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July 13, 2016

Anthropology professor presents at Transatlantic Studies Conference in the UK

Submitted by Harald E.L. Prins

Harald Prins at Sir Francis Drake's Manor, Devon, UK, July 2016

Harald E.L. Prins, university distinguished professor of anthropology, presented "A Native American Contribution to the Formation of the Atlantic Hemisphere," at the 15th annual conference of the Transatlantic Studies Association, Plymouth University, England, July 4-6.

Prins also was invited to Compton Castle in Devon, England, sharing ethnohistorical research on Indian tribesmen visiting the sea port of Plymouth in the 1500s and 1600s, before returning home as guides to English seafarers exploring the New World.