Barbara A. Voytek of the UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, who has participated in the excavation of a cave in Italy once occupied by prehistoric man, will speak at California State University, Stanislaus on Friday, May 1 at 4 p.m. in Room 245 of Bizzini Hall.
The program is free and open to the public.
“Tale of a Cave: Excavations at the Grotta dell’Edera, Italy” is the title of Friday’s program sponsored by the CSU Stanislaus Anthropology Department and Anthropology Club in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Voytek will talk about her work at Edera Cave in the Trieste Karst location which was first occupied by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers during the Boreal prehistoric period more than 10,000 years ago.
A Faculty Associate of the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley since 1990, Voytek served as Executive Director for the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Cal from 1989 to 2008. Her fields of expertise include European prehistory, hunter-gatherers and early food-producers, prehistoric economics, material culture studies, lithic studies, East and Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean.
For more information, contact Dr. Ellen Bell of the CSU Stanislaus Anthropology Department at (209) 667-3188 or by e-mail at ebell3@csustan.edu.
For more information, contact Dr. Ellen Bell of the CSU Stanislaus Anthropology Department at (209) 667-3188 or by e-mail at ebell3@csustan.edu.