U of M Will Host Anthropology Lecture Series April 19 & 20
For release: Mar. 26, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Two eminent scholars will speak during the annual Charles H. McNutt Lecture Series in Anthropology at the University of Memphis. Dr. Lewis Binford is well known for his research on the Inuit population of Alaska, and Dr. Kenneth Sassaman is an expert in archaeology in the American Southeast.

The series of talks April 19 and 20 are free and open to the public.

The theme of this year's series is ethnographic/ethnoarchaeological research in the study of prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations.

On April 19, Binford will give an informal brown bag lecture at 11 a.m. in Manning Hall, Room 418. He will give a formal lecture at 4 p.m. in Mitchell Hall Auditorium. On April 20, Sassaman will speak at 4 p.m. in Mitchell Hall Auditorium.
Binford has extensive experience in the anthropology and has done research in Africa, Europe and North America. He has worked most prominently Alaska, where he has done enthnoarchaeological research on the Inuit. Binford has published many articles on archaeology, as well as the book Debating Archaeology. He teaches at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.

An associate professor at the University of Florida, Sassaman has worked extensively in southeastern archaeology. He takes a social perspective to prehistoric archaeology and also employs ethnographic data in his research. Sassaman is the author of numerous articles and has written, edited or co-edited several volumes on southeastern archaeology.

For more information, call the U of M's Department of Anthropology at 678-2080.

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