Archaeological Institute of America

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection
2023-05-04 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.
Led by:
Amy Brauer, Curator of the Collection, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art
Caitlin Clerkin, Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Ar

Great Lecture: Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE
2023-05-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses on reconstructing the ancient environment of southern Iraq through remote sensing, geological coring, and excavation. This illustrated lecture will bring this formative chapter of human history to life through an overview of this work to date, including geological, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence.
Speakers: Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities; Professor, History of Art; Director, Lagash Archaeological Project and Curator, Near East Section, Penn Museum and Reed C Goodman, Ph.D. Candidate in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.

April 29, 2023: Toys, Burial Goods or Ritual Objects? - West African figurines and their archaeological traces presented by André Luiz Ruivo Ferreira Burmann, PhD candidate Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Pre- and Protohistory of Africa, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2023-04-29 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | MA
Abstract:
West African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans, animals, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal, iconographic and stylistic aspects of the figurines. A supra-regional examination of their long history of human interaction and deposition is often absent. Contextual studies on the archaeology of figurines are rather rare, and, mostly, center on a small regional scale. However, in the last few decades, work taking place in some larger study areas, such as the Nigerian Nok Culture, have revealed new insights into the study of figurines. This presentation will share work in progress of a large-scale West African synthesis of archaeological sites and archaeological contexts that have yielded figurines. How were these objects disseminated over time and space? Which figurine traditions appeared when and where? What do we know about their (last) use respectively their way of deposition? Has the latter changed over time? And what role did the Nok Culture possibly play in this development?
Bio:
André Luiz R. F. Burmann is a Ph. D. candidate in Pre- and Protohistory of Africa at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Germany). He studied Prehistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, in addition to Portuguese Philology at the Universities of Munich and Frankfurt/Main. His 2016 Master thesis focused on the archaeological context of terracotta sculptures from the Central Nigerian Nok Culture (1500 BC–1 AD). For the three following years, André Burmann was a research associate in the DFG Research Training Group “Value and Equivalence” at the University of Frankfurt. His Ph.D. research focuses specifically on West African figurines yielded from archaeological contexts, aiming to analyze and compare relevant sites and features through time and space to examine the development of depositional patterns of figurines. Moreover, André has worked in different museums and with curation teams since being a student. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Scientific Trainee at the LWL Museum for Archaeology, the Westphalian State Museum in Herne, followed by a working stay in the Museée d´Angoulême in France. Burmann is an active member of the Pan-African Archaeological Association (PanAf), the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), the West-African Archaeological Association (WAAA), the ICOM Germany Young Professionals Network and the children’s development organization Enfants avec Espoir e.V. Since September 2022, he works at Engagement Global gGmbH in Bonn, being responsible for networking and public relations in the German-African Youth Office.

In Case Of Emergency, Break Pots: Use And Function Of Marine Style Pottery In Minoan Crete
2023-04-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
A virtual lecture given by Dr. Emilia Oddo, Assistant Professor of Greek Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University

The Science of Storytelling
2023-04-27 14:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

White Mountain National Forest Archaeology: An Evening With Heritage Staff
2023-04-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
White Mountain National Forest Archaeology: An Evening With Heritage Staff – NHAS
Sarah Jordan, Heritage Program Manager and Forest Archaeologist, Claire Sleeman, Assistant Forest Archaeologist, Genevieve Everett, Archaeological Technician, White Mountain National Forest
The White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) comprises 800,000 acres of federally managed land in three New Hampshire counties, Grafton, Carroll, and Coos, and Oxford County in Maine. The 800,000 acres are split into three districts, the Pemigewasset, Saco and Androscoggin, where Forest Service staff work every day, including five Heritage Program staff, Heritage Program Manager/Forest archaeologist, Sarah Jordan, Assistant Forest Archaeologist, Claire Sleeman, and Archaeological Technicians, Genevieve Everett, Alisha Teator, and Maggie Barry. Learn a bit about how Sarah, Claire and Gen work to manage and protect heritage and archaeological resources in the White Mountains.
Location: Zoom. Register at bit.ly/2023NHASevent

Living in ruins: Vibrancy and decay in the ancient Maya city
2023-04-26 19:00 (America/Chicago) | DePaul Center, Room 8206, 1 E Jackson Ave,, Chicago, IL, 60604
Stone Lecture

