Archaeological Institute of America

Gendered Ads in Antiquity: Targeted Advertising for Women in Athenian Vase Painting
2021-10-26 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Vancouver 1), Vancouver, BC
Scranton Lecture

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The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
2021-10-27 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Niagara Peninsula 1), St. Catharines, ON

Shrouded in Mystery: Reconstructing the Cultural Contexts of Funerary Shrouds from Roman Egypt
2021-10-27 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Central/West Michigan 1), Lansing, MI

Bird/Egg, Pen/Hand, Torch/Deer? Pairs of Ordinary Objects on Roman Coins
2021-10-28 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom
Metcalf Lecture

Ten fingers and ten toes: disability and infanticide in ancient Greece
2021-10-28 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | WEBINAR (Central Arizona 1), Phoenix, AZ
Young Lecture

Torches, Fireflies, and Moonlight: The Brilliance of Classic Maya Lightscapes
2021-10-28 19:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Rochester1), Rochester, NY
Borowski Lecture

Boomtown Blues: Archaeologies of Expansion and Collapse in Amazonia
2021-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Room 106, Psychology Building, 4111 Pictor Lane, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States
Stone Lecture
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Shipwrecks and the Transport of Luxury in the Roman Mediterranean
2021-10-29 19:30 (America/Halifax) | WEBINAR (New Brunswick 1), Fredericton, NB
Steffy Lecture

The Power of the Ancestors at Pylos
2021-11-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Andrews Hall, Room 101, College of William & Mary, 605 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA, 23187, United States
Howland Lecture

Awash in Innuendo at the Baths of Caracalla
2021-11-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven 1), New Haven, CT
a remote ZOOM lecture by Maryl Gensheimer, University of Maryland
Archaeological Institute of America, New Haven Society
November 2 2021, from 5-6 pm
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The Spirit of Repatriation Under NAGPRA
2021-11-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Boston 2), Boston, MA

State Formation in Anglo-Saxon England
2021-11-04 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis-St. Paul 1), Minneapolis, MN

Ritual at the crossroads: a sacred stone in ancient Athens
2021-11-04 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Columbus 1), Columbus, OH

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2021-11-04 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (San Francisco 1), San Francisco, CA
Norton Lecture

Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World
2021-11-07 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Ottawa 1), Ottawa, ON
Santen Lecture

Vitality Materialized: On the Piercing and Adornment of the body in Mesoamerica
2021-11-08 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City 1), New York, NY
Brush Lecture

Death comes to the Theban Sacred Band: Skeletons from the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC)
2021-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (D.C. 1), Washington, DC
Matson Lecture

Wonderwerk Cave: Archaeology at the Edge of the Kalahari
2021-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Oberlin-Wooster 1), Oberlin, OH
Joukowsky Lecture

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Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2021-11-10 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Eugene 1), Eugene, OR

Religious Ritual on board the Greco-Roman Ship
2021-11-11 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Richmond 1), Richmond, VA

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2021-11-11 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Portland 1), Portland, OR

Tracing the Origins of Art in Africa
2021-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | TX
Zoom lecture by Dr. Michael Chazan (University of Toronto)
Joukowsky Lecture

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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Monumental Power, Politics and Pride
2021-11-18 17:00 (America/Denver) | WEBINAR (Edmonton 1), Edmonton, AB

“The shipwreck in a diamond mine”: Identifying Elephant Herds from the ivory cargo in the 16th century
2021-11-21 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Rye Free Reading Room, 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, NY, 10580, United States
Whilst mining for diamonds in 2008, mine workers in Oranjemund, Namibia found over 40 tons of cargo from a shipwreck buried under the sand for centuries. The ship is likely the Portuguese vessel Bom Jesus, which wrecked off the coast of Namibia in 1533 AD, and the artefacts found reveal aspects of European trade and contact with the western African coast in the early 16th century. The wreck was excavated as a rescue operation, and diamond mining continues along this stretch of the Namibian coastline. Among gold and silver coins, copper ingots, and navigational equipment, 100 complete tusks of elephant ivory were excavated and are currently being curated in the mine.
In order to build a research and heritage project on the wreck, together with colleagues from the USA, South Africa, and Namibia, we started a program of biomolecular analyses on the 100 elephant tusks. We used a combination of ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) to source the ivory to African habitats. Our results show that the shipwreck ivory comes from 17 different elephant herds of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) which lived in mixed savanna habitats in inland western Africa. Our study shows that a combination of techniques can be employed to determine the provenance of shipwreck cargo, to compare the genetic characteristics of ancient and modern wildlife populations, and to highlight the connectivity of African exchange networks with maritime trade routes. We hope that these data will aid in the exhibition of the shipwreck and artefacts in the National Museum of Namibia, as well as showcase the outstanding potential of research on these materials.
Ashley Coutu is a Research Fellow and Deputy Head of Research at the Pitt Rivers Museum. She is an archaeologist with interests and training across fields such as historical and medieval archaeology, African archaeology, isotope ecology, zooarchaeology and historical ecology. Over the last decade, she has researched African exchange networks from the last 2,000 years, focusing on ivory as a material. She is also interested in the use of scientific techniques to understand how past people utilised ivory, and to explore its trade, use, and value over time in different cultures.
She received a BA from Boston College, USA in 2005, then moved to the UK to complete an MPhil in World Archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 2007. From 2007-2011, she completed her PhD as a Marie Curie Early Career Researcher on the EU-funded Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes project at the University of York. Her PhD used a combination of archival, archaeological, and biomolecular data to understand the impacts of the 19th century ivory trade on elephants, humans, and landscapes along caravan routes in East Africa. In 2012, she moved to Denmark as a postdoctoral researcher on the Entrepôt project and from 2013-2017 was based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, holding a Claude Leon fellowship and then a Marie Curie International fellowship. The two fellowships centred on a project to map African ivory trade networks from the last 2,000 years by analysing ivory working materials, ivory objects, and other small finds from archaeological sites across southern Africa. After moving back to the UK in 2017, Ashley spent time as a Visiting Research fellow at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia and then took up a post as a Lecturer in Archaeology at Newcastle University before landing in Oxford in 2019.

