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Join Anthropology Lecturer, Lana Williams, Ph.D.<\/a>, on Tuesday, April 26, as she talks about seasonality in conception, birth, and death and how it is one of the most fundamental and enduring patterns in life’s rhythms.<\/p>\n

These patterns are mostly influenced by interactions between biology and environment. However, human culture also plays a very distinct role in giving a population its particular shape, primarily through participation in social and religious practices and prohibitions.<\/p>\n

Dr. Williams will focus on the town-site of Kellis in Dahkleh Oasis, Egypt, and the unique opportunity it offers to explore local experiences of birth and practices surrounding conception and contraception during the Romano-Christian period (c. 100-360 AD).<\/p>\n

As you will\u00a0see from the various kinds of evidence, the summer nights in Roman Egypt were hot for more than one reason.<\/p>\n

Dr. Williams a bioarchaeologist specializing in research of human health and diet. She has been a member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project in Egypt since 2002 and her research\u00a0goal is to better understand the synergistic complexities among biological, social and physical environments in the past.<\/p>\n

Dr. Williams teaches courses such as\u00a0Life and Death in Ancient Egypt, Nutritional Anthropology, Human Biological Diversity, and Forensic Archaeology Field Methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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