Sacramento Archeological Society, Inc.’s
Annual Meeting
Featuring
“Can we identify these 150 year-old remains? Recent archaeoforensic research in San Francisco, CA”
by
Jelmer Eerkens, Professor of Anthropology at University of California Davis
at U. C. Davis campus, Young Hall, Room 224
Saturday, December 3, 2022
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Following the SAS annual meeting Jelmer Eerkens at ~ 3:00 p.m. will discuss archaeoforensic research on bones from a woman from San Francisco. This topic fits with his interests in how humans, especially small-scale societies, adapt to social and environmental conditions and how these adaptations affect kinship, diet, resource extraction, land tenure practices, and the adoption and modification of material technologies, especially ceramics and stone-tools.
To better understand change in the archaeological record, especially ideas from cultural transmission theory he applies evolutionary models and various analytical techniques. These include Stable Isotope Analysis, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA), X-Ray Flourescence (XRF), Electron Microprobe (EM), and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS). Professor Eerkens has conducted archaeological field research in California, Nevada, South-Central Peru, and Northwest Europe.
