Now We’re Cooking:The Role of Fire and Cooked Food in Neanderthal Extinction

By Anna Goldfield, PhD Archaeologist

Saturday, October 19, 2019

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

at Maidu Museum & Historical Site

1970 Johnson Ranch Drive, Roseville, California 95661
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join us to celebrate International Archaeology Day. We have teamed with Maidu Museum & Historical Site to increase the public’s awareness of archaeology. Sacramento Archeological Society will feature a presentation on Neanderthal by Anna Goldfield, PhD, Archaeologist and host of The Dirt Podcast.  She will explore some of the physiological differences between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans, and will discuss what role the use of fire and a cooked versus a raw diet might have had on the rate of extinction of Neanderthal populations.  Maidu Museum & Historical Site will offer hands on archaeological experience for children and family tours of their historical site.

Entrance Fee Charged $5

Questions? Please contact Jan Johansen at janjohansen@sbcglobal.net or Maidu Museum and Historical Site at 916.774.5934.

Dr. Goldfield is a zooarchaeologist and science writer whose research focuses on Neanderthal physiology and nutrition. Currently, she is also an anthropology instructor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento and a writer for the online anthropology journal Sapiens.org (https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-body/). In addition Anna is the co-host of The Dirt, a podcast about archaeology, anthropology, and our shared human past (www.thedirtpod.com).