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The Wenner-Gren Foundation has three major goals: to support significant and innovative anthropological research into humanity's biological and cultural origins, development, and variation; to foster the international community of research scholars in anthropology; and to provide leadership at the forefronts of the discipline.
New technology can be a wonderful thing for research. We welcome Minnesota Ph.D. student Danielle Carr on the blog to talk about her experiences using Evernote, a popular notetaking and archiving app, in her anthropological fieldwork.
Maria Thereisa Starzmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. She was awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant in 2008 as a Ph.D. student at the State University of New York – Binghamton, to aid research on ‘Embodied Knowledge and Community Practice: Stone Tool Production at Fıstıklı Höyük,’ supervised by Dr. Reinhard W. Bernbeck. After analyzing the technological organization of stone tool production at this 6th millennium BCE site in southeastern Turkey, Dr. Starzmann developed a series of workshops for schoolchildren living in proximity to the research site.