Operation Demeter: What Italy's largest antiques bust reveals about archaeological looting today
2022-09-27 17:30 (America/New_York) | UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 601, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States

Healing the Body: How Scientific Archaeology is Revealing the Medicinal Practices of Enslaved Peoples
2022-09-29 14:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Ancestral Maya Pilgrimage at the Sacred Pools of Cara Blanca, Belize
2022-09-29 19:30 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Rockford), Rockford, IL
Joukowsky Lecture
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Hannibal’s Secret Weapon
2022-10-02 15:00 (America/New_York) | Brock University STH 215, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada
Norton Lecture
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The “Mummy Portraits” of Roman Egypt: Status, Ethnicity, and Magic
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Lorelei H. Corcoran, Professor of Art History; Director, Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology University of Memphis
In ancient Egypt, one of the final steps in the mummification process was to equip the body with a permanent face covering that helped to protect the head and also to ritually transform the deceased into a god. The earliest examples of these were stylized masks, later replaced by more realistic-looking, painted portraits. Using evidence from the archaeological record and
the Book of the Dead—a series of spells meant to guide the dead as they sought eternal life— Lorelei Corcoran will discuss the production and function of the “mummy portraits” that were popular throughout Egypt in the Roman period and what these images reveal about the religious beliefs and multi-layered ethnicities of their subjects.
Free parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums
Related exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums: Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt open through December 31, 2022
Image courtesy Harvard Art Museums: 1939.111

Old Pots and New Drains: Changing Approaches to Waste and Wastewater in a Pompeian Neighborhood
2022-10-06 18:30 (America/New_York) | Dickinson College, Denny Hall #317, 272 W High St, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States

Plumbing the Depths: Exploring Violence and Warfare in Humanity’s Past
2022-10-06 18:30 (America/New_York) | University of Akron, Leigh Hall 207, 150 East Exchange Street, Akron, OH, 44325, United States
Joukowsky Lecture
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Plumbing the Depths: Exploring Violence and Warfare in Humanity’s Past
2022-10-08 10:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton, Science Center Auditorium, 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH, 45469
Joukowsky Lecture

5,000 year old Egyptain Brewery
2022-10-09 11:30 (America/New_York) | NY
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Dr. Matthew Adams of the N.Y.U Institute of Fine Arts will present on the discovery of a 5,000 year old Egyptian Brewery. The brewery was discovered in North Abydos and is believed to be the oldest brewery in the world.

Painting Coffins at Akhmim in the First Millennium BCE
2022-10-09 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE IN-PERSON MEETING, FORMERLY SCHEDULED FOR UC BERKELEY,
HAD TO BE CHANGED TO A ZOOM MEETING.
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 noon Saturday, October 8. Registrations are limited to 100, so the sooner you register, the better.
Cartonnage of Djedhor in the Detroit Institute of Art
About the Lecture:

After the New Kingdom, wealthy Egyptians were sent to their afterlives in dazzling decorated and inscribed coffins which were nested like Russian dolls. Our understanding of these vessels for rebirth centers on the city of Thebes, and focuses on dating the coffins through changes in their layout. Local traditions have long been neglected and assumed to be derivative of the Theban tradition; the work of artists and scribes outside of Thebes is often dismissed as “naive” or “provincial”–though, in reality, we know very little about the workshops that produced coffins, or the training of the artists and scribes who worked in them.
A large number of coffins are thought to come from the city of Akhmim, two hundred kilometers north of Thebes, and these present an excellent opportunity to characterize and evaluate a regional tradition. Unfortunately, the cemeteries of Akhmim were thoroughly plundered in the late 19th century, flooding the art market with coffins that had no find context and which can only be stylistically dated relative to similar Theban pieces.
A careful study and comparison of the artistic and scribal hands that produced these coffins opens the door to a more detailed understanding of the development of a vibrant regional style over a period of nearly seven-hundred years between the end of the New Kingdom and the beginning of the Ptolemaic period. Driving this development were artists working in multi-generational workshops. Their work expresses not only the desires of their clientele, the Akhmim elite, but the methods, training, creativity, and skill of the scribes and painters who decorated coffins at Akhmim.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Kea M. Johnston graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD in Egyptology in 2022. Her PhD thesis deals with workshops that produced coffins at the Egyptian site of Akhmim in the period between 1100 and 330 BCE. She is interested in both the content and materiality of textual inscription on coffins, and Egyptian funerary art generally. She is also interested in using her skills as a software engineer to build tools that can be used for answering questions in the study of the Humanities. Kea is both a researcher and a technological lead on “The Book of the Dead in 3D” project (https://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/) and has done fieldwork at the site of el-Hibeh with the UC Berkeley Expedition. She has taught multiple courses, including most recently an intensive summer course at Berkeley called “Digital Humanities and Archival Design” in which students learned how to build online archives while exploring the ethical issues and technical challenges surrounding digital cultural heritage.
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Operation Demeter: What Italy's largest antiquities bust reveals about archaeological looting today
2022-10-12 18:30 (America/New_York) | University of Florida Campus, Fine Arts Building B, 300 Southwest 13th St, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States

Diet and Status in Roman Egypt: Evidence from Amheida in the Dakleh Oasis in the Western Desert
2022-10-13 17:30 (America/New_York) | Classics Library, 2175 Angell Hall, 434 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, United States
Matson Lecture

International Archaeology Day at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University
2022-10-15 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Celetná 20, Prague, Prague, 11000, Czechia
Lectures and workshops concerning archaeology and Egyptology for the public.

