Archaeological Institute of America

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-03-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10040, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Gold Victories: The Gold of Coinage of Alexander the Great
2023-03-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | Heritage Hall (inside of Father O’Connell Hall), Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC, 20064
Metcalf Lecture

Treasure troves. How to Study a Greek Coin Hoard
2023-03-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Campbell Hall 160, University of Virginia, 110 Bayly Dr, Charlottesville, VA, 22903

Display, Dietary Practice, and Disgusting Meals: Assessing Performative Dining in Monastic Contexts
2023-03-02 17:30 - 18:45 (America/New_York) | AGED Building , Room 00102, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
Dr. Andrew Donnelly, assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Commerce, will share his research on dining in monastic contexts.

When Evolution Hurts (Free Hybrid Lecture)
2023-03-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Terence D. Capellini, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Being able to walk upright on two feet is a physical trait that distinguishes modern humans from our early ancestors. While the evolution of bipedalism has contributed to our success as a species, it has also limited the evolution of other features and increased our risk for certain diseases. Capellini will discuss the genetic research that is helping scientists better understand the relationship between bipedalism and our risk of developing knee osteoarthritis—a degenerative disease that afflicts at least 250 million people worldwide. By understanding the evolutionary history and genetics of this condition, preventive screenings and potential treatments may be developed.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Image credit: Tasha McAbee, Department of Orthopedics at Boston Children’s Hospital

Sex Workers at Pompeii
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Denver) | Tory Breezeway 1, University of Alberta, 6-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/New_York) | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave, Rochester, NY, 14607

Environment and Economy in Early Medieval Antwerp: the Zooarchaeological Evidence
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Valparaiso University Center for the Arts (VUCA), 1709 Chapel Dr, Valparaiso, IN, 46383

Industry, Commerce, and Revolution: Ayla, Humayma, and the Southernmost Levant during the Early Islamic Period
2023-03-02 19:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at San Antonio downtown campus, Room TBA, 501 W César E Chávez Blvd, San Antonio, TX, 78207, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-03-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Baltimore), Baltimore, MD
Norton Lecture

Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Kings
2023-03-04 13:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (St. Louis), St. Louis, MO

Goddesses, Whores, Vampyres and Archaeologists: uncovering ancient Mytilene
2023-03-05 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LA Society, 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266
Bass Lecture

Chinese Export Pottery: A Business Model for Athenian Vase Production?
2023-03-07 20:00 (America/New_York) | Florida State University, hall TBA, 600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States

Domestic Material Culture and the Archaeology of Value: Beyond “Religion” vs. “Decoration"
2023-03-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | Goetz Library, Department of Classics, University at Buffalo, 320 Academic Center, 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States

Perspectives on the future of technology and the humanities from an archaeologist in Silicon Valley
2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Texas Tech Student Union Building – Escondido Theater, 15th St & Akron Avenue, Lubbock, 79409, United States
How might the research and pedagogy of the academy, and especially disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, connect fruitfully with dynamic agendas in technology development, change management in business, and the challenges of a complex world of runaway crises? How might we address this question of transdisciplinary reach while cherishing the specialized expertise of orthodox disciplines? This talk will present a pragmatist case for managing creative knowledge building in research and learning. Four interconnected case studies will be described: in university education (Stanford Humanities Lab and design programs, project-based learning in Denmark); in science and technology studies (histories of design); in corporate design-based strategic planning (projects with the automotive industry over 25 years); and in critical theory developed in the archaeology of prehistoric Europe and classical antiquity. These case studies illustrate the enduring value of tried-and-tested toolkits drawn from design practice and rhetoric and applied in synthetic fields that can be called design foresight, creative pragmatics, and futures literacy (after the UNESCO initiative). This synthesis of mindset, methods, and concepts that will be familiar to many could be called an argument for a revitalized liberal arts that brings creative design skills (rhetoric) to STEM education, research and development.

Iron in the Sky: Meteorites in Ancient Egypt
2023-03-09 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Junior Research Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
In ancient Egypt, iron harvested from meteorites was used to create ritual objects associated with royalty and power. An iron dagger from the tomb of King Tutankhamun is one of the oldest Egyptian objects verified to be of meteoritic origin. In this lecture, Almansa-Villatoro will discuss Egyptian texts, iconography, and religious writings that associate iron with the sky and stars, indicating that ancient Egyptians were aware that meteorites came from space. This knowledge—most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that connected iron and sky in their texts—was lost in modern times, as it was only until the eighteenth century that meteorites were confirmed to be of extraterrestrial origin.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.

RESCHEDULED - Beer, A Global Journey Through the Past and Present
2023-03-09 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Dedham Life Sciences 131, SMU, 6501 Airline Road, Dallas, TX, 75205, United States
This lecture is no longer happening in September, a new date will be scheduled for the spring.

