Celebration of International Archaeology Day (IAD). William J. Roberts Lecture: The Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos, Oregon’s Beeswax Wreck
2022-10-22 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Scott Williams, Maritime Archaeological Society
The Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos left the Philippine Islands for the Port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) in July 1693, loaded with Asian luxury goods of silk, fine cottons, porcelain, spices, art- and beeswax, in large blocks and candles. The ship, undermanned and with an inexperienced captain, somehow went hundreds of miles off course to wreck near the Nehalem River in norther Oregon, where survivors of the wrecking lived with the coastal Nehalem and Clatsop Indians. Good from the ship were traded by the local tribes, and the exotic materials were incorporated into their traditional culture. The ship was carrying so much beeswax, that the Indians brought it to American and British fur traders to trade, and by the end of the 19th century so much beeswax had been mined from the spit that non-locals refused to believe it came from a shipwreck. In 2020 and 2022, parts of the ship itself were recovered by archaeologists from Oregon State Parks and the Maritime Archaeological Society. Scott Williams, Principal Investigator of the Beeswax Wreck Project and President of the Maritime Archaeological Society, will tell the story of the Society’s 16-year research project into the identity and location of the wreck, and discuss the latest finds.

Life and death of a Christian community in Roman Sicily: recent researches in the Catacombs of St. Lucy at Siracusa
2022-10-25 18:00 (America/New_York)
Matson Lecture

Goddesses, Whores, Vampyres and Archaeologists: uncovering ancient Mytilene
2022-10-25 18:15 (America/New_York)
This event will be held virtually. Please register in advance via the orange “register” button.

Climate Change in the Arctic: It’s Happening Fast, and It’s Happened Before
2022-10-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | Andrews Hall, Room 101, College of William & Mary, 605 Jamestown Road, Williamburg, VA, 23185, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Representing Native American Perspectives on Time: Examples from the Field Museum
2022-10-27 14:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Working from Home: Assessing the Significance of Specialized Craft Production Based in Households in the Aegean Bronze Age
2022-10-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Missouri, Columbia (101 Swallow Hall), 230 Jesse Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211, United States

Otzi The Iceman: Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2022-10-27 19:30 (America/New_York) | University of Hawaii, Art Auditorium, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, 96822
Norton Lecture

Not Black and White: Seeing and Naming Africans in Greek Art
2022-11-01 17:00 (America/New_York) | Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, the Pennsylvania State University, 201 Old Main, University Park, PA, 16802, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Community Archaeology as Sustainable Archaeology
2022-11-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Grand Valley State University, 164 Lake Ontario Hall, 1 Campus Dr, Allendale, 49401

Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: Founders and Foundation Myths in the Roman Near East
2022-11-02 19:00 (America/New_York)
The Tallahassee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Student Archaeology Club at FSU present:
“Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: Founders and Foundation Myths in the Roman Near East”
By Robyn Le Blanc, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The AIA Kershaw Lecture in Near Eastern Archaeology
Additional Funding by the AIA Father Bader Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 7:00 PM
A Zoom Lecture: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93621021276

This talk explores city founders and foundation myths in the Roman Near East. Depictions of these local traditions appear on civic coinage, sculpture, and on the “Caesarea bowl,” and some are described by ancient authors such as Pliny and Pausanias. Foundation myths reflect ideas about the community and its past, and helped forge and maintain cultural, ethnic, and kinship links between and within communities.
Relevant website, The Roman Provincial Coinage online: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Limits of the Pinson Mounds Landscape in Western Tennessee
2022-11-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
In this lecture, Professor Ed Henry will discuss the monumental earthen architecture present at Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park (PMSAP) in West Tennessee, which features prominently in the archaeology of the American Midsouth. However, the Johnston and Elijah Bray mound sites, situated west and east of PMSAP respectively, are considered the anchors in defining the broader Pinson Landscape. Recent research in this area has dramatically reshaped how archaeologists might consider the temporal and spatial extent of this enigmatic Middle Woodland landscape and its ties to Hopewell societies in the eastern U.S. In my lecture I will discuss the field verification of new monumental features at Johnston, new and unusual subsurface features identified at PMSAP, and the first archaeological investigations of the Elijah Bray site. Our new discoveries reveal how our knowledge of this unique area expands our understandings of, and approach to studying, deeply used places in the archaeological record.

