Archaeological Institute of America

Montaukett Indian Archaeology: The Fowler House in East Hampton, NY
2021-10-24 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Rye Free Reading Room, 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, New York, 10580, United States
The Fowler House provides an extraordinary glimpse into the lives of Montaukett Indians on Long Island over a century ago. This storied house is a powerful reminder that Native American history is an integral part of American heritage locally, regionally, and nationally. The small vernacular saltbox house was once owned by George Fowler, a Montaukett Indian who was born at Indian Fields in Montauk, and whose family was among the last residents of the Indian Fields settlement at the time of their dispossession from the land in the 1870s. The Fowlers and other Montaukett families were pressured by Arthur W. Benson, a real estate developer who purchased Indian Fields at auction, to relocate to Freetown, north of East Hampton Village. The Fowler House now stands on one of these Freetown plots. To learn more about Montaukett history and culture in East Hampton, including the historical communities of Freetown and Indian Fields, see “Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island“, the Ph.D. dissertation of the speaker. It offers a rigorous in-depth study of oral traditions, archaeological research and architectural surveys, close analyses of historical records, and long-term ethnographic work with Long Island’s contemporary Montaukett community. Also, take look at “Created Communities: Segregation and the History of Plural Sites on Eastern Long Island, New York“, a recent academic journal article by Dr. McGovern and Dr. Christopher Matthews, which explores the complexities of identity and heritage in communities like Freetown.
Dr. Allison McGovern is an anthropological archaeologist in the greater New York City area whose work integrates archaeology with historical research methods, public engagement, planning, and historic preservation advocacy. She earned her MA in Anthropology from Syracuse University, and MPhil and PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island critically addresses the way Native history is told through archaeology, material culture, and museum exhibition (to be published with University Press of Florida).
She is a professional archaeologist with Richard Grubb and Associates, a cultural resource management firm. Dr. McGovern is also active in archaeological service and outreach as a member of the Professional Archaeologists of New York City, an elected Board member of the New York Archaeological Council, a member of the Suffolk County Parks Historic Trust Committee, and a cultural partner with various local preservation and historical societies.
Dr. McGovern’s research in the Long Island area highlights the experiences of historically marginalized and underrepresented groups through archaeology, oral history, and ethnographic mapping. As a Public Archaeologist, she is interested in making her research available to general audiences, as well as other academic researchers. In 2018, she was awarded a Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award (Third Place) from the Society of Historical Archaeology for her ongoing work with the Mapping Memories of Freetown project. She is also an inaugural recipient of the Robert D. L. Gardiner “Writing the History of Greater New York” Fellowship at the Gotham Center for New York City History for her forthcoming book Long Island Dirt. In addition to support from the Gardiner Foundation, her work has been supported by the CUNY Graduate Center, Farmingdale State College, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Philips Fund for Native American research, the Mystic Seaport, and the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Across a Narrow Sea: Ancient Greeks and Romans in the Eastern Adriatic
2021-10-24 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | AIA-LA County Society, 1201 9th Street, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States
Ahmanson Lecture

Lecture will be in-person and live Zoom cast. RSVP required for in-person attendance (limit 50 persons). The AIA-LA County Society asks that all attendees be vaccinated and wear a mask if the lecture needs to be held indoors.
Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96714745295
Meeting ID: 967 1474 5295

IAD at W&M
2021-10-24 13:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | William & Mary, 100 Ukrop Way, Williamsburg, VA, 23187, United States
Join us as we celebrate International Archaeology Day at William & Mary, in historic Williamsburg, VA! We will be hosting the following events:
1-2:30pm: Lightning Talks by current PhD students in Anthropology
3-4pm: Book talk by Prof. Molly Swetnam-Burland (editor of Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples, 2021)
5pm: Film Screening and student-led discussion by the Classics Club (The Mummy)
(Note: due to Fall Break at the College, these events are later than the nationally recognized IAD.)

