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
Matson Lecture

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

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

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

Religious Ritual on board the Greco-Roman Ship
2021-11-11 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Richmond 1), Richmond, VA

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2021-11-11 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Portland 1), Portland, OR

Archaeology to the Rescue: Recent Work at the Mycenaean Cemetery of Aidonia
2021-11-12 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Dr. Lynne Kvapil (Butler University) will speak on “Archaeology to the Rescue: Recent Work at the Mycenaean Cemetery of Aidonia.”

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Tracing the Origins of Art in Africa
2021-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Zoom lecture by Dr. Michael Chazan (University of Toronto)
Joukowsky Lecture

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Sardis: Recent Discoveries from the Bronze Age until the End of Antiquity
2021-11-14 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago)
Dr. Nicholas A. Cahill, UW-Madison
The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis expedition has
carried out large-scale, scientific excavations at the site in western Turkey since 1958. Over these 5+ decades, archaeologists have documented the emergence and development of Sardis, the capitol of the Lydian Empire of the 6th and 7th centuries BCE, and one of the great cities of the ancient world. Utilizing spectacular aerial imagery, Dr. Cahill, Director of the Sardis Expedition since 2008, will discuss the geography, history, and challenges of excavating such a large
and complex site and will provide a backdrop for understanding recent discoveries and research. The speaker will address current archaeological questions including: Who were the Lydians? What does the early development of the city look like? What cultural transformations are evident when the native capitol becomes a Greek polis? What can the collapse of Sardis tell us about the “End of Antiquity” in the 7th c AD? On-going site conservation efforts will also be featured.

Female Benefactors in the Roman Empire (Dr. Rachel Meyers)
2021-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Florence, Florence, - None -, 9121, India
The Iowa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents: “Female Benefactors in the Roman Empire” by Dr. Rachel Meyers (Iowa State University)
Evidence for the Roman practice of public generosity comes from ancient texts, inscriptions, and archaeological remains. This philanthropic activity, including endowments, bequests, construction projects, and entertainment, was a common way for the wealthy to show off their resources, promote their family’s standing, and position themselves for public office. Until recently, however, most female benefactors were pushed to the margins of scholarly inquiry or omitted entirely. While Roman women could not hold civic offices or military commands, they could acquire substantial wealth and engage in public life through priesthoods and public benefaction. This presentation features a large corpus of inscriptions from the Roman West that gives evidence for the numerous ways in which women used their financial resources for civic munificence. The data reveal geographical and chronological differences that help us gain a new understanding of women’s autonomy in the Roman Empire.
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Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today
2021-11-16 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Christy and Jim Pritchard, “Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today”
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE VACCINATED PUBLIC
MASKS ARE REQUIRED FOR ALL ATTENDEES
About the lecture:
Christy and Jim Pritchard have been leading cultural resources efforts across the US over the past 25+ years. They will discuss the legislative and operational framework for CRM today. The presentation will highlight collaborations between academic and consultant archaeologists and will discuss the many beneficial preservation impacts, both educational and social, of consulting archaeology in the US. Christy and Jim will present important projects and provide insights from the front line of American historic preservation.
About the speakers:
Christy Pritchard, RPA, is Operations Manager / Cultural Heritage Project Manager at Environmental Research Group, LLC. She earned her M.A.Sc.in Cultural Heritage Management with emphasis in Archaeology and Heritage Interpretation from the University of Canberra, Australia. She led the business and field operations for both federal and state contracts of the Kentucky offices for a southeastern cultural resources firm. When she joined Environmental Research Group, LLC, in 2015, she co-developed the cultural resources practice of ERG and now manages both cultural and environmental compliance services and training to agencies including Department of Defense (DoD), Multiple Districts of the United States Corps of Engineers (USACE), Veterans Affairs (VA), Army National Guard, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Jim Pritchard, RPA, is Operations Manager at Environmental Research Group, LLC. He earned his M.A.Sc. in Cultural Heritage Management with an emphasis in Archaeology from the University of Canberra, Australia. In 2007, he became a Vice President with one of the larger cultural resources firms in the Southeast and opened its Kentucky offices. Jim undertook strategic marketing for the firm and expanded its geographic and workload coverage across the Upland South, Ohio Valley, and Great Lakes region. Jim focused on the ongoing archaeological research and Section 106 compliance at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he oversaw the investigation of tens of thousands of acres and the recording of hundreds of archaeological sites. Jim came to ERG in 2015 to build the cultural resources program nationwide.

