Where our Food Comes From: The Origins of Agriculture
Bruce Smith (Smithsonian) and Michele Holbrook (Harvard)
RESCHEDULED – now will be held Thursday Feb. 18 - 6:00 PM – Geo Lecture Hall, Harvard University
Free public lecture.
The transition from hunting and gathering to food production represents a seismic shift in human history. With it, we transformed the world. But how and when did this happen, and why is this important to understanding our current human condition? Dr. Bruce Smith, Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, will discuss his current research on agricultural origins – and how the story is more complicated than you’d expect. Followed by a discussion moderated by Noel Michele Holbrook, Professor of Biology and Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard.
Reception to follow in the HMNH galleries.
This lecture is the second in the “Food for Thought” lecture series that explores the past, present, and future of our relationship to food and food production. The third and final program will be held on Feb. 23, “From Cooking Food to Cooking the Planet: Growing Constraints to Food Production” with Samuel Myers.
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02139
617-495-2773
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu
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Dr. Bruce Smith, speaker for Food for Thought, is so deeply snowed in rural VA that he will not be able to make it to the DC airport to come to Harvard Museum of Natural History to lecture on the 11th. Check the museum’s website for updates http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu.
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