When:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Where:
Taste
- Street:
- 717 W. Smith Street
- City:
- Orlando
, - Province:
- Florida
- Postal Code:
- 32804
- Country:
- United States
Dr. John Walker is an archaeologist working in the Amazon Basin and he studies how pre-Columbian farmers engineered that environment, showing that our supposition of a pristine Amazon is wrong and that instead the Amazon has been managed and cultivated for thousands of years. At UCF, he teaches Archaeology of Complex Societies, History of Anthropological Thought, GIS Applications in Archaeology, and other courses. His most recent book is Agricultural Change in the Bolivian Amazon (2004). He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and joined the UCF faculty in 2006.
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