Archaeological Institute of America

Chemical Analysis and Dating of Ancient Rock Art
2023-01-14 13:00 (America/Chicago) | TBA (St. Louis), St. Louis, MO
Face-to-Face lecture: “Chemical Analysis and Dating of Ancient Rock Art” by Dr. Karen Steelman, director of Shumla’s new C-14 plasma oxidation laboratory and a key member of the Shumla Research Leadership Team. [Location to be scheduled, soon]
More events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

When Jordanian Ancient Stones Talk
2023-01-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
This lecture looks at the archaeology of Jordan

Egypt Through The Ages
2023-01-17 - 2023-02-02
This unique trip combines the very best of the ancient pharaonic sites with later Coptic (early Christian) and medieval Islamic sites. This is a luxurious, in-depth, small-group, all-inclusive, well-paced, 17-day trip.
Learn with a distinguished and engaging Egyptian scholar plus one of Egypt’s most experienced tour manager/guides.
Travel with a maximum of just 16 guests plus your two leaders. Enjoy the best accommodations, including 10 nights at luxurious, 5-star hotels in Giza, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan; a three-night Nile cruise aboard a comfortable, eight-cabin dahabiya (traditional Nile sailboat); and two nights in the center of Medieval Cairo at a boutique, 17-suite hotel.
Highlights include:
Touring the amazing Giza pyramids and Sphinx as well as Saqqara’s Step Pyramid of Djoser and newly-discovered, closed-to-the-public, Tomb of Wah Ti.
Exploring spectacular museum collections in Cairo: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, the Museum of Islamic Art, and either the historic Egyptian Museum OR, if it is open, the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.
Discovering with your experts one of the world’s greatest cities—Cairo, the “City of 1,000 Minarets.” See magnificent Islamic architecture spanning the Fatimid, Mameluke, Circassian, Ayyubid, and Ottoman periods.
Exploring the astounding temple complex of Karnak as well as Luxor Temple, plus spectacular royal mortuary temples and tombs in the Valleys of the Kings and Queens, such as those of Seti I and Nefertari.
Cruising the Nile from Esna to Aswan aboard an eight-cabin sail boat, away from the convoys of large riverboats, so that we visit remarkable temples without the typical crowds. From the spacious top deck, observe timeless pastoral scenes of feluccas, farmers, herders, and village life during a visit to a farming community.
Flying to Abu Simbel to visit the stunning and enormous rock-cut temples of Ramesses II and Nefertari.
The option to extend your trip with the seven-day, post-tour extension to the Siwa Oasis and Alexandria.

The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
2023-01-17 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-01-18 19:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

Archaeology & Ale: Making Sense of Marbles
2023-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Hopleaf, 5148 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
The current OI Museum exhibition, Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI (through March 12, 2023), presents to the public for the first time the OI’s full collection of Roman sculpture. Assembled in the 1950s—through acquisitions from both the OI’s excavations at Ptolemais in Libya and the international art market, this group exemplifies the importance of revisiting artifact and archival collections, with new questions, perspectives, technology, and scrutiny. Museums do not require new artifacts, new acquisitions in order to tell new stories. In this talk, Kiersten Neumann, exhibition co-curator and curator of the OI Museum, will walk through the latest considerations of the identities and significance of these individual sculptures while delving into timely discussions related to collecting practices, provenience and provenance, archaeology and the art market, and display practices that seek greater transparency and public engagement.

Dr. Brian Buchanan: “More than just a mead-hall, a world’s wonder, eighth of seven: Reassessing the archaeology and landscape of Yeavering, Northumberland”
2023-01-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
The iconic early medieval royal palace of Yeavering is located at the base of the Cheviot Hills along the modern-day Anglo-Scottish border in a quiet bucolic valley. In the 6th century AD, it was one of the key royal settlements and assembly sites of the early medieval kingdom of Northumbria, linked to the site noted in Bede’s histories as King Edwin’s royal villa of Ad Gefrin. The initial investigations of the site, led by Dr. Brian Hope-Taylor, revealed a multi-faceted complex containing large timber-framed Halles, cemeteries, and evidences of reuse and reinterpretation of prehistoric features. Archaeologists from Durham University, Eastern Washington University, and the Gefrin Trust have restarted investigations of the site and its environs using remote sensing, landscape archaeology, and excavations. This presentation discusses the historic and archaeological background of the site, its importance for the development of early medieval Britain, and how new findings are re-shaping our understanding of this important site.
Dr. Brian Buchanan, Eastern Washington University.

