Anthropology professor speaks at upcoming LSU Science Café

Next Science CAFE is April 29:"Urban living in ancient, violent times" speaker, Dr. David Chicoine

People build and move to cities for various reasons, often to seek opportunities, proximity, and security. Times of armed conflict can also lead to spontaneous urban nucleation and rural exodus. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. In the Nepeña Valley on the north-central coast of Peru during the second half of the first millennium BC, people also sought out urban life. It was a period of increased armed violence that saw the development of fortified towns and warrior cultures.
In this talk, LSU Professor of Archeology David Chicoine shares 20 years of archaeological field research, comparing different forms of community arrangements and how those shaped people’s daily lives in urban-like settings. Chicoine says his findings might help us better understand ourselves and imagine alternative forms of existence.

Doors open at 5 p.m. Event starts at 6 p.m. For more information and to register go to Eventbrite.