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Grace Maavere paints a whale mandible

From discovery to art: Bringing a prehistoric whale mandible to life

Last spring, Scott Noakes approached student Grace Maavere with a special project. Maavere, an undergraduate majoring in marine sciences, had earned a fine arts degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design before coming to UGA. Noakes thought she was a perfect fit to realistically paint a cast of a 36,000-year-old gray whale mandible at the University of Georgia’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS). Noakes, a CAIS senior research…
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UGA to collaborate on Haitian library conservation project

History faculty member Jennifer Palmer, along with Julia Gaffield of Georgia State University and Conservateur-en-Chef of the Bibliothèque Hatïenne des Pères du Saint-Esprit Patrick Tardieu, will collaborate on a project to digitize materials printed before 1820 during the colonial, revolutionary, and early independence periods in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). The materials are housed at the Bibliothèque hatïenne…
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Laboratory of Archeology: Preserving Georgia's unique past

The University of Georgia Laboratory of Archeology, established in the late 1940's, marked another important milestone in its distinguished history on January 18 at the celebration of its new location in Athens. Organized within the department of anthropology, the Laboratory provides opportunities for students of varied backgrounds to engage in archaeology and history, serving the intellectual growth of our undergraduate and graduate…
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