February 8, 2004 - 4:00pm
Anthropologist Dr. Bryan Wells has made the Indus Valley in Pakistan the focus of his studies for years.
On Tuesday, February 17 at 7 pm, Wells will deliver a lecture entitled "Our current understanding of the Indus Valley civilization" in building 355, room 211, at Malaspina University-College's Nanaimo campus.
The lecture will be an overview of the Indus Valley civilization highlighting the sites, artefacts, and social structure of the region. The lecture will be illustrated by a slide presentation.
"We don't know where the Indus Valley civilization came from despite the fact that at the height of its influence it covered a huge area of 1,000,000 square kilometres," said Wells. "Also the Indus script is one of the world's last to be deciphered which adds to the mystery of this ancient civilization."
Wells is currently finishing his PhD at Harvard University and was appointed project epigrapher (a person who deciphers ancient inscriptions) for the Harvard Archaeological Expedition to Baluchistan, a Province in Pakistan. He has returned to BC to write his dissertation: Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing.
In 1996, he began his Master program at the University of Calgary and his thesis, titled An Introduction to Indus Writing, was published in 1998.
In 1999, he moved to Berlin, Germany and with Andreas Fuls of the Technical University of Berlin, co-authored a monograph titled Correlating The Modern Western and Ancient Maya Calendars.
Wells currently resides in Qualicum Beach.
This free public lecture is organized by the Malaspina Anthropology Club and Dr. Andra Thakur For more information about the lecture contact Dr. Andra Thakur at: (250) 753-3245 ext. 2250 or email: thakur@viu.ca.
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