Archaeological Institute of America

Scottish Isles & Norwegian Fjords
2022-05-26 | Louisiana
I invite you to join AIA lecturer and host Colleen Batey on this magnificent cruise from Norway to Scotland, visiting remote destinations forever linked by their Viking heritage. Embark (and unpack just once) the five-star Le Dumont-d’Urville with only 92 suites and staterooms, each with a private balcony, providing all the luxury and sophistication of a fine hotel.
Dr. Batey will be part of a team of onboard experts who together will offer a series of lectures and informal discussions. This specially-designed itinerary follows the stepping stones of Scottish and Nordic civilizations during the best time of year when the weather is mild and the days are long—a rare voyage accomplished only aboard a small ship cruising into smaller ports where larger vessels cannot venture.
Set out from charming Bergen, where rows of colorful, gabled houses on the historic Bryggen waterfront evoke the city’s past as a center of Hanseatic League trade. Cruise into the majestic Sognefjord, Norway’s longest and deepest fjord; and take one of the world’s most scenic train rides along Norway’s spectacular mountain landscape aboard the Flåm Railway. Continue onward for Scotland’s Orkney and the Shetland Islands, with their remarkable links to the distant past. Learn more about the islands’ fascinating Neolithic history from the guest lecturer and renowned archaeologist Nick Card, noted for his incredible commitment to research in the region. Marvel at the Neolithic standing stones of the Ring of Brodgar; the 5,000-year-old village of Skara Brae; and the settlement of Jarlshof, revealing layers of thousands of years of human history.
A pre-cruise extension in Norway and Copenhagen, and a post-cruise extension in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, are also available.

All the King’s Men: Officials’ Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes
2022-05-21 12:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Jacksonville 2), Jacksonville, FL, United States
Cohn Lecture

Wine jars and jar makers of Cyprus
2022-05-19 18:30 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Dr. Gloria London (Independent Scholar, Seattle WA)
Lecture in Memory of Dr. Sarah Keller
A Danish police officer, who volunteered for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, spent his spare time documenting traditional technologies, especially those related to pottery production, farming, and bread. Knud Jensen recorded over 60 pitharia, the immense jars for fermenting wine, produced for centuries until 1972. He correctly speculated that the names incised on unfired jar shoulders held information about the history of Cyprus. Detective Jensen’s police training successfully enabled him to trace century-old jars back to the people who made and them used. His findings, combined with more recent ethnoarchaeological research, provide practical templates to: 1) reconstruct the ancient ceramics industry; 2) assess the markings on archaeological pottery; and 3) explain the multiplicity of traditional and ancient regional terms for essential household items.

so so head
2022-05-19 18:00 - 2022-05-20 20:00 (America/New_York) | Louisiana

Springtime in Provence
2022-05-18 | Louisiana
Burgundy • Beaujolais: Cruising the Rhone and Saône Rivers
Join Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and congenial host Michael Hoff, a classical archaeologist who specializes in Roman architecture, for this exclusive, nine-day spring sojourn through Provence and the wine regions of Burgundy and Beaujolais. May is a wonderful time to visit when the region’s famous flora radiates throughout the timeless French countryside.
Cruise for seven nights, round trip from historical Lyon, along the fabled Rhône and Saône Rivers aboard the deluxe, exclusively-chartered Amadeus Provence. Dock in the heart of each port town and visit six UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the medieval papal palace of Avignon; the wonderfully preserved Roman amphitheater in Arles; the Roman theater in Orange; and the Pont du Gard aqueduct, a true masterpiece of ancient Roman architecture.
Daily excursions include tours of châteaux, vineyards, old towns, wine tastings, a world-class piano concert, and more. Aboard your deluxe riverboat, enjoy a series of onboard lectures by Professor Hoff and other experts.
This is the quintessential Provençal experience and an excellent value featuring a comprehensive itinerary through southeastern France in full bloom. We encourage you to book now while “welcome back” savings are still available.