Colonizing Provincial Egypt: Pyramids and the Early State presented by Professor Richard Bussmann, PhD, University of Cologne
2021-11-27 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | TX
Abstract:
When we think of the pyramids of Egypt, we usually refer to the gigantic pyramids of Giza. These were statements of power in the early ancient Egyptian state. Yet, power does not become effective simply by building monuments. It rests on the ability of rulers to manipulate social relationships. In Egypt, the relationship between centre and the hinterland was key for governing the country. The early state struggled for over one thousand years, ca. 3000 to 2000 BC, with defining this relationship. One attempt to colonize the hinterland was by the crown to build small pyramids at provincial sites in order to impose royal authority locally. This lecture presents fresh archaeological fieldwork from one of the provincial pyramids. It discusses challenges archaic states were facing in early history and the ways people accommodated their lives within them.
Bio:
Richard Bussmann studied Egyptology, Assyriology and Theology at the Univeristy of Heidelberg, the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin and Goettingen University. He received his PhD in Egyptology from the Free University of Berlin in 2007. His PhD thesis focused on the archaeology and history of local community shrines in the times of the pyramids. In 2010, he held a post-doctoral research fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation at Cambridge University. In the same year, he was appointed Lecturer, and in 2014 Senior Lecturer in Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology at University College London. In 2016, he took up his current position as professor of Egyptology at the University of Cologne. Dr Bussmann combines archaeology and philology in his research. He is interested in the society and culture of provincial Egypt in the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2700 to 1700 BC), using theories from social anthropology, archaeology, and cultural history. He directs a project on the early inscriptions of ancient Egypt and is co-director of an archaeological fielwork project at Zawyet Sultan, in Middle Egypt. Dr Bussmann is currently finalising a book for Cambridge University Press, provisionally entitled “Egypt in the shadow of the pyramids: archaeology of society and culture, 2700-1700 BC”.

Uncovering the Place of Uni: Archeological Excavations at the Ancient Etruscan Site of Poggio Colla in Italy
2021-12-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Montreal 1), Montreal, QC
Cinelli Lecture

New discovery of a Roman Legionary Base at Legio, Israel
2021-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | TX
Zoom lecture by Dr. Matthew J. Adams, director of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

Redating the Iroquoian Histories through Archaeology
2022-01-09 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Rye Free Reading Room, 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, NY, 10580, United States
Chronologies fundamentally underpin all other aspects of archaeological thought. When our timeframes shift, so to does the historical interpretive framework or scaffolding upon which we build our explanations for how past events unfolded. In this talk, I will briefly summarize work completed to date by the Dating Iroquoia project. Our aim has been to construct a more refined regional chronologies for select Northern Iroquoian sites and community relocation sequences through radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modelling. Our focus is the ca. AD 1480-1610 period and the beginning of European contact. We use novel approaches for clarifying the calibration curve from the radiocarbon dates. The development of enhanced date estimates for specific sites in this period has allowed us to re-plot the date of events. The results have shifted our thinking about Northern Iroquois polity development and population movement. This includes rethinking the nature and timing of the historic enmity between the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee nations and processes of population movement between ancestral Huron-Wendat communities in south-central Ontario.

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Around the Ancient World in 80 potsherds
2022-01-15 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | TX
Zoom lecture by Nora-Miriam Voss of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna.

The Maritime Maya and the Proyecto Costa Escondida
2022-01-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | Building 51 (Social Sciences), University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, United States
