Archaeological Institute of America

Ancestral Maya Pilgrimage at the Sacred Pools of Cara Blanca, Belize
2023-03-01 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Central Texas), Austin, TX
Joukowsky Lecture

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-03-01 18:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Columbus), Columbus, OH
Norton Lecture

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-03-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10040, United States

Gold Victories: The Gold of Coinage of Alexander the Great
2023-03-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | Heritage Hall (inside of Father O’Connell Hall), Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC, 20064
Metcalf Lecture

Treasure troves. How to Study a Greek Coin Hoard
2023-03-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Campbell Hall 160, University of Virginia, 110 Bayly Dr, Charlottesville, VA, 22903

Sex Workers at Pompeii
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Denver) | Tory Breezeway 1, University of Alberta, 6-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Environment and Economy in Early Medieval Antwerp: the Zooarchaeological Evidence
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Valparaiso University Center for the Arts (VUCA), 1709 Chapel Dr, Valparaiso, IN, 46383

Industry, Commerce, and Revolution: Ayla, Humayma, and the Southernmost Levant during the Early Islamic Period
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at San Antonio downtown campus, Room TBA, 501 W César E Chávez Blvd, San Antonio, TX, 78207, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/New_York) | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave, Rochester, NY, 14607

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-03-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Baltimore), Baltimore, MD

Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Kings
2023-03-04 13:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (St. Louis), St. Louis, MO

Goddesses, Whores, Vampyres and Archaeologists: uncovering ancient Mytilene
2023-03-05 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LA Society, 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266
Bass Lecture

Chinese Export Pottery: A Business Model for Athenian Vase Production?
2023-03-07 20:00 (America/New_York) | Florida State University, hall TBA, 600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States

Domestic Material Culture and the Archaeology of Value: Beyond “Religion” vs. “Decoration"
2023-03-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | Goetz Library, Department of Classics, University at Buffalo, 320 Academic Center, 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States

Perspectives on the future of technology and the humanities from an archaeologist in Silicon Valley
2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Texas Tech Student Union Building – Escondido Theater, 15th St & Akron Avenue, Lubbock, 79409, United States
How might the research and pedagogy of the academy, and especially disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, connect fruitfully with dynamic agendas in technology development, change management in business, and the challenges of a complex world of runaway crises? How might we address this question of transdisciplinary reach while cherishing the specialized expertise of orthodox disciplines? This talk will present a pragmatist case for managing creative knowledge building in research and learning. Four interconnected case studies will be described: in university education (Stanford Humanities Lab and design programs, project-based learning in Denmark); in science and technology studies (histories of design); in corporate design-based strategic planning (projects with the automotive industry over 25 years); and in critical theory developed in the archaeology of prehistoric Europe and classical antiquity. These case studies illustrate the enduring value of tried-and-tested toolkits drawn from design practice and rhetoric and applied in synthetic fields that can be called design foresight, creative pragmatics, and futures literacy (after the UNESCO initiative). This synthesis of mindset, methods, and concepts that will be familiar to many could be called an argument for a revitalized liberal arts that brings creative design skills (rhetoric) to STEM education, research and development.

RESCHEDULED - Beer, A Global Journey Through the Past and Present
2023-03-09 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Dedham Life Sciences 131, SMU, 6501 Airline Road, Dallas, TX, 75205, United States
This lecture is no longer happening in September, a new date will be scheduled for the spring.

Ariadne’s Threads: The Magnificent Costumes of the Minoans and Mycenaeans
2023-03-11 00:00 (America/New_York) | The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
2023-03-11 13:00 (America/Denver) | Denver Public Library Ross-University Hills Branch, 4310 E Amherst Ave, Denver, CO, 80222, United States

