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Talking Archaeology: Power and Paleontology - Encountering Fossils in the Burgess Shale

     
7:00 PM
Strathcona Branch of the Edmonton Public Library

Speaker: Chris Chang-Yen Phillips

If you visit BC's Yoho National Park, you can hike up to see 500-million-year old fossils in the Burgess Shale. Your shoes will crunch over fossilized trilobites on the way up, and you might get to hold the claw of an ancient Anomalocaris. Who should be allowed to hold fossils - or take them home? The answers have changed a lot over time.
In this talk, Chris Chang-Yen Phillips will share stories from his graduate history research at the University of Alberta, exploring the history of paleontology in the Burgess Shale. We will discuss how paleontologists helped claim territory for parks and railways, how scientists helped put the Burgess Shale on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and what happened when a stampede of tourists came to have a look.
 

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