Archaeological Institute of America

Death and Rebirth: Religious Change and Reincarnation in the Copper Age
2024-04-02 19:30 (America/Vancouver) | TBA (Vancouver), Vancouver, British Columbia
Kershaw lecture

The Representation of Ramses II's Enemies in the Battle of Kadesh Reliefs
2024-04-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | Leigh Hall 208, University of Akron, Akron, 44325, United States
Matson lecture
Lecture begins at 5:15pm

When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
2024-04-03 17:30 (America/New_York) | University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Richards Hall 15, 1410 Q Street, Lincoln, NE, 68588

Society Against the State in Prehistoric Cyprus
2024-04-04 19:00 (America/New_York) | Harbor Walk West Room 217, 360 Concord Street, Charleston, SC, 29401, United States

Wrecking in the Florida Keys
2024-04-05 18:30 (America/New_York) | Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, the Mall at Wellington Green, 10300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL, 33414, United States
Robert Feeney is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He received his MA in history there is 2016 and currently works in the FAU library as a Manuscript and Archives Special Collections Assistant. Robert is also a member of the City of Plantation Historic Preservation Board. His specialty is 19th century US material culture focusing on early telegraph and railroad equipment. He has been a popular guest speaker for a number of local organizations, often dressing in period costume and bringing along a display of pertinent artifacts.
During the 1800s, the wrecking industry made Key West one of the wealthiest cities in the US. Hear stories of ships and sailors hopelessly wrecked on Florida’s reef system and how they provided a livelihood for intrepid individuals willing to risk their lives to save crews and cargoes from perilous storms. See navigation tools, learn about shipboard trades, and see actual artifacts related to the practice of “wrecking.”
This is both an in-person and on-line event. For those coming to the Museum, there will be light refreshments. The on-line presentation will be available via Zoom at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86833990236?pwd=[REDACTED]
For additional information call (561) 729-4246

New Hampshire Archeological Society Spring Meeting
2024-04-06 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | RI
Co-hosted by the Dartmouth College Department of Anthropology, the Dartmouth Archaeology Working Group (DAWG) and the New Hampshire Archaeological Society.
Speakers include:
Alex Garcia-Putnam, PhD, Co-Director of the Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery (F.A.I.R.) Lab, UNH
The Brentwood Poor Farm: Bioarchaeological Insights on Poverty and Marginalization in Historic New Hampshire.
This work explores the lives and deaths of inmates of the Brentwood Poor Farm, Brentwood, NH (1841-1868). The hardships these individuals faced—poverty, otherness, forced labor— were embodied in their skeletal remains, manifesting as osteoarthritis, tooth loss due to dental disease, and other signs of physiological stress. The present study finds that this sample, while small, is illustrative of the marginalization faced by impoverished individuals who died at poor farms across the United States during this time period.
Karlee Feinen- Senior Cultural and Historic Preservation Major, Salve Regina University
The Stratigraphy of Weirs Beach
Located on Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Laconia, Weirs Beach is among the most important archaeological sites in New Hampshire. However, instances of stratigraphic disturbances have moved the cultural deposits at the site. My research analyzes recent excavations by Dr. Nathaniel Kitchel and what can be learned from the stratigraphic disturbances at the site.
Jon Apperstein Phd candidate Dartmouth College
A Kernel of Truth: On the Possibilities of Extensive Maize Agriculture in the Archaeological Northeast
Our understanding of the regional archaeological landscape has been relatively stable for the past few decades. The main archaeological questions continue to be centered on the great maize debate and its intersection with Woodland settlements—specifically, the absence of large sedentary Woodland villages and minimal evidence of widespread agriculture. Due to a combination of poor preservation, long histories of colonization and methodological failures the archaeobotanical remains of maize are relatively thin especially compared to other maize cultivating communities elsewhere in North America. This talk aims to review the evidence of maize agriculture prior to extensive European colonization, the impact of maize agriculture on settlement, and finally, explain novel ways to locate new evidence that challenges and expands our understanding of the Archaeological Northeast.
Jesse Cassana Phd, Dartmouth College,Professor
Digging Dartmouth: Archaeological Investigations in Hanover and the Upper Valley
All times below are approximate.
9:00 am – Registration opens. Morning refreshments
9:50 am – Welcome and opening remarks
10:00 am – Two Speakers and break
11:45 am – Lunch on your own (Class of 1953 Commons, Cafeteria)
1:00 pm – Two Speakers
Registration opens at 9 am with sessions starting at 10 am. Registration: $10 at the door, Complimentary with Student ID. No pre registration required.
Virtual Zoom registration bit.ly/NHASregister
LOCATION: Steele Hall, Room 006, Dartmouth College. PARKING: All campus parking lots that are permit-only during the week are free on the day of the meeting and open to anyone. Handicapped-accessible or Reserved parking spaces are not open to meeting attendees WITHOUT PROPER PERMITS. The two lots closest to Steele Hall are the Maynard Lot and the Dana Lot.

