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Oct 30 2019

“Thinking About Social Complexity in Southern Central America” a Discussion with Dr. Scott Palumbo

Second Year Speaker Series

October 30, 2019

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location

BSB 2105

Address

1007 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL 60612

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Please join the Anthropology Department in welcoming Dr. Scott Palumbo to UIC for a talk about the social complexity in southern Central America.  Dr. Palumbo's presentation outlines the mechanisms by which political complexity developed in portions of southern Central America. Using examples drawn from mortuary, regional and household investigations in Panama and Costa Rica, his presentation outlines some of the ways that people were able to work within particular social contexts to affect long-term change. It is argued that many of the features we associate with complexity developed in unexpected ways and that southern Central America offers several interesting possibilities for further investigation.

Scott Palumbo is a tenured professor of anthropology at the College of Lake County and specializes in the study of early social complexity in Panama and Costa Rica (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2009). He is the editor of the volume Multiscalar Approaches to Studying Social Organization and Change in the Isthmo-Colombian Area (2012), and more recently, a recipient of an NSF senior archaeology research grant for fieldwork in Costa Rica, the first awarded to a principal investigator working at a community college. He currently collaborates with the University of Costa Rica on an ethnographic project and also manages a survey project of public cemeteries in the North Chicagoland area.
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Contact

Anthropology Front Office
312-413-3570
anthoffice@uic.edu

Date posted

Oct 30, 2019

Date updated

Oct 30, 2019