The First Kings of Europe: An International Exhibition about the Prehistoric Balkans
2023-10-23 16:30 (America/New_York) | Green Hall 3-S-15, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08542, United States
Thompson lecture

Protecting Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict
2023-10-23 17:30 (America/Chicago) | 116 Art Building West, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52246, United States
Norton lecture

Death and Rebirth: Religious Change and Reincarnation during the Copper Age
2023-10-24 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Hanson Hall of Science, Room 102, Augustana College, Monmouth, IL, 61201, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Big Data, Small Coins: The First Two Centuries Monetizing the Roman Frontier
2023-10-25 18:00 (America/New_York) | Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT, 06106, United States
Metcalf lecture

Texas Talks Speaker Series: Dr. Alan Skinner - Expected and Unexpected Archaeology of North Texas
2023-10-25 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum, 110 West Hickory Street, Denton, TX, 76201, United States
Join the Denton County Office of History and Culture for the Texas Talks Speaker Series!
On Wednesday, October 25 at 6 PM, archaeologist Dr. Alan Skinner will present “The Expected and Unexpected Archaeology of North Central Texas” in the Commissioners Courtroom at the Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum. This presentation is sponsored by the Denton County Historical Commission in celebration of Texas Archaeology Month.
The flat prairie and associated savannah forests of North Central Texas are dissected by a variety of rivers and creeks which prehistoric and historic settlers were drawn to and where they left behind buried and exposed evidence of their presence over more than ten thousand years. Of particular importance is the Aubrey Clovis site located near Lake Ray Roberts and excavated by Dr. Reid Ferring of UNT. Equally significant, but barely more than 125 years old, is the Redwine House site that was recorded during investigation of a water pipeline route on the north side of Farmersville. These two archaeological sites span the recorded history of the region and will be discussed along with numerous other historic and prehistoric sites that have been recorded or remain to to be discovered in the prairies, maybe your backyard, anywhere in North Central Texas.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Alan Skinner has been doing archaeology in Texas and other parts of the Southwest for more than four decades, and is the owner of AR Consultants, Inc., an environmental consulting firm specializing in cultural resource management. He graduated from the University of New Mexico and received his PhD from Southern Methodist University. He has worked on prehistoric and historic sites throughout Texas, with a particular interest in prehistoric settlement patterns and lithic technology. He has directed five field schools for the Texas Archeological Society. He developed the archaeology merit badge for the Boy Scouts of America. He is currently working with private and public agencies, including numerous engineering companies, on wind farms, two lakes, water, sewer, and petroleum pipelines, roads, transmission lines, and landfills. He continues to publish in local, regional, and national journals.

The Maya and Climate Change: Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands
2023-10-25 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette University College of Law, 245 Winter St SE, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Stone lecture

Twelve Millennia of Agricultural Change in Anatolia
2023-10-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | CWY 107 (C.W. “Bill” Young Building) on the Tampa Campus of the University of South Florida, Genshaft Drive, Tampa, FL, 33617, United States
Matson Lecture

Where the beer flowed like wine: Beer and brewing in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
2023-10-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | 113 Carnegie Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, United States

Real Bodies / Represented Bodies: Human-Animal Relationships in Cypriot Sanctuaries
2023-10-26 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | California
Animals played an important role in Cypriot religion and ritual. Many Cypriot deities were conceived as having animal parts or attributes, animal iconography was prevalent among votive offerings, and animal masks were worn in rituals at some sanctuaries. Perhaps the most dramatic and widespread way that humans interacted with animals, however, was through animal sacrifice. The ritual killing, processing, burning, and consuming of specially selected animals served as the primary means of communicating and reaffirming the reciprocal relationship between mortals and the divine in Mediterranean religions. This talk will discuss the complicated role that both real animals (those sacrificed and consumed) and imagined animals (those represented artistically) had in Cypriot religious spaces. The evidence suggests the holistic worldview of ancient Cypriots and finds that sanctuaries were charged spaces where humans negotiated their relationships with both the natural and divine worlds.