Daily Lives in an Age of Empires: Local Economic Life during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE, Turkey)
2022-05-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | CA, United States
The Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE) in the Eastern Mediterranean stands out in the history of the ancient world as a time of political and economic consolidation, with multiple great powers – Mycenae, Babylonia, Egypt, the Hittites – exerting their military power in the region and engaging in an unprecedented degree of international trade and diplomacy. The archaeological and historical records from this period offer a treasure trove of evidence including monumental architecture, kingly correspondence, and luxury goods from far-off locales.
As a result, research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and histories, but the daily lives of non-elite individuals have remained largely unexamined. What was life like for those living outside of imperial capitals and other major centers? How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial aims? How deeply were rural settlements embedded in the political and economic structures of empire?
In this lecture, I address these questions using evidence from the site of Çadır Höyük, a rural center in the provinces of one of the major political players of the Late Bronze Age, the Hittite empire (modern-day Turkey). In particular, I use the ancient animal remains from Çadır Höyük to reconstruct the organization of day-to-day economic activities at the settlement. I consider the choices Çadırans made about which animals to raise (e.g., more cattle? fewer goats? lots of pigs?) and what products to focus on (e.g. meat? wool/fiber? dairy? a combination?). I then discuss how these choices relate to the settlement’s place within the broader economic system of the Hittite empire and how they can help us characterize what life was really like at Çadır during the Late Bronze Age.
Sarah Adcock is a Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2020) and her BA in Archaeology and English Literature from Baylor University (2008). Her current work focuses on the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean region around 1200 BCE.
For her dissertation research, she examined local responses to the Hittite collapse in central Turkey at the end of the Late Bronze Age through the analysis of animal remains from the Hittite capital Hattuşa and from Çadır Höyük, a Hittite provincial center. By comparing her results from these sites, she considered the specific impacts empire’s collapse had on animal management systems and the economic organization of food production both at the Hittite capital and in the empire’s provinces.
Her current work expands the focus of her research from the collapse of the Hittite empire to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean region more broadly. The Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean is one of the largest and best known collapse events in human history, and it affected multiple polities across the region, presenting an opportunity for exploring differing responses to the processes associated with societal collapse. This project, “Everyday Lives at the End of the World?: Post-Collapse Animal Economies in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean” works to develop a macro-level understanding of changes and continuities in animal management and foodways that accompanied the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean. The goal of this work is to offer a new perspective from which to examine the massive political, economic, and social changes that occurred at the end of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean and to critically examine the historical narratives and theoretical frameworks that create our conceptions of collapse and “dark age.”

Garden Forests of the Amazon
2022-05-12 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
To attend this lecture in-person, proof of vaccination plus booster and a K(N)-95 mask is required. Masks will be provided at the door (southern entrance of Olin Hall) for anyone who doesn’t have one.

Earthquakes and the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society: the longue durée of human-geological environment relationships in Helike, Greece (SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture)
2022-05-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Louisiana
Speaker: Amanda Gaggioli, PhD Candidate, Department of Classics | Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University
Bio: Amanda’s research combines specializations in archaeology, history, and ancient languages with environmental sciences, particularly geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology, to interpret cultural forms of environmental knowledge, cultural practices, landscapes, and paleoenvironments that factored into societal developments. This combined work accounts for the resilience and political ecology of socio-environmental systems in all aspects of Greco-Roman civilization.
Abstract: Earthquakes have been linked with societal collapse in various places throughout the past, most notably in the eastern Mediterranean with the end of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE) and the division and decline of the Roman Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE. Archaeological evidence of widespread destruction, complemented by an inflation of historical earthquake records for late Roman contexts, points to periods of higher seismicity coinciding with political and economic weakening and socio-cultural downturn. However, since ancient times, humans living with persistent earthquake hazards have demonstrated forms of resilience. I show how earthquakes traditionally perceived as ‘natural’ disasters are not ‘natural’ but social and a critical factor in political ecological relationships through the case of Helike, Greece from the third millennium BCE to fifth century CE. New methods from geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology combined with evidence ranging from Greco-Roman perceptions on earthquakes in textual records combined with destruction, innovation, and invention in settlement architecture and soft sediment deformation structures (SSDS) in soil thin sections prove such ‘catastrophe’ theories to be either false or simplistic. The results expose the persistent factor of earthquakes and other geological hazards in the resilience and political ecology of human-environment relationships in the Greco-Roman society and culture.
The case of Helike demonstrates how factors of earthquakes and other geological hazards persistently shaped and were shaped bysocio-cultural, economic, and political developments. The use of innovative methodological approaches and techniques to new types of data confronts catastrophe narratives and reveals a resilience and political ecology of human-earthquake relationships.

