The 29th Annual Armadillo Roast

The 29th Annual Armadillo Roast was Saturday April 15, 1999 at Austin Cary Forest. To everyone who didn't make it to the roast this year, you missed out on some very good barbecue.

The winners of the annual pie contest are: Karen Jo Walker (tempered), David McCracken (untempered), and Ellen Woodall (decorated).

This year's recipients of the Charles H. Fairbanks Award are: Flordeliz Bugarin, Agazi Negash, and Robert Patton. Each will receive a cash award to be used in the furtherance of their graduate careers (and to help bring those careers to a close).

Florie Bugarin's dissertation research, supervised by Peter Schmidt, focuses on the ethnohistory and archaeology of the Xhosa people in the South African eastern Cape and the impact of trade and cultural colonialism in the early 19th century.

Agazi Negash's dissertation utilizes excavated data to investigate the cultural processes associated with early African plant domestication in the Temben area of northern Ethiopia. His supervisory committee is chaired by Steven Brandt.

Rob Patton's dissertation, under the direction of William Marquardt, uses settlement data to examine the development of political complexity among the precolumbian ancestors of the Calusa Indians in southwest Florida.