Archaeology Brown Bag: Heather Walder

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Chronology, Exchange, and Technology: New Insight on Intercultural Interaction in the Upper Great Lakes

Noon to 1 p.m., Friday, January 29, 2016
5230 Social Sciences Building, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

By Heather Walder, Honorary Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UW–Madison

The speaker will discuss the timing of the introduction, exchange, and social implications of two complementary lines of evidence, reworked copper and brass objects and glass trade beads, from 38 archaeological sites of the Upper Great Lakes region dated to c. 1630 to 1730.