The next meeting of the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will host Andrew Carroll for a program titled “Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: Infant mortality at Poggio Civitate, Murlo.”
The meeting is March 13 at 7 p.m. at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. A social is at 6:30 p.m.
Poggio Civitate is known for its buildings and their tiled and decorated roofs, but faunal remains and a re-examination of the archives have shown class distinctions in the way infant mortality was treated among the non-elite class. The analysis creates a fuller picture of Tuscany during the Orientalizing and Archaic Periods.
Andrew Carroll has excavated for a decade in Italy, working at both Roman and Etruscan sites and has taught Latin at various schools for almost a decade. He recently moved to Durango.
For more information, go to sjbas.org.