Useful Objects: Nineteenth-Century Museums and American Culture (Free Virtual Event)
2021-11-17 16:30 - 17:45 (America/New_York)
Reed Gochberg, Assistant Director of Studies; Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
In conversation with:
Brenda Tindal, Executive Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
What can the history of museums tell us about their role in American culture today? What kinds of objects were considered worth collecting, and who decided their value? Join Reed Gochberg, author of Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, September 2021) to learn about the early history of American museums, including Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. In conversation with HMSC Executive Director Brenda Tindal, she will examine how writers and visitors reflected on a wide range of nineteenth-century collections—and how their ideas continue to inform ongoing debates about the challenges and possibilities museums face today.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Monumental Power, Politics and Pride
2021-11-18 17:00 (America/Denver) | WEBINAR (Edmonton 1), Edmonton, AB

Reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto’s Musical Instruments (Free Virtual Lecture)
2021-11-18 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York)
Susanne Gänsicke, Senior Conservator and ​​Head of Antiquities Conservation, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Double reed pipes, known as auloi, were popular musical instruments in the ancient Mediterranean. In 1921, archaeologists exploring the necropolis of Meroë (northern Sudan)—as part of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition—found a large collection of auloi in the pyramid of Nubian Queen Amanishakheto. Susanne Gänsicke will discuss the discovery’s importance and what it reveals about the connections between Nubia and the Mediterranean world as well as the significance of far-reaching musical traditions. She will also share recent efforts to conserve and reconstruct these ancient musical instruments.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Pompeii on the Potomac
2021-11-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Constantino Brumidi’s Roman-Style Wall Paintings for the US Capitol
Dr. Elise Friedland (George Washington University, D.C.)
The US Capitol—America’s central federal building—echoes ancient Greece and Rome, not only in its architecture and architectural sculpture, but even in its decorative murals. This talk presents new research on the 1858 fresco cycle in the Senate wing’s Naval Affairs Committee meeting room, painted by Constantino Brumidi, the Italian-born artist, turned American citizen, who is most famous for his Apotheosis of George Washington in the Rotunda. Art historical and archival evidence demonstrate how Brumidi adapted Graeco-Roman motifs from a nineteenth-century publication of newly-discovered Pompeian frescoes to proclaim US naval power in the young nation’s main hall of government.

Çatalhöyük: The Bioarchaeology of an Early Farming Society in Transition (Clark Spencer Larsen)
2021-11-18 19:00 (America/New_York)
The Neolithic is a period of fundamental changes in living circumstances, much of which is tied to the shift from a lifeway based exclusively on hunting, gathering, and collecting wild plants and animals to one where domesticated plant and animals form a significant portion of the diet. For Western Asia, the human remains of early farmers recovered from Çatalhöyük (7100-5950 BC) in south-central Turkey provide a highly contextualized setting for addressing key issues relating to living circumstances, conditions in a proto-urban setting, and the context in general for much of the world we live in today.
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“Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth”
2021-11-18 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Monmouth College, IL, 61462, United States
Sienkewicz Lecture on Roman Archaeology
Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (magness@email.unc.edu)
In the first century B.C.E., Herod the Great, who ruled Judea as client king on behalf of Rome, built a fortified palace atop the mountain of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea. Seventy years after Herod’s death, the First Jewish Revolt against Rome broke out and Jewish rebels occupied Masada. According to the ancient historian Flavius Josephus, at the end of the revolt the Romans besieged the mountain and the Jewish rebels committed mass suicide. In this slide-illustrated lecture, we survey the history and archaeology of Masada, including the results of excavations in the Roman siege works which Magness co-directed in 1995. We conclude by considering the current debates surrounding Josephus’s mass suicide story.
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 7:30 pm, Pattee Auditorium, Room 100 Center for Science and Business (CSB), Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL 6142
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Ancient Roads of the Chaco World: Monumentality, Religion, and Power
2021-12-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
In this talk, Rob Weiner will discuss his recent fieldwork throughout the Chaco World, which combines LiDAR, drone aerial photography, and on-the-ground documentation to investigate the history, use, and meaning of monumental roads in Chacoan society. He will focus on new insights regarding the destinations of roads and ritual practices carried out on them, with particular attention to their role in perpetuating inequality. Insights from collaboration with the Navajo Nation and comparative examples of ritual pathways from throughout the ancient world offer new understandings of the role of linear earthwork features in the ancient Southwest.

