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(10/23/08)
Dr. Hector Neff from California State University Long Beach is the second featured speaker in Millsaps College’s Moreton Lecture Series in the Sciences. Neff’s public presentation, “The Enigma of Long-Distance Ceramic Exchange: The Methods and Surprising Results from 40 Years of Chemistry-Based Ceramic Provenance Research in Archaeology,” will take place on Thursday, November 6 at 7 p.m. in the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex room 215. For details about the lecture contact Timothy Ward, 601-974-1405, or wardtj@millsaps.edu.
Hector Neff is professor of anthropology at CSULB and one of the founding members of the Institute for Integrative Research in Materials, Environments, and Society at the university. His research emphasizes applications of laboratory analytical techniques to archaeological questions. In Mesoamerica, his main geographic focus, he has investigated the circulation of ceramics and other materials, with counter-intuitive, sometimes startling, results.
This year the Moreton Lectures Series in the Sciences will be a year-long celebration of the creation of Millsaps’ new $818,000 W.M. Keck Center for Instrumental and BioChemical Comparative Archeology. The center, which received a $400,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation earlier this year, will support pioneering interdisciplinary research and allow undergraduate students to explore complex archeological questions using bioanalytical and biochemical techniques. A formal dedication is planned for the spring of 2009. The Moreton Lectures in the Sciences are made possible by a generous gift from the Moreton family.
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