BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Archaeological Institute of America - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Archaeological Institute of America
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.archaeological.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Archaeological Institute of America
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241215T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241215T160000
DTSTAMP:20260410T023021
CREATED:20241120T170128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T170128Z
UID:10007414-1734274800-1734278400@www.archaeological.org
SUMMARY:Rediscovering Egypt's Lost Dinosaurs
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Matt Lamanna\, Carnegie Museum of Natural History: \nRediscovering Egypt’s Lost Dinosaurs \nSunday December 15\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRm 56 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual.\nThe lecture will not be recorded. No registration is required \nAbout the Lecture: \nEgypt’s vast archaeological record and engaging material culture have long excited people around the world\, but did you know that this region’s history stretches back well into the Mesozoic Era\, or Age of Dinosaurs? In the early 20th century\, a series of German expeditions recovered fossils of several new and extraordinary ~95-million-year-old dinosaur species from the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert\, most famously the enormous sail-backed semi-aquatic predator Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Tragically\, however\, all these fossils were destroyed during a British Royal Air Force bombing of Munich in late April 1944. In 2000\, a collaborative Egyptian-American research team became the first scientists to discover dinosaur fossils in the Bahariya Oasis in nearly a century; among these were a partial skeleton of a new and gigantic sauropod (long-necked plant-eating dinosaur) that was later named Paralititan stromeri. More recently\, researchers from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center in Mansoura\, Egypt have collected additional\, important dinosaur fossils from Bahariya\, and moreover have expanded their paleontological efforts to include geologically younger (~75-million-year-old) sites in the Kharga and Dakhla oases. Foremost among their finds from the latter is another new sauropod\, Mansourasaurus shahinae\, which constitutes one of the best-preserved late Mesozoic-aged land-living backboned animals known from the entire African continent. Collectively\, these discoveries have cast unprecedented light on Egypt’s remarkable dinosaurs\, helping to restore a scientific legacy that was lost during the Second World War. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Matt Lamanna is the Mary R. Dawson Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and the senior dinosaur researcher at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. Originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York\, he received his B.Sc. from Hobart College in 1997 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and 2004. Within the past 26 years\, he has directed or co-directed field expeditions to Antarctica\, Argentina\, Australia\, China\, Croatia\, Egypt\, Greenland\, and the western United States that have resulted in the discovery of more than 20 new species of dinosaurs and other fossil animals from the Cretaceous Period\, the third and final time period of the Age of Dinosaurs; indeed\, he is one of only a handful of people to have found dinosaur fossils on all seven continents. Lamanna served as chief scientific advisor to Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s $36M “Dinosaurs in Their Time” exhibition and has appeared on television programs for PBS (NOVA)\, the Discovery Channel\, the National Geographic Channel\, the History Channel\, A&E\, the Science Channel\, and many more. \n———————- \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/rediscovering-egypts-lost-dinosaurs/
LOCATION:Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Bahariya-Formation-ecosystem-w-abelisaurid-etc-Andrew-McAfee-Carnegie-MNH-1-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com
GEO:37.8700546;-122.25799
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Social Sciences Building UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UC Berkeley:geo:-122.25799,37.8700546
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR