Ireland before the Saints and Scholars: Excavations at the Iron Age site of Dun Ailinne, Co. Kildare
2022-11-04 19:30 (America/New_York) | Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Roman/Byzantine Ruins at Gadara in Jordan
2022-11-05 13:00 (America/Chicago)
ZOOM lecture “Roman/Byzantine ruins at Gadara in Jordan” by Sufyan al-Karaimeh (University of Leiden – Netherlands) Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
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The Earliest Pottery in the World
2022-11-06 11:30 (America/New_York)
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Ilaria Patania, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis will present on “the Earliest Pottery in the World.”
Why was pottery invented? While for decades we assumed a connection between plant domestication, pottery use, and social hierarchy today we know that the earliest pottery in the world was found in cave sites in South China connected to a hunter and gatherer lifeway at ~20 -19 kya. This is the first example of a wider Eastern Asian hunter gatherer pottery making tradition. In this talk we will discuss the sites of the earliest pottery and explore cooking practices and social structure of the groups that first used pottery.
Join via Zoom by this link on November 6th, 2022 at 11:30 AM EST.
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Aramus: A dialogue between archaeology and comic art
2022-11-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Ottawa, Canada
Comic books meets Archaeology! The authors of “Aramus” will talk about the process of creating an archaeological comic book.

Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt
2022-11-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures, Room 126 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Brown University:
“Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt”
Sunday, November 6, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
Please note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
This lecture explores the cultural implications of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic sign, known as N41, used in an apparently random constellation of words related to women, water, and metals. Based on a re-examination of the sign’s contexts of appearance in The Pyramid Texts and other religious sources, it is determined that an ancient Egyptian cosmovision contemplated the sky as an iron container of water, pieces of which fell to the earth in the shape of meteors and were used to produce ritual objects. The fact that the N41 sign’s iconicity encapsulated such complex interconnectedness suggests that the relation between birth, afterlife, and iron existed even before the earliest religious texts in Egypt. The knowledge of the extraterrestrial provenance of iron was lost at some point in modern times when meteorites were classified along with fossils as “thunderstones” as late as the 18th century. However, the Egyptian knowledge, consistent with contemporary science, was most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that also connected iron and sky in texts. We will examine some examples of non-Egyptian iron-sky cultural parallels, particularly from the Ancient Near East, which can be explained as common analysis of natural observations, rather than knowledge transmission.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at Brown University in 2022. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and specializes in the use of language and hieroglyphs’ iconicity to understand oral knowledge and ideology in Old Kingdom Egypt. Since 2019 she is a member of the AERA archaeological project in Giza, and assistant director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition since 2021.
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Women in the Cults of Isis: Patrons, Symbols, and Pariahs
2022-11-07 17:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Richards Hall 15, 1410 Q Street, Lincoln, NE, 68588

Life at Berkou: a newly-discovered Roman fortress in Egypt
2022-11-07 19:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Alabama – Huntsville, Room TBA, 301 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35899

Rural Matters: Studying the Countrysides of Ancient Cyprus
2022-11-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven), New Haven, CT
Kershaw Lecture

The origin and initial dispersal of Sino-Tibetan populations in archaeology
2022-11-08 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Oregon Knight Library Browsing Room (106), 1501 Kincaid St, Eugene, OR, 97403
Matson Lecture

The Pot Detective in Cyprus
2022-11-10 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix)
Dr. Gloria London
Independent Scholar
Knud Jensen was a Danish rural police officer with dreams of becoming a Mediterranean archaeologist. To do so he joined the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus beginning in 1964. When not on village patrols, he recorded the immense old-fashioned wine fermentation jars littering rural roads. Following a centuries-old practice, itinerant craftsmen made the last jar in 1972. Equipped with superior social and detective skills, he traced pots back to their makers, including a family of jar makers active from 1850 to 1913. Jensen achieved much, but did not live to publish his research, which Dr. London has done with help from his family and the descendants of jar makers.
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Fixing the Date: The AD 79 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
2022-11-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Lecture by Dr. Pedar Foss, Depauw University
DC Society Annual Davidson Lecture; hosted by George Washington University

Pour One out for Me: Libations in Roman Funerary Commemoration
2022-11-12 10:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton, Science Center Auditorium, 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH, 45469
Lecturer: Liana Brent, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Kenyon College

Virtual Symposium: Color in Ancient Tennessee
2022-11-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join us for a free virtual talk on Tuesday, November 15, at 12 PM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
Dr. Kevin Smith, archaeologist and professor at Middle Tennessee State University, will share his archaeological work to understand the pigments and colors used by Native Americans right here in ancient Tennessee.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Kevin Smith is an archaeologist and professor at Middle Tennessee State University. His research interests include the Late prehistoric Mississippian cultures of the Midwest and Southeast United States, Mississippian art and iconography, the history and development of Southeastern archaeology, frontier period archaeology (1760-1820), archaeology of African-American lifeways (1783-Reconstruction), and Native Americans in popular culture. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS:
Archaeological Institute of America- Nashville Society
Centennial Park Conservancy
Vanderbilt University
Metro Nashville Parks and Recreation

Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
2022-11-15 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2022-11-16 19:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

Blood Antiquities -- Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, & the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
2022-11-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Tess Davis (Antiquities Coalition)
Come join us for a watch party of a live-streamed lecture by lawyer and archaeologist, Tess Davis. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.

Dr. Steve Warren
2022-11-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Iowa campus (exact location TBA), Iowa City, IA, United States
Dr. Steve Warren (University of Iowa) will discuss his recent research on community-engaged research and collaborations between the three federally-recognized Shawnee tribes and state archaeologists and historians to protect Hopewell mound complexes in Ohio.

NAGPRA and the Challenge of Tribal Sovereignty in Removal States
2022-11-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | 116 Art Building West (ABW), 141 N Riverside Dr, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States
Even before 1990, and the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Native nations forcibly removed from their Midwestern homelands have worked to protect their ancestors’ right to eternal rest. NAGPRA has been a powerful tool in this centuries-long struggle. The results have been mixed. Thanks, in part, to lax state cemetery laws, unequal enforcement of NAGPRA laws, and nearly two hundred years of Indigenous erasure, Midwestern states typically lag behind their Western counterparts. In Ohio and Indiana, both the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the three federally-recognized Shawnee tribes have worked tirelessly to reassert their sovereignty in their former homelands. The allyship of non-Native scholars and community leaders has been crucial to their success. Recent collaborations between tribal leaders and state archaeologists to protect the Newark Earthworks and Serpent Mound, respectively, point to a hopeful new chapter in the long relationship between states, scholars, and Native nations subjected to removal.

The Wild, Wild East: Combating the Black Market in Ancient Asian Art
2022-11-17 14:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Producing Domesticity: a bioarchaeology of domestic labor in Irish immigrants, 19th-century New York City
2022-11-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Education Center rm 118, College of Charleston, CHARLESTON, SC, 29424, United States
A lecture by Dr. Alanna Warner-Smith, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
The rise of industrial capitalism not only restructured labor and class, but also reconfigured the intimate spaces of the home and everyday life. As the workplace moved out of the home, the home was idealized as private and separate from the market. As part of this shift, the role of women came to be defined as moral guardians who created domestic spaces that promoted middle-class ideals of respectability, which included self-discipline, etiquette, cleanliness, and order. Historical archaeologists have examined the “cult of domesticity” by largely highlighting how women exercised agency as consumers, purchasing tablewares, tea sets, and decorative elements that reinforced these ideals and middle-class families’ social status. However, less attention has been paid to the physical labor required to produce these domestic spaces. Far from being separate from the market, the home was, in fact, a place of work. Middle- and upper-class families hired waged domestic servants to perform the physical housework, which took a toll on those who did it—many of whom were immigrant women.
In this talk, Dr. Warner-Smith draws upon the archival and physical remains of Irish immigrants who died in various public institutions and hospitals in New York City at the turn of the century. She highlights the ways this labor shaped the bones of these women, looking at the breakdown of joint surfaces, changes to muscle attachment sites, and long bone morphology. Recovering evidence of this labor is important because even as they completed the work necessary for middle-class families to achieve the ideals of domesticity, these women were alienated from notions of respectability and femininity. Moreover, occupational hazards in domestic labor continue to be less visible today, as private homes are not often considered to be workplaces. This talk sheds light on past immigrant experiences while connecting them to contemporary issues in labor rights.

Dr. Leanne Bablitz: "Where have all the courtrooms gone?: Are they hiding in plain sight?"
2022-11-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
In many western cultures legal activities are accommodated within purpose-built structures, most commonly, the courthouse. While within Roman culture some building types were linked with specific activities, the assignation of a specific structure type for legal activities only, such as preliminary hearings, arbitrations, and trials, did not occur. Using ancient evidence (literary texts, artistic representations, material remains) and virtual reality 3D modeling, we will explore the locations at which the inhabitants of Roman communities sought resolution to their disputes. Through such examination, a new appreciation of what is, and is not yet, known about the Roman legal system emerges.
Dr. Leanne Bablitz, University of British Columbia.

All the Games in the World
2022-11-20 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago)
Irving Finkel is back, talking about ancient games!
In the 16th century CE, the most remarkable document was composed in the form of a hymn to the goddess Ishtar. This composition lists all the games of every type played by boys and girls. In the following centuries, other lists of games were made and by comparing, startling discoveries ensue.
Don’t miss the chance to hear the person who discovered the rules for the Game of Ur in a live YouTube event!
Drawing at the end of the event for a signed copy of the Royal Game of Ur!

The late Roman estate of Philippianus: recent excavations at Gerace near Enna (Sicily)
2022-11-22 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Gerace is a Roman estate centre in the heart of Sicily which the speaker has been excavating since 2013. A substantial estate granary, built c. 300 CE but violently destroyed, probably by earthquake, was succeeded by a compact Roman villa in the late fourth century, which had been equipped with some mosaic pavements but appears unfinished. Ubiquitous tile-stamps recording the name of Philippianus indicate the identity of the estate owner at that time. Further up the hill a substantial freestanding bath-house, built perhaps c. 380 CE, was decorated with polychrome marble on the walls and geometric mosaics on the floors; but this structure was systematically stripped of its building materials (and the floors smashed) when the baths were decommissioned in the fifth century – an interesting example of Roman recycling. The one room with an intact floor was the cold room, which had a unique mosaic design, and an inscription around all four sides, uniquely so in the Roman Empire. Among other things it gives us the property’s name – the praedia Philippianorum, ‘the estate of the Philippiani’. The bath-house was badly damaged in a further earthquake in the second half of the fifth century, and after a brief attempt to repair it the building was abandoned and filled in; the backfill contained many interesting finds, including a series of chamber pots. The number of horse bones found at the site is greater than at any Roman site in the Mediterranean: so could there have been a stud farm at Gerace, raising ponies for the circuses of the Roman world?

New Technologies and Architectural Insights at the First Doric Temple in Sicily
2022-11-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
In this talk, Dr. Phil Sapirstein presents his findings from a recent digital and architectural restudy of the temple of Apollo at Syracuse. Built in ca. 590 BCE, it was the first major Greek temple to be built entirely from stone, and thus it is fundamental to our understanding of the origins of Doric architecture. In addition to its architectural significance, the building has a monumental inscription (IG XIV 1) carved into its eastern steps, which should be intimately connected to the dedication of the temple, and yet whose reading has been controversial since its discovery in 1864 up to the present day. During fieldwork at the site in 2018, Dr. Sapirstein created a 3D model enhanced using new computational methods which makes clear that the accepted readings of the inscription are inaccurate in several key areas. The changes support a new interpretation of this enigmatic inscription as a celebration of an ancient technological breakthrough, one that made it possible to erect the gigantic columns in the temple’s peristyle.

Chasing Venus in Pompeii
2022-12-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, 65201, United States
Join us in person for our last lecture of 2022, co-sponsored by the University of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Art and Archaeology! The lecture will be presented by Dr. Marcello Mogetta (Associate Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia). A reception (open to the public) will be held in Swallow Hall at 5 pm, with the lecture beginning at 5:30 pm.
The abstract is below:
he dating of the temple complex dedicated to Venus Pompeiana, the tutelary deity of the Roman colony of Pompeii, has been the subject of considerable debate in recent years, with important implications for the overall interpretation of the monument and of its historical and cultural significance. Previous studies have variously assigned the full-fledged monumentalization of the sacred site to the late Samnite era, the early colonial phase, or the Caesarian period. While past excavations have revealed that the area was first settled much earlier, the controversy about the nature of the original site and the creation of the first temple presents radically different views of the coming of the Romans to Pompeii. Was the sanctuary an ancient place of pride for a local goddess that is honored even when the Romans take over—a not uncommon occurrence – or is it a case of a Roman goddess being imposed on the local population to make a statement about conquest? Five consecutive seasons of fieldwork and study by the Venus Pompeiana Project, a collaborative initiative launched in 2017 by the University of Missouri and Mount Allison University under the auspices of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, have now produced a critical mass of data that prompts a recasting of the building history of the monument and its broader topography. Diagnostic finds from the construction levels of the temple podium, open court, and east portico place the erection of the monumental sanctuary only in the Augustan period, which is considerably later than normally assumed. The discovery revolutionizes our understanding of the socio-political context behind the dedication. Taking advantage of the role that the goddess already played, at least nominally, for the Colonia Veneria, the Pompeians could actively participate in the imperial propaganda and create a special connection with the center of power.

