Archaeological Institute of America

Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
2022-11-16 19:00 (America/New_York) | MO
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

The Wild, Wild East: Combating the Black Market in Ancient Asian Art
2022-11-17 14:00 (America/New_York) | MO
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
2023-01-17 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-01-18 19:00 (America/New_York) | MO

A Foot in Both Camps: The Extraordinary Assemblage of Archaeological Shoes from Vindolanda Roman Fort
2023-01-20 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MO

Reconceiving the nomad: tropes, archaeological reality, and why it matters
2023-01-23 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City), New York, NY

In the Footsteps of Roman Soldiers: Excavations at Vindolanda and the Archaeological Landscape of Hadrian’s Wall
2023-01-23 19:30 (America/New_York) | UBC Vancouver Campus, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

Ramses the Great: Power and Patriarchy
2023-01-26 14:00 (America/New_York) | MO

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-01-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | John R. Braunstein Hall 300, University of Cincinnati, 2825 Campus Way, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years
2023-01-26 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | Benedictine University at Mesa, 225 E Main Street, Mesa, AZ, 85201, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Communicating with the Ancestors: Archaeology at Oxmoor Plantation, Louisville, Kentucky
2023-01-26 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe), 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, 40203, United States
Come and learn what Kentucky Archaeological Survey archaeologists have been doing at Oxmoor Farm in Louisville, Kentucky for the last year and a half. Lori Stahlgren, Project Archaeologist with KAS, will be speaking about this ongoing project. In 2021, the Oxmoor Farm Foundation hired KAS to conduct a survey around extant buildings that once served as dwellings for enslaved people in the early 19th century and as dwellings for farm workers post-bellum and into the 20th century. Oxmoor plans to create museum space to commemorate the lives of the enslaved African Americans and to tell their stories, both separate and intertwined with the Bullitt family, who owned the plantation. The survey found intact archaeological deposits around the extant buildings and investigations extended into the interior of the buildings. The work thus far has generated thousands of artifacts and new lines of research involving the enslaved people at Oxmoor. This discussion will describe the work to date and present some of the findings and artifacts discovered, as well as efforts to connect with descendants of the people enslaved at Oxmoor.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-01-27 18:30 (America/New_York) | Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, 43620, United States

RESCHEDULED: "Otzi The Iceman": Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-01-30 17:30 (America/Chicago) | MO
Norton Lecture

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-01-31 18:00 (America/New_York) | Emil W. Haury Anthropology Building, Room 216, University of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States

Life and Death on the Nile: Diet, Origins, and Mobility in Ancient Nubia
2023-02-02 17:30 - 18:45 (America/Chicago) | AGED Building , Room 00102, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
Dr. Tosha Dupras, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Texas Tech University, will share her research on diet and mobility in ancient Nubia.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-02-05 14:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Room TBD, Paterson Hall 303, Ottawa, Canada

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (Room TBA), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, CA, 93740

Waterscapes in Etruria: Vulci (10th cent. BCE-5th cent.CE)
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Berkeley, Dwinelle 370, 101 Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis
2023-02-07 17:30 (America/New_York) | 1214 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, 27412

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-02-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | MO

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-09 18:00 (America/New_York) | Behavioral Sciences Building (BEH) 103, USF Tampa Campus, 4209 USF Willow Drive, Tampa, FL, 33620

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | John C. Hitt Library Room 402, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-21 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis – St. Paul), Minneapolis, MN
Norton Lecture
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A Maritime Small World in Western Cyprus: Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, and Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-02-22 19:00 (America/New_York) | MO

Why are Islands Sacred?
2023-02-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | MO

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-23 16:15 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA

A Culinary History of Collapse, Conquest, and Cultural Identity in Ancient Perú
2023-02-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe), 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, 40203, United States
How do archaeologists use food to tell the story of the past? Archaeologist Robyn Cutright (Centre College) addresses this question in our next talk!
​Between 650-1450 CE, residents of the Jequetepeque Valley of northern coastal Perú experienced several large-scale sociopolitical disruptions, including the collapse of the Moche polity, the transition to the subsequent Lambayeque period in the context of highland and northern influences, and conquest by the expanding Chimú empire. This talk explores local experiences of these events, using cuisine as a window onto everyday life in rural communities. Culinary continuities and changes across three Jequetepeque Valley sites suggest that while collapse represented a deep rift in the fabric of rural daily life, conquest was marked by local accommodation and cultural persistence.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-02-23 19:00 (America/New_York) | School of Business (SBUS) 110, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07043

Climate Change and Migrating Farmers: The Spread of Agriculture to Southern Europe
2023-02-25 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | MO
Abstract:
Farming spread from its center of origin in western Asia to southern Europe at the beginning of the Holocene. This phenomenon has prompted many questions. Why did farming spread when it did? Who brought it to southern Europe, and by what means? Migrant farmers from western Asia reached the Aegean before 9,000 cal BP (c. 7,000 BC). Then there was a pause that lasted a millennium. The onward spread of farming took this new economy rapidly inland to the Danube Basin, and westward to the Adriatic and beyond. The westward dispersal took place along the coasts; the only reasonable explanation is that it was carried forward by migrating farmers looking for new lands to settle, an hypothesis supported by the latest ADNA evidence. The question then is, why did they leave the Aegean for the Adriatic and beyond so suddenly? Results from the “Early Farming in Dalmatia Project” are providing answers to these questions. Recent research has focused on the impact of a sudden reversal of climate, the “8,200 cal BP event”. During this episode the climate of the early Holocene became cold and dry. This phase lasted about 300 years, or 10 human generations, enough to disrupt the existing farming economy in the Aegean and over a much wider area. It caused some of these farmers to leave their homeland in search of fresh lands to colonize. It was these migrants who brought farming to the Adriatic and beyond.
Bio:
Andrew M.T. Moore is Immediate Past President of the AIA. Recently retired from Rochester Institute of Technology, he also taught European and world archaeology at the University of Arizona and Yale University. Dr. Moore has a particular interest in Scandinavian and Viking Age archaeology. Since 1960, he has participated in archaeological surveys, excavations, and field research in England, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. His earlier research concentrated on the advent of agriculture and sedentary life in western Asia, especially in Syria. In 2002, Dr. Moore began a new project to investigate the spread of farming around the Mediterranean and into southern Europe. At the invitation of colleagues in Croatia, he is conducting this research in central Dalmatia, through surveys and excavations at the Neolithic villages of Danilo and Pokrovnik.