"Art and Ancestral Inspirations of Lance Foster" by Lance Foster
2024-04-06 14:00 (America/New_York) | Missouri History Museum, AT&T Room, 5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO, 63112, United States
6 April 2024, Saturday at 2 PM (Central Standard Time Zone).”Art and Ancestral Inspirations of Lance Foster” by Lance Foster, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the Ioway Nation. Lecture location – Missouri History Museum, AT & T room. Join us in the museum cafe for lunch (dutch treat) at noon to chat with the speaker.

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Student Engagement And Success Center, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mtn. Parkway, Petaluma, CA, 94954, United States
Joukowsky lecture

"Solar Eclipse and Mississippian Culture" by Dr. Michael Fuller
2024-04-08 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Towosaghy State Historic Site, East Prairie, MO, 63845, United States
8 April 2024, Monday at 11 AM (Central Standard Time Zone). Field Trip Lecture: “Solar Eclipse and Mississippian Culture” by Dr. Michael Fuller (St. Louis Community College). Lecture location at Towosaghy State Historic Site in East Prairie, Missouri. Start of Partial Eclipse at 12:33. Start of Totality at 1:53. End of Totality at 2:02 pm CDT . Bring a sack lunch and 2 bottles of water!

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-08 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley, South Dr, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States

The Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Manifestations of Pharaoh’s Power
2024-04-09 19:00 (America/New_York) | Oberlin Public Library, 65 S. Main St, Oberlin, 44074, United States

Madison Society National Lecture Program lecture
2024-04-09 19:00 (America/Chicago) | TBA (Madison), Madison, WI, United States
Hanfmann Lecture

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, 44106, United States

Cultural Identity and Ritual Feasting: Exploring the Origin and Dispersal of Sino-Tibetan Populations
2024-04-11 18:00 (America/New_York) | RI

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-11 19:00 (America/New_York) | DePaul University Levan Center, 2322 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, 60614, United States

Using 3D to Document and Share Vermont’s Past: The Vermont State University Digital Archaeology Project - Virtual
2024-04-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | RI
Using 3D to Document and Share Vermont’s Past: The Vermont State University Digital Archaeology Project – Virtual
Matthew D. Moriarty, PhD, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Vermont State University
The Vermont State University Digital Archaeology Project was founded in 2019 to explore new avenues in archaeological research, digital curation, and educational outreach using 3D technologies. Over the last four years, VTSU faculty and students have utilized 3D imaging to document archaeological, museum, and private collections, and 3D printing to share those materials with the public. This presentation highlights some of the project’s early results and explores some of the methodological issues raised by 3D imaging and 3D printing of archaeological heritage.
LOCATION: Zoom
REGISTER: Zoom registration bit.ly/NHASregister

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2024-04-12 09:30 (America/New_York) | RI
Broneer lecture