SASA's Halloween Bash
2021-10-23 | WA
FREE and open to the public, this celebration of SASA’s progress and call to action to support our mission is complete with a 10-day lineup of special events! From Mesopotamian ‘vampires’ and the underworld, to Pictish monsters, ‘Assassins Creed: Valhalla’ archaeogaming, and a feature on ‘Lovecraft’, join us to explore the history of Halloween and the related festivals and figures from the ancient world.
FREE Halloween Bash Event Lineup:
~Oct. 23 – 2pm EDT – SASA Book Club LIVE: ‘Murder Mystery in the Roman Republic’ by Dr. Emma Southton, hosted by Jack Chandler
~Oct. 25 – 2pm EDT – Art Contest Winners Reveal
~Oct. 26 – 2pm EDT – “Death, Dying, and the Dreary Underworld in Mesopotamia” led by Dr. Petra Creamer
~Oct. 28 – 1pm EDT – SASA Archaeogaming LIVE: “Rainbow Road to Asgard: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour” hosted by Kate Minniti and Jacob Coffey
~Oct. 29 – 12pm EDT – “The Gods and Myths of the Picts” led by Dr. Kelly Kilpatrick
~Oct. 30 – 2pm EDT -SASA Q&A LIVE: ‘Lovecraft’ w/ S. T. Joshi, hosted by Jackson Reinhardt
~Oct 31 – 1pm EDT – SASA Halloween Spooktacular Party
~Nov. 1 – 2pm EDT – ”Ancient ‘Monsters’ as seen in Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals of the Morgan Library Collection” led by Nicole Leist
~Nov. 3 – 11am EDT – “Lilith: not quite a ‘Babylonian vampire’, but…” led by Dr. Martin Worthington

International Archaeology Day at the Burke Museum
2021-10-23 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (outside the front of the building by the parking lot)), 4300 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
International Archaeology Day will be a free public event, hosted by the Burke Museum, the Archaeological Institute of America Puget Sound Chapter, the Department of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle University, and The Evergreen State College.
Please join us for an afternoon of fun activities, including information on local and global archaeology, activities such as making your own Roman tablet, flint knapping, and more!
Don’t forget to wear your masks!

International Archaeology Day at the RMSC
2021-10-23 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY, 14607, United States
The Rochester Society of the Archaeological Institute of America will be in the lobby of the Rochester Museum & Science Center with tables featuring artifacts and archaeologically themed activities (including coloring pages and an indoor dig box) and a stone tool demonstration.

Celebrating IAD at Ancient Corinth, Greece
2021-10-23 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Athens) | Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, Ancient Corinth, 20007, Greece
On Saturday, October 23rd ASCSA Corinth Excavations will co-host a special event at the archaeological site of Ancient Corinth in celebration of International Archaeology Day. Guests will have a chance experience the art of vase making and vase painting by seeing two experts create their work live. Children will have the opportunity to paint their own vases and a special prize will be raffled off to a lucky guest.

Lighting the Way to Archaeology-Year 5
2021-10-23 10:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Mission San Luis, 2100 West Tennessee Street, Tallahassee, 32306, United States
Four student clubs from Florida State University welcome kids with visual disabilities from the Lighthouse of the Big Bend of Florida to Lighting the Way to Archaeology, a day of learning about archaeology through sensory experiences of smelling, tasting, touching. Student volunteers make presentations on the theme of Foodways of the Old World and New World and guide the kids through fun stuff like grape smashing, corn shucking and of course tasting chocolate both sweetened and unsweetened. There’s a visit to installations at Mission San Luis de Apalachee, a Franciscan Spanish Mission beautifully recreated. We hear interpreters present information at the Blacksmith’s Shop and in the Spanish home garden and kitchen. The four clubs are the Classics Archaeology Club, Eta Sigma Phi (Classics honor Society), and the Anthropology Graduate Club and Anthropology Undergraduate Club for Archaeology. The whole event is funded through an AIA Grant to the Tallahassee Society for International Archaeology Month.

