Goddesses, Whores, Vampyres and Archaeologists: uncovering ancient Mytilene
2023-03-05 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LA Society, 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266
Bass Lecture

Chinese Export Pottery: A Business Model for Athenian Vase Production?
2023-03-07 20:00 (America/New_York) | Florida State University, hall TBA, 600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States
Norton Lecture

Domestic Material Culture and the Archaeology of Value: Beyond “Religion” vs. “Decoration"
2023-03-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | Goetz Library, Department of Classics, University at Buffalo, 320 Academic Center, 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States

Iron in the Sky: Meteorites in Ancient Egypt
2023-03-09 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Junior Research Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
In ancient Egypt, iron harvested from meteorites was used to create ritual objects associated with royalty and power. An iron dagger from the tomb of King Tutankhamun is one of the oldest Egyptian objects verified to be of meteoritic origin. In this lecture, Almansa-Villatoro will discuss Egyptian texts, iconography, and religious writings that associate iron with the sky and stars, indicating that ancient Egyptians were aware that meteorites came from space. This knowledge—most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that connected iron and sky in their texts—was lost in modern times, as it was only until the eighteenth century that meteorites were confirmed to be of extraterrestrial origin.
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RESCHEDULED - Beer, A Global Journey Through the Past and Present
2023-03-09 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Dedham Life Sciences 131, SMU, 6501 Airline Road, Dallas, TX, 75205, United States
This lecture is no longer happening in September, a new date will be scheduled for the spring.

Ariadne’s Threads: The Magnificent Costumes of the Minoans and Mycenaeans
2023-03-11 00:00 (America/New_York) | The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
2023-03-11 13:00 (America/Denver) | Denver Public Library Ross-University Hills Branch, 4310 E Amherst Ave, Denver, CO, 80222, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter
2023-03-12 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Branko van Oppen, Tampa Museum of Art:
Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter
Sunday, March 12, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
Daylight Savings Time Begins March 12.
About the Lecture:
In his publications Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (1982), David L. Thompson attributed three Roman Egyptian funerary portraits to the same artist, whom he named the St. Louis Painter on the basis of a portrait of an elderly woman in the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM inv. no. 128:1951; Thompson 1982, pp. 20–22, figs. 35–37). Without further information, Thompson acknowledged that “a number of other portraits are related to those by the St. Louis Painter and some to each other by these differences,” and dated the activity of the artist’s workshop to around 300 CE. Before and since, several other scholars have recognized the stylistic similarities between about a dozen funerary portraits from ancient Philadelphia (confusingly still called “Rubayat”) with estimated dates ranging between 165-350 CE.
This paper will re-examine the attribution of the portrait panels to the St. Louis Painter (also known as the Würzburg Painter), and suggest that some two dozen examples can be assigned to this anonymous painter, workshop or circle. Stylistic elements by which these paintings can be grouped together include a distinctively graphic hatching style. The portraits generally lack a sense of depth and perspective, though some foreshortening is often indicated on the left side of the face. The basic outline is usually drawn with a broader brush, while the individual details are applied with a thinner brush. The outline tends to follow basic physiognomic proportions that are not only common with other Roman Egyptian portraits, but with Roman portraits from contexts such as the wall paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter is the Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek & Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art. He received his PhD in ancient history from The City University of New York (’07), where he specialized in queenship during the period from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Before coming to Tampa, van Oppen worked for five years at the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam. His academic interests further include clay seal impressions, animals in ancient material culture, Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits, as well as ancient religion and art history in general.
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Rural Landscapes, Archaeological Fieldwork, and Cultural Heritage Destruction in Turkey
2023-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sabin Hall Room G90, 3413 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Dr. Ömür Harmanshah, Director, The School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago, will present the AIA’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage for the AIA-Milwaukee Society
Archaeological remains and landscapes are witnesses to deep time histories, yet they have increasingly been victims of targeted destruction as well as practices of looting in recent decades. Cultural heritage is always entangled with the politics of the environment, while heritage is always understood as a resource at risk waiting for a salvage operation. A major challenge for archaeologists today is that they have to serve as chroniclers of the unprecedented levels of heritage destruction under the current regime, and to contextualize this destruction within the conditions of precarity, extraction, and dispossession, which are different forms of environmental injustice. Late capitalist management of landscapes in the contemporary Turkish countryside have created disposable landscapes of extreme extraction and large-scale excavation. In his talk, Dr. Harmanshah will focus on various practices of heritage destruction in the western part of Konya province where the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project has been documenting ancient and historical settlements and landscape features, while also keeping an account of ongoing heritage destruction since 2010. He will argue that on the ground fieldwork as a creative practice and collaboration with local heritage communities are essential to perform such work as compared to remote sensing methods.

