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X-WR-CALNAME:Faculty Lecture Series: Archaeology Beyond the End of the Worl
 d with Dr. Nathaniel Kitchel
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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, October 16th at 4pm in the library atrium
  for a fcaulty lecture by Dr. Nathaniel Kitchel!\n\nDr. Nathaniel Kitchel 
 is an assistant professor in the Noreen Stonor Drexel Cultural and Histori
 c Preservation Program\, Department of Cultural\, Environmental and Global
  Studies at Salve Regina University. He is an archaeologist interested in 
 how human groups navigate novel or extreme environmental and social circum
 stances such as rapid climate change and the settlement of uninhabited lan
 ds. Much of Dr. Kitchel's research takes place in New England where he inv
 estigates the lives of the first human inhabitants of the region during th
 e Pleistocene (Ice Age) and how these communities adapted to rapid climate
  warming at the end of the Ice Age. Beyond this primary research focus he 
 has also participated in archaeological work in Mongolia\, Uzbekistan\, Pe
 ru and Antartica. Dr. Kitchel also co-directs the Salve Regina archaeologi
 cal field school at an Ice Age archaeological site in the woods of norther
 n Maine. He earned his PhD in anthropology at the University of Wyoming\, 
 master's degree at Northern Arizona University\, and B.A. at Colorado Stat
 e University.\n\nHe wrote about this lecture: In science\, governance\, an
 d popular culture Antarctica is almost universally portrayed as a land una
 ltered and unspoiled by human activities. The notion of the pre-European a
 rrival of humans there is\, at best\, the realm of jokes\, and at worst\, 
 conspiracy theories. There has been\, however\, little archaeological rese
 arch undertaken in Antarctica\, leaving assumptions about when the contine
 nt was first settled\, by whom\, and for what purpose unexamined. To more 
 thoroughly examine the early human history of the southern continent Dr. N
 athaniel Kitchel\, assistant professor in the Noreen Stonor Drexel Cultura
 l and Historic Preservation Program joined an expedition to the South Shet
 land Islands (Antartica) led by Dr. Jesse Casana\, W.J. Bryant 1925 Profes
 sor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College in January and February of 2025 (
 the Austral summer). In this talk Dr. Kitchel will discuss his experiences
  on this voyage beyond the end of the world\, including crossing the Drake
  Passage\, traversing uncharted waters in a dinghy\, conducting archaeolog
 ical survey in a tierra nullis\, and some of the results of this work. Thi
 s presentation will also highlight the stunning\, stark\, yet delicate bea
 uty of the South Shetland islands.
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LOCATION:McKillop Library\, Atrium
SUMMARY:Faculty Lecture Series: Archaeology Beyond the End of the World wit
 h Dr. Nathaniel Kitchel
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.salve.edu/event/faculty-lecture-series-oct25
CATEGORIES:Lectures and presentations
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