Please join me in congratulating Ximena Lemoine for being selected to receive the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. An award ceremony and reception was held in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge yesterday (April 25). Ximena did an excellent job in teaching “Introduction to Archaeology” (U69 Anthro 190) and serving as Assistant in Instruction in a […]
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Pigs into Dragons & Humans into Farmers: Studying Pigs, People, and Millet in Neolithic North China
In 2014 The Economist dubbed China “The Empire of the Pig”. By that year, nearly one half of all the planet’s pork was consumed and produced in the PRC, but pigs are more than just centerpieces of the Chinese diet—although who but the vegetarians among us can resist a plate of buttery pork belly?—and it’s upon those tasty trotters […]