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VALLEY OF THE GOLDEN MUMMIES Lecture by: Date: Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 In 1996 a major mummy field was discovered in the Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert in Egypt. This site contains perhaps 10,000 mummies from the Greco-Roman period. It promises to be one of the most exciting new sites of the 21st century. Dr. Miller and Dr. Littman are studying the health and disease in this mummy population. This is part of a larger study of the Egyptian Mummy Project, which includes the mummies of the great pharaohs of Egypt. They will report on the site and their December 2002 expedition in Bahariya, and the Egyptian Mummy Project. Dr. Miller is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Hawaii. He has worked extensively in Egypt for the past 25 years on schistosomiasis and hepatitis C. Dr. Littman is a Professor of Classics at the University of Hawaii. He has written extensively on ancient medicine, and has excavated in Greece, Israel, and Egypt. The lecture will be followed by a free champagne reception. This lecture is co-sponsored by the following organizations:
"BETWEEN THE PALI AND THE SEA: A report on recent surveys in the Kalaupapa, National Historical Park, Moloka`i". Mark McCoy, Anthropology Graduate Student at the University of California at Berkeley, will be speaking on his recent field work at Kalaupapa, Moloka`i.
Dr. Thomas F. King will give a talk entitled In Pursuit of Amelia Earhardt: Recent Historical Archaeology on Nukumaroro Atoll, Republic of Kiribati.
Robert Bollt, PhD. Candidate in anthropology at UH Manoa, will give a talk entitled The University of Hawai'i 2001 Archaeological Field Season in the Marquesas Islands.
James Bayman & Jo Lynn Gunness from the UH-Manoa Department of Anthropology willl reprise (with additions) the department's 2001 SHA Conference paper: "The UH-Manoa Archaeology Field School: Photographs and Memories Since 1950." This is an audience participation event. We would like to encourage the audience to ask questions, make comments, share memories & maybe even identify a few now-unknown souls in the many photographs that will be shown.
Dr. Thomas S. Dye (IARII) will speak on Evidence will be presented to support the thesis that many traditional Hawaiian stone features were used for short periods of tiime. Practical techniques for investigating feature use duration will be demonstrated. Implications of the dynamic built environment for cultural resources management investigations, settlement pattern studies, and reconstructions of pre-Contact population will be explored.
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