Let’s Talk about Ancient Apocalypse: It’s Inaccurate, Harmful, and the Real Story of Ice Age Peopling of the Americas is Far More Interesting Anyway!
2024-02-11 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concordia University, Grimm Hall, 1530 Concordia, Irvine, CA, 92612, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece presented by Dr. Joanne Murphy
2024-02-13 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Eaton Humanities, CU Boulder Main Campus, 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
Over the past few decades, archaeologists have assigned ancestors significant roles in the supernatural orders of most ancient societies. They argue that ancestors, through their connection to the divine or supernatural, wielded a power that could transform society and grant exclusive rights over limited resources to those who could argue either for a familial connection to the ancestor or have access to the dead. These arguments are primarily derived from ethnographic research carried out on communal, formal burial areas that were used for long periods of time. Several scholars have argued that Mycenaean elites (16th-12th c. BCE) in Greece drew power from their ancestors and were reliant on that source of power for their continued success.
Based on a detailed examination of the dates of the tombs’ use, the wealth of the artifacts in them, and location of the tombs at Pylos, I argue that the metaphysical components and significance of the mortuary arena and ancestors at Pylos fluctuated and instead of having a constant static function the manipulation of the ancestors cycled in relation to the changing political economy at the palace.
The varied lengths of time during which individual tombs were in use, the different locations of the tombs at different periods in relation to the palace, the changing quantities and values of the objects deposited in the tombs during the burials, and the chronologically limited evidence for any non-funerary rituals at the tombs all indicate diachronic changes in the importance of ancestors among the elite groups at Pylos.

Socii and Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop
2024-02-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
Matson lecture

Desert Kites—the Enigmatic Trap from the Air and on the Ground.
2024-02-16 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Spurlock Museum Auditorium, UIUC Campus, 600 South Greogory, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States
Kershaw lecture

Archaeology, Museums, and War in the 21st Century
2024-02-19 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis – St. Paul), Minneapolis, MN
Santen lecture

Dignity and Social Control through Burial Practices in Ancient Rome
2024-02-22 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA

The World of the Ancient Greek Potters: Skills, Spaces, Social Networks
2024-02-23 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARTS 1341, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 93106

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Italian Model of Cultural Heritage
2024-02-23 17:00 (America/New_York) | Reuben-Cooke Building, Room 130, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, United States
Visitor parking is available. Parking Garage 4/Bryan Center lots are closest to Reuben-Cooke Hall, which is located on the southeast side of Davison Quad.

Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
2024-02-25 11:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar (Long Island)
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Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2024-02-25 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Sabin Hall Room G90 on the UWM Campus, 3413 North Downer, corner of Newport and Downer Avenues, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

Fighting Processes Of Historical Erasure In Louisiana: Climate Change, Industrial Development, And Cultural Heritage
2024-02-27 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | Haury Building Rm 215, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, United States
Stone lecture

AIA Archaeology Hour with Nam C. Kim
2024-02-28 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | FL
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Nam C. Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) presents “Barbarians”, Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Vietnamese lore tells us that over two thousand years ago the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of “civilizing”, prompting imperial annexation of the region. This lecture explores the region’s archaeological record and what it means for scholarly debates, as well as for Vietnam’s national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.

The First Kings Of Europe: An International Exhibition About The Prehistoric Balkans
2024-02-29 13:00 (America/New_York) | Wellesley College, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA, 02481, United States
Thompson lecture

Animal Lives At Petra
2024-02-29 19:30 (America/New_York) | HIghsmith Union, UNC Asheville, One Carmichael Heights UNCA, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States

Drought-Induced Conflict Among the Ancient Maya
2024-03-03 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States

The People of the Roman Frontiers: Investigating Multicultural Populations in the Western Roman Empire Through Archaeology
2024-03-03 15:00 (America/Winnipeg) | 118 St Johns College, University of Manitoba, 65 Chancellors Cir, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2