The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival
2022-05-11 - 2022-05-15 | Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, 868 High St at E Broadway, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Begun in 2003, this is the only juried film competition in this genre in the Western Hemisphere. We organized it to exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. Through this Festival we wish to promote the genre and the makers of film and video productions about archaeology and indigenous peoples.

From Stonehenge to Carnac
2022-05-10 | Louisiana
Megaliths, Monuments & Tombs of Wessex & Brittany
Explore the extraordinary prehistoric sites of Wessex, England, and Brittany, France. Amidst beautiful landscapes see world-renowned, as well as lesser-known, Neolithic and Bronze Age megaliths and monuments such as enigmatic rings of giant standing stones and remarkable chambered tombs.

War on Looting: Contested Object Case Studies
2022-05-09 18:00 (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
Please join us for an hour of brief case studies and Q&A about Looting presented by UST Art History graduate students!

New Research at St. Mary's City in Maryland
2022-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana
Dr. Tim Horsley describes the new geophysical and archaeological discoveries at St. Mary’s City in Maryland.

ARCE-NC Lecture May 1 by Aidan Dodson: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
2022-05-01 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Louisiana
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. Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol:
The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
Sunday, May 1, 2022, 2 PM Pacific Time (note the earlier 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 29. The number of registrations is limited, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
Egypt was unified around 3000 BC, beginning the history of pharaonic Egypt and setting the ground-rules for the nature and constitution of the state and kingship that would endure for three millennia. This afternoon we will explore the way in which the memories of the first pharaohs were maintained and used by their successors down to Roman times, and how, after millennia of oblivion, they were rediscovered by modern scholarship.
About the Speaker:
Professor Aidan Dodson
has taught at the University of Bristol since 1996, where he has been honorary Professor of Egyptology since 2018. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, and was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for spring 2013. He is the author of some 400 articles and reviews, and 25 books; his latest is The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives, which was published by the American University in Cairo Press in October 2021.

Minoan Crete & the Cycladic Isles
2022-05-01 | Louisiana
Step back in time to explore the island of Crete, center of the Minoan civilization during the Bronze Age, as well as the nearby Cycladic Islands of Santorini, Mykonos, and Delos. Marvel at the physical evidence of this first advanced civilization in Europe, which created palace complexes, stunning works of art, a unique writing system (called Linear A), and an extensive trade network. You will stay in comfortable, four- and five-star hotels, perfect for exploring or just relaxing, with nine nights on Crete in the capital city of Heraklion, in the traditional village of Sfaka Sitias, and in the coastal town of Agios Nikolaos; plus two nights on whitewashed Santorini and two nights

Daily Lives in an Age of Empire: Local Economics Life at Cadir Hoyuk (Turkey) during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE)
2022-05-01 | Hofstra University, Breslin Hall, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, 11549, United States
Dr. Sarah Adcock, Assistant Professor at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will speak about how research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and history, but the daily lives of non- elite have remained unexamined. How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial aims?

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2022-04-29 | TBA (Stanford 2), Stanford, CA, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Adventures with Animal Mummies
2022-04-28 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | University of Hawaii, Art Auditorium, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, 96822
Masks and vaccination required for in-person attendance.

Ancient Graffiti and Ancient Voices: Culture and Communication Across Pompeii and Herculaneum
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Louisiana
Public Lecture by Rebecca Benefiel, Professor of Classics, Washington and Lee University.
Rebecca Benefiel is a Professor of Classics who specializes in Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural history of the Roman Empire and Latin epigraphy. She is a supervisor for the Epigraphic Database Roma, part of the EU best practice network, EAGLE (The Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), and is overseeing the preparation of ancient graffiti from Pompeii and Herculaneum. She is also Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.