Uncovering the Place of Uni: Archeological Excavations at the Ancient Etruscan Site of Poggio Colla in Italy
2021-12-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Montreal 1), Montreal, QC
Cinelli Lecture

Society Sunday: Disability and Infanticide in Ancient Greece
2022-01-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Ring in the new year as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Debby Sneed.
This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. ASL interpretation will be provided by Trail Blazing Interpreters and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.
Join Debby Sneed and take a deeper look at life in ancient Greece with a focus on disability and infanticide. Despite the widely embraced notion that ancient Spartans killed infants born with any kind of physical impairment, there is little literary, archaeological, or bioarchaeological evidence for this being regularly practiced. Debby will discuss how the archaeological record gives us a glimpse of the experiences of disabled members of ancient Greek society.
After the presentation there will be a 20 minute Q&A period, so bring your questions!

Debby Sneed is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at California State University, Long Beach. She received her B.A. from the University of Wyoming, her M.A. from the University of Colorado, and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research interests are disability, identity, and marginalization in ancient Greece, and the archaeology of ancient Greece. Her article “The Architecture of Access: Ramps at Ancient Greek Healing Sanctuaries” (Antiquity 94, 2020) was awarded the 2021 Ben Cullen Prize by the journal Antiquity for outstanding work in archaeology. She has an article on disability and infanticide published with Hesperia (90, 2021) and is currently working on her monograph, entitled Not Another Other: Physical Disability, Ableism, and Disablism in Ancient Greece.

Community Archaeology at Amache, Colorado’s Japanese American Confinement Camp
2022-01-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver)
Prof. Bonnie. J. Clark (University of Denver, Department of Anthropology)
The forced removal and subsequent incarceration of over 120,000 people of American of Japanese descent during World War II is a pivotal incident in world history. The sites of this confinement are significant resources for both research about and re-engagement with this critical, yet shadowed experience. Since 2008, Dr. Bonnie Clark has led collaborative archaeological investigations at the site of Amache, Colorado’s War Relocation Authority confinement facility. In this talk Clark will discuss the ongoing project, highlighting insights about the camp’s cultural landscape and the strategies of a confined people to reknit community and reclaim humanity.
Bio
Bonnie Clark is a Professor in the University of Denver’s Anthropology Department. A professional archaeologist since 1990, Dr. Clark’s work has focused on using the tangible past– artifacts, architecture, settlement patterns–to tell a more inclusive history of western North America. Dr. Clark’s research interests include the relationships between material culture, ethnicity, and gender; cultural landscapes; community-engaged research; and heritage management. She teaches a range of classes for the anthropology department including Historical Archaeology, Cultural Narratives, and Anthropologies of Place. Dr. Clark serves as the Curator for Archaeology of the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. In the Fall of 2011, Dr. Clark was awarded the University of Denver’s Teacher/Scholar of the Year.

