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Prehispanic Turkey Domestication, Husbandry, and Management

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, United States

"Prehispanic Turkey Domestication, Husbandry, and Management in the North American Southwest" Presented by Dr. Cyler Conrad Turkeys played a significant role in prehispanic Ancestral Puebloan life in the North American Southwest. Used for a variety of socio-economic purposes, including for feathers, meat, eggs, creation of bone tools and as an iconographic figure, turkey remains appear […]

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

San Diego State University, West Commons 220 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA, United States

For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a complex international world in which Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots, and Egyptians all interacted, creating a cosmopolitan and globalized world-system such as has only rarely been seen before the […]

Wēh-Ardašīr and the Ruins of Qasr bint al-Qadi

John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN, United States

Johnathan Hardy, “Wēh-Ardašīr and the Ruins of Qasr bint al-Qadi: Christian Architectural Adaptation in the Sasanian Heartland,” in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul MN 55105 Using previously unpublished site plans and field notes from the 1929/1930 German Oriental Society […]

Agricultural Adaptations in Light of Socioeconomic Changes in New Mexico

CU Museum of Natural History Broadway, Boulder, CO, United States

This lecture will discuss how Pueblo people dealt with the Spanish introduction of wheat and livestock into the agricultural economy of early colonial New Mexico. Davis will share the results of research conducted on the agricultural areas around four pueblo sites. Analyzing the changes in the location, type, size, and density of the agricultural features, […]

Ancient Knits KAL

Whitman College, Baker Center 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA, United States

Workshop fundraiser led by Ashley Morton and Monique Vincent. $30 for non-members, $20 for members, $15 for students, plus materials; proceeds will go to the new AIA-Walla Walla student scholarship fund.

Finding Imhotep: The Coffins of a Ptolemaic Priest

UPenn Museum 3260 South St, Philadelphia, United States

The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two early Ptolemaic funerary papyri belonging to a Priest of Horus named Imhotep. A wooden coffin belonging to the same individual was known to have been excavated in 1913 at Meir by Ahmed Kamal, but its whereabouts were unknown. While researching the papyri, Dr. Kamrin discovered that this coffin, […]

A Tale of Two Crocodiles: Object Lessons from the Fayyum

ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 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. Emily Cole, University of California, Berkeley A Tale of Two Crocodiles: Object Lessons from the Fayyum Sunday, December 08, 2019, 3 pm Room 126 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley […]

Timely Remedies: The Ancient Medicine of Otzi the Iceman

Shouvlin Center, Room 105, Wittenberg University 737 N. Fountain Avenue, Springfield, OH, United States

Coffee reception at 6:45 PM Optional cash wine bar at 5:30 PM and dinner at 6:00 PM, for reservations contact Mark Holder at info@springfieldarchaeology.org (or text him at 937-232-1613, or call Tracy Gregory-Brown at 937-390-2354)

Basketry from the Ozette Village Archaeological Site By Dale R. Croes

Mountaineers Seattle Program Center 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, United States

Over three centuries ago a large mudslide covered a section of the Makah village of Ozette. In a waterlogged condition, thousands of wood and fiber artifacts were preserved. Working in equal partnership with the Makah Indian Nation, Washington State University (WSU) archaeologists excavated a section of this site; I was the WSU graduate student who […]