The Lincoln - Omaha Society of the Archaeological Institute of America announces its sixth and final lecture of the 2007 - 08 season. Dr. Francis Harrold, from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences, will deliver a lecture on issues regarding the facts about—and misperceptions of—the Neanderthals. Among the most intriguing and controversial topics in Paleolithic archaeology are the eclipse of the archaic human populations in Eurasia that we know as the Neanderthals, and the rise of to dominance of "anatomically modern" humans. What were Neanderthals like? How was their behavior different from that of modern humans? What happened to them, and did modern people play a role in their fate? Professor Harrold will discuss how these questions are being tackled and debated with evidence from fields are varied as archaeology, human paleontology, paleoclimatology, and molecular genetics. Frank Harrold is Dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He received the B.A. in anthropology from Loyola University of Chicago and the M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Before coming to UNK, he taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Victoria (Canada). His research interests are in the Paleolithic of Europe, particularly in the period of transition from the Neanderthals to modern humans. He has also written on nonscientific beliefs about the human past such as creationism and "fantastic archaeology." He has done fieldwork in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Albania, and is the author or co-author of over 40 scholarly books and articles.