AIA Archaeology Hour with Nam C. Kim
2024-02-28 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | New Brunswick
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
Kershaw lecture

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
Santen lecture

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
Joukowsky lecture

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
Matson lecture

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) | New Brunswick
Joukowsky lecture
Meeting ID: 832 2135 7072
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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) | New Brunswick

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

Ancient Roman Concrete: Let’s Build An Empire
2024-03-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | UNC Greensboro, Moore Humanities & Research Building (MHRA) 1215, 1111 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States

New Light On King Herod’s Harbor (Caesarea Maritima)
2024-03-27 17:00 (America/New_York) | Goetz Library, Academic Center 320, University at Buffalo, North Campus, University at Buffalo, North Campus, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Kisha Supernant. “Finding the Children: Using Archaeology to Search for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada”
2024-03-27 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Whitman College, Maxey Hall W42, 413-461 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, announced that 215 potential unmarked graves were located near the Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar conducted by archaeologists. In this talk, Kisha Supernant (Métis/Papaschase/British) provides an overview of how archaeologists have been working with Indigenous communities in Canada to locate potential grave sites and discuss the opportunities and challenges in this highly sensitive, deeply emotional work.
Please join us in watching this Zoom lecture.

AIA Archaeology Hour with Kisha Supernant
2024-03-27 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | New Brunswick
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta) presents Finding the Children: Using Archaeology to Search for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, announced that 215 potential unmarked graves were located near the Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar conducted by archaeologists. While this was not the first announcement of unmarked graves associated with Indian Residential Schools, it garnered national and international attention. The subsequent months saw significant commitments of funding from the government to support Indigenous communities who wanted to conduct their own searches. Many Indigenous communities turned to archaeologists to assist them in designing an approach to finding potential unmarked graves of their relatives. In this talk, Supernant provides an overview of how archaeologists have been working with Indigenous communities in Canada to locate potential grave sites and discuss the opportunities and challenges in this highly sensitive, deeply emotional work.

Socii & Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop with Dr. Rhodora Vennarucci
2024-03-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | New Brunswick
Socii & Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop
Matson Lecture
Rhodora Vennarucci, PhD
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies & Art History
University of Arkansas
Work in Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) has underscored that shopping is meaningful behavior. It is still new, however, to ask how shopping behavior was meaningful for people in the Roman world in part because consumption studies in archaeology have overlooked consumer agency and the social act of consumption. This talk applies a CCT and phenomenological approach to The Felt Shop of Verecundus (IX.7.5-7) from Pompeii, which sold fine footwear (e.g. socci, soft-soled felted slippers) and high-status textile products (e.g. toga praetexta) to explore how ancient consumers self-fashioned through public acts of consumption in the shop. An interactive 3D model of the shop in VR, reconstructed using the architectural remains and archival data from the shop’s excavation, facilitated this investigation, which contributes to the Virtual Roman Retail project.
Socci were a luxury item worn indoors and at dinner parties that only the more affluent in society could afford. Shopping for slippers then on the via dell’Abondanza, Pompeii’s most heavily trafficked thoroughfare, was a social act that involved the public performance of (aspirational?) power and status displayed for a larger and more diverse street audience than a private triclinium, where the slippers were ultimately meant to be worn, could offer. This lecture discusses how shopping behavior, traditionally viewed as a common.

New Field Work from Olynthos, Greece: Towards an Archaeology of Identity
2024-03-28 19:00 (America/New_York) | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, 14607, United States
Hanfmann lecture

Where the Beer Flowed Like Wine: Beer and Brewing in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
2024-03-30 12:00 (America/New_York) | University of North Florida, 1 University of North Florida Drive, Jacksonville, FL, United States

Imperialism, Colonialism, Reparations, and the “Universal” Museum
2024-04-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Randolph College, Leggett 537, 2900 Rivermont Ave, Lynchburg, VA, 24503, United States

Creating Permanent Memories? Tomb Violation and Collective Memory in Pre-Roman Apulia
2024-04-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | McClung Museum Auditorium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1327 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States

Death and Rebirth: Religious Change and Reincarnation in the Copper Age
2024-04-02 19:30 (America/Vancouver) | TBA (Vancouver), Vancouver, British Columbia

The Representation of Ramses II's Enemies in the Battle of Kadesh Reliefs
2024-04-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | Leigh Hall 208, University of Akron, Akron, 44325, United States
Matson lecture
Lecture begins at 5:15pm
