Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo is Associate Professor Anthropology at the University of Florida.

His presentation focuses on how some catastrophic events impact human societies. Be they volcanic, flooding, or earthquakes, these occurrences transform the surrounding ecological systems to an extent that they may never recover to a previous state. The effected areas sometimes require hundreds of years before use is possible by a new population with new forms of interaction with the environment. The archaeological cases presented demonstrate that there is never a return to previous stage, but that peoples and environments are in continue process of becoming something new. This presentation will be approached from the perspective of the longue durée of things to come in the human history.

This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Eleanor Laughlin.

This event is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Gainesville Society.