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2023-10-26 18:30 (America/New_York) | 102 White Hall, Emory University, 200 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322, United States
Broneer lecture

The Big Reveal: Airborne Laser Scanning and Archaeology in the Northern Maya Lowlands
2023-10-26 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Psychology 105, Reed College, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR, 97202, United States

On the Move: Migrants and Mobility in the Roman Empire
2023-10-26 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Helge Center Multipurpose Room, Valparaiso University, 1509 Chapel Drive, Valparaiso, IN, 46383, United States
Tsakirgis Lecture

Kings, Queens, Commoners, and Captives: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About Dahomean Society in the Era of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
2023-10-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | California
Lecture: The Kingdom of Dahomey, in the modern Republic of Benin, stands as one of the most comprehensively researched kingdoms in precolonial West Africa. Decades of historical, anthropological, and art historical research have cast important light on the origins of the precolonial polity, and its rise, expansion, and transformation through its participation into the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Since the year 2000, Professor J. Cameron Monroe has led archaeological surveys and excavations at palace sites, urban centers, and rural villages across the Abomey Plateau, the political heartland of the kingdom. In this presentation, he will discuss how archaeological research is reshaping our understanding of the nature and extent of Dahomey political power in the Atlantic era, and its impact on local communities across the region.

The Maya and Climate Change: Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands
2023-10-27 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eugene Public Library Downtown, 100 W 10th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States

Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Contested Caucasus
2023-10-27 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Baltimore), Baltimore, MD

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
2023-10-27 19:00 (America/New_York) | Joseph C Shouvlin Center, Rm 105, Wittenberg University, W Ward St, Springfield, OH, 45504, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Coin Production and 'Monetary Policy' of the Roman Imperial Period
2023-10-27 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Stanford), United States

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
2023-10-28 10:30 (America/New_York) | SC 114, University of Dayton, 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH, 45469, United States

The Mummies of Aswan: The Missing Link (Free Hybrid Lecture)
2023-11-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
In recent years more than four hundred ancient tombs, dating from the 6th century BCE to the 3rd century CE, have been discovered on the West Bank at Aswan, Egypt, near the Aga Khan mausoleum. A multidisciplinary team, including the Egyptian-Italian Mission, has found more than a hundred individuals along with their funerary equipment. Piacentini will share the first results of this archaeological research, highlighting the multicultural environment of the necropolis and possible diverse geographical origins of the people buried there.
Free and open to the public. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
Aswan necropolis photo ©EIMAWA

Imperialism, Colonialism, Reparations, and the “Universal” Museum
2023-11-02 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall room 129, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States

Saving Heritage from the Sea: The Communities Working to Rescue Scotland’s History
2023-11-03 17:30 (America/New_York) | John C. Hitt Library Room 402, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States

