“In the Footsteps of Roman Soldiers: Excavations at Vindolanda and the Archaeological Landscape of Hadrian’s Wall”
2022-03-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | NY
In the past few decades the Roman fort at Vindolanda has had some of the most extraordinary finds from the northern frontier of the Roman Empire that have truly changed our understanding of life in the Roman army. The site lies near Hadrian’s Wall in a remote countryside in Northumberland, England and was part of the original frontier line in this location in the late first century CE. Decades of excavation at the site have given us an extraordinary view into the lives of soldiers living in this frontier region. Greene has excavated at Vindolanda since 2002, directing trenches in new areas of the site for several years, and will give a presentation focusing on the recent excavations and new hypotheses from this work. Highlights of the presentation concentrate on the extraordinary finds from the site, including Roman shoes, numerous inscriptions and artifacts, as well as the unparalleled corpus of writing tablets (letters and military records), to reveal what life was like on the edge of the Roman empire and how the site has changed many accepted views of life in the Roman army.
Speaker: Elizabeth Greene, University of Western Ontario
To join the virtual meeting, go to https://knox-edu.zoom.us/j/89207455252?pwd=[REDACTED]

Synoikismos: Formation and Forms of Ancient Greek Cities
2022-03-02 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Bryant Hall 209, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, United States

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2022-03-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Caskey Lecture

"The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The Role of Wives, Children and Families in Roman Military Communities" Elizabeth M. Greene
2022-03-02 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | NY
Elizabeth M. Greene, Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology, University of Western Ontario (egreene2@uwo.ca)
Research over the past few decades has shown quite clearly that women and children were part of life in the Roman army far more than had ever been considered before. The evidence and spatial patterning of material within and outside Roman forts makes this clear, but still research on the social role of these individuals lags behind. This presentation concentrates on Dr. Greene’s current research into this aspect of the Roman army, considering the evidence that illuminates the varied roles of non-combatants within these somewhat unique settlements. The presentation highlights the very different realities for the wives and children of officers and the family members of, for instance, a foot soldier, who was paid far less and was not legally allowed to contract a marriage while serving. This lecture follows on past talks I have given that present the archaeological evidence for the presence of women at Vindolanda and pushes the argument toward women’s social roles within military communities and the intersectional identities of those living in the Roman provinces and in military communities on the frontiers.

Ramesside Royal Women’s Tombs, the Book of the Dead, and the Deir el-Medina Iconographic Tradition
2022-03-03 17:30 (America/New_York) | NY
La Follette Lecture

Mosaics and the Antioch Recovery Project
2022-03-03 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | TBA (Central Arizona), Phoenix, AZ, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Religious Ritual on board the Greco-Roman Ship
2022-03-03 19:00 (America/Chicago) | NY
Bass Lecture

Coastal Heritage and Climate Change—A Monumental Challenge to Preserve the Past in the 21st Century
2022-03-03 19:00 (America/New_York) | NY

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
2022-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Lecturer: Miriam Stark (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Angkor’s first great king, Jayavarman II, established Cambodia’ Angkorian state on the banks of the Tonle Sap in 802 CE and built his first capital, Mahendraparvata, on the slope of the nearby Kulen mountains. What followed were six centuries of political competition, warfare, and imperial rule by Angkor’s kings. Like rulers of other ancient states, Khmer kings built vast stone monuments to honor their predecessors and gods that still stand today. A century of scholarly research on the Khmer empire’s achievements has shed light on the scale and nature of premodern Southeast Asia’s most influential polity; it has also shaped political agenda in unanticipated ways. This lecture introduces the Angkorian world, from its temples to its ceramics, and examines how cosmology and statecraft created Southeast Asia’s greatest premodern empire and the world’s largest preindustrial city.
This event will be hosted remotely via Zoom. To register in advance, please use the link provided below.

Gender, Creator Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu
2022-03-05 10:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton Science Center 255 (Chudd Auditorium), 300 College Park Avenue, Dayton, OH, 45469, United States

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2022-03-05 13:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (St. Louis 2), St. Louis, MO
Anawalt Lecture

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
2022-03-05 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall, 3380 N. 13th Street, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States

Unearthed Voices From the First Emperor of Qin's Unification of China
2022-03-06 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | AIA-LA, 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, United States
Ahmanson Lecture

The Application of LiDAR Scanning for the Documentation of Ancient Cities and Regions
2022-03-06 15:00 (America/Chicago) | NY

Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture
2022-03-07 19:30 (America/Chicago) | NY

Bird/Egg, Pen/Hand, Torch/Deer? Pairs of Ordinary Objects on Roman Coins
2022-03-08 | Room L140, Elvehjem Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706
Metcalf Lecture

The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress
2022-03-08 17:30, 2022-03-10 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-09 16:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Norton Lecture

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-10 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City 2), New York, NY
Norton/Haupt Lecture

RESCHEDULED - A Phonetic Zoo: The Origins of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing
2022-03-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Akron, Leigh Hall, Room 215, 150 E. Exchange Street, Akron, OH, 44325, United States
Abemayor Lecture; Reception at 6:30 PM
PLEASE NOTE: This lecture is being rescheduled, the new date will be posted as soon as possible.

Set apart from within: Articulated women in commingled tombs from Early Bronze Age Arabia
2022-03-10 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Willamette University College of Law, 245 Winter Street SE, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Matson Lecture

"De-composing and Re-composing the ancient Egyptian body"
2022-03-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Dr. Tasha Dobbin-Bennett (Emory University Oxford College) will speak on “De-composing and Re-composing the ancient Egyptian body.”
Join via Zoom at the link below. The password, if prompted is “baltimore”.

When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
2022-03-11 19:15, 2022-03-12 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Oliver Lecture

Choices and Changes: 13th Century Revitalization of Cahokia, Native North America's First City
2022-03-13 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Westchester 1), Westchester, NY
Stone Lecture

Counterfeit goods in the Roman commercial landscape
2022-03-13 15:00 (America/New_York) | NY

Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
2022-03-13 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Carly Maris, University of San Diego:
“Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae”
Sunday, March 13, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Zoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members, please send any registration requests no later than Friday, March 11. Registrations are cut off at our attendance limit, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
The Deipnosophistae is a late second- to early third-century CE dialogue written by grammarian Athenaeus of Naucratis. The text follows the style and themes of Plato’s Symposium, presenting an imaginary conversation between philosophers that takes place during a Roman banquet. Scholars have found value in the Deipnosophistae for its inclusion of lengthy quotations from earlier Greek texts that have otherwise been lost. It provides key insight as to the historical resources and documents available to the educated classes during the height of the Roman Empire. Included in the Deipnosophistae are multiple historical accounts of Egypt–including descriptions of its geography and climate, the history of Egyptian wine, and stories about various rulers (including a description of a massive parade during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus). My talk will focus on how Athenaeus viewed the ancient Egyptian past, and will place this in context with broader visions of Ancient Egypt during the Roman Empire.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Carly Maris is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of San Diego. Her research looks broadly at Western perceptions of the East, and explores how Near Eastern culture influenced the Roman empire. She is currently working on a book titled Parades of Antiquity, in which she explores the history of imperial parades in the Near East, and how they impacted the spectacle of Roman triumphal parades up through the early Byzantine period.

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-15 18:15 (America/New_York) | The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Norton Lecture
To attend in-person or virtually, please register at the link below. Masks are required (but no longer proof of vaccination).

21st Century Tools For Studying Ice Age Art
2022-03-15 19:15 (America/Denver) | NY
Sheppard Lecture
