Post Tagged with: "Paul Patton"

The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Paul E. Patton on “The Origins of Food Production and Village Formation in Eastern North America: Evidence from the Hocking  Valley” on Friday, Sept. 25, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 104. Patton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, is an […]

By Cecilia Ellis ’17 “Are you getting eaten alive? Welcome to Field School,” jokes Zack Matthews, one of Dr. Paul Patton’s interns on site at the Ohio Field School in Archaeology. Music drifted through the forest as a dozen students and a swarm of mosquitoes welcomed me to the lively dig […]

By Ellie Koewler ’15 Dr. Elliot Abrams and Dr. AnnCorinne Freter-Abrams, two professors of Anthropology, are retiring at the end of this semester and entering semi-retirement. Abrams earned a B.A. Anthropology from SUNY-Buffalo, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include Mesoamerican Archaeology, Ohio […]

By Ellie Koewler ’15 What began in 2013 with a pilot study at a Buchtel, OH, cemetery has grown into a template for studying Southeast Ohio communities. The Buchtel Cemetery Project succeeded at providing insights into the health and culture in the small mining town of Buchtel. Now the Appalachia […]

By Ellie Koewler ’15 This summer, three courses provide Anthropology fieldwork, hands-on experiences in research methods, and a pathway to undergraduate research projects and internships. The “Fieldwork in Familiar Places” package is designed to provide students with 14 credit hours through three project-based methods courses in all Anthropology subfields: cultural, biological, and […]

Ellie Koewler ’15 Senior Anthropology and Geology student Lauren Johnson has unearthed some ideas about how Native Americans might have lived—just down the road from where Ohio University now sits. She has spent nearly two years excavating artifacts and researching geological data from a nearby rock shelter with Dr. Paul […]

The Appalachia Population History Project is hosting a fall welcome event to showcase the project’s undergraduate experiences and research throughout the past year on Tuesday, Sept. 30, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Baker Center 230. The Appalachia Population History Project is a regional study of historical population health and […]