New Hampshire Archeological Society Annual Meeting
2023-11-04 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | California
New Hampshire
Archeological Society
NHAS Annual Meeting 2023, Saturday, November 4th
Visitors Center, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth NH
Registration: $10 at the door. Complimentary registration with a Student ID.
No pre-registration required for on-site attendance.
The meeting is also available on ZOOM. Zoom register at http://bit.ly/2023FALLNHAS
Parking is available in the Museum’s parking lot off Hancock Street and at several Portsmouth parking lot. See the map and directions on the last page..
9:00 am. Registration opens. Morning refreshments.
9:55 – 10:00 am. Welcome and opening remarks.
10:00 – 10:45 am. The Kchi Pôntegok Petroglyph Project: Recontextualizing the Bellows Falls Petroglyph Site within an Indigenous Landscape.
Gail Golec, Project Archaeologist, Monadnock Archaeological Consulting, Inc.
Interpretation of Indigenous history has historically been grounded in white Euro-American culture and as a result, important elements of the Indigenous worldview are often overlooked or disregarded. The Kchi Pôntegok Petroglyph Project, funded through the National Park Service’s Underrepresented Communities Grant program, is attempting to address this lack of Indigenous cultural nuance by recontextualizing the Kchi Pôntegok/Bellows Falls site (VT-WD-008) within the wider landscape of the Middle Connecticut River watershed and its resources, connections and stories, as well as the regions’ Indigenous and historic archaeological sites.
Gail Golec was born and raised in New Hampshire and has been a professional archaeologist for over 20 years. I’ve undertaken a number of research projects focusing on local women’s, Black, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ history and regularly present that research in library and historical society talks as well as in classes through the CALL program at Keene State College. I also have a history podcast about cemeteries called “The Secret Life of Death”. Currently I’m a co-manager of the Kchi Pôntegok Petroglyph Project in Rockingham, VT.
10:45 – 11:00 am. Break
11:00 – 11:45 am. Shallow Water; Deep History: Archaeological Investigations in the Umbagog Lake Region.
Nathan Scholl, M.A., RPA, Geoarchaeologist.
Umbagog Lake is located on the border of New Hampshire and Maine in a remote region of both states. This lake is the headwaters of the Androscoggin River and was the historical intersection of at least four indigenous trails. Investigations between 2019 and 2022 of the archaeological records around the region of this lake will be discussed, from Pre-Contact to Post-Contact periods with insights into the environmental history of the lake as well.
Nathan Scholl has more than 22 years of experience in archaeology and cultural resource management, including over 15 years as a practicing geoarchaeologist. Mr. Scholl’s geographical expertise is focused on the Northeast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest of the United States, in addition to the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf. As a geoarchaeologist, he applies techniques of soil and geomorphological analysis, as well as basic geophysical techniques, to archaeological sites for predictive and interpretive purposes. Born and raised in Maine, his family has deep roots in New England, with ancestry tracing back to some of the first European settlers, and he is fascinated by the cultural and environmental history of the region. He currently works as a technical reviewer for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
11:45 am – 1:00 pm. Lunch on your own. Information on some nearby places to eat in Portsmouth will be available at the meeting.
1:00 – 1:30 pm. Business Meeting and Members Forum.
Candidates for election. For three-year term as a Member-at-Large of the Executive Board: Mark Doperalski and Genevieve Everett. For Treasurer: Scott LaPointe, replacing Mark Greenly who was elected temporary Treasurer by the Executive in Feb 2023 after Judy Sadoski’s resignation. For Editor: Alix Martin, for the remainder of the Editor’s term of office until the Annual meeting in 2024. Alix was elected temporary Editor by the Executive Board in November 2022.
1:30 2:15 pm. The Early Piscataqua Region, as Seen Through its Ceramic Artifacts.
Dr. Alix Martin, Archeologist, Strawbery Banke Museum, and Dr. Tad Baker, Professor of History, Salem State University.
Sport divers Ray and John Demers recovered thousands of historic artifacts from the waters off New Castle in the 1970s, one of the largest and most important assemblages in the northeast. The Demers Collection is now at New Castle Historical Society where Alix Martin and Tad Baker have been studying and cataloging its ceramics. In the process they are learning exciting details about life in the Piscataqua in the colonial era, as well as the region’s extensive trade connections throughout the Atlantic world. Many of the ceramics were made in the West Country of England, a region that many Piscataqua settlers hailed from, and continued to trade with throughout the seventeenth century. Other finds were made in more distant lands, including France, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Italy.
Dr. Alix Martin and Dr. Tad Baker both hold a Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary, and collectively have well over 50 years of experience excavating historical archaeology sites in northern New England.
Activities after the meeting
1. Pick up a map of the museum grounds and admire the 37 buildings preserved at Strawbery Banke Museum, a 10-acre outdoor history museum dedicated to bringing to life over 300 years of history in the same waterfront neighborhood.
2. Stop by the Carter Collections Center on the west side of the museum campus to visit the archaeology lab and see recent and significant artifacts in the museum collection. The center will be open for half an hour following the end of the meeting.
If you have any questions about the meeting, please contact Mark Greenly at tel: (603) 436-6906 or email: secretary@nhas.org

Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict
2023-11-04 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States

