FACULTY ACTIVITIES:

• Dr, Benjamin Saidel published  a  book  chapter,  “Tobacco  Pipes  and  the  Ophir  Expedition  to  Southern  Sinai:  Archaeological  Evidence  of  Tobacco  Smoking  among  18th  and  20th  Century  Bedouin  Squatters,”  and  co-­‐authored,  “A  Note  on  the  Excavation  of  an  Ottoman  and  British  Mandate  period  Bedouin  campground  at  Nahal  Be’erotayim  West  in  the  Negev  desert,  Israel”  published  in  Arabian  Archaeology  and  Epigraphy.  

• Dr. Christine Avenarius  published  “Humans  are  a  Part  of  Nature  Too:  Climate  Change,”  an  advocacy  article  based  upon  her  research  in  Dare  County,  NC,  in  Anthropology  News.  

• Dr. Megan Perry led  a  summer  bioarchaeology  field  school  on  the  Petra  North  Ridge  Project,  which  included  ECU  undergraduate  and  graduate  students  with  funding  from  the  National  Endowment  for  the  Humanities.  at  Petra,  Jordan.  She  also  gave  an  invited  lecture  at  Durham  University  in  the  UK  in  June,  “Sensing  the  Dead:  Mortuary  Ritual  and  Tomb  Visitation  at  Nabataean  Petra.”  

• Dr. James Loudon  spent  July  and  August  observing  the  behavior  of  free-­‐ranging  Chacma  baboons  (Papio  ursinus)  as  well  as  conducting  botanical  transects,  and  analyzing  the  nutritional  and  mechanical  properties  of  the  foods  consumed  by  the  baboons  at  the  Cradle  of  Humankind  in  South  Africa.    

• Dr. Blakely Brooks published,  “Chucaque  and  Social  Stress  among  Peruvian  Highlanders”  in  Medical  Anthropology  Quarterly    

STUDENT ACTIVITIES:

• BA graduate, Cushundra Williams, received a graduate fellowship to enter the MA program in biological anthropology at Mississippi State University.

• MA graduate, Alex Putnam-Garcia, received a graduate fellowship to enter the PhD program in anthropology at Michigan State University

• BA graduate, Stormy DeLucia, is serving with AmeriCorps in the Maine Down East AIDS network to extend health services to the LGBT community.

SEPTEMBER, 2014 VOL 3, ISSUE 1

The Anthropology Department Summer Archaeology Field School, directed by Dr. Tony Boudreaux, was held at the Town Creek Indian Mound historic site near Mt. Gilead, NC. Eleven students lived and worked at the site for six weeks excavating 200 pits, basins and post holes from at least 3 buildings occupied between AD 1200 and 1400. Students recovered pottery, stone tools, burned corn cobs and, unexpectedly, a chunkey stone used to play a game (see below).

ECU ANTHROPOLOGY ACTIVITIES

Student Alexis Richards finds the

chunkey stone at Town Creek.

RECENT NEWS: MA Graduate Greg Pierce was just appointed State Archaeologist for

the state of Wyoming!