A Foot in Both Camps: The Extraordinary Assemblage of Archaeological Shoes from Vindolanda Roman Fort
2023-01-20 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Stolen Legacy: A Conversation with the Artist and Curator
2023-01-21 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Adult Events
In partnership with internationally-renowned artist, composer, and educator Hannibal Lokumbe, the Penn Museum presents Stolen Legacy, a libretto and musical commentary on the removal of art from the African continent. This provocative piece responds to how, in Lokumbe’s own words, “the exchange of money for art created expressly for the spiritual maintenance of a tribe and/or nation can create a lasting physiological wound to the culture from which it was removed.” He adds that “nowhere is this more evident than in the case of African art.” This program is part of the Museum’s own reflective process about our institutional history, which is tied to colonialist and racist narratives, and our work to reconcile our past with restorative practices.
Be a part of this ongoing conversation about the history of museums and about ethical stewardship of the legacy of the past.
As part of a multi-tiered experience that includes classroom visits and a free public performance, join Hannibal Lokumbe, composer/author of Stolen Legacy, for a conversation about the the intersections of art, the cultural legacy of colonialism, and monetary exchange, open to both University of Pennsylvania students and the general public at the Penn Museum on January 13 at 3 pm. Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Curator of our Africa Galleries and Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations in Penn’s Sociology Department, will facilitate the discussion between the artist and the audience.
About Hannibal Lokumbe
Classic composer and jazz trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe (né Marvin Peterson) has been celebrating and commemorating the African-American experience through music and words for over four decades. Lokumbe’s work has been commissioned and performed by symphonies and orchestras across the country, including the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra , and the Philadelphia Orchestra. His oratorio “African Portraits” has been performed over two hundred times by orchestras across America since its Carnegie Hall debut in 1990, and was recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including from the NEA, and is a Lifetime Inductee to the Harlem Jazz Hall of Fame.

Ancient engineering of fish captured and storage in southwest Florida in the 16th century by Calusa Native Americans
2023-01-22 11:30 (America/New_York)
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Dr. Victor Thompson, of the University of Georgia, will present on “Ancient engineering of fish captured and storage in southwest Florida in the 16th century by Calusa Native Americans.”

Reconceiving the nomad: tropes, archaeological reality, and why it matters
2023-01-23 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City), New York, NY

In the Footsteps of Roman Soldiers: Excavations at Vindolanda and the Archaeological Landscape of Hadrian’s Wall
2023-01-23 19:30 (America/New_York) | UBC Vancouver Campus, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

The Phoenician City of La Fonteta, Guardamar, Spain
2023-01-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
The Phoenician city of La Fonteta, Guardamar, Spain
Dr. Alberto J. Lorrio, Dr. Mariano Torres, and Ester López Rosendo
La Fonteta is a site of urban character dated in the Early Iron Age (8th-6th centuries BC). It is placed on a coastal promontory next to the mouth of the river Segura. Archaeological excavations carried out from 1996-2002 and then from 2018-2019 have provided a settlement sequence from the late 8th to the third quarter of the 6th century BC. The earliest phases of the site show heavy craft and metallurgy activity, besides houses of several rooms built with clay and mudbrick walls organized in an urban layout. A strong defensive system was built c. 600 BC and a new urban layout. The houses of this new phase show one or two rooms, although some of them are more complex. There were open areas between these buildings with worship areas, communal bread ovens, and garbage dumps. La Fonteta also was an important port which funneled a heavy trading activity, as evidenced by the rich material culture attested, with a varied assemblage of pottery with several types and origins, a heavy manufacturing of metallic items, as well as prestige goods, some of the very exotic such as ostrich eggs, ivory items, necklace beads, or scarabs.

Lecture hosted by Friends of AIA-New York.
For more information and free publications about the site of La Fonteta, visit: https://ovc.gva.es/es/estudis-i-publicacions/estudis-i-publicacions.