The Qeheq Papyrus: A Bridge Between Egyptology and Berberology
2023-11-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE-NC Lectures, Rm 20, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Jason Silvestri, UC Berkeley:
“The Qeheq Papyrus: A Bridge Between Egyptology and Berberology”
Sunday, November 5, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time
Note: Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 AM
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
About the Lecture:
Among the ancient documents in the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, there is a papyrus, thought to be from Deir el-Medina, which records a set of magical spells for the protection against snakes written in an Egyptian script but in the hitherto unidentified language of the Qeheq people. The Qeheq are an infrequently attested North African ethnic group of the late 2nd millennium BCE, often associated with other, more well-known ancient “Libyan” groups like the Libu and the Meshwesh. The language recorded on the papyrus exhibits strong similarities to proto-Berber as reconstructed by linguists using data from the modern Amazigh (or Berber) languages, indigenous to North Africa and still spoken today by an estimated 30-to-40 million people from the Atlantic in the west to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt in the east, from the Mediterranean in the north to the Niger River in the south. As the papyrus records what is likely to be the earliest textually-attested Amazigh language, and does so using the Egyptian hieratic script, it stands as a unique document, serving as a bridge between two related but often separated academic fields–Egyptology and Berberology/Amazigh Studies. When held in light of other Egyptian textual and onomastic material attesting so-called “Libyan” groups from the 1st millennium BCE, the language of the Qeheq can contribute toward a clearer understanding of the geographic and temporal extent of ancient Amazigh languages and their speakers’ interactions with neighboring cultural groups, like the Egyptians.
About the Lecturer:
Jason Silvestri is a PhD candidate in the field of Egyptian Archaeology in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. His dissertation research focuses on the social and administrative history of the Libyan Period in Egypt (Dynasties 21 through 24) and examines numerous social phenomena that are particularly emblematic of that period, such as the formation and use of diaspora identities and ethnic code-switching, political identity formation, factional conflict, regional identity politicization, personal piety, and archaism. Through his interest in Ancient Libyan cultural and linguistic identities, Jason began studying the modern Amazigh (or Berber) languages, the indigenous languages of North Africa, west of the Nile. He founded and coordinated an online language education program through the Center for Language and Culture in Marrakesh, Morocco, which operated for several semesters from 2020 through 2022 dedicated to the teaching of Tashelhiyt, an Amazigh language spoken in Southern Morocco. In addition to his philological work on Egyptian and Amazigh material, Jason also is a trained archaeologist and has worked on several projects across the Mediterranean, including in Egypt, Greece, and Italy; he is currently starting a project that aims to address a large and mostly unpublished corpus of Third Intermediate Period and Saite Period Egyptian objects excavated from Iron Age indigenous contexts in Southern Italy.
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Parking is available in UC lots all day on weekends, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://arce-nc.org, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or http://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

New Light on King Herod’s Harbor (6:15pm start time)
2023-11-06 18:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
McCann/Taggart lecture
Note: This lecture’s start time is 6:15pm Eastern time.

The History of Scotland - As Revealed at its Eroding Coast
2023-11-06 19:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Alabama in Huntsville, Wilson Hall 168, 301 Sparkman Drive NW, Huntsville, AL, 35805, United States

The Forbidden Voyage
2023-11-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | Cohen Lounge, 1st floor Dickson Hall, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07043, United States
McCann/Taggart lecture

All in the Name of Science: Academic Facilitation of the Trade in Asian Cultural Objects
2023-11-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Hopleaf (Andersonville), 5148 North Clark Street, Chicago
This talk by Dr. Emiline Smith (University of Glasgow) will examine the passive and active facilitative role that academics have played in the creation of taste and market demand for Asian cultural objects in the USA in the name of ‘science’ and ‘education’. Building on several case studies from across the USA, we will examine how academic expertise facilitates illicit trade in cultural objects. We will further examine how their exploitative knowledge creation processes continue to impact the way Asian cultural objects are displayed, published, owned, traded, and accessed today. Special attention is paid to the material and non-material lives of cultural objects, for example, the exploitation of their digitization in the name of ‘education’. Overall, this talk hopes the stimulate an open, reflexive, and critical conversation around how academics should address the exploitative and colonial foundations of the knowledge creation processes surrounding the objects they work with.

Saving Heritage from the Sea: The Communities Working to Rescue Scotland’s History
2023-11-08 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia
2023-11-08 19:00 (America/Denver) | Eaton Humanities, Rm 250, CU Boulder Campus, 2055 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO, United States
