Brown Bag Talk with Dana Thacher | Oct 31

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Please join us for Anthropology's Brown Bag Talk this Friday where Dana Thacher from McMaster University will be speaking on "Bioarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches to Adolescence: A Case Study from 19th to 20th Century England."

Date: Friday, October 31, 2025
Time: 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Location: PAS 2030
Adolescence is a critical period of the life course, encapsulating biological and social changes as individuals transition from childhood to adulthood. Studying adolescence therefore benefits from an approach that combines archaeological and bioarchaeological perspectives. In this talk, Dr. Thacher will explore this topic through a case study from Victorian and Edwardian Cambridgeshire, England. Drawing on a database of over 13,000 individuals between the ages of 3 and 30, she utilizes burial records, monument inscription records, and census data to explore the complex interrelated effects of age at death, gender, socioeconomic status, and year of death on the likelihood of an adolescent being buried with a stone monument. Disparities in this form of mortuary treatment suggest that the experience of adolescence in Victorian and Edwardian England varied significantly by gender.

Regards,

Miljana Kovacevic
Administrative Manager
Graduate and Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Anthropology
University of Waterloo, PAS 2012
Phone 519/888-4567, ext. 42403
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