The Art of Wine Flinging: Kylix and Kottabos at the Greek Symposium
2022-03-31 16:30 (America/New_York) | University of Pittsburgh, Room TBA, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, United States
Boegehold Lecture

Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes (Virtual Lecture)
2022-03-31 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Antonio J. Morales, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, University of Alcalá; Real Colegio Complutense Visiting Fellow 2022, Harvard University; Director, The Middle Kingdom Theban Project
One of ancient Egypt’s high points of cultural, intellectual, and social life was the period referred to as the Middle Kingdom (2030–1650 BCE). The ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) was the Egyptian capital during the early stage of this period and the site of multiple funerary temples and tombs. In this lecture, Egyptologist Antonio Morales will discuss an international and multidisciplinary project that is conducting archaeological, historical, and cultural research, as well as conservation work, in Deir el-Bahari and Asasif—two funerary areas at Thebes—to better understand the city’s role in the development of Egypt’s classical age.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Antiochia ad Cragnum in Rough Cilicia: Pirates, Romans, and More Pirates
2022-03-31 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix)
Dr. Michael Hoff
Professor of Art History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Roman-era city of Antiochia ad Cragum lies on the south coast of Turkey in the region of ancient Rough Cilicia. Prior to the city’s foundation the site served as one of the major bases of the infamous Cilician Pirates who preyed on shipping along the coastal waterways of the Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic period. Following the resolution of the pirate threat in the first century BCE, the city was founded and eponymously named by Antiochus IV of Commagene. Since 2005 the city has been undergoing excavation which during the last 16 years has brought to light much of the urban fabric of a Roman city: Temples, Baths, Aqueducts, Colonnades. This lecture presents the highlights of the discoveries made over the years, particularly the many well-preserved mosaics.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.

Ramesside Royal Women’s Tombs, the Book of the Dead, and the Deir el-Medina Iconographic Tradition
2022-03-31 19:00 (America/New_York)

New Archaeological Discoveries in England
2022-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
First hand description by Katherine Neustadt, Senior Heritage Consultant at Atkins. about several exciting new archaeological projects in England.

TO BE RESCHEDULED: Exploring Fragments: Digital Approaches to the Study of Athenian Vase Painting
2022-04-04 17:30 (America/Chicago)
This lecture is to be rescheduled from April 4th to a different date. The new date/time will be posted online when available.

Noble Lecture

Protecting Cultural Property During Wartime
2022-04-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | on Zoom – pre-register via our partner org here: https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/areas-of-study/art-history/, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
Monday, April 4, 2022 at 6pm CT on Zoom: Brian I. Daniels on “Protecting Cultural Property During Wartime”

Block by Block: Piecing Together Athenian Democracy
2022-04-05 17:00 (America/New_York)
Solow Lecture

Currents and Commodities: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands
2022-04-05 19:00 (America/New_York)
Van Tilburg Lecture

The Archaeology of Cheese: Cattle, Strainers, Chemistry, and Genes
2022-04-06 18:00 (America/New_York)

Block by Block: Piecing Together Athenian Democracy
2022-04-06 18:00 (America/New_York)
Scranton Lecture

A Feminist History of Ancient Medicine
2022-04-06 18:00 (America/New_York) | Assumption University Curtis Performance Hall of the Tsotsis Family Academic Building (TFAC 120), 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609, United States
Kershaw Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Human Arts Series and the Programs of History, Women’s Studies, and Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Assumption University
Please note Assumption University’s current policy for guests as of January 2022, which states “Guests may visit campus if they can demonstrate proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test within 72 hours of arrival. There is no need to preregister to visit campus.”

Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins (Virtual Lecture)
2022-04-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sonia F. Harmand, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University; Director, Mission Préhistorique au Kenya/West Turkana Archaeological Project
Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo, 2.4–2.3 million years ago, and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands. In the last decade, fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has revealed evidence of much earlier technological behavior. Sonia Harmand will discuss the discovery of stone tools in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in Kenya known as Lomekwi 3. She will show how this discovery is reshaping our understanding of the emergence of human-like manipulative capabilities, as well as the development of cognition in early hominins—the group consisting of modern humans and all our immediate ancestors.
Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Roman Baths Here, There, and Everywhere
2022-04-06 19:00 (America/New_York)

Pompeii's Sculptures in Context: Collecting, Display and Reuse in a Roman Town
2022-04-06 19:30 (America/New_York) | Leggett 537, Randolph College, 2500 Rivermont Ave., Lynchburg, 24503

Lynchburg lecture
2022-04-06 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Leggett 537, Randolph College, 2500 Rivermont Ave., Lynchburg, VA, 24503-1555, United States
Pompeii’s Sculptures in Context: Collecting, Display and Reuse in a Roman Town

Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects in Pompeii
2022-04-07 17:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Missouri – Columbia, 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. 9th Street, Columbia, MO, 65211, United States
5:00 PM reception, LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2022-04-07 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Tsakirgis Lecture

Manifest: Thirteen Colonies (Free Virtual Lecture)
2022-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies, Stockton University; 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
In conversation with Brenda Tindal, Executive Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums,and archives of the original thirteen English colonies. Conceived by photographer Wendel White, this project is a personal, selective reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public and private collections. In this program, White will discuss his approach to finding, selecting, and photographing artifacts—from rare singular objects, to more quotidian materials—and highlight their significance as forensic evidence of Black life and history in the United States. A conversation with public historian Brenda Tindal will follow.
This program is supported by the Robert Gardner Fellowship Fund
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.

