Wine, Cheese, & Travel

image courtesy Sébastien Barillot
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Taught by James P. Fitzsimmons

Fitz is an Anthropologist, Event Security Specialist, and Sideshow Enthusiast. His experiences have ranged from Music Promotion, a brief foray into Silicone Alley before the Dotcom Collapse, years involved in Pharmaceutical Research, Safety and Litigation Support, and Archaeological projects involving Pre-Contact New York and Early Stone Age Tanzania. He has a strong interest and background in the biological and behavioral understanding of Modern Human Origins. For the last ten years he has been involved with the operations of Coney Island USA's Mermaid Parade and is a graduate of their Sideshow School. He is presently involved in an Anthropological Analysis of Art Theft and Restitution related to Vichy France and has a lifelong
interest in nearly all things just at the edges of respectability.

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"Wine, Cheese and Travel" conjures images of leisure and ease, but the story of how humanity came to possess these things ties directly into the tale of our development.

Beginning with humanity's appearance on the planet 200,000 years ago, this class will begin by tracing the dramatic appearance of agriculture roughly 10,000 years ago. We'll look at how agriculture's limitations were then overcome by methods of preservation and storage, which led to unintended, though ultimately delightful, consequences.

(class size: 25, lecture + q&a)

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