The Problem With Prostitutes
2022-04-28 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Breasted Hall at the OI, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, 60637

Rituals of the Everyday: Neighborhood Diversity in the Urbanization of Cahokia
2022-04-28 17:30 (America/New_York) | Louisiana
Stone Lecture

Ritual at the Crossroads: A Sacred Stone in Ancient Athens
2022-04-27 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana
Susan Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University, St. Louis (srotroff@wustl.edu)
A large, irregular boulder fenced off by a parapet of stone slabs lies at a crossroads on the north side of the Agora (the public square) of ancient Athens. When excavated, in the 1970s, I, t was covered with hundreds of small vessels, placed there in the latter part of the 5th century BCE, along with an eclectic collection of unusual objects, including gilded pebbles, knucklebones, writing styli, and fragments of broken sculpture. The lecturer and her colleagues at the Agora have embarked on a detailed study of the monument, now nicknamed the Crossroads Enclosure. Although it was located at one of the busiest spots in the city, its ancient identity remains a mystery. This lecture examines the architecture, contents, position, and environment of the Enclosure, looking for clues to that identity and the nature of the rituals and other activities that took place there, and placing it within its historical context in the turbulent last decades of the 5th century BCE.
This lecture is hosted by Knox College in Galesburg, IL.
It will be presented virtually.
Instructions for accessing the lecture are forthcoming.

Members Night at the Museum (Hybrid Event)
2022-04-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture members are invited to a fun, informative, rotating tour of our newest exhibitions. Curators, exhibitions staff, and educators will discuss the making of Mediterranean Marketplaces in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Muchos Méxicos in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and From the Hands of the Makers in the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Come learn about the objects chosen for display and find out how HMSC designs and installs such exhibitions.
Registration is required for both in-person and Zoom options. Those attending in person will be required to follow all Covid-19 visitor protocols. Capacity is limited, so please reserve early.
Not a member of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture? Become a member today so you can join us on April 27th! Visit us at https://hmsc.harvard.edu/membership

Rockford Society Lecture
2022-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, 61103, United States
The Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain’s Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland Forsyth Lecture

“Dreams, Drugs, and Fumigations: Doctoring in Ancient Athens”
2022-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana
In ancient Athens, as today, people got sick. Suffering from anything from epidemic disease and accidents to chronic illness and passing indisposition, they required treatment. Much of what we know about that treatment comes from texts, particularly the body of medical lore known as the Hippocratic Corpus, which began to be written down in the 5th century BC. But the practice of medicine also left an archaeological trail, from the well-known healing sanctuaries to simple artifacts associated with medical treatment. This lecture examines some of this evidence, focusing particularly on objects preserved in the trash-heaps of Athens (and other cities) — including the equipment of a family of healers who lived just to the south of the city’s agora (public square) — to shed a more intimate light on the practice and practitioners of the healing arts.
Susan Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University, St. Louis (srotroff@wustl.edu).
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The Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain’s Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland
2022-04-26 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, 61103, United States
Forsyth Lecture

Dreams, Drugs, and Fumigations: Doctoring in Ancient Athens
2022-04-26 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana
Broneer Lecture

Bronze Age Monkeys and the Case for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
2022-04-26 18:30 (America/New_York) | Dickinson College, Denny Hall #317, 272 W High St, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States

AIA Giving Day
2022-04-26 | Louisiana
On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, we’re asking thousands of archaeology enthusiasts like you to join together to support professional archaeologists and their important work by participating in our inaugural AIA Giving Day. Your gift will help protect threatened archaeological sites, provide scholarships to future archaeologists, and promote archaeology across the globe.
What if we told you your impact could be doubled if you give on or before AIA Giving Day? It’s true! A group of generous donors have agreed to match all donations, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000! That means your gift, no matter the amount, will go further.
Join us on AIA Giving Day as the archaeological community comes together in the name of philanthropy and the love of archaeology
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Death comes to the Theban Sacred Band: Skeletons from the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC)
2022-04-25 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana
Matson Lecture
Register in advance here: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUod-mtrjIvGNDmi2RwRVqAkMlF9UrJotr0

Hannibal's War Elephants
2022-04-23 13:00 (America/Denver) | TBA (Denver 2), Denver, CO, United States
