Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor of anthropology, presented the keynote address at the 8th Annual Montana Anthropological Student Association Banquet on Nov. 15 at the University of Montana.
The talk titled "Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: Evolutionary Process through Morphometric Measures of Notched Points" focuses on one of Goodale's current research projects that involves contributions from Hamilton students Lara Cueni '08, Lisa Fontes '09 and Matthew Eichenfield '09 as well as several other researchers in anthropology and physics at Washington State University, the University of Montana and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The research focuses on new methods to detect and examine patterns of cultural transmission in the manufacture of stone tools and the rate that knowledge spread across prehistoric social and geographic landscapes.
The talk titled "Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: Evolutionary Process through Morphometric Measures of Notched Points" focuses on one of Goodale's current research projects that involves contributions from Hamilton students Lara Cueni '08, Lisa Fontes '09 and Matthew Eichenfield '09 as well as several other researchers in anthropology and physics at Washington State University, the University of Montana and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The research focuses on new methods to detect and examine patterns of cultural transmission in the manufacture of stone tools and the rate that knowledge spread across prehistoric social and geographic landscapes.