A Tale of Two Wells: Birth, Death, and Midwives in ancient Greece
2022-04-07 18:30 (America/New_York)
Matson Lecture

Race, America, and Ancient Greece
2022-04-07 19:00 (America/New_York)
Renner Lecture

Ancestors, Warriors, Looters: Aidonia and the TAPHOS project
2022-04-07 19:00 (America/Chicago) | SMU, Dedham Life Sciences, Room 131, 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, 75205
Mellink Lecture

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2022-04-07 19:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
Joukowsky Lecture

The Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain’s Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland
2022-04-08 15:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Albany), Albany, NY, United States

A History of Violence: Understanding the Slave Trade in Ancient Greece
2022-04-08 17:00 (America/New_York)
Renner Lecture
Join via Zoom at the link below. The password, if prompted, is “baltimore”.

Why We Repatriate: On the Long Arc Towards Justice at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2022-04-10 14:00 (America/New_York)
Bernard Lecture

Providing for the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt and Early China
2022-04-10 15:00 (America/New_York)
English Lecture

Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery
2022-04-10 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. Meredith Brand, California State University, San Bernardino:
“Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery”
Sunday, April 10, 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. Non-members, please send any registration requests no later than Friday, April 8. The number of registrations is limited, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
Ritual in ancient Egypt required vast amounts of goods. For instance, Ramesses III’s Great Harris Papyrus lists donations of millions of material items, food, drink, and even flowers to Egypt’s temples. At Medinet Habu temple alone Ramesses III offered more than 80,000 beer jars per year to the cult. Indeed the abundant material culture excavated at temple sites supports the idea that ancient Egyptian ritual needed lots of things. This is particularly clear at Abydos, the main cult site of the god of the underworld Osiris, where the landscape is covered with pottery and other goods related to temple and cultic ritual. The number of artifacts can be quite staggering – the French archaeologist Amélineau estimated over 20 million pots were deposited at Umm el-Qa’ab, the focal point of an annual festival for Osiris. More recently, University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone project excavated over 100,000 pieces of pottery from a few squares near the Osiris Temple Enclosure.
The sheer quantities of material culture used for private and temple ritual at Abydos raises many questions about who produced these goods, how they organized such a scale of production, and the relationships between craft workers and state institutions. It is important to examine such questions as they provide insight into an often ignored aspect of ritual – the potters, brewers, bakers, weavers, florists, etc. whose work was vital for ritual practices in ancient Egypt. This talk examines the social and economic context of craft production for ritual with a case study on the production of pottery at Abydos for cultic use in the popular festival of Osiris at Umm el-Qa’ab and a chapel of Thutmose III in the North Abydos Votive Zone. The conclusions of this talk suggest how craft workers made their living and provide insight into both how temples functioned economically and how people got the material goods they needed for private cult.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Meredith Brand obtained her PhD from the Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Department at the University of Toronto with her dissertation The Socio-Economic Organization of Votive Pottery Production at Abydos, Egypt in the New Kingdom: A Metric Analysis Study. She is currently the W. Benson Harrer Egyptology Scholar and Residence at California State University San Bernardino and an instructor in the Rhetoric and Composition Department at the American University in Cairo. Dr. Brand’s research focuses on pottery analysis, material culture, archaeological science, and the social history and economy of ancient Egypt. She is a co-Director and the ceramicist of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition that surveys and excavates mines and mining settlements in the Eastern Desert. She has been the ceramicist at University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone Project and the assistant ceramicist at other sites in Egypt, and has conducted mineralogical analysis of pottery from sites in Egypt and Sudan.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://arce-nc.org/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

NH SCRAP Discoveries — Summer of 2021 - NH Archeology Month
2022-04-12 07:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
This presentation will summarize recent archaeological work at Pillsbury and Bear Brook State Parks as well as detailed plans for upcoming investigations. Further discussion will focus on the value of converting archeological data into interpretive programming to further enhance the public’s knowledge of, interest in, and appreciation for, New Hampshire’s archeology. REGISTER: bit.ly/22signupNHAS

Watching the Hours of the Night: Astronomical Timekeeping in Ancient Egypt
2022-04-12 18:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Tampa 2), Tampa, FL, United States
Webster Lecture