Collision of Worlds: An Archaeological Perspective on the Spanish Invasion of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-14 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-03-15 19:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

Lenapehoking: Archaeology, Heritage, and the Power of Place for Descendant Local Nation
2023-03-15 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
This panel discussion highlights tribal relationships to Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Delaware peoples of the Delaware Valley. Archaeologists and tribal cultural specialists will bring the site-specific landscape and histories to life, illuminating once-vibrant places that remain important to tribal Nations today.
Jeremy Johnson
(Delaware), Director of Cultural Education, Delaware Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma
Jeremy Johnson is the Cultural Education Director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He is Lenape, Absentee Shawnee and Peoria. Before his current role, he served as Assistant Chief of the Delaware Tribe. Jeremy is a lifelong educator who worked for over eighteen years as a middle school and high school English teacher and coach. He is committed to preserving and revitalizing Lenape culture and language for the future generations of his tribe. Jeremy currently resides in Noble, Oklahoma with his wife, Anpetu Luta Wi, and two children, Marian and Jennings.
Gregory D. Lattanzi
Curator and State Archaeologist, New Jersey State Museum
Gregory D. Lattanzi is Curator for the Bureau of Archaeology & Ethnography at the New Jersey State Museum and the New Jersey State Archaeologist. He attended the State University of New York at Binghamton, then earned his M.A. in Anthropology from the City University of New York, Hunter College. Dr. Lattanzi was employed at a number of contract archaeological firms in the northeast, participating in excavations in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. He worked on all types of cultural resource management projects, from archaeological excavations to state and national register nominations. In the fall of 2001, Dr. Lattanzi started his career at the New Jersey State Museum as Registrar, working his way up to become Curator and State Archaeologist. In 2013, while at the New Jersey State Museum, Dr. Lattanzi received his Ph.D. from Temple University. He published a book on his work with copper artifacts in 2022, and is currently continuing his research on Middle Atlantic archaeology, social complexity, pottery analysis and, of course, copper use. He has published numerous articles and given public presentations at national, state, and local venues.
Curtis Zunigha
(Lenape/Delaware), Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Lenape Center
Curtis Zunigha is an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. He has over thirty-five years of experience in tribal government and administration, community development, telecommunications, and cultural preservation. He is an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices, and is Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Lenape Center, based in New York City. The Lenape Center promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people through the arts, environmental activism, social justice, and agricultural practices. The Lenape Center’s work represents the return of the original Indigenous people to their homeland of Lenapehoking (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania).
Mr. Zunigha is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

"They are still teaching us": Community Bioarchaeology and the Sisters of Loretto Project presented by Dr. Lauren Hosek
2023-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
In the summer of 2022, construction necessitated the relocation of a small 19th /20th century cemetery of nuns from southwest Denver. Before their reinterment, a team of local researchers and students worked with the Loretto Community to undertake a bioarchaeological analysis of the remains of the Sisters of Loretto. This ongoing project highlights community collaboration, education, and historical memory in the spirit of these women and their service to the Denver community.
Bio: Lauren Hosek (PhD Syracuse University 2020) is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder and a social bioarchaeologist with interests in skeletal approaches to embodied experiences of identity and social change. Broadly, her interests also include skeletal plasticity and the life course, paleopathology, materiality, religion and the body, and mortuary archaeology. Her research integrates skeletal analysis with the study of material culture and historical narratives to address the interactions between human bodies and their broader social, cultural, and physical environments. She is currently examining diet and mobility in early medieval Central Europe through the lens of stable isotopes, skeletal dental analysis, and archaeological data. She uses similar techniques to study different communities in 19th-century America.

In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marie Style pottery in Minoan Crete
2023-03-16 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall room 118, University of Richmond, 410 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA, 23137

Dr. Christine Johnston: “Merchants and Markets in Egyptian Trade”
2023-03-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
The role of centralized institutions in the economy of the Egyptian states has traditionally been over-emphasized, in part due to the exaggerated part played by state actors in surviving texts. This textual evidence presents the economy of Egypt as almost exclusively redistributive, with the state assuming a veritable royal monopoly on production, product circulation, and long-distance trade. Yet personal transaction records and depictions of marketplace exchange in tomb paintings reveal an alternative system in which both local and imported goods were mobilized through non-centralized systems incorporating independent merchants. We will explore the different mechanisms for trade and the movement of goods in New Kingdom Egypt by examining the distribution of imported Cypriot and Aegean pottery during the Late Bronze Age. The widespread appearance of these imported goods demonstrates the importance of merchants and traders working outside of royal institutions.
Dr. Christine Johnston, Western Washington University.

