Archaeological Institute of America

Mystery, Medicine, and Music in a Greek Healing Sanctuary
2023-03-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Art Building West 116, University of Iowa, 150 Art Building West,, Iowa City, IA, 52246

Digging Phoenicians: The Evidence from Tel Dor
2023-03-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences, C-2059, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada, H3T 1N8
Kershaw Lecture

FemiNetworX: Mapping Female Maritime Mobility Patterns
2023-03-28 18:00 (America/New_York) | Anthropology Building 130 (St. George Campus), 19 Ursula Franklin St., Toronto, Ontario
McCann/Taggart Lecture

Anemurium: a Roman and early Byzantine city on Turkey’s southern shore, lecture by Hector Williams (U. British Columbia)
2023-03-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | PA
George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Excavations by the University of British Columbia on Turkey’s southernmost promontory, Cape Anamur, have uncovered a picture of life in a modest but prosperous urban community from the third to seventh centuries of our era. Local benefactors built large public baths with exercise grounds, a theatre, one of the best preserved odeons (roofed small theatre) in the Roman world, hundreds of tombs, four early Christian churches (some with fine mosaic floors), houses and a small well preserved set of Byzantine baths. Industrial establishments that produced pottery, roof tiles

CANCELED: Redemption for the Museum of the Bible. Artifacts, Provenance, and Bias in the Contact Zone
2023-03-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | Wooster College, Lean Lecture Room, Wishart Hall, 303 East University Street, Wooster, OH, 44691, United States
Feinstone Lecture

Stymphalos: A Planned City of Ancient Arcadia, Lecture by Hector Williams (U. British Columbia)
2023-04-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | PA
AIA Rodney S. Young Memorial Lecture
Excavations at ancient Stymphalos, a small Arcadian late classical city set 2000 feet up in the mountains of the northern Peloponnese, have uncovered fifteen areas of the city within its sturdy fortification walls. Famously as the site of Herakles’ sixth labour, killing the Stymphalian birds, the city also produced two Olympic victors and mercenary forces that served from Carthage to the Middle East. The talk will look at the well built houses of the town, its theatre and wrestling school, its sanctuaries and their hundreds of oﬀerings, the sophisticated city defences, and temples that included some with marble roof tiles (rare in Greece). It will also present four early Christian cemeteries and their burials, which throw light on local inhabitants. We also pioneered the use of geophysical exploration in Greece, revealing an orthogonally planned city of the 4th c. BC.

The People of Angkor
2023-04-04 19:00 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309

Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers
2023-04-05 18:00 (America/New_York) | Rittenberg Room, 2nd floor of Mather Hall, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, 06106, United States
Norton Lecture

Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
2023-04-06 16:30 (America/New_York) | PA

Shopping for artists’ materials in ancient Rome: pigment shops, pigments, and product choice
2023-04-06 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Agricultural Communication and Education Building, Room 00102, Texas Tech University, 2810 15th St, Lubbock, TX, 79409

Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Denver) | Hager Auditorium, the Museum of the Rockies, 600 W. Kagy Blvd., Bozeman, MT, 59717

Not Black and White: Seeing and Naming Africans in Greek Art
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yap's Famous Stone Money
2023-04-06 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States

Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
2023-04-11 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Room L140, Elvehjem Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706

Myth-ing Sound: Exploring Markers of Music in Athenian Vase Paintings
2023-04-12 18:30 (America/Chicago) | PA
Manton Lecture
Please contact Phil Stinson and William Bruce for the Zoom link.

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2023-04-13 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | John C Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette University, 245 Winter Street SE, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Archaeology of Portugal Lecture

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-04-15 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room in Thomson Hall, 1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States
Stone Lecture

Leviathan’s Revenge: Archaeology and the Destructive Convergence of Land, Sea, and Humans
2023-04-16 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, CA, 94954, United States

With, For, and By: Doing Archaeology in a Grand Ronde Way
2023-04-18 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-04-19 19:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2023-04-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
Archaeology of Portugal Lectures

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2023-04-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | Harbor Walk West 217, College of Charleston, 360 Concord Street, Charleston, SC, 29401
Renner Lecture

Gaspé Maritime Archaeology Project
2023-04-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | Building 51/ Rm 1104, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL, 32224
Matson Lecture

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-04-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Long Island), Hempstead, NY

CANCELED: The Global Economies of Late Antique Egypt
2023-04-25 20:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Dunwalke Lecture

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
2023-04-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | Cornell University, G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY, United States
Eisenpreis Lecture

Living in ruins: Vibrancy and decay in the ancient Maya city
2023-04-26 19:00 (America/Chicago) | DePaul Center, Room 8206, 1 E Jackson Ave,, Chicago, IL, 60604

The Science of Storytelling
2023-04-27 14:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

April 29, 2023: Toys, Burial Goods or Ritual Objects? - West African figurines and their archaeological traces presented by André Luiz Ruivo Ferreira Burmann, PhD candidate Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Pre- and Protohistory of Africa, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2023-04-29 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | PA
Abstract:
West African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans, animals, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal, iconographic and stylistic aspects of the figurines. A supra-regional examination of their long history of human interaction and deposition is often absent. Contextual studies on the archaeology of figurines are rather rare, and, mostly, center on a small regional scale. However, in the last few decades, work taking place in some larger study areas, such as the Nigerian Nok Culture, have revealed new insights into the study of figurines. This presentation will share work in progress of a large-scale West African synthesis of archaeological sites and archaeological contexts that have yielded figurines. How were these objects disseminated over time and space? Which figurine traditions appeared when and where? What do we know about their (last) use respectively their way of deposition? Has the latter changed over time? And what role did the Nok Culture possibly play in this development?
Bio:
André Luiz R. F. Burmann is a Ph. D. candidate in Pre- and Protohistory of Africa at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Germany). He studied Prehistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, in addition to Portuguese Philology at the Universities of Munich and Frankfurt/Main. His 2016 Master thesis focused on the archaeological context of terracotta sculptures from the Central Nigerian Nok Culture (1500 BC–1 AD). For the three following years, André Burmann was a research associate in the DFG Research Training Group “Value and Equivalence” at the University of Frankfurt. His Ph.D. research focuses specifically on West African figurines yielded from archaeological contexts, aiming to analyze and compare relevant sites and features through time and space to examine the development of depositional patterns of figurines. Moreover, André has worked in different museums and with curation teams since being a student. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Scientific Trainee at the LWL Museum for Archaeology, the Westphalian State Museum in Herne, followed by a working stay in the Museée d´Angoulême in France. Burmann is an active member of the Pan-African Archaeological Association (PanAf), the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), the West-African Archaeological Association (WAAA), the ICOM Germany Young Professionals Network and the children’s development organization Enfants avec Espoir e.V. Since September 2022, he works at Engagement Global gGmbH in Bonn, being responsible for networking and public relations in the German-African Youth Office.

Stanford AIA Raubitschek Lecture with Ian Morris
2023-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PA
“What Happened in History: 81 Years on from Gordon Childe”
This lecture borrows the title from Gordon Childe’s famous book and asks how his theory of the overall shape of prehistory and ancient history looks today.
