Anthropology Occasional Seminar
Fall 2010

Monday March 19^th, 2010
3:00 pm in Crawford Hall 105

Jennie Jin, PhD candidate
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
presents,

Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the archaeofaunal assemblage from Tangzigou, southwest China

What can we learn from animal bones found at archaeological sites? Can the animal bones provide information about human subsistence patterns and prehistoric diet? How do we know it was humans who consumed the animals and not carnivores? This talk presents the results of zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of a large faunal assemblage from a 9000-year-old archaeological site in Yunnan Province, southwest China. The results of experimental studies and observations on modern deer antlers and cow feet will also be presented.

Jennie Jin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, and an ORISE fellow at JPAC/Central Identification Lab in Hickam AFB, Hawaii. She has field and laboratory experience in China, Korea, South Africa, Tanzania, and Honduras and is actively involved with on-going paleoanthropology fieldwork in China. Her work, including part of her dissertation, has been published in international journals, such as Quaternary International and Evolutionary Anthropology. Her single-authored book (a biography of Louis Leakey and Jane Goodall written in Korean) received the “Best Book in Science 2009 Award” from the Korean Ministry of Culture. She has been writing anthropology columns for major newspapers in Korea.

For further information, please contact Anthropology at anthprog@hawaii.edu

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