Elizabeth Green, University of Western Ontario
Please join the AIA Baltimore Society for the Henry T. Rowell lecture. Dr. Christina Salowey (Hollins University) will deliver a lecture entitled "Learning from Gaia: Nature, Myth, Archaeology and the Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean."
Lecturer: Jeffrey S. Brzezinski, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract: The end of the Formative Period (1800 BCE - 250 CE) in Mesoamerica witnessed significant changes in the social and political organization of many of the region is complex societies. Archaeological research has documented shifting patterns in interregional interaction, particularly through the trade of goods […]
McCann/Taggart Lecture Reception at 5:30 PM
"Prehispanic Turkey Domestication, Husbandry, and Management in the North American Southwest" Presented by Dr. Cyler Conrad Turkeys played a significant role in prehispanic Ancestral Puebloan life in the North American Southwest. Used for a variety of socio-economic purposes, including for feathers, meat, eggs, creation of bone tools and as an iconographic figure, turkey remains appear […]
For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a complex international world in which Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots, and Egyptians all interacted, creating a cosmopolitan and globalized world-system such as has only rarely been seen before the […]
Johnathan Hardy, “Wēh-Ardašīr and the Ruins of Qasr bint al-Qadi: Christian Architectural Adaptation in the Sasanian Heartland,” in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul MN 55105 Using previously unpublished site plans and field notes from the 1929/1930 German Oriental Society […]
This lecture will discuss how Pueblo people dealt with the Spanish introduction of wheat and livestock into the agricultural economy of early colonial New Mexico. Davis will share the results of research conducted on the agricultural areas around four pueblo sites. Analyzing the changes in the location, type, size, and density of the agricultural features, […]
