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News Release
March 27, 2007
Anthropologist to Speak at Boise State on Mayan Culture
Anthropologist Vera Tiesler will speak as part of Boise State University’s
Department of Anthropology Lecture Series at 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, April 4. The
lecture will be held in Room 207 of the Multipurpose Classroom Building, just
east of the Brady Street parking structure. The lecture is free and open to the
public.
Tiesler will speak on “Bio-archaeology in Mayan Archaeology.” She will discuss
the use of biocultural information such as head-shaping, dental decoration, and
indicators of human sacrifice to decipher the Mayan archaeological record.
Tiesler is an anthropology professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatan in
Mérida, Mexico, where she is the head of the project Bioarqueología en Area
Maya. She is the coauthor of “Janaab’ Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life
and Death of a Maya Ruler” and “New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual
Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society,” among others.
The Department of Anthropology Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of
Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Boise State.
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Contact: Faith Brigham, Department of Anthropology, (208) 426-3023,
fbrigha@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
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