Social Justice Through Archaeology
2024-03-09 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri History Museum, AT & T room, 5700 LINDELL BLVD, St. Louis, MO, 63112, United States

More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee
2024-03-14 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Art Auditorium, Art Building University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI, 96822, United States

Trading With The Enemy: Greek Pottery In The Persian World
2024-03-19 17:30 (America/New_York) | Brown University, Rhode Island Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 2912, United States
Norton lecture

Archaeology and Conservation: The Tombs at Rio Azul, a Treasure in Guatemala
2024-03-19 19:00 (America/Denver) | FL
Joukowsky lecture
Meeting ID: 832 2135 7072
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Why Underwater? The Importance of Submerged Landscape Research for Understanding Pleistocene Peoples in the New World
2024-03-19 19:30 (America/New_York) | Room 117 (Semans Auditorium), Belk Visual Arts Center, 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, 28036, United States

Jessi Halligan, “Why underwater? The importance of submerged landscape research for understanding Pleistocene peoples in the New World”
2024-03-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Tuesday, March 19, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Belk Visual Arts Center 117
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
This lecture is FREE and open to the public. Please join us if you’re an archaeology enthusiast!
About the lecture:
Perhaps most people think of shipwrecks when underwater archaeology is mentioned, but numerous formerly-terrestrial sites have survived drowning in our freshwater lakes and rivers and on our continental shelves. These sites can even be better preserved than their dry counterparts, and in some cases they can help us answer some of the most pressing questions about people in the past. Thousands of Pleistocene artifacts have been discovered in Florida’s rivers and springs, along with some of the best preserved early sites in the Americas. These sites are challenging archaeological models for the peopling of the Americas, and are providing us with informaƟon about the lifeways of early Indigenous peoples in the New World.
About the speaker:
Dr. Jessi Halligan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University, specializes in geoarchaeology and underwater archaeology. She focuses on the initial peopling of the Americas through an active research program in submerged Paleoindian sites in Florida. This focus leads to complementary foci in hunter-gatherer societies, geoarchaeology, sea level rise and submerged landscape studies, including underwater field methods. She has more than two decades of field and lab experience, having conducted research and/or worked on Cultural Resource Management projects all over the Northeastern United States, the Northern Plains, Texas, and the Southeast. Other major interests include climate change during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene, coastal site preservation, and human adaptation to major climate change.

The Becoming of Mesoamerican Pigments: The Olmec presented by Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez (CU Boulder)
2024-03-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
This lecture presents a new study of pigments and coloring materials that offers a unique window into the development of indigenous science, ideology, and learning processes to innovate knowledge. The color palettes of Juxtlahuaca, Cauadzidziqui and Oxtotitlan caves, all located in the state Guerrero, Mexico, will be compared and evaluated and I will propose how and why the Olmecs began a technological revolution in the manufacture of colors in early Mesoamerica.

Dallas - Ft. Worth Society National Lecture Program lecture
2024-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | TBA (Dallas/Ft. Worth), Dallas, TX

Corpse Wine: The Fermentation of the Dead in Roman Sarcophagi
2024-03-21 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Swallow Hall 101, University of Missouri, 101 Swallow Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, United States

Archaeology, Museums, and War in the 21st Century
2024-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Althouse #106, Dickinson College, 22 North West Street, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States

From the City of Victory to the Foothills of the Himalayas: An Archaeologist in India
2024-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall, Room 109, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Bernard Means (Virginia Commonwealth University). Free and open to the public.

Kevin Andrews and the Castles of the Morea
2024-03-25 16:30 (America/New_York) | Green Hall 3-S-15, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08542, United States
Ettinghausen lecture

Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia
2024-03-25 18:00 (America/New_York) | FL

Underwater Archaeology: the New Holy Grails
2024-03-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | Anthropology Building, AP 130, 19 Ursula Franklin St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S2, Canada
McCann/Taggart lecture