ARCE-PA Lecture by Dr. Rune Nyord, Emory University
2023-03-18 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ARCE-PA Annual Felix Korsyn Lecture
Saturday March 18 at 3:30pm
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Rune Nyord, Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art at Emory University and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow (2022/23) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C.
Lecture Topic: “No other satisfactory reason can be given”: The European discovery of the ancient Egyptian afterlife
Abstract:
The modern understanding of the ancient Egyptians as bent on a quest for eternal life is the result of a long history of Western engagements with ancient Egypt. Associations like the preservation of bodies for eternity and initiation into religious mysteries interacted with textual sources of the Biblical and Classical traditions to shape images of the ancient culture that could be deployed in a variety of contexts for theological, philosophical, colonial, and other purposes. This lecture examines some key formative moments in this tradition, suggesting that many aspects of the modern understanding of Egyptian afterlife beliefs owe as much to the contemporary concerns of the milieus that helped shape them as to the ancient Egyptian sources that were only gradually becoming known as these ideas were crystalizing.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Rune Nyord is Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2022/23) in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on conceptions and experiences of representation, ontology, and personhood in ancient Egypt, especially as evidenced in ancient Egyptian funerary culture, as well as the history of Western engagements with ancient Egypt. He is the author of Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Museum Tusculanum Press 2009) and Seeing perfection: Ancient Egyptian images beyond representation (Cambridge University Press 2020), and has edited and co-edited of several volumes, the most recent being Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture (Brill 2019).
Lectures are FREE for ARCE members. For non-ARCE members admission is as follows: $10 general admissions; $7 for Penn Museum members, Faculty & Staff; $5 for Students with ID (12 and under FREE).

RESCHEDULED: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
2023-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Kennedy Building, room 112 (Assumption University Campus), 500 Salisbury St, Worcester, MA, 01609

Recent Research at the Site of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) in Southern Iraq
2023-03-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual lecture given by Dr. Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Lagash Archaeological Project

The Archaeology and Reconstruction of the Lake Champlain steamboat Phoenix II
2023-03-21 19:00 (America/Denver) | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505

“The Archaeology of an Underwater Battlefield: The WWII Battle for Saipan”
2023-03-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Jennifer McKinnon Flyer 2About the lecture:
From shipwrecks to aircraft wrecks to amphibious vehicles, Saipan’s waters in the Mariana Islands contain sunken sites that together tell the story of a critical battle in the WWII Pacific War between US and Japanese forces in June and July of 1944. This lecture will provide a brief overview of the WWII battle for Saipan and highlights of over a decade of archaeological research, much of which has involved working with the community members and medically retired Special Forces operators.
About the speaker:
Jennifer McKinnon, chair and associate professor of history at East Carolina University, has a background in historical and maritime archaeology and cultural heritage management. She has worked in the US, Australia, the Pacific, and Europe on sites ranging from the colonial period to WWII. Her research areas include Spanish colonial archaeology, archaeology and history of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, conflict archaeology of WWII in the Pacific; landscape and seascape archaeology; in situ conservation and preservation, and Community Archaeology. Jennifer has published a number of book chapters and journal articles and co-edited (with Dr. Toni L. Carrell) a book with Springer Press entitled Underwater Archaeology of a Pacific Battlefield: The WWII Battle of Saipan (2016). McKinnon is a Research Associate of Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research, Inc., a non-profit organization with which she has partnered to conduct WWII-related research in the Pacific.

Climate Change in the Arctic: It’s Happening Fast, and It’s Happened Before
2023-03-22 17:30 (America/New_York) | Rhode Island Hall 108, Brown University, 60 George St., Providence, 02912, United States

City Making in Byzantine Athens
2023-03-22 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Jones Hall 108, Uptown Campus of Tulane University, 6801 Freet St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-03-22 19:30 (America/New_York) | Highsmith Union, Rooms 225/226, 700 Founders Drive, Asheville, NC, 28804
Cinelli Lecture

Traitors or Native Conquistadors? The Role of Tlaxcala in the Fall of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Living in ruins: Vibrancy and decay in the ancient Maya city
2023-03-26 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Westchester), Westchester, NY
Stone Lecture

“Placing” a Maritime Territory at Hellenistic Miletus
2023-03-26 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Room 118, St Johns College at the University of Manitoba, 92 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
McCann/Taggart Lecture

Mystery, Medicine, and Music in a Greek Healing Sanctuary
2023-03-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Art Building West 116, University of Iowa, 150 Art Building West,, Iowa City, IA, 52246

Digging Phoenicians: The Evidence from Tel Dor
2023-03-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences, C-2059, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada, H3T 1N8
Kershaw Lecture

FemiNetworX: Mapping Female Maritime Mobility Patterns
2023-03-28 18:00 (America/New_York) | Anthropology Building 130 (St. George Campus), 19 Ursula Franklin St., Toronto, Ontario

Research and Excavations at Sardis
2023-03-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
In this year’s Sardis Biennial lecture, Professor Nicholas D. Cahill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Türkiye from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Recent accomplishments at the site include the discovery of some of the world’s earliest silver coins in a historical context, the restoration of antiquity’s largest synagogue, and the unearthing of Roman houses destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
Speaker:
Nicholas D. Cahill, Field Director, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, and Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