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-13 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Virginia Village Branch Library, 1500 S Dahlia St, Denver, CO, 80222, United States
Abstract:
While a global phenomenon, rock art has been a relatively recent subject of study in Southeast Asia with the number of known sites growing from a handful in the 1960s to over a thousand today. Research accelerated in the last 20 years with better recording and analytical techniques as evidenced by the increased number of papers on Southeast Asian rock art in international conferences and journals since the 2000s. The majority of sites are located from Indonesia and Thailand, where sustained episodes of research have been conducted. New dates from Indonesia challenge long-standing ideas about the ‘origin’ of art while other discoveries shed light on the movements and activities of peoples across this diverse landscape. This lecture presents a survey of rock art across Southeast Asia from the deep past to more modern times and shows how rock art can help us better understand the archaeology of Southeast Asia.
Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic:
Rock Art of Southeast Asia

(includes a bibliography and overview)
Bio:
Noel Hidalgo Tan is the Senior Specialist in Archaeology at the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts in Bangkok, where he works to promote the archaeology of Southeast Asia by building capacity among regional archaeologists, finding ways to engage the public about archaeological and cultural heritage, and conducting archaeological research. His main research interest is in the rock art of Southeast Asia, where he spent his postgraduate work documenting sites in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. His recent projects include rock art documentation in western Laos and southern Thailand; the protection of regional underwater cultural heritage; archaeology, tourism and the protection of Southeast Asian cultural heritage sites; and developing future capacity in regional archaeology education in Southeast Asia. He is the managing editor of the SPAFA Journal (www.spafajournal.org) and runs an online resource website on Southeast Asian Archaeology (www.SoutheastAsianArchaeology.com)

DOUBLE-HEADER: The Serapeum at Saqqara & Moo-ving Along: Cattle Mummies in Ancient Egypt
2024-04-13 13:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3230 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
In-Person Lecture
Saturday, April 13 at 1:30 pm EST
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speakers: Dr. Aidan Dodson & Dr. Salima Ikram
Lecture Topics & Abstracts:
The Serapeum at Saqqara
This afternoon we will explore the history of the catacombs of the sacred Apis bull at Saqqara. We will trace its story from the first known burial under Amenhotep III to the end of the employment of the complex following the demise of Cleopatra VII.
Moo-ving Along: Cattle Mummies in Ancient Egypt
Cattle have been central to many cultures over the millennia, and this is also true for that of ancient Egypt. On a practical level they provide food, clothing, shelter, tools, jewellery, and are a measure of wealth; on a sacred level ,they are the focus of cultic activity, with many deities, both female and male, manifesting as cows and bulls. This lecture will briefly discuss the main cattle cults of ancient Egypt and then present the different types of cattle mummies that are known. Their purpose, mummification process, and histories will be featured.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Aidan Dodson is honorary full Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, UK, where he has taught for over 25 years. He studied at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, and was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for the spring of 2013, and Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. He is the author of some thirty books, most recently The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2023).
Dr. Salima Ikram is Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University. She studied at Bryn Mawr College (AB) and Cambridge University (MPhil and PhD). She has worked throughout Egypt, and has directed the North Kharga Darb Ain Amur Survey, the Amenmesses Project KV10-KV63, and the Egyptian Museum Animal Mummy Project and has published extensively for both scholars and the general public.
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Lectures are FREE to ARCE Members, $10 for University of Pennsylvania Museum Members and UPenn Staff and Faculty, $7 for Students with ID, and $15 for the general public. Light refreshments served starting at 1:00pm.
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge among the general public, and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties. The ARCE Pennsylvania Chapter (ARCE-PA) is the local branch of the national institution. We host monthly events including scholarly lectures, Egyptian-themed workshops, social events, and guided tours of the Penn Museum’s Egyptian galleries. For more information or to learn about the perks of membership, please send an e-mail to info@arce-pa.org, or visit our website at www.arce-pa.org.

