Tag: Chris Fisher
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Grace Ellis: Summer 2024
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Read More: Grace Ellis: Summer 2024Grace Ellis Summer 2024 Identifying Pre-contact Ports and Construction in the Amazon Doctoral candidate Grace Ellis is the lead author on a new archaeological study, published Spring 2024, that has identified the first known occurrence of pre-European-contact, constructed wharves at the port site, Macurany, located along the Middle Amazon River…
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Why the Earth Must Be Mapped
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Read More: Why the Earth Must Be MappedAs appearing in SAPIENS | 12.11.19 Why the Earth Must Be Mapped There is an urgent need to digitally capture the planet’s surface, providing a record for future ecologists, archaeologists, and historians. The Earth Archive project plans to do just that. VIEWPOINT Chris Fisher Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geography,…
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Chris Fisher: City of the Jaguar
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Read More: Chris Fisher: City of the JaguarAs appearing on Chautauqua | Fall 2016 Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Chautauqua Community House Over the past year, the excavation of an ancient city in Honduras has yielded a trove of remarkable stone artifacts from a mysterious, unnamed Pre-Columbian civilization. A joint American-Honduran team of archaeologists led…
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“The Hadza: Last of the First” Panel Discussion
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Read More: “The Hadza: Last of the First” Panel DiscussionDr. Chris Fisher and Dr. Kathleen Galvin on The Hadza: Last of the First panel discussion with Alyssa Crittenden and Bill Benenson about the last full-time hunter-gatherers in Africa. “The Hadza: Last of the First” intro and panel dicussion from October 7, 2014 from SoGES Colorado State University on Vimeo.
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Archaeologists discover cemetery in Mexican city with clues to ancient civilization
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Read More: Archaeologists discover cemetery in Mexican city with clues to ancient civilizationAs Appearing in Heritage Daily | April 2014 THE SUBLIME SOUNDS OF A JINGLING RATTLE SILENCED FOR MORE THAN 500 YEARS HELPS TELL THE STORY OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IN WESTERN MEXICO AND TIES TOGETHER MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS OF DISCOVERY BY A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS LED BY A COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY…
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An area long-rumored to contain the ‘mythical White City’ being explored
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Read More: An area long-rumored to contain the ‘mythical White City’ being exploredSome of the most inhospitable land in the world is found in Nicaragua. Home of the most poisonous snakes on the planet, deadliest spiders and angry, stinging plants. It also happens to be home to an ancient city, known to many as la Ciudad Blanca, or the White City.…