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On Site News from the Archaeology Program by Helle Girey The academic year 1999-2000 was very successful, both in the number of students that received degrees and the very prestigious fellowships received by a number of students. Two students, Bryan Miller and Po-chan Chen, completed their M.A. degrees. Both are students of Professor Lothar Von Falkenhausen. Three students filed their dissertations: Elena Lincoln, “Yucatec Maya Marriage and Political Alliance,” Kara Nicholas, “Interpreting Religious Ritual in Magna Graecia: An Analysis of the Archaic and Classical Black Glaze Ceramics from the Rural Sanctuary at Pantanello (Metaponto),” and Benille Emmanuel, “Civilization in its Own Words: Inscriptions and Archaeology in Ancient Sri Lanka.” Our continuing students received the following fellowships: Maura Heyn, the Edward A. Dickson History of Art Fellowship and the Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship; Gwen Bennett, the Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship; Jennifer Bybee, the Graduate Division Research Mentorship; and Rowan Flad, a Fulbright for research in China. The Archaeology Program admitted three new students for 2000–2001: Angela Lo’s interests in archaeology lie in the use of new computer methods for archaeological research. She has used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for spatial analysis of sites as well as artifacts within a particular site. Her interests include further study of GIS as well as remote sensing and Global Positioning Systems. She comes to us with a B.A. from UC San Diego. Her committee chair is Professor Elizabeth Carter. |
Yoko Nishimura is interested in Mesopotamia and the Near East and in the development and mechanisms of complex societies during the Bronze Age. She plans to address the roles of indigenous ideologies or the advent of writing systems as a challenge to this broad issue. Yoko received her B.S. in Anthropology from Loyola University in Chicago. Her committee chair is Professor Elizabeth Carter. 
Aleksander Borejsza is a palaeoethnobotanist working with plant macrofossils from archaeological sites and pollen from wetland sediments. This data are used to address issues of prehistoric subsistence and human impact on vegetation. He is currently studying the origins of agriculture and settled life at a site in Tlaxcala, in highland Mesoamerica. A survey in this area would allow him to identify buried pre-ceramic sites in erosional cuts, trace the margins of former lakes, and find suitable locations to extract samples for pollen analysis. Aleksander completed his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and his M.S. in Environmental Archaeology and Paleoecology at Sheffield. His committee chair is Professor Richard Lesure.   
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