Archaeological Institute of America

Public Archaeology at the Maison Freetown Site
2022-10-29 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Maison Freetown, 800 E Vermilion St, Lafayette, LA, 70501
Saturday, October 29, 9am-4pm
$ = Free
Family Friendly
Would you like to learn more about the history of Lafayette through archaeology? Join us for a day of shovel testing and artifact screening as we dig deeper into the Freetown National Historic District at Maison Creole de Freetown! These investigations hope to provide artifacts for the Freetown Museum, curated on site by the True Friends of Lafayette organization.
What to wear: closed-toe shoes, and clothes that can get dirty. Hats and sunscreen are a good idea. Please bring your own water and snacks, and gloves if you have them. We will provide trowels and shovels but feel free to bring your own.
For more information, visit:
facebook.com/AcadianaLAS

The State Museum of Pennsylvania’s Workshops in Archaeology: Pathways to the Past
2022-10-29 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The State Museum of Pennslyvania, 300 North Street, Harrisburg, 17120, United States
The theme of this year’s program centers around archaeology as a tool for discovering a pathway to the past. Archaeologists have identified physical pathways such as Indigenous foot paths, portages,
and trade routes but there are also the pathways archaeology can offer in enriching, and sometimes correcting narratives of the past. Pennsylvania’s landscape of rolling mountains, plateaus and ridges, and major river valleys were physical factors that influenced settlement of the Commonwealth. Foot paths created by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago led to trade and exchange routes that eventually developed into roadways. River valleys served as transportation corridors for commerce and trade from Precontact throughout time defining the locations of communities. Some pathways are not as evident, as in the underground railroad network that transported formerly enslaved peoples to communities here and elsewhere. Discovering the stories of the past can be a difficult emotional journey to uncovering heritage, as is often true for the disenfranchised, but their contributions to our Commonwealth’s development are important and the archaeological record is a pathway for sharing their stories.
Visit https://www.paheritage.org/2022-annual-workshop-in-archaeology.html for more information.
Early registration ends October 24. Walk-in registration will be available at the door at $35 per person.

Fall Heritage Reunion at Fort Polk
2022-10-29 09:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Fort Polk, 7217 Radio Rd,, Fort Polk South, LA, 71459
Saturday, October 29, 9am-6pm
$ = Free
Family Friendly
An opening ceremony will be conducted at 930am followed by the opportunity to see family history booths, listen to period music, or enjoy historic children’s games/toys. Lunch will be provided. Self-guided tours to historic homesteads and cemeteries are optional in the afternoon. Archaeologists will be on-hand to assist.

Halloween Pottery at Poverty Point World Heritage Site
2022-10-29 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Poverty Point World Heritage Site, 6859 LA-577, Pioneer, LA, 71266, United States
Saturday, October 29th, 10am-1pm
$ = $4 park admission fee, visitors 3 and under and 62 and older admitted free.
Family friendly
Visitors to Poverty Point World Heritage Site are invited to take part in a ranger-led pottery demo Saturday, October 29th. During this guided experience, visitors will learn about the pottery created and used by Native Americans at Poverty Point 3,500 years ago. The program begins with the demo at 10 a.m.; afterward, visitors are free to create their own pottery until the program ends at 1 p.m. This program uses air-dry clay, and visitors are welcome to take one of their finished pottery pieces home. Be sure to wear appropriate clothing for a potentially messy program.
Candy will be provided by the Louisiana Office of State Parks for this Halloween program, so visitors are encouraged to bring a trick or treat bag!
Poverty Point World Heritage Site offers visitors the unique opportunity to experience and learn about the earthworks and those individuals who raised them from the ground between the years of 1700 and 1100 BCE. The $4 admission fee provides access to the museum, film theatre, hiking trail, driving tour, seasonal tram tour, and any interpretive events taking place at the site. Children (3 and under) and senior citizens (62 and over) are admitted free of charge.
Poverty Point is located at 6859 HWY 577, Pioneer LA 71266. The park is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For additional information, call us toll free at 888-926-5492 or 318-926-5492. You can follow Poverty Point World Heritage Site on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Poverty-Point-World-Heritage-Site-149848475075853/) for more info and updates to programs and park operations.
CONTACT
Park Staff
Poverty Point World Heritage Site
888-926-5492
povertypoint@crt.la.gov
LouisianaTravel.com

Michigan Archaeology Day
2022-10-29 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Michigan History Center, 702 W. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, Lansing, 48915
Have you ever thought about what it’s like to be an archaeologist? Here’s your chance to talk to archaeologists about investigations and artifacts that tell the story of 14,000 years of Michigan history!
This FREE annual event returns to the Michigan History Center on Saturday, October 29, 2022.
We think you’re going to have a great time, whether this is your first Archaeology Day or you come every year. Archaeologists who work in Michigan will be stationed throughout the first and second floors of the museum where they will tell you about their research, show you some of the artifacts they have found and answer your questions. We’ll have hands-on activities for kids, you can watch a flintknapper make stone tools and everyone can try throwing a spear using an atlatl. Feeling adventurous? Join a scavenger hunt! Have an artifact that you want to learn more about? Show it to our Archaeology Roadshow experts! With so many activities to choose from, you may need to take a break. Join special presentations in the Forum auditorium. Tour the galleries, make a clay pinch pot, have a seat in the auditorium, ask lots of questions and have fun!
To support the preservation of archaeological artifacts and sites, no monetary values will be provided at this event.
Visit the event agenda for details as they become available: https://www.miplace.org/archaeology-day/
Michigan Archaeology Day is presented in partnership by the Michigan History Center, Department of Natural Resources, State Historic Preservation Office and Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

