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, NY, 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.

Wonderwerk Cave: Archaeology at the Edge of the Kalahari
2021-10-24 15:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Staten Island 1), Staten Island, NY
Joukowsky Lecture

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From the Mound to the Mantelpiece. The Movement of Early Bronze Age Pots from the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan
2021-10-24 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Winnipeg 1), Winnipeg, MB
Feinstone Lecture

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Gendered Ads in Antiquity: Targeted Advertising for Women in Athenian Vase Painting
2021-10-26 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Vancouver 1), Vancouver, BC
Scranton Lecture

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The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
2021-10-27 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Niagara Peninsula 1), St. Catharines, ON

Shrouded in Mystery: Reconstructing the Cultural Contexts of Funerary Shrouds from Roman Egypt
2021-10-27 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Central/West Michigan 1), Lansing, MI

Urban Borehole Surveys And The Origins Of The Roman Forum
2021-10-28 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Chicago) | 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, 65201, United States
A lecture by Prof. Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan) presenting the results of a recent borehole survey carried out in the monumental core of Rome, and discussing the main implications for our understanding of both the city’s original environmental setting and the creation of the earliest urban infrastructure.

Bird/Egg, Pen/Hand, Torch/Deer? Pairs of Ordinary Objects on Roman Coins
2021-10-28 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom
Metcalf Lecture

Ten fingers and ten toes: disability and infanticide in ancient Greece
2021-10-28 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | WEBINAR (Central Arizona 1), Phoenix, AZ
Young Lecture

Torches, Fireflies, and Moonlight: The Brilliance of Classic Maya Lightscapes
2021-10-28 19:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Rochester1), Rochester, NY
Borowski Lecture

Boomtown Blues: Archaeologies of Expansion and Collapse in Amazonia
2021-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Room 106, Psychology Building, 4111 Pictor Lane, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States
Stone Lecture
You can attend the lecture either in-person or via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent out to all registered attendees on the day of the lecture. Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boomtown-blues-archaeologies-of-expansion-and-collapse-in-amazonia-tickets-185960060547

Shipwrecks and the Transport of Luxury in the Roman Mediterranean
2021-10-29 19:30 (America/Halifax) | WEBINAR (New Brunswick 1), Fredericton, NB
Steffy Lecture

The Power of the Ancestors at Pylos
2021-11-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Andrews Hall, Room 101, College of William & Mary, 605 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA, 23187, United States
Howland Lecture

Awash in Innuendo at the Baths of Caracalla
2021-11-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven 1), New Haven, CT
a remote ZOOM lecture by Maryl Gensheimer, University of Maryland
Archaeological Institute of America, New Haven Society
November 2 2021, from 5-6 pm
Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/93935437567

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Topic: AIA Fall 2021
Time: Nov 2, 2021 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 939 3543 7567
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The Spirit of Repatriation Under NAGPRA
2021-11-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Boston 2), Boston, MA

U2 Spy Plane Photos and The Archaeology of the Middle East
2021-11-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver)
Declassified military imagery from planes and satellites plays an important role in landscape and environmental archaeology. Historic imagery sources, especially the large archives generated by the US during the Cold War, are far better than Google Earth for providing archaeologists with a window into the past, before development and intensive agriculture took hold in many rural parts of western Asia. In the mid-late 1990s, the archaeology of arid regions in Eurasia was revolutionized by the declassification of CORONA “spy satellite” photographs showing large swaths of the region in high-resolution, as they appeared in 1967-1972. Now there is a new source of even older high-resolution historical imagery: photos from U2 spy planes captured 1958-1960.
In this lecture, Dr. Emily Hammer (UPenn) presents case studies showing how U2 photos can be used to shape archaeological and historical conclusions about early southwest Asia. These new datasets allow for a better understanding of the environmental distribution of prehistoric hunting traps (“desert kites”) in eastern Jordan, the size of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur in southern Iraq and this city’s ancient water supplies, as well as the spatial demography of 20th-century communities living around the marshes of southern Iraq.

