Dr. Langlie Featured in IES Research Seminar on Nov. 15

Dr. BrieAnna Langlie is a full-time instructor in Loyola University Chicago’s Department of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. She specializes in paleoethnobotany in the Andes Mountains of South America. She is interested in the development and long-term sustainability of agricultural systems.

Recently she has been studying how terraced fields, cropping schemes, and foodways were tuned to warfare and climate oscillations for a large community living in the hinterlands near Lake Titicaca between AD 1100 and 1450. She is also involved in ongoing and collaborative research on agricultural terraces, and the domestication of quinoa, potatoes, and other Andean crops.

Her talk in the IES Research Seminar Series is titled "Farming and Warfare in the Ancient Peruvian Andes," to held on Nov. 15 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in IES 123.