Did We Evolve to Exercise? (Free Virtual Lecture)
2021-10-13 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | PA
Daniel Lieberman, Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Exercise is a paradox: everyone knows it is healthy, but most of us struggle to do it. Further, as technology and machines increasingly replace human labor, fewer people are getting enough exercise. In this talk, Daniel Lieberman will explain how an evolutionary and anthropological perspective on exercise can help. How much exercise did we evolve to do? Is exercise really a magic bullet? Why, how, and to what extent does exercise slow aging and promote health? Is there a best way to exercise? And, most importantly, how can we help each other exercise without nagging or coercing?
Evolution Matters Lecture Series
Series supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit
Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
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Archaeology Abridged: Indian Cuisine, Past and Present
2021-10-14 13:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Join us for this Archaeology Abridged talk by Monica Smith.
Today, Indian cuisine is a global favorite, anchored through a diaspora of restaurants in small towns and urban centers alike. But did you know that a hankering for the flavors of the subcontinent goes back thousands of years? The Romans imported pepper from India by the sackful, and even earlier than that, the ancient Bronze Age culture of the Indus started the combinations of ginger, turmeric, and other spices that we recognize as “curry.” Bring your appetite for a lunchtime discussion of the ingredients, history, and archaeology of the subcontinent’s wonderful palette of foods.
Monica L. Smith is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies and is the director of the South Asian Archaeology Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. She received her B.A. in Classical Civilizations (ancient Rome and Greece) at the University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. in Archaeology from UCLA; and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her field experience includes participation on projects in England, India, Italy, Egypt, Madagascar, Bangladesh, Tunisia, and with the National Park Service in the American Southwest. With her colleague R.K. Mohanty she has co-directed a long-running archaeological research project in eastern India at the sites of Sisupalgarh, Talapada and Ostapur and their environs, supported by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Her books include Cities: The First 6,000 Years; A Prehistory of Ordinary People; and with R.K. Mohanty, Excavations at Sisupalgarh. She is in her third term as an Academic Trustee on the AIA’s Governing Board.

How Beer Made Kings in Early Egypt (Free Virtual Lecture)
2021-10-14 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | PA
Matthew Douglas Adams, Director, Abydos Archaeology; Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The remains of a 5000-year-old brewery found in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos are providing insights into the relationship between large-scale beer production and the development of kingship in Egypt. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Abydos brewery produced beer on a truly industrial scale—something unparalleled in early Egypt. Matthew Adams will share findings from recent excavations at the brewery and will consider it in context as part of a broad pattern of royal activity at the site that served to define the very nature of kingship at the beginning of Egypt’s history.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
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Digging Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben: The Archaeology of Enslaved Cooks
2021-10-14 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | TBA (Santa Barbara 1), Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Hopewellians in a Non-Hopewellian World: The Rise of Elaborate Ceremonialism and Long Range Interaction in Precontact Northern Ohio
2021-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Evidence of precontact Native American ceremonialism is generally rare in northern Ohio. Only a few isolated mound sites, such as Esch in northcentral Ohio, were thought to have actively participated in the Hopewell Interaction Sphere of southern Ohio. More recent work, however, has identified additional localities in northern Ohio that produce classic Interaction Sphere artifacts of copper, Flint Ridge chert, and mica. Some of these are mound sites, but others feature ceremonial enclosures of earth and wood. Recent investigations at the Heckelman site in the Huron River valley of north-central Ohio reveal significant evidence of domestic occupation as well as the remains of elaborate ceremonialism that points to direct interactions with Hopewell societies to the south.
All attendees must RSVP for the meeting to receive the Teams invitation. Please email your RSVP to Dr. Evi Gorogianni, eg20@uakron.edu, before 5pm on Oct. 14nd

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2021-10-15 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (San Diego 1), San Diego, CA
Joukowsky Lecture
Contact epollard@sdsu.edu for Zoom ID and Passcode.

