Mexico and Central America - Faculty of Archaeology

Global Exploration Grant (National Geographic Society) awarded to Dr. Alexander Geurds for field research in Nicaragua

With the awarded Global Exploration Grant Dr. Alex Geurds will further investigate the Pre-Hispanic archaeological site Aguas Buenas in Nicaragua he recently documented. Partially completed differential-GPS mapping has revealed that this site consists of more than 500 stone and earthen mounds. Mapping, begun during the summer of 2012, has covered an estimated 40% of the site. Preliminary results from excavation confirms human occupation at Aguas Buenas during separate time periods.

LGI Seed funding awarded to project: From Corporate Paternalism to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Mining, History and Heritage

LGI is pleased to announce the most recent LGI Seed Money grantees: Dr. Sabine Luning (Anthropology), Dr. Alexander Geurds (Archaeology), and Dr. Jan-Bart Gewald (ASC) for their project that investigates corporate interventions in mining, history and heritage.

25 February: lecture Scott Sadowsky

On February 25th Scott Sadowsky will lecture on "The place of Mapuche in today's Patagonia: Sociolinguistic situation and unexpected impacts on Spanish", 11:00, De Vrieshof 1, Room 001.