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
2023-03-11 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
Abstract:
The past, whether real, tangible, embellished, or imagined, can be a particularly powerful and alluring source of symbols, narratives, and ideas. Echoes from the distant past can
reverberate and affect the lives of contemporary and descendant communities, and issues
related to politics, cultural heritage management, tourism, and national identity can all be
tied to our reconstructions of the past. This kind of dynamic is evident across many countries, particularly those that have experienced recent histories of conflict, regime change, or newly gained independence. This lecture explores the social contexts and political dimensions of practicing archaeology, and it features research on ancient Vietnam as a backdrop. Here, archaeological investigations increasingly complement traditional sources of information, such as ancient texts, legendary accounts, and heroic folk tales. As such, artifacts, remnant architecture, and sacred landscapes have become significant for the national story of Vietnam, its deeper past, and the cultural identities of its past and present populations.
Bio:
Professor Kim is an anthropological archaeologist interested in sociopolitical complexity, early forms of cities, factors associated with significant cultural change, and the relationship between modern politics, cultural heritage, and the material record. He is especially interested in the cultural contexts and social consequences of organized violence and warfare, as manifested in various cultural, spatial and temporal settings. Much of his recent research has been geographically focused on East and Southeast Asia, and since 2005 he has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam at the Co Loa settlement in the Red River Delta. A heavily fortified site located near modern-day Hanoi, Co Loa is purportedly connected to Vietnamese legendary accounts and is thus viewed by many as integral to the genesis of Vietnamese civilization and early state formation in Southeast Asia.

Rural Landscapes, Archaeological Fieldwork, and Cultural Heritage Destruction in Turkey
2023-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sabin Hall Room G90, 3413 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Dr. Ömür Harmanshah, Director, The School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago, will present the AIA’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage for the AIA-Milwaukee Society
Archaeological remains and landscapes are witnesses to deep time histories, yet they have increasingly been victims of targeted destruction as well as practices of looting in recent decades. Cultural heritage is always entangled with the politics of the environment, while heritage is always understood as a resource at risk waiting for a salvage operation. A major challenge for archaeologists today is that they have to serve as chroniclers of the unprecedented levels of heritage destruction under the current regime, and to contextualize this destruction within the conditions of precarity, extraction, and dispossession, which are different forms of environmental injustice. Late capitalist management of landscapes in the contemporary Turkish countryside have created disposable landscapes of extreme extraction and large-scale excavation. In his talk, Dr. Harmanshah will focus on various practices of heritage destruction in the western part of Konya province where the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project has been documenting ancient and historical settlements and landscape features, while also keeping an account of ongoing heritage destruction since 2010. He will argue that on the ground fieldwork as a creative practice and collaboration with local heritage communities are essential to perform such work as compared to remote sensing methods.

Collision of Worlds: An Archaeological Perspective on the Spanish Invasion of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-14 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-03-15 19:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marie Style pottery in Minoan Crete
2023-03-16 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall room 118, University of Richmond, 410 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA, 23137

RESCHEDULED: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
2023-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Kennedy Building, room 112 (Assumption University Campus), 500 Salisbury St, Worcester, MA, 01609

The Archaeology and Reconstruction of the Lake Champlain steamboat Phoenix II
2023-03-21 19:00 (America/Denver) | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505

Climate Change in the Arctic: It’s Happening Fast, and It’s Happened Before
2023-03-22 17:30 (America/New_York) | Rhode Island Hall 108, Brown University, 60 George St., Providence, 02912, United States

City Making in Byzantine Athens
2023-03-22 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Jones Hall 108, Uptown Campus of Tulane University, 6801 Freet St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-03-22 19:30 (America/New_York) | Highsmith Union, Rooms 225/226, 700 Founders Drive, Asheville, NC, 28804
Cinelli Lecture

Traitors or Native Conquistadors? The Role of Tlaxcala in the Fall of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-23 14:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Space, Symbols, Society: Ritual Dynamics in Ancient Lucania
2023-03-23 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, 65201, United States
Dr. Ilaria Battiloro (Associate Professor, Classics and Visual and Material Culture Studies departments at Mount Allison University)
This talk offers an overview of the archaeological evidence for Lucanian sanctuaries and discusses how cult sites were conceived and used by people who built, frequented, and finally abandoned them. For this purpose, special emphasis is put on two aspects of the issue: spatial organization of cult places as reconstructed from architectural remains and distribution of archaeological finds, and the formalization of the ritual activities performed within the sanctuaries themselves, and their visibility through devotion forms (in primis votive offerings). By looking at this evidence, it is possible to comprehend how Lucanian cult sites were structured in the plurality of their functions, and whether recurring characteristics can be discerned
