Archaeological Institute of America

Waterscapes in Etruria: Vulci (10th cent. BCE-5th cent.CE)
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Berkeley, Dwinelle 370, 101 Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis
2023-02-07 17:30 (America/New_York) | 1214 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, 27412

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-02-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-09 18:00 (America/New_York) | Behavioral Sciences Building (BEH) 103, USF Tampa Campus, 4209 USF Willow Drive, Tampa, FL, 33620
Joukowsky Lecture

AIA Webster Lecture: The International Space Station Archaeological Project
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | DePaul University, McGowan South 107, 1110 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614, United States
Since 2015, Justin Walsh and Alice Gorman have been leading the first archaeological study of a human habitation site in space, the International Space Station. In that time, they have studied crew-created visual displays, processes for handling cargo returned to Earth, population distributions in the various ISS modules, the use of simple technologies as “gravity surrogates,” and more. Recently, they performed the first archaeological work in space, with the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE), which had the crew document six locations around the space station through daily photography.
This project just received the AIA’s Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology!

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | John C. Hitt Library Room 402, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States

Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes!
2023-02-11 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Teen Saturdays! is designed for Latino teens interested in culture and community. High school students of Hispanic heritage are invited to monthly workshops to explore notions of culture and identity through bilingual discussions, hands-on activities, and exploring their reactions to exhibits. Sign up for one session or more. Meet people, munch on snacks, learn something new, and help make the museums more accessible to Latino audiences. February–May sessions will focus on Indigenous cultures. Teens will have the opportunity to suggest topics to explore in future sessions.
The program includes:
• Gallery visits to the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
• Hands-on projects
• Spanish/English sessions
• All materials and tools for projects
• A certificate of participation if attending three or more sessions
• Tasty snacks
Free. Advance registration required by February 8 at 5:00 pm for the February 11 event. Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
Saturdays:
February 11: Arctic Engraving
March 4: Healing Stress
April 1: Poetry & Music
May 13: Solstice Traditions
¡Sábados de Jóvenes! está diseñado para adolescentes latinos interesados en la cultura y la comunidad. Los estudiantes en preparatoria de herencia hispana están invitados a talleres mensuales para explorar nociones de cultura e identidad a través de diálogos bilingües, actividades prácticas y exploración del museo. Regístrate para una sesión o más. Conoce gente, disfruta de snacks, aprende algo nuevo y ayuda a que los museos sean más accesibles para audiencias latinas. Las sesiones de febrero a mayo se enfocarán en las culturas indígenas. Los joìvenes tendraìn la oportunidad de sugerir temas que les gustariìan que el grupo explorara en futuras sesiones.
El programa incluye:
Visitas a galerías de los Museos de Ciencia y Cultura de Harvard Proyectos prácticos
Sesiones en español/inglés
Todos los materiales y herramientas para proyectos
Un certificado de participación si asisten a tres o más sesiones Sabrosos snacks
Gratis. Inscripción previa requerida para el 8 de febrero a las 5:00 pm para asistir al taller del 11 de febrero.

Sábados:
11 de febrero: Grabados del Aìrtico
4 de marzo: Aliviando Estreìs
1 de Abril: Poesiìa y Muìsica
13 de Mayo: Tradiciones de Solsticio

Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica
2023-02-12 11:30 (America/New_York) | Virginia
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Elise Poppen, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Buffalo State University of New York, will present on “Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica.”

Second Sunday Culture Films: Wall Stories & The Calligrapher of Old Delhi
2023-02-12 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
The 2022-2023 culture film series Folklife, a joyful celebration of local folkways: writing, storytelling, visual arts, handcrafts, cuisine, and other forms of expression which make places and people distinctive and create bridges to connect them with other cultures around the world.
Wall Stories
dir Shashwati Talukdar (2014)
A shrine to a saint in India is a vibrant spiritual home for people of many faiths, and the murals on its walls reveal the syncretic confluence of peoples and beliefs. This charming film features animation and other experimental storytelling modes that turn the subjects of these historic paintings into dynamic, living figures.
The calligrapher of Old Delhi
dir Ambarien Al Qadr (2023)
A calligrapher writing in Urdu, Persian and Arabic continues his craft in the marketplace, despite the pressures of the Hindu majority and threats to diversity and cultural heritage.
Speakers: Presented by Harjant Gill, Towson University, in conversation with the filmmakers.

Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
2023-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures, Room 126 Social Sciences Building, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg., 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. Peter Brand, University of Memphis:
Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
Sunday, February 12, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
No Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
Ramesses II was both a great warrior and visionary statesman. For two decades, he fought the mighty Hittite Empire for control of Syria including the famous Battle of Kadesh. His military campaigns were the culmination of over six decades of hostilities between these ancient superpowers. Yet Ramesses had the vision to make a lasting peace with Egypt’s bitter rival, when he concluded a treaty in his twenty-first regnal year with his Hittite counterpart Hattusili III. A remarkable cache of diplomatic letters, second only to the famous Amarna Letters, offers a fascinating glimpse of the pharaoh’s boisterous and often tense diplomatic exchanges with Hattusili III and his formidable consort, the Hititte Queen Puduhepa. Fifteen years later, Ramesses negotiated with Puduhepa to marry a Hittite princess. His lively debates with the Hittite king and queen reveal a very different Ramesses II than the god-king and warrior pharaoh we see on his monuments.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Peter Brand is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto and a naturalized American citizen. He is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at the University of Memphis. Since 2001 Dr. Brand has served as the Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project sponsored by the University of Memphis, which aims to record and publish all the monumental inscriptions and reliefs from this huge building.
Dr. Brand studied at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis before completing his PhD in Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto in 1998. His dissertation, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis, was published by Brill in 2000. Dr. Brand’s area of focus in Egyptology is the history and culture of the New Kingdom, particularly the late 18th Dynasty and the Ramesside Period. In his research and teaching he uses a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates history, art history, language and epigraphy.
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Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii
2023-02-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 601, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States
Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
For Zoom attendance, please register here: https://bit.ly/3R8sJBY
Dr. Catherine Baker (Mount Holyoke College) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii.”
Abstract: From the chipped corners of an ancient die to the mortar on a reused inscription, artifacts tell stories. Archaeologists reconstruct these object biographies, tracing the lives of ancient artifacts from their creation to their final deposition. In this talk, I explore the stories of some of the artifacts excavated by the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (University of Cincinnati), including dice and gaming pieces, statuettes, tools of potters, and even nails. These object biographies shed light not only on the way people first used these objects, but on their afterlives – the ways in which objects were discarded, recycled, and reused. These lives and afterlives of objects, in turn, shape the archaeology of a site, allowing us to trace the complex patterns of use, reuse, and discard which characterized the history of one neighborhood in the Roman city of Pompeii.

Antiochia ad Cragum: Pirates, Romans, and More Pirates – Updates from the 2022 Season
2023-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | Virginia
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. This lecture will discuss new findings from the 2022 summer excavation season.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.
To register, visit https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpde2rqDsuG9XAXAfIftozW17I0qsdGJJp

The Painted Forest: The Rock Art of the Serrania de la Lindosa, Colombian Amazon
2023-02-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia
Virtual lecture given by Dr. José Iriarte, Professor of Archaeology from University of Exeter, UK

Dr. Randall Souza: “Survival and resilient communities in ancient Sicily: The lessons of Entella”
2023-02-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
When communities dissolve, it is rare for them to be reborn. During the First Punic Wars (ca. 264-241 BCE), the people of Entella were expelled from their city; a critical portion of the refugees actually managed to return to Entella and restart the life of their Community thanks to the aid of various kinds from friendly cities and individuals. The fact that their community had survived because of a network of benefactors did hot escape the newly reinstated citizens of Entella, who thanked their benefactors in ways particularly geared toward strengthening that very network. The decrees they inscribed on bronze tablets preserve a rare first-person account of a community at the mercy of greater powers. This talk analyzes the inter- and intra-community relationships at play in the survival and resurgence off Entella as a community. The people of Entella had faced elimination, and instead of turning inward, they ensured their future by cultivating connections with other groups in order to create a new, more expansive community.
Dr. Randall Souza, Seattle University.

Collapse of the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A View from the Suburbs
2023-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Virginia
The Archaeological Institute of America’s Iowa Society welcomes Dr. Andrew Somerville (Iowa State University, Dept of World Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Marion Forest (PaleoWest Archaeology and Arizona State University) who will present “Collapse of the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A View from the Suburbs”. This is a live, virtual presentation (7:00 PM central time) with time for Q&A from participating audience members at the end.
Abstract: Between approximately A.D. 1-550, the ancient city of Teotihuacan was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Located just north of Mexico City, Teotihuacan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the most visited tourist attraction in Mexico today. Despite containing a population of about 100,000 people for over five centuries, the state of Teotihuacan underwent a collapse at around A.D. 500 and the urban population fell by up to 80%. For decades, scholars have debated the causes for Teotihuacan’s decline, invoking various factors including climate change, invasion, and revolt. This paper reviews evidence for the collapse of Teotihuacan and discusses our new excavations at the suburban neighborhood of Hacienda Metepec, a residential and ceremonial center on the eastern edge of the city that was occupied before and after the collapse.
Please register in advance: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdeGrrjIqHdIf-CA6iY6-PlKZxhawBmYO#/registration

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-21 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis – St. Paul), Minneapolis, MN
Norton Lecture
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A Maritime Small World in Western Cyprus: Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, and Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-02-22 19:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

A Small Maritime World in Western Cyprus -- Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, & Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Joan Connelly (New York University)
Come join us for a watch party of Professor Connelly’s live-streamed lecture. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.