Archaeology Abridged with Dr. Kate Liszka "Operation Amethyst: How Egyptian Kings and Queens got their Bling 4,000 years ago"
2022-01-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Florence, Florence, - None -, 9121, India
Some of the most stunning jewelry from Ancient Egypt is made of amethyst. Its craftsmanship, opulence, and design epitomize quality in the ancient world. Yet the skill in making this jewelry started long before the cutting and buffing of the raw stone. Procuring amethyst in the Eastern Desert is fraught with many more perils and problems than Nile Valley craftsmen experienced. As the Director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert, Liszka leads a team that has studied the remains of these ancient desert expeditions and a team who has firsthand experience of many of the perils that the ancient explorers would have fought as well. This talk examines the extremes and dangers that thousands of Ancient Egyptians went to in order to acquire these beautiful purple stones for the Pharaoh’s jewels. By investigating the archaeology, art, and inscriptions from Wadi el-Hudi in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, we navigate through the whole process of amethyst acquisition: from finding, to mining, and surviving in the dangers of the desert.
This lecture will also be available in American Sign Language. ASL interpretation will be provided by Trail Blazing Interpreters. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.
Dr. Kate Liszka is the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and Associate Professor of History at California State University San Bernardino. She earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and from 2012 to 2015 was a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Princeton University. Her areas of specialization include Nubians in Egypt, the Medjay, ethnicity and identity in Antiquity, multicultural Interactions in frontier regions, the Pangrave Archaeological Culture, and large-scale mining expeditions in Antiquity. Dr. Liszka is the Director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in the Egyptian Eastern Desert.

The Maritime Maya and the Proyecto Costa Escondida
2022-01-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | Building 51 (Social Sciences), University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, United States

Sensing the Past: Sensory Experiences in Ancient Mesopotamia (a 4-D Presentation)
2022-01-30 11:00 (America/New_York)
Manton Lecture

The Scent of Status: Prestige and Perfume at the Bronze Age Palace at Pylos, Greece
2022-02-01 18:00 (America/New_York) | University of South Florida Tampa Campus, CPR 115 (Cooper Hall), Cooper Hall, Tampa, 33620
Howland Lecture

The Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos
2022-02-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Roselyn A. Campbell, Getty Research Institute:
The Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos
When: Sunday, February 6, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Zoom Lecture. 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. Attendance is limited, so non-members, please send any registration requests no later than Friday, February 4.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
The subsidiary burials surrounding the royal funerary complexes of the First Dynasty rulers at Abydos have piqued scholarly and public interest for well over a century. These subsidiary burials, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, contained the remains of men and women who seem to have been associated with the royal court. The quality of the grave goods within some of these graves, as well as statements by early excavators that most of the individuals interred were relatively young and seemed healthy, have sparked debate among scholars. Were the individuals in these subsidiary graves killed in a sacrificial ritual to accompany their deceased ruler into the afterlife, or were they simply interred around the royal burial as they died naturally over time? This talk will explore new data gathered from a study of the human remains that have been preserved from some of these subsidiary burials, shedding new light on the lives and deaths of these individuals at the birth of the Egyptian state.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Roselyn A. Campbell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. She is a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist, and has worked at archaeological sites throughout Egypt as well as in Peru, Ethiopia, Spain, and the western United States. Her research focuses on evidence for violence and trauma in the past, as well as the history of cancer in antiquity, and how these topics are relevant to the modern world.

Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Boats, the Oceans, and Archaeological Evidence for Precolumbian Voyages
2022-02-06 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago)
Until recently, the idea that people could have traversed large
expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered
pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate
as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open
the possibility that oceans were highways, not barriers, and
that earlier than the Spanish Age of Discovery, people
possessed the means and motives to traverse them.
In her talk, Kehoe draws from her 2016 book
Traveling Prehistoric Seas to explain the history of
seafaring boats and evidence for people crossing open
ocean from Middle Paleolithic (colonizing outer Indonesia
and Australia) through Polynesian explorations that
reached the Americas.

Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation
2022-02-07 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

POSTPONED to March Tallahassee Lecture 2 TBA
2022-02-08
Kershaw Lecture

The Lost City of Sikyon
2022-02-08 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
