Thu, April 10, 2014
All Day
014 University Hall
Event Host: Department of Anthropology
Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, University of California, Merced, will give a talk titled "Ancient Mustang:& the Origins of a High Himalayan Kingdom in Nepal."
Upper Mustang, located in a high valley in Nepal, is today the home of a small Tibetan Buddhist community that was once had connections into Central Asia and China via the famous Silk Road. The earliest inhabitants are variously described as Aryans, Tibetans, Mongolians, and others. Our research team of archaeologists, historians, bioarchae-ologists, and specialists in the analysis of ancient DNA, along with a crack team of Alpinists and climbers, is recovering important new data about the origins of the people of Upper Mustang and how the polity grew and changed over the past 3000 years.