Audubon State Historic Site's Revolutionary War in Louisiana
2022-10-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-30 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Audubon State Historic Site, 11788 La Hwy 965, St. Francisville, LA, 70775, United States
Saturday, October 29, 10am-4pm
Sunday, October 30, 10am-4pm
$ = $5 grounds fee
Family Friendly
Visit Audubon State Historic Site and step into the American Revolutionary War! Explore Louisiana’s role in the revolution and the 243rd Anniversary of the siege and battle for Baton Rouge through Living History Demonstrations. Special activities include militia drills throughout the day and musket ball-making demonstrations, open hearth cooking, life of a soldier and more.
For more information, visit:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2894057277406974

Archaeology Day - Sam Noble Museum
2022-10-29 10:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave, Norman, OK, 73072, United States
On Oct. 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. we’re celebrating Archaeology Day! Through ancient relics and clues, archaeologists learn about how ancient civilizations grew and changed, and now children and families are invited to explore this fascinating field of study through games, crafts and activities! Search for clues in our archaeology scavenger hunt, dig up artifacts in our exploration sand pit, learn how arrowheads are made, and much more!

Tour: “Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt”
2022-10-29 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Art Institute of Chicago, 1111 South Michigan Ave/ 159 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, 60603, United States
Explore the new “Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago with this special International Archaeology Day tour by curator Ashley Arico. Note that this tour does NOT include museum admission: please allow time to purchase your ticket to the museum so that you can meet at the exhibit (Gallery 50) by the start of the tour at 1:00pm.
Learn more about the exhibit at https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9761/life-and-afterlife-in-ancient-egypt.

Not Black and White: Seeing and Naming Africans in Greek Art
2022-11-01 17:00 (America/New_York) | Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, the Pennsylvania State University, 201 Old Main, University Park, PA, 16802, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Community Archaeology as Sustainable Archaeology
2022-11-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Central and Western Michigan), Lansing, MI

Community Archaeology as Sustainable Archaeology
2022-11-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Grand Valley State University, 164 Lake Ontario Hall, 1 Campus Dr, Allendale, 49401

Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: Founders and Foundation Myths in the Roman Near East
2022-11-02 19:00 (America/New_York)
The Tallahassee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Student Archaeology Club at FSU present:
“Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: Founders and Foundation Myths in the Roman Near East”
By Robyn Le Blanc, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The AIA Kershaw Lecture in Near Eastern Archaeology
Additional Funding by the AIA Father Bader Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 7:00 PM
A Zoom Lecture: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93621021276

This talk explores city founders and foundation myths in the Roman Near East. Depictions of these local traditions appear on civic coinage, sculpture, and on the “Caesarea bowl,” and some are described by ancient authors such as Pliny and Pausanias. Foundation myths reflect ideas about the community and its past, and helped forge and maintain cultural, ethnic, and kinship links between and within communities.
Relevant website, The Roman Provincial Coinage online: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Limits of the Pinson Mounds Landscape in Western Tennessee
2022-11-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
In this lecture, Professor Ed Henry will discuss the monumental earthen architecture present at Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park (PMSAP) in West Tennessee, which features prominently in the archaeology of the American Midsouth. However, the Johnston and Elijah Bray mound sites, situated west and east of PMSAP respectively, are considered the anchors in defining the broader Pinson Landscape. Recent research in this area has dramatically reshaped how archaeologists might consider the temporal and spatial extent of this enigmatic Middle Woodland landscape and its ties to Hopewell societies in the eastern U.S. In my lecture I will discuss the field verification of new monumental features at Johnston, new and unusual subsurface features identified at PMSAP, and the first archaeological investigations of the Elijah Bray site. Our new discoveries reveal how our knowledge of this unique area expands our understandings of, and approach to studying, deeply used places in the archaeological record.