From EU 1 to 100: Thirty Years of AAP under MKT
2021-10-16 09:15 - 10:15 (America/New_York) | TBA (Central Carolinas 2), Davidson, NC, United States
This lecture is part of the all day symposium in honor of Michael K. Toumazou.

More info and Zoom registration link available here: https://www.archaeological.org/event/thirty-years-at-athienou-celebrating-michael-k-toumazou-and-his-impact-on-cypriot-archaeology/

Archaeology Day In The Santa Monica Mountains
2021-10-16 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Anthony Beilenson Interagency Visitor Center, 26876 Mulholland Highway, Calabasas, CA, 91302, United States
10:30 AM–Native Songs & Stories
Ted and Dennis Garcia, Chumash elders
Chumash Native American elders Ted and Dennis Garcia lead a blessing followed by an indigenous story and song program.
12 PM–Boats, Basques, Beets, & Bosses
Dr. Colleen Delaney, California State University Channel Islands
Rancho Guadalasca was a Mexican-era land grant located on the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Oxnard Plain. This talk focuses on lesser-known residents and events from the 19th century, including Basque sheepherders, Japanese sugar beet farmers, a steamship line, and homicide.
1 PM–Bearing Witness: A Legacy Oak Tree and its Mysterious Contents
Austin Ringelstein, NPS archeologist and Master Cruz, NPS park guide
Come and “witness” bottles and real artifacts found inside the trunk of the historic Witness Tree oak at Paramount Ranch. Learn some history about the site, learn from an archeologist how to date glass bottles, and help try to solve the mystery of the origins of these items!
1:30 PM–Bullets, Bottles, & Bricks: Stories and Finds from a Santa Monica Mountains Homestead
Ryan Ballard, family descendant; Professor Patty Colman, Moorpark College; CSUN student volunteers
This presentation includes stories about the life and legacy of African American homesteader Alice Ballard and information about the artifacts found after the Woolsey Fire that potentially reveal her cabin site.
All-day Activities:
Flintknapping Demonstrations (all ages)
Come and see the methods and techniques that Native Americans used in the past to create stone tools for hunting, processing food, and making everyday equipment.
Atlatl Demonstrations (all ages)
Learn how to use an atlatl to increase the throwing distance of a spear, then try your hand at it! This ancient technology was used around the world before the development of the bow and arrow.
Replica Historic Artifact Display Table (all ages)
Take a look at a variety of replica artifacts from the historic period, and learn how archeologists use these artifacts to determine the age and function of a site.
Replica Prehistoric Artifact Display Table (all ages)
Explore a variety of replica artifacts from the prehistoric period, and learn how archeologists use these artifacts to determine the age and function of a site.
Post-Woolsey Fire & Leave No Trace (all ages)
Come see real artifacts from the Santa Monica Mountains, found in the field after the Woolsey Fire and recovered from the NPS curation facility. Learn about Leave No Trace ethics and what to do if you find an artifact out on the trail.
Sand Box Archeology (children)
Play archeologist for a day! Learn how to carefully excavate artifacts from the Native American, Mission, and historic American periods, and see how these artifacts can tell us about how people lived.
Junior Ranger Activity (children)
Become a Junior Archeologist of the Santa Monica Mountains and earn a Junior Archeologist patch!
Archeology Coloring Pages and Archeology Laboratory (children)
Learn about the techniques of archeology while coloring images of artifacts, archeology tools, and field activities. Back in the lab, you need to analyze and document each artifact in order to help recreate the story of the site. Learn how to analyze your own artifact and how you can help protect the past!
Angeles National Forest (all ages)
Hands-on activity grinding acorns and learning methods that Native Americans used in the past to harvest and process food.
JMA Associates Archeology and Paleontology (all ages)
Learn the difference between archeology and paleontology; hint: archeologists don’t dig dinosaurs!

