"Otzi the Iceman": Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-11-09 18:00 (America/Denver) | Montana State University, Bozemon, MT, 59717, United States
Norton lecture

Saving Heritage From The Sea: The Communities Working To Rescue Scotland’s History
2023-11-09 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Newcomb Hall, room 18, Tulane University Uptown Campus, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Human-Animal-Divine Relationships in Cyprus: a Social Zooarchaeology of Sacrifice
2023-11-09 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall 109, University of Richmond, 410 Westhampton Way, Richmond, 23173, United States
Kershaw lecture

AIA Archaeology Hour with Katherine L. Chiou
2023-11-15 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Katherine L. Chiou (University of Alabama) presents Cuisine and Crisis: An Edible History of the Moche of Ancient Peru.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Imagine stepping into the shoes of an ancient Peruvian, tasting the flavors and savoring the meals of a time long past. In this talk, we’ll journey into the rich culinary history of the Moche people, who thrived along the desertic northern Peruvian coast from AD 100-800.
But it’s not just about what was on the plate; it’s about what those meals can tell us about the lives, struggles, and joys of two very different parts of Moche society. By exploring both a grand feast preparation area and a humble commoner’s home, we’ll dig into what food reveals about wealth, status, and daily life during a turbulent time marked by drought and political tension.
How did food contribute to social unrest? Were the rich and poor eating the same meals or were there stark differences? What does a simple dish tell us about a person’s identity? These questions and more will be served up in this delicious journey into the past, blending archaeology, technology, and a good pinch of culinary intrigue. Whether you’re a foodie, history buff, or simply curious about how meals connect us to our ancestors, this talk is a feast for the mind you won’t want to miss.

Archaeology and Conservation: The Tombs at Rio Azul, a Treasure in Guatemala
2023-11-17 15:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Albany), Albany, NY

Ancient Roman Concrete: Let's build an Empire!
2023-11-17 19:30 (America/Halifax) | Provincial Archives Building, UNB Campus, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5H1, Canada

Rome "Urbs Pensilis": A Hanging City and its Hanging Gardens
2023-11-19 14:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University 303 Paterson, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada

Kelly Goldberg, “Connecting the Diaspora: Archaeology, Memory, and Transnationalism in the 19th Century Transatlantic World”
2024-01-23 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Kelly Goldberg, University of South Carolina
“Connecting the Diaspora: Archaeology, Memory, and Transnationalism in the 19th Century Transatlantic World”
This event is FREE and open to the public.
January 23, 2023
7:30 p.m. ET
Belk Visual Arts Center 117
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
About the lecture:
The nineteenth century transatlantic slave trade had significant social, political, and economic ramifications for coastal West African environments, and caused reverberations throughout the Atlantic world. As Britain pressured European and American imperial powers to join in anti-slave trading endeavors in the early portion of the nineteenth century, the slave trade was directed to more secluded areas such as the Rio Pongo in coastal Guinea, where imperial and national powers were scarce, and both legal and contraband trade could continue to succeed. In these situations, a newly established class of transnational trading families, with ties to global connections on both sides of the Atlantic, directed the evolution of local social and political landscapes. This talk engages interdisciplinary research to investigate 19th and 20th century sites throughout the Atlantic world, looking at the ways in which material culture, architectural remains, documentary records, and oral historical accounts are used to interpret the complex social dynamics and multiregional origins of a globally oriented African Diaspora.
About the speaker:
Dr. Goldberg, an Instructor for the Honors College at the University of South Carolina, is a historical archaeologist with research specialties in the African Diaspora in both West
Africa and the eastern US, public archaeology and stakeholder relations, and museum studies and management. She has worked on James Island and in Guinea, where she excavated slave trading ports in rural villages of coastal Guinea tried in order to understand how the newly emerging transnational network of nineteenth century trading families manipulated perceptions of identity to maintain power and status during evolution of the abolition of the slave trade, and such manipulations of identity affect contemporary notions of memorialization and heritage. https://goldberg.uofsccreate.org/
This event is FREE and open to the public. Please also support the Archaeological Institute of America, Central Carolinas Society 333, by joining us as a member. https://www.archaeological.org/join/ Thank you for your interest and involvement! See less
Davidson, North Carolina

AIA Archaeology Hour with Jeff Altschul
2024-01-24 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Jeff Altschul presents Cultural Resource Management: What Most Archaeologists Do For A Living.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Today, there are about 12,000 archaeologists working in the US with less than 10 percent of them employed by universities. While university anthropology and archaeology departments are shrinking, the applied sector, known as cultural resource management (CRM) is growing. What accounts for these opposing trends and what, if anything, can we do about it.

Disrupting the Market in Antiquities, Saving Archaeological Heritage for the Future
2024-01-25 20:00 (America/New_York) | Dodd Hall Auditorium (DHA 103), Florida State University, 282 Champions Way, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States

Self-Fashioning in a Roman Province: Gender, Dress, and Difference in the Isiac Funerary Reliefs from Athens
2024-01-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven), New Haven, CT
Tsakirgis lecture

Dignity and Social Control Through Burial Practices in Ancient Rome
2024-02-01 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Holden Hall 104, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, TX, 79409, United States

Hannibal’s Secret Weapon
2024-02-05 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (ED170), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, 93740, United States

Monumentality in early Etruria: recent discoveries at Poggio Civitate
2024-02-08 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall, Room 109, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Kate Kreindler (University of Virginia). Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology. Free and open to the public.

Robert L. Scranton Lecture
2024-02-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
The AIA-Baltimore Society presents Dr. Maggie Popkin, speaking on “Imagining the Roman Empire Through Its Souvenirs.” Zoom link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=[REDACTED]

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

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

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)
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