San Francisco Lecture by Tom Hardwick: Uses, Re-uses, and Abuses of Egyptian Statues
2024-04-13 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | RI
April 13, 2024 at 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Uses, Re-uses, and Abuses of Egyptian Statues
Gunn Theater | Legion of Honor + Live Stream
Presented by Tom Hardwick Consulting Curator of Egyptology, Houston Museum of Natural Science
Admission:
Lecture is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program.
IN PERSON: Gunn Theater, 100 – 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121. Seating is limited and unassigned. Doors open at 1:30 pm.
LIVE STREAM: Please register here to receive a webinar link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lJ1-plmLQVi5pqRy16oceA .
Egyptian statues epitomize solidity and permanence for the modern viewers who admire them securely guarded in museums or tourist sites. To their pharaonic makers and owners, however, they were functional objects with specific duties to fulfil. Rather than being blindly revered as artworks, they were often re-used for new purposes when their old functions lapsed. These re-uses could include physical transformation. This lecture covers over three thousand years to show how subsequent generations have used and abused Egyptian artworks.
Cosponsored by the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
and the American Research Center in Egypt-Northern California.

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Deborah Carlson. “Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros”
2024-04-17 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 117, 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, 99324, United States
This talk will share the latest research on underwater excavations of an ancient (1st century BCE) cargo-ship, which was carrying architectural marble when it sank off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kizilburun. We will go behind-the-scenes to look at how the cargo’s intended destination was identified.
Please join us for this livestream presentation.

Managing and Curating Yale University’s Numismatic Collection
2024-04-17 18:30 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Kansas City/Lawrence 1), Lawrence, KS
Metcalf lecture
For registration, please email Phil Stinson of the University of Kansas (pstinson@ku.edu), or Jeff Rydberg-Cox of the Univ. of Missouri Kansas City (rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu).

AIA Archaeology Hour with Deborah Carlson
2024-04-17 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | RI
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) presents Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Between 2005 and 2011, researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University excavated and raised the remains of an ancient ship that was wrecked off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kızılburun in the first century B.C. This ship was transporting about 60 tons of white marble blocks and architectural elements that originated in the quarries on Proconnesus Island in the Sea of Marmara. Ceramic artifacts and coins help narrow the date of the shipwreck, but the pieces of a single monumental Doric column suggest that the ship was destined for one of the most important oracular sanctuaries in the ancient Mediterranean. Join underwater archaeologist Deborah Carlson as she lays out the evidence to solve this maritime mystery!

“We Are Shaped by Space”: Some Archaeological Perspectives of the Materiality of Black Life
2024-04-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 227, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States
Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
For Zoom attendance, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/2xcu7ntk
Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste (UMass Amherst) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “’We Are Shaped by Space’: Some Archaeological Perspectives of the Materiality of Black Life.”

From Myth to Polis: Deciphering the Cultural Life of Ancient Aphidna Using Multi-Modal Landscape Analysis
2024-04-18 18:00 (America/New_York) | RI

A Lecture about the Neolithic site of the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney (Scotland) by Scott Pike PhD, Environmental Science and Archaeology, Willamette University
2024-04-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
Abstract coming soon.
About Dr. Scott Pike:
As both a trained geologist and archaeologist, my research uses geological theories and methodologies to tackle archaeological and art historical problems. Currently, I am pursuing two major research trajectories. The first is the development and application of portable instrumentation to study the synergistic relationships between societies and their changing landscapes. These projects use geologic principals and methods to understand how the landscape influences the development of human cultures and, in turn, how dynamic landscapes influence social and cultural stability and change. Research along this trajectory includes a systematic geochemical study of floor samples collected from multiple monumental structures at the Neolithic site of the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney, Scotland. My second line of research focuses on the procurement, use, trade and aesthetics of white marble used in the ancient Mediterranean basin. Current marble research in this area includes analysis of marble samples from the Parthenon and Propylaea on the Athenian acropolis as well as the development of using aerial photography and other emerging technologies to record and study ancient marble quarries.
The lecture will broadcast in realtime via Zoom.
Join Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84120684037?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 841 2068 4037
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Assessing the Historicity of the Trojan War: Excavations at Troy 1988-2012
2024-04-23 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, 61103, United States
Santen lecture