A Big Golden Smile that Seems Eager: This is Athienou
2021-10-16 10:45 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | TBA (Central Carolinas 1), Davidson, NC, United States

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2021-10-17 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Orange County 1), Anaheim, CA

Aridity and adaptation among Arabian Bronze Age communities: Investigating mobility and climate change using isotope analysis
2021-10-17 15:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Milwaukee 1), Milwaukee, WI
Braidwood Lecture

Additional Zoom information:
Webinar ID: 951 4313 4365
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Royal Purple and Indigo: the Hidden Labor Behind Luxurious Dyes
2021-10-19 18:00 (America/New_York) | Carraway Building (CAR), 315, 909 Antarctic Way, Tallahassee, FL, United States

Let them Rest in Peace: The Sacred Burials of Frescoes, Pots, and Rooms in the House of the Frescoes at Knossos
2021-10-19 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Greensboro 1), Greensboro, NC
McDonald Lecture

Archaeology of Beer
2021-10-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | PA
It’s been found in the Egyptian pyramids, the cities of Mesopotamia, Viking longboats, the palace of Machu Picchu, medieval monasteries, and the world’s earliest farming villages. What is it? Beer! Beer has been used for thousands of years to pay taxes, heal the sick, and accompany the dead into the afterlife. Many religions worshiped gods and goddesses of beer and brewing, and some of the earliest known examples of both poetry and law codes are about beer. Join us for an evening webinar exploring the archaeology of beer with Public Archaeologist Patty Hamrick.

A Feminist History of Ancient Medicine
2021-10-19 19:15 (America/Denver) | WEBINAR (Santa Fe 1), Santa Fe, NM
Kershaw Lecture

Power plays at Pylos: The past and memory in the tombs and at the palace
2021-10-20 16:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Western New York 1), Buffalo, NY
Zoom Meeting ID: 921 1429 3029
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Matrices of the Mother Goddess: Some Reconsiderations of Kybele in Western Anatolia
2021-10-20 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Southern Nevada 1), Las Vegas, NV
Kershaw Lecture
Zoom details:
Meeting ID: 85444244180
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Putting the stone back in the Stone Age: New research on the end of the Maltese Temple Period, a lecture by Dr Huw S. Groucutt, Max Planck Independent Research Group leader in Jena, Germany
2021-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Malta) | PA
Abstract : After existing for over one thousand years, the Maltese Temple Period ended around 4,300 years ago. Understanding why has been a topic of considerable interest and debate. In this talk Dr Huw S. Groucutt will discuss this topic, outlining recent research on themes such as regional climate change and evidence for the arrival of new groups of humans. Chronological modelling studies are presented which indicate a correlation between archaeological activity and regional climate, which indicate a long-term societal decline in the final centuries of the Temple Period. Yet, does climate change alone explain the end of the Temple Period, or was something else involved, such as new groups of humans arriving, perhaps bringing a plague epidemic with them? Against this backdrop Dr Groucutt will outline recent research on the distribution and character of Maltese chert. Chert was the main kind of stone used to make stone tools in Maltese prehistory, and is therefore crucial to understanding ancient Maltese society, yet it has seen relatively little study. New insights on the distribution and character of chert in Malta are discussed. This offers new perspectives on the character of Temple Period material culture, and the extent to which the Maltese islands were isolated or integrated with neighbouring regions such as Sicily.

Royal Purple and Indigo: The Hidden Labor Behind Luxurious Dyes
2021-10-20 18:30 (America/New_York) | TBA (Gainesville 1), Gainesville, FL, United States
Zoom ID: 745 130 9473

Gender, Creator Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu
2021-10-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Northern New Jersey 1), Montclair, NJ

Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: founders and foundation myths in the Roman Near East
2021-10-21 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh 1), Pittsburgh, PA

Tracing the Origins of Art
2021-10-21 17:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Charlottesville 1), Charlottesville, VA
Joukowsky Lecture

