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April 11, 2014 Friday 9:39 PM EST

ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR BELMAKER PRESENTS AT 2 CONFERENCES IN CALGARY

TULSA, Okla., April 11 — The University of Tulsa issued the following
news release:

Dr. Belmaker is presenting her work on Armenia in the
Paleoanthropological Society meeting in Calgary (April 8-9, 2014).
This paper titled, Preliminary Results from the Renewed Excavations
from Peshcka Cave: A Stratified Middle and Upper Paleolithic Cave in
the Lori Plateau, Armenia, is co-authored by two graduate students,
Colleen Bell (Anthropology) and Cas Bridge (Geoscience). This work has
been funded by a Faculty Internationalization Grant for
Interdisciplinary Development as well as two Faculty Research grants.
For more information see

In addition, Dr. Belmaker is co-authoring a presentation in the the
83rd annual meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists which will be held April 8-12, 2014 in Calgary,
Alberta Canada. This presentation titled, Stable isotope ecology of
modern micromammals from the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for
habitat reconstruction in mosaic environments, is authored by P.A.
Sandberg and other co-authors. This presentation is a result of an NSF
collaborative research grant focusing on Rodent Diets and Habitat
Reconstructions in South Africa.