Save the Date (October 3): 2025 Wendorf Distinguished Lecture

Sep. 25, 2025 — The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to share that this year’s Wendorf Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology will be given by John D. Speth. Dr. Speth joins us from the University of Michigan, where he is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Curator Emeritus of North American Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. His lecture, “Questioning Assumptions: Many of the Assumptions about Hunter-Gatherer Behavior that Guide Today’s Archaeological Research are Ill-founded or Wrong,” will be held at 5:00pm on Friday, October 3, 2025 at Moody Hall Auditorium.