Surviving the Maya collapse at Actuncan, Belize
2021-10-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (East Tennessee 1), Knoxville, TN

Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii
2021-10-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Kentucky 1), Louisville, KY

The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in early Islam
2021-10-21 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Salem 1), Salem, OR
Forsyth Lecture

The Ancient City: Lessons for a Modern Age
2021-10-22 15:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Albany 1), Albany, NY
Graham Lecture

Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation
2021-10-22 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Puget Sound 1), Seattle, WA

21st Century Tools for Studying Ice Age Art
2021-10-22 20:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (South Florida 1), Wellington, FL
Matson Lecture

Across a Narrow Sea: Ancient Greeks and Romans in the Eastern Adriatic
2021-10-24 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | AIA-LA County Society, 1201 9th Street, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States
Ahmanson Lecture

Lecture will be in-person and live Zoom cast. RSVP required for in-person attendance (limit 50 persons). The AIA-LA County Society asks that all attendees be vaccinated and wear a mask if the lecture needs to be held indoors.
Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96714745295
Meeting ID: 967 1474 5295

Montaukett Indian Archaeology: The Fowler House in East Hampton, NY
2021-10-24 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Rye Free Reading Room, 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, New York, 10580, United States
The Fowler House provides an extraordinary glimpse into the lives of Montaukett Indians on Long Island over a century ago. This storied house is a powerful reminder that Native American history is an integral part of American heritage locally, regionally, and nationally. The small vernacular saltbox house was once owned by George Fowler, a Montaukett Indian who was born at Indian Fields in Montauk, and whose family was among the last residents of the Indian Fields settlement at the time of their dispossession from the land in the 1870s. The Fowlers and other Montaukett families were pressured by Arthur W. Benson, a real estate developer who purchased Indian Fields at auction, to relocate to Freetown, north of East Hampton Village. The Fowler House now stands on one of these Freetown plots. To learn more about Montaukett history and culture in East Hampton, including the historical communities of Freetown and Indian Fields, see “Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island“, the Ph.D. dissertation of the speaker. It offers a rigorous in-depth study of oral traditions, archaeological research and architectural surveys, close analyses of historical records, and long-term ethnographic work with Long Island’s contemporary Montaukett community. Also, take look at “Created Communities: Segregation and the History of Plural Sites on Eastern Long Island, New York“, a recent academic journal article by Dr. McGovern and Dr. Christopher Matthews, which explores the complexities of identity and heritage in communities like Freetown.
Dr. Allison McGovern is an anthropological archaeologist in the greater New York City area whose work integrates archaeology with historical research methods, public engagement, planning, and historic preservation advocacy. She earned her MA in Anthropology from Syracuse University, and MPhil and PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island critically addresses the way Native history is told through archaeology, material culture, and museum exhibition (to be published with University Press of Florida).
She is a professional archaeologist with Richard Grubb and Associates, a cultural resource management firm. Dr. McGovern is also active in archaeological service and outreach as a member of the Professional Archaeologists of New York City, an elected Board member of the New York Archaeological Council, a member of the Suffolk County Parks Historic Trust Committee, and a cultural partner with various local preservation and historical societies.
Dr. McGovern’s research in the Long Island area highlights the experiences of historically marginalized and underrepresented groups through archaeology, oral history, and ethnographic mapping. As a Public Archaeologist, she is interested in making her research available to general audiences, as well as other academic researchers. In 2018, she was awarded a Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award (Third Place) from the Society of Historical Archaeology for her ongoing work with the Mapping Memories of Freetown project. She is also an inaugural recipient of the Robert D. L. Gardiner “Writing the History of Greater New York” Fellowship at the Gotham Center for New York City History for her forthcoming book Long Island Dirt. In addition to support from the Gardiner Foundation, her work has been supported by the CUNY Graduate Center, Farmingdale State College, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Philips Fund for Native American research, the Mystic Seaport, and the National Endowment of the Humanities.