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
2023-04-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | Cornell University, G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY, United States
Eisenpreis Lecture

CANCELED: The Global Economies of Late Antique Egypt
2023-04-25 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Dunwalke Lecture

Graduate and Undergraduate Research Lightning Round
2023-04-25 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MA
We’re now accepting abstracts for an opportunity to present at our Lightning Round Research Presentations which will take place as a hybrid event in Iowa City and virtually via Zoom. This lightning round is open to undergraduate and graduate students from Iowa colleges and universities. We welcome abstracts from anthropology, archaeology, art history, classics, history, and other related disciplines that engage with archaeological research from around the globe. Abstracts (200-300 words) are due no later than March 1, 2023 and can be submitted at this site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdi6w7Z4HmBU3U8GBYzuzchZnsJIroU8zXP_WHlfRMNXXkHkw/viewform. Five successful abstracts will be selected for presentation either virtually or in person. Selected participants will be notified by March 10, 2023. All students who are selected to present will receive a one-year student membership to the AIA! We’re excited to highlight new and ongoing research from honors and MA theses, PhD dissertations, or any exceptional project in order to support young scholars and help them in their future careers! Audience members at this event will have the chance to ask our student presenters questions about their research, too, so don’t miss this event and stay tuned for the on-campus location for those wishing to attend in-person; if you wish to attend via Zoom, please register here: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwoc-usqz0uEtGDN_vT0P-C34KlT2W_DAcl

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection
2023-04-25 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join Caitlin Clerkin for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.
Led by:
Caitlin Clerkin, Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art
Gallery talks are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The gallery talk reservation will also serve as your general museum reservation. If required, visitors will pay the museum admission fee upon arrival.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-04-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Long Island), Hempstead, NY
Kershaw Lecture

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in ten objects
2023-04-23 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Research on ancient environments, combining natural archives, scientific analyses, archaeological evidence, as well as texts and documents to reconstruct the interactions between humans, environment, climates, and to understand histories. We will look at 10 objects recovered from societies of the ancient Mediterranean that reveal and illustrate their histories.
This lecture will be zoomed.
James Foy is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: AIA/Long Island Society Zoom Meeting. Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean Ten Objects by Dr. Catherine Kearns
Time: Apr 23, 2023 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Gaspé Maritime Archaeology Project
2023-04-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | Building 51/ Rm 1104, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL, 32224
Matson Lecture

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2023-04-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | Harbor Walk West 217, College of Charleston, 360 Concord Street, Charleston, SC, 29401
Renner Lecture

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2023-04-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
Archaeology of Portugal Lectures

Unearthing History: Hunting Techniques of the Paleo-Indian
2023-04-20 07:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Unearthing History: Hunting Techniques of the Paleo-Indian – Avon Historical Society – NHAS
Dr. Richard Boisvert, NH State Archaeologist, Retired
Hunting was a centerpiece of Paleoindian life. In the Northeast, researchers agree that caribou was the top priority game animal. These animals were essential for not only food but also clothing and shelter. As simple as this sounds, documenting caribou hunting and understanding how it was integrated with social organization and how people dispersed over the landscape is quite complex with many unanswered questions. This presentation explores this issue and makes a case for a model of Paleoindian caribou hunting in Northern New England.
Virtual Session Register bit.ly/HuntingTechniques

The Arizona Sicily Project: Survey and Excavations in the province of Trapani presented by Dr. Emma Blake
2023-04-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
A decade of fieldwork in westernmost Sicily has revealed a previously unnoticed pattern: high quantities of North African artifacts in virtually all periods, from the Paleolithic to the present day. From prehistoric stone tools, to Carthaginian amphoras and Roman finewares, to the soda bottles of contemporary migrants, a picture emerges of a deep and enduring localized connection between Sicily and Tunisia. This talk presents the material traces of Tunisian influence in western Sicily from two field surveys and a new excavation, and explores the significance and nature of those complex interactions across the Sicilian Channel.
Bio: Emma Blake (Ph.D. University of Cambridge), is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is Editor-in-Chief (with Robert Schon) of the American Journal of Archaeology. Blake is a Mediterranean archaeologist, focusing on identity construction in Italy in the second and first millennia BCE. She is the author of Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy (Cambridge University Press 2014), as well as numerous articles. She has conducted fieldwork in western Sicily for many years and directs an archaeological field survey tracing the extent of Tunisian influence in western Sicily in all periods. She is co-directing new excavations at the ancient city of Segesta, Sicily.

