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Victoria College Continues Stormont Lecture Series
Victoria College Continues Stormont Lecture Series
Victoria College Continues Stormont Lecture Series
Victoria College’s Spring 2023 John W. Stormont Lecture Series will continue with Dr. Leslie Bush presenting “Deeply Rooted: Native Texas Plants from the Pleistocene to Present.” Bush is a paleoethnobotanist, an archaeologist who specializes in identifying bits of plants preserved on archaeological sites, usually in the form of charcoal and occasionally as waterlogged wood or other plant parts. Sh
Lecture: Ancient DNA by Dr. Kelly Graf
Lecture: Ancient DNA by Dr. Kelly Graf
Lecture: Ancient DNA by Dr. Kelly Graf
Fascinating stuff! The ancient skeleton of a child was discovered near the village of Mal’ta in south-central Siberia in the late-1920's. A recent DNA analysis of the skeleton, believed to be 24,000 years old, has shown that the Mal’ta child’s people were ancestors of modern Native Americans, suggesting First Americans came directly from Siberia.