Israel: Treasures of the Holy Land
2023-03-10 - 2023-03-20 | VA
Tour Highlights include:
• Iconic ancient and religious sites, including five that are inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list: the spectacular, tragic fortress of King Herod at Masada; the Biblical Tel (settlement mound) of Megiddo; a view of Haifa’s Bahá’í Gardens from Mt. Carmel; the Jewish necropolis of Beit Shearim; and Bethlehem, with its 4th-century Church of the Nativity.
• Five nights based in Jerusalem, exploring in-depth its archaeological sites, outstanding museums, and major Christian, Jewish, and Islamic holy places.
• The impressive ancient trading port of Caesarea Maritima; and Qumran, overlooking the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden for nearly 2,000 years.
• Limited to a maximum of just 16 guests!

Ariadne’s Threads: The Magnificent Costumes of the Minoans and Mycenaeans
2023-03-11 00:00 (America/New_York) | The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States

Culture Fest! Celebrate Woman Artists and Creatives
2023-03-11 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
This full-day festival celebrates women and femme artists from around the world, featuring art and performances from some of the region’s best female artists and creatives. Honor the power and diversity of feminine creativity with a day of activities the whole family can enjoy, like live performances, hands-on workshops, storytelling, and an artist marketplace.

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
2023-03-11 13:00 (America/Denver) | Denver Public Library Ross-University Hills Branch, 4310 E Amherst Ave, Denver, CO, 80222, United States

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
2023-03-11 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | VA
Abstract:
The past, whether real, tangible, embellished, or imagined, can be a particularly powerful and alluring source of symbols, narratives, and ideas. Echoes from the distant past can
reverberate and affect the lives of contemporary and descendant communities, and issues
related to politics, cultural heritage management, tourism, and national identity can all be
tied to our reconstructions of the past. This kind of dynamic is evident across many countries, particularly those that have experienced recent histories of conflict, regime change, or newly gained independence. This lecture explores the social contexts and political dimensions of practicing archaeology, and it features research on ancient Vietnam as a backdrop. Here, archaeological investigations increasingly complement traditional sources of information, such as ancient texts, legendary accounts, and heroic folk tales. As such, artifacts, remnant architecture, and sacred landscapes have become significant for the national story of Vietnam, its deeper past, and the cultural identities of its past and present populations.
Bio:
Professor Kim is an anthropological archaeologist interested in sociopolitical complexity, early forms of cities, factors associated with significant cultural change, and the relationship between modern politics, cultural heritage, and the material record. He is especially interested in the cultural contexts and social consequences of organized violence and warfare, as manifested in various cultural, spatial and temporal settings. Much of his recent research has been geographically focused on East and Southeast Asia, and since 2005 he has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam at the Co Loa settlement in the Red River Delta. A heavily fortified site located near modern-day Hanoi, Co Loa is purportedly connected to Vietnamese legendary accounts and is thus viewed by many as integral to the genesis of Vietnamese civilization and early state formation in Southeast Asia.

Pandemics, Plagues, and Pestilence in early Byzantine Thebes
2023-03-12 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Canada
Excavations in the Sanctuary of Ismenion Apollo in Thebes also revealed a later cemetery of Early and Middle Byzantine burials, which are apparently associated with an early Christian hospice or hospital. The skeletons showed that a remarkably high percentage of individuals suffered from significant pathologies with high rates of infectious diseases. Two mass graves are probably associated with the early spread of the Plague of Justinian or a smallpox epidemic. Another epidemic, leprosy, affected nearly everyone in the cemetery, including those who suffered comorbidities such as cancer, brucellosis, and severe trauma. Hospitals serving the whole community were an early innovation of the Byzantine church in Greece, and this project provides a vivid glimpse of the patients whose lives ended there. Thebes also may have been a site of pilgrimage in the early church, drawn by the tomb of St. Luke the Evangelist, located near this cemetery.

Second Sunday Culture Films: Fugetsu-Do & Morkovcha
2023-03-12 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.
Please stay for a catered reception to celebrate the season finale.
Fugetsu-Do
Dir. Kaia Rose (2021)
A small sweetshop in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles carries on the culinary tradition of mochi and other pastel confections, anchoring a Japanese-American community over three generations.
Morkovcha
Dir. Lydiya Khan (2021)
A special carrot salad created by a hybrid of three cultures, Korean, Russian and Uzbeki, provides a premise to delve into this particular microculture created by an accident of history.
Speakers: Presented by Rob Buscher, Penn Asian American Studies, in conversation with the filmmakers

Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter
2023-03-12 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building, University of California, 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. Branko van Oppen, Tampa Museum of Art:
Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter
Sunday, March 12, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
Daylight Savings Time Begins March 12.
About the Lecture:
In his publications Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (1982), David L. Thompson attributed three Roman Egyptian funerary portraits to the same artist, whom he named the St. Louis Painter on the basis of a portrait of an elderly woman in the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM inv. no. 128:1951; Thompson 1982, pp. 20–22, figs. 35–37). Without further information, Thompson acknowledged that “a number of other portraits are related to those by the St. Louis Painter and some to each other by these differences,” and dated the activity of the artist’s workshop to around 300 CE. Before and since, several other scholars have recognized the stylistic similarities between about a dozen funerary portraits from ancient Philadelphia (confusingly still called “Rubayat”) with estimated dates ranging between 165-350 CE.
This paper will re-examine the attribution of the portrait panels to the St. Louis Painter (also known as the Würzburg Painter), and suggest that some two dozen examples can be assigned to this anonymous painter, workshop or circle. Stylistic elements by which these paintings can be grouped together include a distinctively graphic hatching style. The portraits generally lack a sense of depth and perspective, though some foreshortening is often indicated on the left side of the face. The basic outline is usually drawn with a broader brush, while the individual details are applied with a thinner brush. The outline tends to follow basic physiognomic proportions that are not only common with other Roman Egyptian portraits, but with Roman portraits from contexts such as the wall paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter is the Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek & Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art. He received his PhD in ancient history from The City University of New York (’07), where he specialized in queenship during the period from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Before coming to Tampa, van Oppen worked for five years at the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam. His academic interests further include clay seal impressions, animals in ancient material culture, Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits, as well as ancient religion and art history in general.
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Rural Landscapes, Archaeological Fieldwork, and Cultural Heritage Destruction in Turkey
2023-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sabin Hall Room G90, 3413 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Dr. Ömür Harmanshah, Director, The School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago, will present the AIA’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage for the AIA-Milwaukee Society
Archaeological remains and landscapes are witnesses to deep time histories, yet they have increasingly been victims of targeted destruction as well as practices of looting in recent decades. Cultural heritage is always entangled with the politics of the environment, while heritage is always understood as a resource at risk waiting for a salvage operation. A major challenge for archaeologists today is that they have to serve as chroniclers of the unprecedented levels of heritage destruction under the current regime, and to contextualize this destruction within the conditions of precarity, extraction, and dispossession, which are different forms of environmental injustice. Late capitalist management of landscapes in the contemporary Turkish countryside have created disposable landscapes of extreme extraction and large-scale excavation. In his talk, Dr. Harmanshah will focus on various practices of heritage destruction in the western part of Konya province where the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project has been documenting ancient and historical settlements and landscape features, while also keeping an account of ongoing heritage destruction since 2010. He will argue that on the ground fieldwork as a creative practice and collaboration with local heritage communities are essential to perform such work as compared to remote sensing methods.

Collision of Worlds: An Archaeological Perspective on the Spanish Invasion of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-14 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-03-15 19:00 (America/New_York) | VA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

Lenapehoking: Archaeology, Heritage, and the Power of Place for Descendant Local Nation
2023-03-15 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
This panel discussion highlights tribal relationships to Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Delaware peoples of the Delaware Valley. Archaeologists and tribal cultural specialists will bring the site-specific landscape and histories to life, illuminating once-vibrant places that remain important to tribal Nations today.
Jeremy Johnson
(Delaware), Director of Cultural Education, Delaware Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma
Jeremy Johnson is the Cultural Education Director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He is Lenape, Absentee Shawnee and Peoria. Before his current role, he served as Assistant Chief of the Delaware Tribe. Jeremy is a lifelong educator who worked for over eighteen years as a middle school and high school English teacher and coach. He is committed to preserving and revitalizing Lenape culture and language for the future generations of his tribe. Jeremy currently resides in Noble, Oklahoma with his wife, Anpetu Luta Wi, and two children, Marian and Jennings.
Gregory D. Lattanzi
Curator and State Archaeologist, New Jersey State Museum
Gregory D. Lattanzi is Curator for the Bureau of Archaeology & Ethnography at the New Jersey State Museum and the New Jersey State Archaeologist. He attended the State University of New York at Binghamton, then earned his M.A. in Anthropology from the City University of New York, Hunter College. Dr. Lattanzi was employed at a number of contract archaeological firms in the northeast, participating in excavations in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. He worked on all types of cultural resource management projects, from archaeological excavations to state and national register nominations. In the fall of 2001, Dr. Lattanzi started his career at the New Jersey State Museum as Registrar, working his way up to become Curator and State Archaeologist. In 2013, while at the New Jersey State Museum, Dr. Lattanzi received his Ph.D. from Temple University. He published a book on his work with copper artifacts in 2022, and is currently continuing his research on Middle Atlantic archaeology, social complexity, pottery analysis and, of course, copper use. He has published numerous articles and given public presentations at national, state, and local venues.
Curtis Zunigha
(Lenape/Delaware), Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Lenape Center
Curtis Zunigha is an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. He has over thirty-five years of experience in tribal government and administration, community development, telecommunications, and cultural preservation. He is an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices, and is Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Lenape Center, based in New York City. The Lenape Center promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people through the arts, environmental activism, social justice, and agricultural practices. The Lenape Center’s work represents the return of the original Indigenous people to their homeland of Lenapehoking (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania).
Mr. Zunigha is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