With, For, and By: Doing Archaeology in a Grand Ronde Way
2023-04-19 19:00 (America/New_York), 2023-04-18 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

With, For, and By -- Doing Archaeology in a Grand Ronde Way
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Sara Gonzalez (University of Washington)
Come join us for a watch party of Professor Gonzalez’s live-streamed lecture. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.

Divine Mortals: Royal Ancestor Worship in Deir el-Medina (Hybrid Lecture)
2023-04-18 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Yasmin El Shazly, Deputy Director for Research and Programs, American Research Center in Egypt
The Egyptian craftsmen and artists who created and decorated royal tombs during the New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 BCE) lived in Deir el-Medina. Today, this well-preserved village is a key source of information about the daily lives, artistic practices, and religious traditions of ancient Egyptians. Yasmin El Shazly will discuss the importance of ancestor worship in Deir el-Medina—particularly of Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari. Prominently featured in homes, artwork, and tombs, these two royal figures held important positions in the Egyptian “hierarchy of being” and exerted great influence over the daily lives of Deir el-Medina residents.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Leviathan’s Revenge: Archaeology and the Destructive Convergence of Land, Sea, and Humans
2023-04-16 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, CA, 94954, United States

The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island
2023-04-16 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 Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper, National Museums, Berlin:
“The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island”
Sunday, April 16, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
About the Lecture:
Elephantine was a militarily and strategically very important island on the river Nile at the southern border of Egypt. No other settlement in Egypt is so well attested through texts over such a long period of time, 4000 years. Its inhabitants form a multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious community that left us vast amounts of written sources detailing their everyday lives from the Old Kingdom to beyond the Arab Conquest. Today, several thousand papyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine are scattered in more than 60 institutions in 24 different countries across Europe and beyond. Their texts are written in ten different languages and scripts, including Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Coptic and Arabic. 80% of these manuscripts were unpublished or unstudied before.
Thus, access was gained to these texts, making them publicly available in an open access online research database. Links could be identified between papyrus fragments from different collections, and an international ‘papyrus puzzle’ undertaken, incorporating cutting-edge methods from digital humanities, physics and mathematics (e.g. for the virtual unfolding of papyri). For the first time in the history of papyrology, papyrus packages can now be read virtually, without physically opening them. Using this database with medical, religious, legal, administrative, even literary texts, the everyday life of the local and global (i.e. ‘glocal’) community of Elephantine can be studied. Elephantine can thus be used as a case study and a model for the past, present and future.
About the Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper is the Curator of the Egyptian and Oriental Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum, National Museums Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is in charge of a collection with around 30,000 objects in ten different languages and scripts and has managed several exhibition and research projects in Germany and abroad (Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Bonn, Doha, Harvard) with a team of employees.
She conducts research on topics such as Egyptian and Oriental papyri, literary and cultural history, and the history of science and art. To this end, she has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues with international publishers.
Dr. Lepper studied Egyptology, Semitic Philology, Christian Orient Studies and Hebrew Bible at Bonn, Cologne, Tuebingen, Oxford and Harvard University. She has received several awards for her scientific and curatorial work, including the highly renowned ERC-Grant from the European Research Council for the project: “Elephantine”.
To promote Arab-German academic exchange, she founded the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in 2013. She is involved in numerous committees in the field of scientific and cultural policy and diplomacy. Visiting professorships and fellowships have also taken her to Harvard and Princeton University.
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The Many Faces of James Loeb
2023-04-16 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Venture with us into the world of collector and philanthropist James Loeb to uncover his personality, examine his influence on ancient studies, and delight in the small objects that filled his life. Specialists from different fields will present various aspects about Loeb, and together they will help us see a complete portrait.
Florian Knauss, from the State Collections of Antiquities and Glyptothek in Munich, will discuss Loeb as a collector and philanthropist. He will highlight objects from Loeb’s collection and give an overview of Loeb’s collecting activities and the legacy of his charitable achievements.
Mirte Liebregts, from the Radboud University in the Netherlands, will focus on the establishment of the Loeb Classical Library, the bilingual publication series founded by James Loeb. She will examine Loeb’s motivations for creating the series and their relationship to his collecting.
Harvard professor Richard F. Thomas will moderate a conversation after the two presentations.
This event accompanies the exhibition A World within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, on view through May 7, 2023.
The galleries will be open until 5pm. You are encouraged to view the exhibition either before or after the event.
Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