“Instructing the Eye: Museum Catalogues and the Archaeological Imaginary in Early 20th-Century Tunisia”
2022-11-02 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | UBC-Vancouver Campus, Buchanan A building, Room 202, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T1Z1, Canada
Lecture by Daniel Sherman, UNC-Chapel Hill

An Urban Garden at Pompeii: reexploring the "House of Queen Caroline"
2022-11-03 18:00 (America/New_York) | William T. Young Library Auditorium at the University of Kentucky, 401 Hilltop Ave., Lexington, 40506
Hanfmann Lecture

The Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Depictions of Pharaoh's Triumph
2022-11-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Harbor Walk West, room 217, 360 Concord St., Charleston, SC, 29401, United States
Dr. Tara Prakash (College of Charleston) will discuss “The Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Depictions of Pharaoh’s Triumph” on November 3, 2022, at 7:00 pm. Please join us to learn more about these fascinating artifacts and their archaeological contexts.
The lecture will take place at Harbor Walk (360 Concord St., West building, room 217), the temporary home of the College of Charleston’s Department of Art and Architectural History. Parking is available nearby at the City of Charleston’s Aquarium Garage.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to join the speaker for a light reception and informal conversation. This event is free and open to the public.
In accordance with current CofC COVID-19 protocols, attendees are welcome, but not required, to wear masks.

Manton Lecture
2022-11-04 05:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Johns Hopkins University (Homewood campus), Gilman Hall 50, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Please join the Baltimore AIA society for our first in-person talk since 2020! Dr. Catherine Popovici (The Johns Hopkins University) will speak about “Binding City, Sculpting Politics: Artistic Interventions in Classic Maya Landscapes” on Friday, November 4 at 5 pm ET. The talk will be streamed on Zoom but not recorded. Email akoch@towson.edu for Zoom details.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2022-11-04 15:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Albany), Albany, NY
Joukowsky Lecture
Join the Zoom meeting on November 4th at 3:30 PM EST by clicking the “Register” button below — no need to sign up in advance.

Paying Attention: Images of Monuments on Roman Imperial Coins
2022-11-04 16:30 (America/New_York) | Department of Art & Archaeology seminar room (Green Hall 3-S-15), Washington Rd., Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Thompson Lecture

Ireland before the Saints and Scholars: Excavations at the Iron Age site of Dun Ailinne, Co. Kildare
2022-11-04 19:30 (America/New_York) | Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Roman/Byzantine Ruins at Gadara in Jordan
2022-11-05 13:00 (America/Chicago)
ZOOM lecture “Roman/Byzantine ruins at Gadara in Jordan” by Sufyan al-Karaimeh (University of Leiden – Netherlands) Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

The Earliest Pottery in the World
2022-11-06 11:30 (America/New_York)
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Ilaria Patania, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis will present on “the Earliest Pottery in the World.”
Why was pottery invented? While for decades we assumed a connection between plant domestication, pottery use, and social hierarchy today we know that the earliest pottery in the world was found in cave sites in South China connected to a hunter and gatherer lifeway at ~20 -19 kya. This is the first example of a wider Eastern Asian hunter gatherer pottery making tradition. In this talk we will discuss the sites of the earliest pottery and explore cooking practices and social structure of the groups that first used pottery.
Join via Zoom by this link on November 6th, 2022 at 11:30 AM EST.
Meeting ID: 881 5810 9696
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Aramus: A dialogue between archaeology and comic art
2022-11-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Ottawa, Canada
Comic books meets Archaeology! The authors of “Aramus” will talk about the process of creating an archaeological comic book.

Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt
2022-11-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures, Room 126 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, 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. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Brown University:
“Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt”
Sunday, November 6, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
Please note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
This lecture explores the cultural implications of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic sign, known as N41, used in an apparently random constellation of words related to women, water, and metals. Based on a re-examination of the sign’s contexts of appearance in The Pyramid Texts and other religious sources, it is determined that an ancient Egyptian cosmovision contemplated the sky as an iron container of water, pieces of which fell to the earth in the shape of meteors and were used to produce ritual objects. The fact that the N41 sign’s iconicity encapsulated such complex interconnectedness suggests that the relation between birth, afterlife, and iron existed even before the earliest religious texts in Egypt. The knowledge of the extraterrestrial provenance of iron was lost at some point in modern times when meteorites were classified along with fossils as “thunderstones” as late as the 18th century. However, the Egyptian knowledge, consistent with contemporary science, was most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that also connected iron and sky in texts. We will examine some examples of non-Egyptian iron-sky cultural parallels, particularly from the Ancient Near East, which can be explained as common analysis of natural observations, rather than knowledge transmission.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at Brown University in 2022. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and specializes in the use of language and hieroglyphs’ iconicity to understand oral knowledge and ideology in Old Kingdom Egypt. Since 2019 she is a member of the AERA archaeological project in Giza, and assistant director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition since 2021.
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About ARCE-NC:
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Women in the Cults of Isis: Patrons, Symbols, and Pariahs
2022-11-07 17:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Richards Hall 15, 1410 Q Street, Lincoln, NE, 68588

Life at Berkou: a newly-discovered Roman fortress in Egypt
2022-11-07 19:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Alabama – Huntsville, Room TBA, 301 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35899

Rural Matters: Studying the Countrysides of Ancient Cyprus
2022-11-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven), New Haven, CT

The origin and initial dispersal of Sino-Tibetan populations in archaeology
2022-11-08 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Oregon Knight Library Browsing Room (106), 1501 Kincaid St, Eugene, OR, 97403

The Pot Detective in Cyprus
2022-11-10 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix)
Dr. Gloria London
Independent Scholar
Knud Jensen was a Danish rural police officer with dreams of becoming a Mediterranean archaeologist. To do so he joined the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus beginning in 1964. When not on village patrols, he recorded the immense old-fashioned wine fermentation jars littering rural roads. Following a centuries-old practice, itinerant craftsmen made the last jar in 1972. Equipped with superior social and detective skills, he traced pots back to their makers, including a family of jar makers active from 1850 to 1913. Jensen achieved much, but did not live to publish his research, which Dr. London has done with help from his family and the descendants of jar makers.
To register, please visit www.aiacentralarizonasociety.wordpress.com.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.

Fixing the Date: The AD 79 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
2022-11-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Lecture by Dr. Pedar Foss, Depauw University
DC Society Annual Davidson Lecture; hosted by George Washington University

Pour One out for Me: Libations in Roman Funerary Commemoration
2022-11-12 10:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton, Science Center Auditorium, 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH, 45469
Lecturer: Liana Brent, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Kenyon College

Virtual Symposium: Color in Ancient Tennessee
2022-11-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join us for a free virtual talk on Tuesday, November 15, at 12 PM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
Dr. Kevin Smith, archaeologist and professor at Middle Tennessee State University, will share his archaeological work to understand the pigments and colors used by Native Americans right here in ancient Tennessee.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Kevin Smith is an archaeologist and professor at Middle Tennessee State University. His research interests include the Late prehistoric Mississippian cultures of the Midwest and Southeast United States, Mississippian art and iconography, the history and development of Southeastern archaeology, frontier period archaeology (1760-1820), archaeology of African-American lifeways (1783-Reconstruction), and Native Americans in popular culture. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS:
Archaeological Institute of America- Nashville Society
Centennial Park Conservancy
Vanderbilt University
Metro Nashville Parks and Recreation