Guided Tour of Newark Earthworks
2024-04-27 13:00 (America/New_York) | Newark Earthworks, 455 Hebron Rd, Heath, OH, 43056, United States
Join us for a guided tour of the Newark Earthworks, for members & friends of the AIA. Cost is $10, please bring cash to speed along check-in. RSVP is not required, but it’ll help us gauge interest. If you think you’ll attend, let us know here.

"Animals of the Bayeux Tapestry" by Dr. Gail Owen-Crocker
2024-05-05 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri History Museum, AT&T Room, 5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO, 62113, United States
5 May 2024, Sunday at 2 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). Lecture by Dr. Gail Owen-Crocker, Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester, “Animals of the Bayeux Tapestry” . Lecture location – Missouri History Museum, AT & T room. Join us in the museum cafe for lunch (dutch treat) at noon to chat with the speaker.

How Egyptologist George Reisner Went Walking Among Pharaohs
2024-05-05 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Gunn Theater, 100 - 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA, 94121
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard:
How Egyptologist George Reisner Went Walking Among Pharaohs
May 5, 2024 (2 pm Pacific Time, live at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco)
Cosponsored by the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Lecture is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program.
IN PERSON: Gunn Theater, 100 – 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121. Seating is limited and unassigned. Doors open at 1:30 pm.
LIVE STREAM: Please register here to receive a webinar link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2WLpssqfRcGtmfdl02bLEQ
About the Lecture:
Based on his new biography of George Reisner (1867–1942), Walking Among Pharaohs, the speaker’s lecture examines the life and work of America’s greatest Egyptian archaeologist, and Reisner’s legacy of 43 years of successful excavations at 23 archaeological sites in Egypt and the Sudan (ancient Nubia). Leading the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, Reisner put American Egyptology on the world stage, despite British control of Egyptian politics, French control of Egyptian antiquities, and an Egypt yearning for independence. The lecture considers Reisner’s life and impact within the context of Western colonialism, racism, and the soft power of early twentieth-century archaeology. It also explores new visualization technologies, particularly at the Giza Pyramids, that Reisner’s work makes possible today.
About the Speaker:
Peter Der Manuelian is the Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology and holds a joint appointment in the Anthropology Department and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. He is also director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE). He came to Harvard in 2010, after serving on the curatorial staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), since 1987, and teaching for a decade at Tufts University. At the MFA he was Giza Archives Project Director from 2000 to 2011, and now directs the Giza Project at Harvard. In addition to Giza, his Egyptian archaeological and epigraphic site work includes New Kingdom temples at Luxor (Epigraphic Survey, University of Chicago), and the Predynastic site of Naqada.
His primary research interests include ancient Egyptian history and historiography, archaeology, epigraphy, the development of mortuary architecture, and the (icono)graphic nature of Egyptian language and culture. He has published on diverse topics and periods in Egyptian history, but currently focuses on the third millennium BCE, and specifically on the famous Giza Necropolis, just west of modern Cairo.
Interested in both ancient and modern graphic design—publishing in the broadest sense of the word—he believes in bringing new technologies into his research and into the classroom. Recent efforts have focused on photogrammetry, AR and VR visualizations, and other immersive technologies as an aid to archaeological research. He is directing the Arabic Diaries Project, focusing on 73 Arabic Expedition diary books from the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1905–1947) that give voice to the historically voiceless Egyptians working on the dig.
(Text from Harvard University website: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/peter-der-manuelian)
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, http://www.arce-nc.org, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, and https://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.