ARCE-PA Lecture by Dr. Ellen Morris, Barnard College
2023-04-15 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ARCE-PA Lecture
Saturday April 15 at 3:30pm
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Ellen Morris, Associate Professor of Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
Lecture Topic: Famine and Festival in Ancient Egypt
Abstract:
In pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, two occurrences had the power to radically transform the status quo: revolts and episodes of mass mortality. When the two co-occurred, they destabilized a rigid social hierarchy. Such moments – at which underlings threatened to gain the upper hand or at least exhibited a marked reluctance to return to their former subservience – caused an immense degree of anxiety among Egypt’s elites. Extremely severe famines and the plagues that often engendered this destabilization occurred infrequently. The magnitude of the upheavals and social transformations that happened in their wake, however, ensured that their memory was passed down (and needed to be passed down) through generations as a caution. For people who knew only strong kings and times of plenty, it was necessary to “remember” hunger, suffering, and terror in order that warning signs be taken seriously. Although written testimony and prophesy helped keep such memories alive, echoes of social upheavals incorporated into festivities surrounding the Egyptian New Year may have been far more effective agents of intergenerational transmission.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Ellen Morris, an Associate Professor of Ancient Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, writes on imperialism, political fragmentation, state formation, sexuality and sacred performance, retainer sacrifice, landscape theory, and divine kingship in Egypt’s social history. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the (esteemed) University of Pennsylvania, she has published a great many articles (most of which are freely available on academia.edu) and two books: The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom (Brill, 2005), Ancient Egyptian Imperialism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). A Cambridge Element titled Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt is forthcoming in 2023. She has also excavated at Abydos, Mendes, Deir el-Ballas and Amheida at Dakhleh Oasis.
Lectures are FREE for ARCE members. For non-ARCE members admission is as follows: $10 general admissions; $7 for Penn Museum members, Faculty & Staff; $5 for Students with ID (12 and under FREE).

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-04-15 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room in Thomson Hall, 1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States

Diet and Cuisine at Pompeii
2023-04-15 13:00 (America/Chicago) | MA
ZOOM Lecture entitled “Diet and Cuisine at Pompeii” by Dr. Scott Stull ( SUNY – Cortland). 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.

Finding Lost, Stolen, and Kidnapped Children in Indian Boarding School Cemeteries Using Multi-Instrument Geophysical Survey: Chemawa Indian Boarding School
2023-04-15 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton., 450 East Stewart St, Dayton, OH, 45409, United States
The final presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America’s Dayton Society 2022-2023 Lecture Series presented by Northern Cheyenne Tribe citizen Marsha Small, M.A. from Montana State University and Dr. Jarrod Burks from Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc.
Since 2016 Marsha Small and Jarrod Burks have been conducting geophysical investigations to identify the locations of over 200 unmarked burials at the Chemawa Boarding School in Salem, OR. The school originally opened in 1880 and today is one of four remaining off-reservation boarding schools funded and operated by the federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). From the 1880s to about 1940 students who died at the school were buried in the school cemetery. Disturbances in the cemetery had by 1960 removed any grave markers that were there and since then new markers were placed to create a memorial garden, though those markers did not mark actual grave locations.
This lecture is currently scheduled to take place in person in the Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton.
For those planning to attend in person please see info on UD’s guidance on face coverings here: https://udayton.edu/coronavirus/frequently_asked_questions.php#face_coverings
For a campus map with building and parking information visit https://udayton.edu/map/
Thanks to the Archaeological Institute of America’s Lecture Program and its Dayton Society members this lecture is free and open to the public.

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2023-04-13 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | John C Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette University, 245 Winter Street SE, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Archaeology of Portugal Lecture
