Museum of Anthropology.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported on the event, and the deluge of catastrophic predictions falsely based on the ancient Maya calendar:
The Archaeology Laboratories received attention from a number of regional news media sources last Friday for their work at the Alamance Battleground. The Labs used a magnetometer (can accurately detect metal and other anomalies under the surface), a Nikon Total Station (accurately measures the distance and change in elevation between specified points), and other equipment to study the site. Several Wake Forest University students as well as students from Eastern Carolina University assisted with the work.
A brief list of the media outlets who covered the Archaeology Labs' work appear below:
This clip features Ken Robinson (Director of Public Archaeology), Paul Thacker (Director of the WFU Archaeology Labs), and two WFU students, Taryn Ricciardelli and Emily Zavodny, both senior Anthropology majors. (Taryn Ricciardelli is interviewed.)
http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=614237
Raleigh News and Observer - Story on Alamance Battlefield, including work by WFU Archaeology Labs
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/1677276.html
Raleigh News and Observer - Short piece centering on work by Archaeology Labs at Alamance Battlefield
http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/v-print/story/1674931.html
Other outlets who covered the story include the Charlotte, NC National Public Radio affiliate, as well as three other newspapers and an additional television news channel. Links to these will be posted soon.
The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce the hire of a new lecturer in Archeology, Dr. Eric Jones.His work in the
Northeast and with GIS, coupled
with his enthusiastic
teaching makes him a welcome addition.
Dr. Dipak Pant, an anthropologist and economist, at Università Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC, Castellanza, VA, Italy) was a Visiting International Scholar from Mar. 22- Apr. 1 . Prof. Pant is the founder and director of Interdisciplinary Unit for Sustainable Economy in the same university. Recently, he also served as the senior visiting fellow of at the American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA) and at the Field Museum (Chicago). On campus he taught classes in Development, Culture and Nature, and South Asia,; gave a public presentation at the Museum of Anthropology, and was guest speaker at the faculty seminar on Social Entrepreneurship. He met with students , and cooked a Nepali-Italian meal for us. We hope that this will lead to a lasting international partnership for our students and faculty.