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Nov 9, 2024 Conference paper: “Demography in Non-state Farming Societies is More than Just Population Size”, by Robert D. Drennan, C. Adam Berrey, and Christian E. Peterson. Presented November 8, 2024 at the World Neolithic Congress in Sanliurfa, Turkiye.
Oct 16, 2024 Public lecture: “Cultural Periphery or Leading Edge? Preliminary Results of Recent Research on Early Iron Age Social Dynamics in South Africa’s Kruger National Park”, by Christian E. Peterson, Department of Anthropology, UH-Manoa, October 17, 2024.
Aug 29, 2024 Research grant: U.S. National Science Foundation Senior Archaeology Award (No. 2345175), “Studying Variation in Southern African Iron Age Social Dynamics”. $269,808 in support of regional settlement survey and household archaeology in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, 2024‒2027 (Christian Peterson [PI], Xander Antonites and Annie R. Antonites [co-PIs], University of Hawai’i and the University of Pretoria).
Jul 9, 2023 Project website launched!: https://www.archaeoletaba.com/ 🎇: 🚀: 🎇
Jul 1, 2023 Conference paper: “First Millennium Villages and Early Trade in Northeastern South Africa”, by Xander Antonites, Annie R. Antonites, and Christian Peterson. Presented June 4, 2023 at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists’ (SAFA) 26th Biennial Conference at Rice University in Houston, TX.
May 11, 2023 New publication: Drennan, Robert D., C. Adam Berrey, and Christian E. Peterson, 2023. Desigualdad y poder desde hace más de 8,000 años en el Continente Americano y China: Una visión desde la antropología. In América Latina y el Caribe - China. Historia, Cultura y Aprendizaje del Chino 2022, Enrique Dussán (ed.), pp. 79–99. Union de Universidades de America Latina y el Caribe, Mexico City.