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis presented by Dr. Lindsey Mazurek
2023-01-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Hale Science Building, Rm. 270, 1350 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century BCE, her new followers had to build sanctuaries appropriate to an Egyptian goddess. In the process of imagining a place for their Greek Isis to dwell, devotees came up with a wide range of eclectic solutions that intertwined local needs, imperialist fantasy, and fantastical chronology. These sanctuaries do not draw from contemporaneous Egyptian art and architecture, but rather from Greek stereotypes about Egypt and the Nile River. Isis’ Greek temples, I argue, allowed Greek devotees to imagine Egypt in a way that responded to their own experiences as provincial subjects of the Roman Empire.
I begin with a brief overview of Isis’ and Sarapis cults’ arrival in Greece in the early Hellenistic period. Then, I turn to literary evidence, in which Greco-Roman authors from Herodotus to Pliny the Younger characterize Egypt as a timeless and strange place and highlight its unique flora and fauna. I next trace the popularity of these ideas in wall paintings and mosaics, where depictions of the Nile convey ideas of otherness and imperial control. I conclude by discussing the sanctuaries of the Egyptian gods at Marathon and Gortyna. The sanctuary at Marathon combines imaginative architecture that resembles Pharaonic Egyptian temples, archaizing sculpture that evoked a timeless Greco-Egyptian past, and a riverine setting that recalled the Nile Delta. At Gortyna, the sanctuary includes both an underground water crypt that echoed the Nilometers used to measure the river’s annual flood and cattle statuettes that personified the river’s waters. Taken together, this evidence suggests that Greek devotees used sanctuary spaces to explore Greek conceptions of Egypt as an imagined, far-off, and ancient place that they could control in much the same way that Rome controlled and imagined Greece.

Ramses the Great: Power and Patriarchy
2023-01-26 14:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-01-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | John R. Braunstein Hall 300, University of Cincinnati, 2825 Campus Way, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years
2023-01-26 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | Benedictine University at Mesa, 225 E Main Street, Mesa, AZ, 85201, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Communicating with the Ancestors: Archaeology at Oxmoor Plantation, Louisville, Kentucky
2023-01-26 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe), 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, 40203, United States
Come and learn what Kentucky Archaeological Survey archaeologists have been doing at Oxmoor Farm in Louisville, Kentucky for the last year and a half. Lori Stahlgren, Project Archaeologist with KAS, will be speaking about this ongoing project. In 2021, the Oxmoor Farm Foundation hired KAS to conduct a survey around extant buildings that once served as dwellings for enslaved people in the early 19th century and as dwellings for farm workers post-bellum and into the 20th century. Oxmoor plans to create museum space to commemorate the lives of the enslaved African Americans and to tell their stories, both separate and intertwined with the Bullitt family, who owned the plantation. The survey found intact archaeological deposits around the extant buildings and investigations extended into the interior of the buildings. The work thus far has generated thousands of artifacts and new lines of research involving the enslaved people at Oxmoor. This discussion will describe the work to date and present some of the findings and artifacts discovered, as well as efforts to connect with descendants of the people enslaved at Oxmoor.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-01-27 18:30 (America/New_York) | Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, 43620, United States

RESCHEDULED: "Otzi The Iceman": Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-01-30 17:30 (America/Chicago)
Norton Lecture

Absolute Egypt
2023-01-31 - 2023-02-17
This itinerary is carefully crafted to provide the discerning traveler with the finest Egypt tour available. It combines all the best attributes of an in-depth, small-group, all-inclusive, well-paced, luxury trip.
Highlights:
Learn with a distinguished and engaging American scholar plus a wonderful local Egyptologist and an excellent tour manager. This trio has been receiving accolades for many years.
Travel with a maximum of just 16 guests plus your trio of leaders.
Enjoy the best accommodations, including 12 nights at luxurious, 5-star hotels in Giza, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan; one night at the best-available hotel in Abydos; and a three-night Nile cruise aboard a comfortable, eight-cabin dahabiya (traditional Nile sail boat).
Meet with excavators and conservators, including behind-the-scenes visits, when possible.
Discover the preeminent sites of the pharaohs from Cairo to Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel:
If it is open, spend two full days exploring the Grand Egyptian Museum that is scheduled to open in late 2022.
Tour the amazing Giza pyramids and Sphinx as well as Saqqara’s Step Pyramid of Djoser and newly-discovered, closed-to-the-public, Tomb of Wah Ti.
Explore the astounding temple complex of Karnak as well as Luxor Temple, plus spectacular royal mortuary temples and tombs in the Valleys of the Kings and Queens, such as those of Seti I and Nefertari.
Visit the remarkable Temple of Hathor at Dendara as well as Abydos, one of the oldest and most important cities in ancient Egypt, where Steve Harvey, your AIA lecturer, has been working since 1993.
Cruise the Nile from Esna to Aswan aboard an eight-cabin sail boat, away from the convoys of large riverboats, so that we visit remarkable temples without the typical crowds. From the spacious top deck, observe timeless pastoral scenes of feluccas, farmers, herders, and village life.
Fly to Abu Simbel to visit the stunning and enormous rock-cut temples of Ramesses II and Nefertari.
An optional, seven-day, post-tour extension to the Siwa Oasis and Alexandria

