SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: Death from a Distance: How our Ability to Throw, Create Stone Tools & Use Projectile Weapons Affected Human Evolution.

Presented by: 19 Dr. John H. Blitz

Presenter bio: Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology & Curator Emeritus of Southeastern Archaeology, University Museums, University of Alabama; Directed excavations at prehistoric site of
Moundville, Alabama by graduate and undergraduate students; Speaks and writes about the archaeology of indigenous US Southeast and the Maya Lowlands. Participation in investigations at Actuncan ancient political
center in Belize, Central America. Co-Author: (w/PM Bingham & J. Souza, ‘Social Complexity and the Bow in the Prehistoric North American Record’ and (w/ES Porth), ‘Social Complexity and the Bow in the Eastern
Woodlands’ both in Evolutionary Anthropology; (w/L.J. LeCount) ‘A Comment on “Funerals as Feasts: Why Are They So Important?” ‘, in Cambridge Archaeological Journal.