Ancient Houston
2021-10-23 | Tony Marron Park, 808 N York St, Houston, TX, 77003, United States
Does Houston have ancient history? You bet!
Discover what life was like along the bayous of the Gulf Coast area of Texas, long before Houston became a major city.
This free hands-on event for children takes place at KBR Kids Day from 10 am – 4 pm at Tony Marron Park, 808 N. York St., Houston TX 77003

21st Century Tools for Studying Ice Age Art
2021-10-22 20:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (South Florida 1), Wellington, FL
Matson Lecture

Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation
2021-10-22 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Puget Sound 1), Seattle, WA

The Ancient City: Lessons for a Modern Age
2021-10-22 15:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Albany 1), Albany, NY
Graham Lecture

Drink Your Hot Chocolate Like a Maya Ruler! Make Your Own Maya Drinking Cup (in English, until October 31st)
2021-10-22 09:00 (America/New_York) | WA
Have fun learning about Maya ceramics for International Archaeology Day! This activity is a digital kit you can do any time on your own to explore the art and function of ancient Maya painted ceramics. Using various digital resources (including an online video tutorial) you will learn about some of the forms, designs, and functions of Maya ceramic vessels, with special attention to the Maya drinking cup. Complete our Maya drinking cup art activity to enjoy your favorite hot beverage!
Download our digital kit here: https://bit.ly/3oi390T
For an added bonus, if you email a photo of your completed drinking cup to mesoamericacenter@gmail.com by Sunday October 31, 2021 you will be eligible to win a gift box of Guatemalan hot drinking chocolate, ceramic drinking cup, and other small Guatemalan artisan crafts. Three winners will be selected from the submitted photo entries.

Celebrating Belizean Archaeology
2021-10-22 | WA
The Belize Institute of Archaeology celebrates International Archaeology Day hosting multiple trivia Fridays (October 8, 15, and 22) on social media (IA Facebook page) whereby trivia pertaining to Belizean archaeology will be posted throughout the day. Also, we will be hosting an interactive competition aimed at bringing awareness to Belize’s archaeological sites. Participants will be tasked to create replicas of iconic Belizean archaeological site buildings using only recycled materials and posting images of their creations on the IA Facebook page.

The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in early Islam
2021-10-21 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Salem 1), Salem, OR
Forsyth Lecture

Beyond the Gospels: Creating a Visual Identity for the Virgin Mary in Late Antique Egypt
2021-10-21 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Dr. Sabrina Higgins (Simon Fraser University, B.C.)
The Virgin Mary is an enigmatic Biblical figure, one who rises from relative unimportance in the canonical gospels to become one of the most prominent figures in Christianity. The theological discourse that culminated with the declaration of Mary as Theotokos (‘God bearer’) at the Council of Ephesus in 431, is mirrored by a similar fragmented development in Marian iconography. Prior to the Council of Ephesus, Mary is scarcely depicted in early Christian art, appearing only in renderings of the Biblical events at which she is present (i.e. The Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes), but as her role within the developing Christology is expounded in the 5th century, there is a greater interest in rendering the Virgin within Christianity’s visual culture. This concern is mitigated, however, by Mary’s limited role within the canonical gospels, ultimately urging artists to turn to apocryphal gospels and long-standing traditions of mother goddesses for visual inspiration. This paper explores the intersection of these materials in the early development of the visual culture of the cult of Mary. It uses Egypt as a case study to highlight the role of the apocrypha within the Marian iconography that develops after the fifth century, ultimately highlighting the artists’ use of these extra-biblical texts to fill-in the perceived bibliographical gaps related to her life within the canonical gospels.

Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii
2021-10-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Kentucky 1), Louisville, KY

Surviving the Maya collapse at Actuncan, Belize
2021-10-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (East Tennessee 1), Knoxville, TN

Tracing the Origins of Art
2021-10-21 17:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Charlottesville 1), Charlottesville, VA
Joukowsky Lecture

Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: founders and foundation myths in the Roman Near East
2021-10-21 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh 1), Pittsburgh, PA
Kershaw Lecture

“Illuminating the Past: An Application of Data Science to Archaeology”
2021-10-20 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Warren County History Museum, 238 S. Sunny Lane, Monmouth, IL, 61462, United States
Michael C. Sostarecz, Professor of Mathematics, Monmouth College (msostarecz@gmail.com)
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is an imaging technique used to non-invasively bring out surface details on artifacts. This lecture will share improvements on how the data is collected, an original model to combine the experimental images, and new options for post-processing. The artifacts presented will include Greco-Egyptian pottery from the Ashmolean and British Museums, arrow points from Monmouth College’s Native American Lithic Collection, and Greek coins from the College’s Shields Collection. With a focus on qualitative comparisons to current models for RTI, this presentation will be geared towards a general audience. Planned extensions of the project involve forensic science, dinosaurs, and scuba diving, albeit probably not at the same time.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 7:30 pm at the Warren County Historical Museum, 238 S. Sunny Lane, Monmouth, IL 61462
Live and on ZOOM: Meeting ID 605 178 8810 Passcode 3xQBD4