"Operation Amythyst: How the Ancient Egyptions Got Their Bling 4000 Years Ago"
2023-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
About the lecture:
Some of the most stunning jewelry from Ancient Egypt is made of amethyst. Its craftsmanship, opulence, and design epitomize quality in the ancient world. Yet the skill in making this jewelry started long before the cutting and buffing of the raw stone. Procuring amethyst in the Eastern Desert is fraught with many more perils and problems than Nile Valley craftsmen experienced. As the director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert, Liszka leads a team that has studied the remains of these ancient desert expeditions and a team who has firsthand experience of many of the perils that the ancient explorers would have fought as well. This talk examines the extremes and dangers that thousands of Ancient Egyptians went to in order to acquire these beautiful purple stones for the Pharaoh’s jewels. By investigating the archaeology, art, and inscriptions from Wadi el-Hudi in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, we navigate through the whole process of amethyst acquisition: from finding, to mining, and surviving in the dangers of the desert.
We will gather to watch this recorded lecture (4:49-43:36) together, followed by Q and A with Dr. Liszka via Zoom. The recording has captions and also includes an ASL interpreter.
About the speaker:
Kate Liszka is associate professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino, and director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt. Her research focuses on ancient Nubians interacting with Egyptians and the Egyptian government. She specifically examines these issues as part of two projects. She is currently finishing a monograph on the Medjay, a group of pastoral Nubians who may become an important group of soldiers in Egypt’s Middle and New Kingdoms (c. 2300-1000 BCE). Kate also directs the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert. This archaeological and epigraphic project looks at ancient Egyptian mining activities, their organization, and individuals who participated in them, especially in light of ancient ethnicities.

Why are Islands Sacred?
2023-02-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-23 16:15 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA
Norton Lecture

A Culinary History of Collapse, Conquest, and Cultural Identity in Ancient Perú
2023-02-23 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
How do archaeologists use food to tell the story of the past? Archaeologist Robyn Cutright (Centre College) addresses this question in our next talk!
​Between 650-1450 CE, residents of the Jequetepeque Valley of northern coastal Perú experienced several large-scale sociopolitical disruptions, including the collapse of the Moche polity, the transition to the subsequent Lambayeque period in the context of highland and northern influences, and conquest by the expanding Chimú empire. This talk explores local experiences of these events, using cuisine as a window onto everyday life in rural communities. Culinary continuities and changes across three Jequetepeque Valley sites suggest that while collapse represented a deep rift in the fabric of rural daily life, conquest was marked by local accommodation and cultural persistence.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-02-23 19:00 (America/New_York) | School of Business (SBUS) 110, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07043

Climate Change and Migrating Farmers: The Spread of Agriculture to Southern Europe
2023-02-25 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Virginia
Abstract:
Farming spread from its center of origin in western Asia to southern Europe at the beginning of the Holocene. This phenomenon has prompted many questions. Why did farming spread when it did? Who brought it to southern Europe, and by what means? Migrant farmers from western Asia reached the Aegean before 9,000 cal BP (c. 7,000 BC). Then there was a pause that lasted a millennium. The onward spread of farming took this new economy rapidly inland to the Danube Basin, and westward to the Adriatic and beyond. The westward dispersal took place along the coasts; the only reasonable explanation is that it was carried forward by migrating farmers looking for new lands to settle, an hypothesis supported by the latest ADNA evidence. The question then is, why did they leave the Aegean for the Adriatic and beyond so suddenly? Results from the “Early Farming in Dalmatia Project” are providing answers to these questions. Recent research has focused on the impact of a sudden reversal of climate, the “8,200 cal BP event”. During this episode the climate of the early Holocene became cold and dry. This phase lasted about 300 years, or 10 human generations, enough to disrupt the existing farming economy in the Aegean and over a much wider area. It caused some of these farmers to leave their homeland in search of fresh lands to colonize. It was these migrants who brought farming to the Adriatic and beyond.
Bio:
Andrew M.T. Moore is Immediate Past President of the AIA. Recently retired from Rochester Institute of Technology, he also taught European and world archaeology at the University of Arizona and Yale University. Dr. Moore has a particular interest in Scandinavian and Viking Age archaeology. Since 1960, he has participated in archaeological surveys, excavations, and field research in England, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. His earlier research concentrated on the advent of agriculture and sedentary life in western Asia, especially in Syria. In 2002, Dr. Moore began a new project to investigate the spread of farming around the Mediterranean and into southern Europe. At the invitation of colleagues in Croatia, he is conducting this research in central Dalmatia, through surveys and excavations at the Neolithic villages of Danilo and Pokrovnik.

Up Late With The Sphinx
2023-02-25 17:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Calling all kids and families! Have you ever wanted to explore the museum galleries after dark? Join us during Up Late with the Sphinx for an evening filled with games and gallery activities. Drop into a hands-on workshop and make something special to take home, then finish your evening with a flashlight tour through the museum. Each ticket includes a special Penn Museum patch.

Otzi The Iceman: Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-02-26 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bowers Museum, 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA, 92706

Hannibal's Secret Weapon
2023-02-27 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) 6020, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