Harald Ingholt Lecture: Doorways to the Past at Balu’a -- An Iron Age Moabite City in Jordan
2022-12-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Monique Roddy (Walla Walla University)
Professor Roddy specializes in the archaeology of households and everyday life in the southern Levant, particularly during the Iron Age (12th-6th centuries BCE). She currently co-directs the Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project excavations at Khirbat al-Balu’a in Jordan. Recent projects include co-editing the final publication series of the Madaba Plains Project.

Great Lecture: Becoming an UNESCO World Heritage Site
2022-12-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
During the last 35 years Dr. C Brian Rose has had the good fortune to direct or co-direct excavations at two legendary sites in Turkey–-Troy and Gordion. Troy was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site List in 1998; Gordion is being considered by UNESCO for World Heritage Status this year. Dr. Rose was involved in steering both sites through the UNESCO process. In this lecture, Dr. Rose will present the problems and unexpected detours we encountered, including a discussion of the extent to which regional, national, and global developments shaped the process.
Speakers: C. Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Immediate Past President, Archaeological Institute of America; Trustee, American Academy in Rome

Time Team Adventures and Community Archaeology
2022-12-10 13:00 (America/Chicago)
ZOOM lecture: “Time Team Adventures and Community Archaeology” by Dr. Alexandra Jones ( Assistant Professor of Practice in History and Anthropology at Goucher College). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
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A Gateway into the Desert: History, Exploration, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat
2022-12-11 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE-NC Lectures, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Aleksandra Ksiezak, University of Toronto, CSU San Bernardino:
“A Gateway into the Desert: History, Exploration, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat”
Sunday, December 11, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
No Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
Once a distributary of the Nile, Wadi Tumilat is a dry river valley in the Eastern Nile Delta. In antiquity, the wadi was a major communication artery for trade between Egypt and her neighbours to the east, and its importance was recognized by many great strategic minds of their day. Across Wadi Tumilat are numerous archaeological sites, dating from the 3rd millennium BCE to the Late Roman Period. Accompanying them was a navigable canal—an impressive waterway that not only provided the arid valley with water but allowed transportation of goods and people in and out of Egypt. While the ancient canal and its surrounding ruins were a source of fascination for ancient geographers, and historians, and were recorded in their writings, it took centuries for these antiquities to re-emerge in the letters, reports, and memoirs of early European travellers to Egypt.
This lecture aims to summarize the history of the discovery of Wadi Tumilat and our understanding of its place in Egyptian archaeology.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Aleksandra Ksiezak is a field archaeologist, Egyptologist, and ceramicist specializing in macro-and microscopic analyses of Egyptian and Nubian pottery. She obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Toronto (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) where she focused on the analysis of the ceramic material from the Second Intermediate Period Hyksos settlement at Tell el-Maskhuta excavated by the Wadi Tumilat Project (WTP) during the late 1970s/early 80s. She is currently involved in research on the identification and study of the Middle Bronze Age trade routes involving Wadi Tumilat through the identification of imported objects and their local imitations identified at Tell el-Maskhuta and the neighbouring sites. Both her past and present research deal with the broader question of migration and mobility in Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Levant during the Bronze Age. She currently holds the position of W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence at California State University, San Bernardino.
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Great Lecture: World Heritage in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind
2023-01-11 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind has long been a hotbed of discovery for human ancestor fossils. Just 45 minutes north of Johannesburg, this protected region must balance multiple interests in research, development, and human rights. This talk will discuss on-going research and the efforts to continue to educate and engage the public, while emphasizing the need for continued protection.
Speaker: George Leader, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Consulting Scholar, Mutter Research Institute, College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Honorary Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
