Lecture series at VCU to explore topics such as cannibalism at Jamestown and the evolution of the human hip

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A lecture on how 3-D scanning technology has shed light on the desperate struggles that led to cannibalism by some Jamestown settlers will kick off Virginia Commonwealth University's fall Anthropology Speaker Series.

The series, presented by the School of World Studies in the College of Humanities and Sciences, will feature talks by anthropologists from VCU, the University of Virginia and Boston University.

Each of the lectures will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Student Commons Theater, 907 Floyd Ave. They are free and open to the public.

·    Sept. 26: "Cannibalism, Butchered Bones, and Death on the English Frontier: The Virtual Curation Laboratory and the Archaeology of Jamestown"
Bernard K. Means, Ph.D., instructor of anthropology and director of Virtual Curation Laboratory, VCU School of World Studies

·    Oct. 10: "Life Lived as Poetry South"
George Mentore, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia

·    Oct. 24: "Locomotion, Childbirth, and the Evolution of the Human Hip"
Kristi L. Lewton, Ph.D., assistant professor, School of Medicine, Boston University

·    Nov. 14: "Dying Language, Endangered Family: How Ancestral Voices Keep Kinship Alive in the Garifuna Nation"
Alison Broach, adjunct professor and doctoral candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia

·    Dec. 5: "CT Scans and Unidentified Human Remains"
Terri Simmons-Ehrhardt, adjunct professor of anthropology, VCU School of World Studies