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		<title>Renowned Egyptologist discusses ancient Egyptian rites and rituals April 12</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Egyptologist Peter Lacovara will talk about “Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy” April 12 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 114 Belk Library and Information Commons at Appalachian State University. The program, sponsored by the Doorways International Program Series, is free and open to the public.
Lacovara will discuss the oldest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian graduate students present research at Appalachian Teaching Project conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Eleven Appalachian State University graduate students presented their research project for the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Appalachian Teaching Project (ATP) 2011 Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C.

Students and their faculty from an Appalachian studies course at Appalachian State University recently presented their research on the Elk Knob Community Heritage Organization (EKCHO) in Washington, D.C. Pictured from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academician turned best-selling author presents a reading Nov. 17 at Appalachian</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2011/11/03/mary_doria_russell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Mary Doria Russell was a biological anthropologist at Case Western Reserve University and had done field work in Australia and Croatia before she changed careers and turned to writing.

Mary Doria Russell

She is now considered one of the most versatile writers in American literature and one of the greatest contemporary storytellers.
Russell will read from and talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian students and children find artifacts</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2011/07/18/appalachian-students-and-children-find-artifacts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE – Children who play on an athletics field at Appalachian State University’s Camp Broadstone in Valle Crucis may not realize the history that lies beneath their feet. This summer, university students in Appalachian’s archeology field school found a 4,000-year-old cooking hearth and a small vessel nearly as old about two feet underground.
Anthropology major Clifton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor’s project provides first-ever Guatemalan language text for Mayan students</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2011/03/31/guatemalan-language-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Imagine you’re a middle school student studying civics or local government, and instead of reading a textbook written in your native language, you must read the material in another.
Timothy J. Smith, an assistant professor in Appalachian State University’s Department of Anthropology, has led a project to publish the first social science text written in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global sustainability activist Uchita de Zoysa speaks Feb. 24 at Appalachian</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Internationally acclaimed writer and activist Uchita de Zoysa from Sri Lanka will speak on climate sustainability at Appalachian State University on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Price Lake Room. De Zoysa is in the United States to attend a United Nations conference on sustainability in New York and his appearance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claassen and Robbins-Schug are honored for their research</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2010/11/23/claassen-and-robbins-schug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Dr. Cheryl Claassen and Dr. Gwen Robbins-Schug are faculty members in Appalachian State University’s Department of Anthropology. They also are active researchers and scholars whose work is adding to, and sometimes changing, the accepted knowledge base in their respective fields.
Claassen and Robbins-Schug have been recognized by their colleagues for their scholarly work and their contributions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doorways series presents program on India</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2010/11/05/doorways-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—The Doorways International Program Series at Appalachian State University presents Dr. S. Sumathi speaking on “Caste and Social Justice: Positive Discrimination Policy in India.”
The program will be presented Monday, Nov. 15, from 2-3 p.m. in the Belk Library and Information Commons Room 421. Indian food will be served.
India has adopted a policy of positive discrimination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nov. 1 lecture explores the “invention of anthropology”</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2010/11/01/%e2%80%9cinvention-of-anthropology%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Dr. Michael Harkin will present the lecture “John White and the Invention of Anthropology: Landscape, Ethnography, and Situating the Other in Roanoke Island” Monday, Nov.1, at noon in room 224 I.G. Greer Hall at Appalachian State University.
Harkin is professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming.  In this lecture, he will argue for the reconsideration of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mills and Robbins receive Fulbright awards</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2010/05/03/fulbright-awards-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 20:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Dr. Susan W. Mills and Dr. Gwen Robbins have each received awards from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
Mills is an associate professor and coordinator of music education in Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music. Robbins is an assistant professor in Appalachian’s Department of Anthropology.
Mills received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to lecture and conduct research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor’s research demonstrates starvation diet at the Donner Party’s Alder Creek camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research conducted by Dr. Gwen Robbins, an assistant professor of biological anthropology at Appalachian State University, has found physical evidence that the Donner Party who were trapped by a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the mid-1840s consumed their livestock, supplemented their diet with wild game, and may have eaten the family dog.
Remains from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey of unmarked African-American graves at Boone Cemetery continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Ground-penetrating radar and an electrical resistivity system are being used to confirm the location of African-American graves in the Boone Cemetery.
Senior geology major Jessica Norman, left, and junior archeology major Matthew Turney position electrode probes used to survey gravesites in the Boone Cemetery. The Appalachian State University students are part of an ongoing project to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Program on sustainable agriculture in Nicaragua and Central America presented Oct. 13</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2009/10/06/sustainable-agriculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Eddy Gutierrez with Witness for Peace will present a talk Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Price Lake Room at Appalachian State University.
A native of Nicaragua, Gutierrez will address the challenges facing for sustainable agriculture in Nicaragua and Central America because of globalized free trade.
Gutierrez represents small-scale producers of northern Nicaragua [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian professor documents oldest evidence of leprosy found in India</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2009/05/27/oldest-evidence-of-leprosy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Dr. Gwen Robbins, an assistant professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University, is the lead author of a paper reporting the analysis of a 4000-year-old skeleton found in Balathal, India, bearing evidence of leprosy. The skeleton predates any other skeletal evidence of leprosy by 1,600 years. It is also the first evidence of leprosy in [...]]]></description>
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