Archaeology and Ale with Dr. James Osborne
2021-10-20 19:00 (America/Chicago) | 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Fieldwork and COVID at Turkey’s ‘Newest’ Iron Age Capital:
Results from Türkmen-Karahöyük (Dr. James Osborne, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
In 2019, researchers with the Türkmen-Karahöyük Intensive Survey Project (TISP) identified the site to be one of the very largest Bronze and Iron Age cities in ancient Turkey, despite the fact that it had never been identified before by archaeologists. The chance find of a hieroglyphic inscription authored by a “Great King Hartapu” — one of Archaeology magazine’s Top 10 Discoveries of that year — proved the site must have been a local capital city during the Iron Age, and likely during earlier periods as well. Following a hiatus in 2020 due to COVID, TISP returned to the field in 2021 — only to have COVID remain a logistical and practical hurdle in many ways. This talk will present the background of the site, discuss some of the ways that COVID altered our fieldwork practices, and conclude with showing what we documented despite these challenges: a magnetometry map that shows us what buildings lie just under the surface, ready to be revealed by excavation.
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Gender, Creator Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu
2021-10-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Northern New Jersey 1), Montclair, NJ

Royal Purple and Indigo: The Hidden Labor Behind Luxurious Dyes
2021-10-20 18:30 (America/New_York) | TBA (Gainesville 1), Gainesville, FL, United States
Zoom ID: 745 130 9473

Putting the stone back in the Stone Age: New research on the end of the Maltese Temple Period, a lecture by Dr Huw S. Groucutt, Max Planck Independent Research Group leader in Jena, Germany
2021-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Malta) | WA
Abstract : After existing for over one thousand years, the Maltese Temple Period ended around 4,300 years ago. Understanding why has been a topic of considerable interest and debate. In this talk Dr Huw S. Groucutt will discuss this topic, outlining recent research on themes such as regional climate change and evidence for the arrival of new groups of humans. Chronological modelling studies are presented which indicate a correlation between archaeological activity and regional climate, which indicate a long-term societal decline in the final centuries of the Temple Period. Yet, does climate change alone explain the end of the Temple Period, or was something else involved, such as new groups of humans arriving, perhaps bringing a plague epidemic with them? Against this backdrop Dr Groucutt will outline recent research on the distribution and character of Maltese chert. Chert was the main kind of stone used to make stone tools in Maltese prehistory, and is therefore crucial to understanding ancient Maltese society, yet it has seen relatively little study. New insights on the distribution and character of chert in Malta are discussed. This offers new perspectives on the character of Temple Period material culture, and the extent to which the Maltese islands were isolated or integrated with neighbouring regions such as Sicily.

Matrices of the Mother Goddess: Some Reconsiderations of Kybele in Western Anatolia
2021-10-20 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Southern Nevada 1), Las Vegas, NV
Kershaw Lecture
Zoom details:
Meeting ID: 85444244180
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Power plays at Pylos: The past and memory in the tombs and at the palace
2021-10-20 16:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Western New York 1), Buffalo, NY
Zoom Meeting ID: 921 1429 3029
Passcode: [REDACTED]

A Feminist History of Ancient Medicine
2021-10-19 19:15 (America/Denver) | WEBINAR (Santa Fe 1), Santa Fe, NM

Archaeology of Beer
2021-10-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | WA
It’s been found in the Egyptian pyramids, the cities of Mesopotamia, Viking longboats, the palace of Machu Picchu, medieval monasteries, and the world’s earliest farming villages. What is it? Beer! Beer has been used for thousands of years to pay taxes, heal the sick, and accompany the dead into the afterlife. Many religions worshiped gods and goddesses of beer and brewing, and some of the earliest known examples of both poetry and law codes are about beer. Join us for an evening webinar exploring the archaeology of beer with Public Archaeologist Patty Hamrick.

Let them Rest in Peace: The Sacred Burials of Frescoes, Pots, and Rooms in the House of the Frescoes at Knossos
2021-10-19 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Greensboro 1), Greensboro, NC
McDonald Lecture