POSTPONED!!! “Archaeology through Art: Early Modern Japanese Ship Construction”
2021-11-03 19:30 (America/Chicago)
THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL SOMETIME IN THE SPRING.
Michelle Damian, Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth College (mdamian@monmouthcollege.edu)
Maritime trade and transport flourished during Japan’s early modern (Edo, 1603 – 1868) period, connecting the urban centers of Osaka and Edo with the farthest reaches of Hokkaido and Kyushu. The omnipresent nature and variety of styles of boats, from local ferries, to fishing vessels, to large trade ships are recorded diligently in hundreds of woodblock prints by numerous different artists. Careful analysis of the construction styles and contexts of these vessels in the prints, in conjunction with contemporary ships’ treatises, extant artifacts in museum collections, and ethnographic research suggests that shipwrights strove to create visually striking watercraft that were adapted to the waters they plied. This lecture will highlight some of the distinctive features of Japanese ship construction and explore the role that different vessels play in the early modern maritime cultural landscape.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 7:30 pm, Trustees’ Room (Room 302), Alumni Hall, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 61401
Plans are to zoom this lecture live. Watch this space for more information.

State Formation in Anglo-Saxon England
2021-11-04 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis-St. Paul 1), Minneapolis, MN

Ritual at the crossroads: a sacred stone in ancient Athens
2021-11-04 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Columbus 1), Columbus, OH

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2021-11-04 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (San Francisco 1), San Francisco, CA
Norton Lecture

Weapons, Warfare, and Women
2021-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Whitman College, Maxey Hall, 413-461 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
The Dangerous Lives of Early Bronze Age Women in Central Anatolia
Speaker: Stephanie Selover
Abstract:
In archaeology and art history, women of the ancient world are often identified through stereotypically “feminine” materials such as jewelry or weaving tools. This study of ancient cultures and the rise of early urbanism in the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000-2000 BCE) reveals the reality to be less simple. Art historical studies combined with evidence from Anatolia (modern Turkey) Egypt and Mesopotamia, reveal that both male and female graves contained functional weapons, and that women were also sometimes depicted with weapons and as fighters. This talk investigates the increase in weapons as grave goods in both male and female graves, and how this change relates to alterations in the social order in a time of increasing warfare and violence.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This lecture will be hosted as a hybrid event, with an option of either in-person or remote attendance (via Zoom).
The in-person event will be hosted on the Whitman College campus, in Maxey Hall room 207. Please note that proof of full vaccination (date of final dose no later than October 21st) or Whitman ID will be required at the door, at the west entrance of Maxey. Masks will also be required at all times within the building.
To register for the remote, live-streamed version over Zoom, please use the following link:

Limestone Sculpture of Cyprus: Portraits of Culture
2021-11-07 11:00 (America/New_York) | Hofstra University, Breslin Hall, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, 11549, United States
A lecture by Dr. Pam Gaber, Professor of Archaeology and Art History on Lycoming College, on how Cyprus has yielded hundreds of votive sculptures from the First Millennium BCE, and how they reveal religious worship, travel, and trade in the Ancient Near East.

Zoom Meeting ID: 870 1437 5777
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World
2021-11-07 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Ottawa 1), Ottawa, ON
Santen Lecture

Vitality Materialized: On the Piercing and Adornment of the body in Mesoamerica
2021-11-08 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City 1), New York, NY
Brush Lecture

Death comes to the Theban Sacred Band: Skeletons from the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC)
2021-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (D.C. 1), Washington, DC

Wonderwerk Cave: Archaeology at the Edge of the Kalahari
2021-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Oberlin-Wooster 1), Oberlin, OH

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2021-11-10 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Eugene 1), Eugene, OR

Archaeology and Ale and Book Release with Andrew Lawler
2021-11-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
Andrew Lawler will introduce us to his new book, UNDER JERUSALEM: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City. Sacred to three faiths and revered by more than half the people on the planet, Jerusalem conjures up powerful images of the celestial. Yet beneath its narrow alleys and holy places, the ancient city conceals a labyrinthine, three-dimensional time capsule recording five millennia of bustling prosperity, brutal war, and repeated religious innovation that altered the course of human history.
Since the days when Abraham Lincoln was in the White House, adventurers, archaeologists, and religious zealots have flocked here to hunt for buried treasure, unearth sacred artifacts like the Ark of the Covenant, and find proof of the Bible’s veracity. That digging to reveal the past continues today—and, in so doing, continues to alter the city’s future.
In this book he takes us into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City and brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape.
You can pre-order the book at the Seminary Coop Bookstore https://www.semcoop.com/under-jerusalem
