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EVENT NEWS RELEASE/February 26, 2008

Anthropology Speaker to Address Human Dietary Adaptations at March 3 Lecture

Anne Katzenberg, archaeology professor at the University of Calgary in British Columbia will speak as part of the Boise State University Department of Anthropology Lecture Series at 2 p.m. Monday, March 3, in the Student Union Hatch C Ballroom. Katzenberg will speak on “Hunter-Gatherer Dietary Adaptations in Northern Regions.” The event is free and open to the public.

The presentation will consider the broad spectrum of potential human dietary adaptations, with a focus on traditional diets of northern people. Katzenberg has been involved with paleodiet research on Neolithic and early Bronze Age populations from the region around Lake Baikal, Siberia, for 15 years.

Katzenberg‘s research interests include human adaptation to diet and disease. Most of her work involves applications of stable isotope analysis to determine past diet. Examples include studies of the adoption of maize in southern Ontario, determining the importance of freshwater resources in the diet and the use of nitrogen isotopes to determine the timing of weaning in past populations.

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Last reviewed on Tuesday, February 26, 2008