Amelia Edwards: The Founding of the Egyptian Exploration Fund and the Exodus
2022-10-15 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Greenburgh Pubic Library, 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, NY, NY, 10523
Amelia Edwards was the driving force behind the creation in 1882 of the Egyptian Exploration Fund (EEF, now Egyptian Exploration Society). The story of this individual is a remarkable one. As a woman of no money and no formal training in Egyptology who had spent decades of her life in totally unrelated activities, her formidable presence in the world of Egyptology would have been a surprise to those who had known her. Along with her determination to promote Egyptology was her desire to find the route of the Exodus. She had written extensively about the Exodus and was certain she knew who the Pharaoh of the Exodus was. The first archaeology campaign by the EEF was to find the route of the Exodus and it appeared to have succeeded.In this presentation, I will examine the life of Amelia Edwards at the dawn of Egyptology and how quickly things changed after she died.
Peter Feinman received his B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, a M.Ed. from New York University, an MBA from New York University, and an Ed. D. from Columbia University. He is the founder of the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education. His interests cross disciplinary boundaries including American history, ancient civilizations, biblical history, and New York history. He is the president of the Westchester Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Vice President of the American Research Center in Egypt, New York Society. He advocates for the importance of local and state history in the curriculum, community, and tourism and is the author of a blogs on The State of State History and The State of American Civics. He is a contributor to the recent book Five Views of the Exodus (Zondervan, April 2021). His current book is The Exodus: An Egyptian Story (Oxbow, November 2021). He is working with the American Friends of Lafayette to plan the Lafayette Bicentennial in New York in 2024-2025.
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Project Archaeology - welcome to public, private and home school students
2022-10-15 14:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Sappington House Museum, 1015 S Sappington Rd, Crestwood, MO, 63126
International Archaeology Day lecture “Project Archaeology – welcome to public, private and home school students” – a presentation by Gail Lundeen, past president of the Missouri Archaeological Society. Program held at the Sappington House Museum.
More events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

City Making in Byzantine Athens
2022-10-16 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Sabin Hall, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 3413 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

Ancient Pastoralists and Ancient States: The Political Ecology of the Nubian C-Group on Ancient Egypt’s Southern Frontier
2022-10-18 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | NY
Lecture by Dr. Shayla Monroe, UC, Santa Barbara;
DC Society Annual African Archaeology Lecture, hosted by Howard University
In honor of 2022 International Archaeology Day

Inclusive Museum Narratives: Contextualizing Collections through Collaboration
2022-10-18 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2022-10-19 19:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

Dr. Scott S. Williams: “The Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos, Oregon’s Beeswax Wreck”
2022-10-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
The 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 northern Oregon, where survivors of the wreck lived with coastal Nehalem and Clatsop Indians. Goods from the ship itself were recovered by an archaeologist from the Oregon State Parks and Maritime Archeology 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. Dr. Williams is the Cultural Resources Program Manager at the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Using isotopic data to understand mobility and economic integration between coastal and interior settlements in Late Prehistoric Portugal
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | 150 Art Building West (ABW), 141 N Riverside Dr, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States
Dr. Waterman (Associate Professor of Biology, Mt. Mercy University) is the 2020 recipient of the AIA Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship and is excited to present her research to our society. Please join us as she enlightens us about the Portuguese Estremadura’s Late Neolithic through Early Bronze Age (c.3500-1500 BCE) periods. Large fortified coastal and interior settlements from the area demonstrate the emergence and later collapse of socially-complex non-state societies. While these habitations were economically and socially integrated, direct evidence of this integration is lacking. In this presentation stable and radiogenic isotopic data from human and animal samples recovered from the Late Prehistoric settlement sites of Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) Zambujal, and Leceia are compared in order to discern patterns of human and domestic animal mobility between the sites.

Snake Queens of Waka` and Beyond: Royal Women of the Snake Realm and their Imprint on Classic Maya Rulership
2022-10-21 20:00 (America/New_York) | Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, the Mall at Wellington Green, 10300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL, 33414, United States
Stone Lecture

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) | NY

Goddesses, Whores, Vampyres and Archaeologists: uncovering ancient Mytilene
2022-10-25 18:15 (America/New_York) | NY
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

Representing Native American Perspectives on Time: Examples from the Field Museum
2022-10-27 14:00 (America/New_York) | NY

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
