A Maritime Small World in Western Cyprus: Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, and Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-02-22 19:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

A Small Maritime World in Western Cyprus -- Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, & Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Joan Connelly (New York University)
Come join us for a watch party of Professor Connelly’s live-streamed lecture. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.

"Operation Amythyst: How the Ancient Egyptions Got Their Bling 4000 Years Ago"
2023-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
About the lecture:
Some of the most stunning jewelry from Ancient Egypt is made of amethyst. Its craftsmanship, opulence, and design epitomize quality in the ancient world. Yet the skill in making this jewelry started long before the cutting and buffing of the raw stone. Procuring amethyst in the Eastern Desert is fraught with many more perils and problems than Nile Valley craftsmen experienced. As the director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert, Liszka leads a team that has studied the remains of these ancient desert expeditions and a team who has firsthand experience of many of the perils that the ancient explorers would have fought as well. This talk examines the extremes and dangers that thousands of Ancient Egyptians went to in order to acquire these beautiful purple stones for the Pharaoh’s jewels. By investigating the archaeology, art, and inscriptions from Wadi el-Hudi in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, we navigate through the whole process of amethyst acquisition: from finding, to mining, and surviving in the dangers of the desert.
We will gather to watch this recorded lecture (4:49-43:36) together, followed by Q and A with Dr. Liszka via Zoom. The recording has captions and also includes an ASL interpreter.
About the speaker:
Kate Liszka is associate professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino, and director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt. Her research focuses on ancient Nubians interacting with Egyptians and the Egyptian government. She specifically examines these issues as part of two projects. She is currently finishing a monograph on the Medjay, a group of pastoral Nubians who may become an important group of soldiers in Egypt’s Middle and New Kingdoms (c. 2300-1000 BCE). Kate also directs the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert. This archaeological and epigraphic project looks at ancient Egyptian mining activities, their organization, and individuals who participated in them, especially in light of ancient ethnicities.

Why are Islands Sacred?
2023-02-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-23 16:15 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA
Norton Lecture

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-02-23 19:00 (America/New_York) | School of Business (SBUS) 110, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07043
Joukowsky Lecture

Otzi The Iceman: Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-02-26 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bowers Museum, 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA, 92706

Hannibal's Secret Weapon
2023-02-27 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) 6020, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
2023-02-28 18:30 (America/New_York) | White Hall Rm 102, Emory University, 210 Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, GA, 30303

Operation Demeter: What Italy's largest antiquities bust reveals about archaeological looting today
2023-03-01 18:00 (America/New_York) | 537 Leggett, Randolph College, 2500 Rivermont Ave, Lynchburg, VA, 24503

Ancestral Maya Pilgrimage at the Sacred Pools of Cara Blanca, Belize
2023-03-01 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Central Texas), Austin, TX

Great Lectures: Teotihuacan: Rome of the Ancient Americas
2023-03-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Around 100 CE, a huge metropolis began to emerge in the Basin of Mexico, one the Aztecs would later call Teotihuacan, or “Birthplace of the Gods.” It quickly came to dominate the region, and, with its completely new urban grid-plan, contained as many as 150,000 people. Its two gigantic buildings, the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, were surrounded by smaller temples, plazas, and a thousand or more apartment compounds. They were all once richly painted in dazzling colors and complex designs depicting twisting feathered serpents, prowling jaguars, storm gods and water goddesses, priests, warriors, and lords. But its history has long been a mystery, and we are only now beginning to understand its importance and impact on ancient Mesoamerica.
Speaker: Simon Martin, Associate Curator and Keeper in the American Section, Penn Museum and Adjunct Associate Professor Anthropology, UPenn

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-03-01 18:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Columbus), Columbus, OH

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-03-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10040, United States

Gold Victories: The Gold of Coinage of Alexander the Great
2023-03-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | Heritage Hall (inside of Father O’Connell Hall), Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC, 20064
Metcalf Lecture

Treasure troves. How to Study a Greek Coin Hoard
2023-03-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Campbell Hall 160, University of Virginia, 110 Bayly Dr, Charlottesville, VA, 22903

When Evolution Hurts (Free Hybrid Lecture)
2023-03-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Terence D. Capellini, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Being able to walk upright on two feet is a physical trait that distinguishes modern humans from our early ancestors. While the evolution of bipedalism has contributed to our success as a species, it has also limited the evolution of other features and increased our risk for certain diseases. Capellini will discuss the genetic research that is helping scientists better understand the relationship between bipedalism and our risk of developing knee osteoarthritis—a degenerative disease that afflicts at least 250 million people worldwide. By understanding the evolutionary history and genetics of this condition, preventive screenings and potential treatments may be developed.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Image credit: Tasha McAbee, Department of Orthopedics at Boston Children’s Hospital

Sex Workers at Pompeii
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Denver) | Tory Breezeway 1, University of Alberta, 6-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Environment and Economy in Early Medieval Antwerp: the Zooarchaeological Evidence
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Valparaiso University Center for the Arts (VUCA), 1709 Chapel Dr, Valparaiso, IN, 46383

Industry, Commerce, and Revolution: Ayla, Humayma, and the Southernmost Levant during the Early Islamic Period
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at San Antonio downtown campus, Room TBA, 501 W César E Chávez Blvd, San Antonio, TX, 78207, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/New_York) | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave, Rochester, NY, 14607

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-03-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Baltimore), Baltimore, MD

Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Kings
2023-03-04 13:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (St. Louis), St. Louis, MO

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

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.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.

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