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-01-31 18:00 (America/New_York) | Emil W. Haury Anthropology Building, Room 216, University of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States

Great Lecture: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
2023-02-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Historic preservation has rarely been a subject taken up by historians. In an effort to address this ironic situation, this talk recounts some of the main themes and critiques shaping the development of built heritage and its preservation in the U.S.—and how this process was itself shaped by periodic reimagining of the American past, as well as by international movements such as UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention.
Speaker: Randall Mason, Professor of City & Regional Planning/Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design

Life and Death on the Nile: Diet, Origins, and Mobility in Ancient Nubia
2023-02-02 17:30 - 18:45 (America/Chicago) | AGED Building , Room 00102, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
Dr. Tosha Dupras, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Texas Tech University, will share her research on diet and mobility in ancient Nubia.

Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande
2023-02-04 13:00 (America/Chicago)
ZOOM lecture: “Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande” by Cyril Dumas (Curator at the Musee Yves Brayer Baux de Provence). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

Society Sunday 2023 Public Lecture
2023-02-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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Going to Work in the Roman Empire: The archaeology of Potters and Potting
Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Elizabeth Murphy. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language.
Professional working lives define our place in society and structure the rhythms of our daily experience—how, then, were such lives lived in the past? In this talk, Elizabeth Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Florida State University, will investigate the everyday working lives of ancient craftspeople by venturing into the workshops of a single, common profession—potters.
With many hundreds of kilns documented from the Mediterranean, with elaborate trade networks reconstructed from distributed pottery, and with workshops appearing in a range of settings (from cities to rural estates), potters and their ceramic products are arguably the most archaeologically visible craft profession of the ancient world, yet we have no biographical accounts or personal narratives from the period on the lives of these workers. Using the rich archaeological record, she will investigate their workplaces and working lives—from the technologies of production to the rituals and magic of workshops.
Elizabeth A. Murphy is an archaeologist specializing in the study of the Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods. Her research and teaching concern the social and economic organization of the Roman world; more specifically, her work focuses on the history and archaeology of labor, production, and technology. She is a specialist in material culture studies, with particular emphasis on the artifactual record of crafts production, and her fieldwork projects have spanned the ancient Mediterranean world from Asia Minor to Italy. She currently co-directs the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project (LASS), a diachronic landscape project in the modern region of Sulcis (Sardinia, Italy). With LASS, she is investigating the settlement organization, landscape exploitation, and daily life practices of this rural region during the period of the Roman Empire.
The lecture will also be available in American Sign Language 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.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-02-05 14:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Room TBD, Paterson Hall 303, Ottawa, Canada

West Coast Tut Tour: An afternoon with Aidan Dodson in San Francisco, Feb. 5, de Young Museum
2023-02-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
To anyone in the SF Bay Area interested in Ancient Egypt,
I wanted to let you know about an exciting event that ARCE Northern California is hosting with the American Research Center in Egypt and the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. On February 5 at 2pm, the Tut Chapter Tour is coming to the de Young Museum, and features a lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson. For more information, please go to https://www.arce.org/west-coast-tut-tour. Be advised that although the event is free, registration is required. To go straight to registration, click on this link: https://secure.everyaction.com/imoaeYmGY0WyV2Q0J-9qpQ2 .
Hashtags: #TutChapterTour #ARCE #AidanDodson #deYoung
There will be a discount on ARCE membership for people who sign up at the lecture. Hope you can join us!
Glenn Meyer
ARCE Northern California Publicity Director

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (Room TBA), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, CA, 93740
