The Uintah Basin Speaker Series provides insightful, relevant community topics to spark conversations and this month the speaker will be Dr. Judson Byrd Finley. Judson Finley is currently a professor of anthropology and the head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Utah State University. Judson has worked at USU since 2012, and before that, he spent three years as assistant professor of archaeology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis. He is actively involved in examining global changes in human demography associated with environmental change and agricultural conditions using local and regional case studies. Judson’s specialty is the geological interface with Native history of the West. His topic is ‘Indigenous Agriculture at the Edge of Sustainability: Why the Uinta Basin is Important for Archaeology’. His presentation will start at 7pm on Tuesday, January 10th. It will be at the USU Vernal Campus room B101 and is free to the public. You can watch live online through Aggiecast or view a recording at the Uintah Basin Speaker Series website.