“Instructing the Eye: Museum Catalogues and the Archaeological Imaginary in Early 20th-Century Tunisia”
2022-11-02 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | UBC-Vancouver Campus, Buchanan A building, Room 202, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T1Z1, Canada
Lecture by Daniel Sherman, UNC-Chapel Hill

An Urban Garden at Pompeii: reexploring the "House of Queen Caroline"
2022-11-03 18:00 (America/New_York) | William T. Young Library Auditorium at the University of Kentucky, 401 Hilltop Ave., Lexington, 40506
Hanfmann Lecture

The Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Depictions of Pharaoh's Triumph
2022-11-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Harbor Walk West, room 217, 360 Concord St., Charleston, SC, 29401, United States
Dr. Tara Prakash (College of Charleston) will discuss “The Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Depictions of Pharaoh’s Triumph” on November 3, 2022, at 7:00 pm. Please join us to learn more about these fascinating artifacts and their archaeological contexts.
The lecture will take place at Harbor Walk (360 Concord St., West building, room 217), the temporary home of the College of Charleston’s Department of Art and Architectural History. Parking is available nearby at the City of Charleston’s Aquarium Garage.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to join the speaker for a light reception and informal conversation. This event is free and open to the public.
In accordance with current CofC COVID-19 protocols, attendees are welcome, but not required, to wear masks.

Manton Lecture
2022-11-04 05:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Johns Hopkins University (Homewood campus), Gilman Hall 50, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Please join the Baltimore AIA society for our first in-person talk since 2020! Dr. Catherine Popovici (The Johns Hopkins University) will speak about “Binding City, Sculpting Politics: Artistic Interventions in Classic Maya Landscapes” on Friday, November 4 at 5 pm ET. The talk will be streamed on Zoom but not recorded. Email akoch@towson.edu for Zoom details.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2022-11-04 15:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Albany), Albany, NY
Joukowsky Lecture

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2022-11-04 15:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Albany), Albany, NY
Joukowsky Lecture
Join the Zoom meeting on November 4th at 3:30 PM EST by clicking the “Register” button below — no need to sign up in advance.

Paying Attention: Images of Monuments on Roman Imperial Coins
2022-11-04 16:30 (America/New_York) | Department of Art & Archaeology seminar room (Green Hall 3-S-15), Washington Rd., Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Thompson Lecture

Ireland before the Saints and Scholars: Excavations at the Iron Age site of Dun Ailinne, Co. Kildare
2022-11-04 19:30 (America/New_York) | Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Roman/Byzantine Ruins at Gadara in Jordan
2022-11-05 13:00 (America/Chicago)
ZOOM lecture “Roman/Byzantine ruins at Gadara in Jordan” by Sufyan al-Karaimeh (University of Leiden – Netherlands) 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.

The Earliest Pottery in the World
2022-11-06 11:30 (America/New_York)
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Ilaria Patania, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis will present on “the Earliest Pottery in the World.”
Why was pottery invented? While for decades we assumed a connection between plant domestication, pottery use, and social hierarchy today we know that the earliest pottery in the world was found in cave sites in South China connected to a hunter and gatherer lifeway at ~20 -19 kya. This is the first example of a wider Eastern Asian hunter gatherer pottery making tradition. In this talk we will discuss the sites of the earliest pottery and explore cooking practices and social structure of the groups that first used pottery.
Join via Zoom by this link on November 6th, 2022 at 11:30 AM EST.
Meeting ID: 881 5810 9696
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Aramus: A dialogue between archaeology and comic art
2022-11-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Ottawa, Canada
Comic books meets Archaeology! The authors of “Aramus” will talk about the process of creating an archaeological comic book.

Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt
2022-11-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures, Room 126 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, 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. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Brown University:
“Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt”
Sunday, November 6, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
Please note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
This lecture explores the cultural implications of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic sign, known as N41, used in an apparently random constellation of words related to women, water, and metals. Based on a re-examination of the sign’s contexts of appearance in The Pyramid Texts and other religious sources, it is determined that an ancient Egyptian cosmovision contemplated the sky as an iron container of water, pieces of which fell to the earth in the shape of meteors and were used to produce ritual objects. The fact that the N41 sign’s iconicity encapsulated such complex interconnectedness suggests that the relation between birth, afterlife, and iron existed even before the earliest religious texts in Egypt. The knowledge of the extraterrestrial provenance of iron was lost at some point in modern times when meteorites were classified along with fossils as “thunderstones” as late as the 18th century. However, the Egyptian knowledge, consistent with contemporary science, was most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that also connected iron and sky in texts. We will examine some examples of non-Egyptian iron-sky cultural parallels, particularly from the Ancient Near East, which can be explained as common analysis of natural observations, rather than knowledge transmission.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at Brown University in 2022. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and specializes in the use of language and hieroglyphs’ iconicity to understand oral knowledge and ideology in Old Kingdom Egypt. Since 2019 she is a member of the AERA archaeological project in Giza, and assistant director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition since 2021.
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Women in the Cults of Isis: Patrons, Symbols, and Pariahs
2022-11-07 17:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Richards Hall 15, 1410 Q Street, Lincoln, NE, 68588

Life at Berkou: a newly-discovered Roman fortress in Egypt
2022-11-07 19:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Alabama – Huntsville, Room TBA, 301 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35899

Rural Matters: Studying the Countrysides of Ancient Cyprus
2022-11-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven), New Haven, CT

The origin and initial dispersal of Sino-Tibetan populations in archaeology
2022-11-08 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Oregon Knight Library Browsing Room (106), 1501 Kincaid St, Eugene, OR, 97403
Matson Lecture
