<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">March 4, 2013</span></font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">5:30 PM</span></font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">14E-304</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; "><b>Michael McCormick</b></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Chair, Standing Committee on Archaeology</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>Harvard University </b></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; "><b>“Consilience: Science and the Human Past”</b></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">The advances of the sciences are producing revolutionary changes in our knowledge of the human past, from genomic archaeology that detects ancient migrations and admixtures from living genomes, to climate science, which is reconstructing the changing environmental context of human civilizations from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Jamestown Colony, via the myriad contributions of computer science, for instance in the growth of digital texts ancient and modern, culturomics, hyperspectral imaging and Geographic Information Systems. The talk will offer a quick tour of salient developments, including the nascent initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard.</span></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><br></div></div>
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