Archaeological Institute of America

Let them Rest in Peace: The Sacred Burials of Frescoes, Pots, and Rooms in the House of the Frescoes at Knossos
2021-09-27 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Princeton 1), Princeton, NJ
Thompson Lecture

Violence against the Enslaved in Ancient Rome
2021-09-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Kuala Lumpur
A number of publications have criticized the motif of the “happy slave” in antiquity. This presentation by John Gruber-Miller of Cornell College is meant to provide a corrective to that representation, and take a deeper look at the evidence for how the enslaved experienced “social death” (Patterson). As Kamen (2010), Trimble (2016), and others have pointed out, Roman slaveholders used a variety of ways to mark slaves as property and to stigmatize them as social outcasts—workhouses, slave collars, brandings, tattoos, and scars. This presentation will lead participants through a sampling of the material and textual evidence for technologies used by slaveholders to control slaves’ bodies and to assert their ownership. Furthermore, Gruber-Miller will suggest an approach for exploring the radically different perspectives of the slaveholder and the enslaved.
Warning: this presentation will show potentially disturbing images and discuss difficult topics of confining, branding, whipping, and scarring human beings without their consent. We request that all attendees behave respectfully and demonstrate civility. Anyone violating these basic guidelines will be removed from the meeting and will not be allowed to log back in.

Whim Rules the Child: The Archaeology of Childhood in Scandinavian Scotland
2021-09-27 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Worcester 1)
Please contact Llazar@assumption.edu or pclement@assumption.edu for the Zoom link.

Lecture to be followed by question and answers and virtual wine & cheese.

Co-sponsored by the Human Arts Series, the History Program, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, and the Office of the Provost of Assumption University.

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2021-09-27 19:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Alabama Huntsville, Wilson Theatre 001, Huntsville, AL, 35816, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Currents and Commodities: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands
2021-09-28 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Toronto 1), Toronto, ON

Art and Identity in the Gardens and Garden Paintings on the Bay of Naples
2021-09-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Finger Lakes 1), Ithaca, NY
Jashemski Lecture

Royal Purple and Indigo: The Hidden Labor Behind Luxurious Dyes
2021-09-29 18:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar (Hartford), Hartford, CT, United States

Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: founders and foundation myths in the Roman Near East
2021-09-29 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Kansas City/Lawrence 1), Lawrence, KS
Kershaw Lecture

Digging Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben: The Archaeology of Enslaved Cooks
2021-09-29 18:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Cincinnati 1), Cincinnati, OH

Girls Will Be Boys? Investigating Images of Athletic Women in Ancient Etruscan Art
2021-09-29 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Central Indiana 1), Indianapolis, IN
Roberts Lecture

Terrace Utah, Population 0
2021-09-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | online, Portugal, Maia, AK, 0000, Egypt
Join us for our online webinar event!
Utah’s desert sands have buried incredible stories – now it’s time to uncover what has been lost.
Hustling and bustling to starkly quiet, the life of one of Utah’s largest railroad towns of the 1870s-1890s remains part of the historical and archaeological record.
Archaeologists with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and the Bureau of Land Management partnered with the Chinese Railroad Workers’ Descendants Association to complete two seasons of fieldwork at the town of Terrace, home to Utah’s third largest Chinatown in 1870. Though ravaged by time and vandals, the archaeological heritage of this site is rich and helping connect living peoples to this past experience. In honor of International Archaeology Day, this presentation will honor of the voices of those past residents of Terrace through the Chinese descendant community, archaeological discoveries, and work of numerous volunteers.
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Marbles and Marines: The U.S. Mediterranean Squadron and the Earliest American Excavations in the Mediterranean
2021-09-30 17:30 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Columbia 1), Columbia, MO
Edward J. Bader Lecture

Matrices of the Mother Goddess: Some Reconsiderations of Kybele in Western Anatolia
2021-09-30 17:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Western Massachusetts 1), Northampton, MA

Tracing the Origins of Art
2021-09-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Atlanta 1), Atlanta, GA

Before the Railway: Trade and the Syrian Hajj in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
2021-09-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Charleston 1), Charleston, SC
Forsyth Lecture

Laboratoire d’archéologie publique / Public Archaeology Lab
2021-10-01 12:00 - 2021-10-17 17:00 (America/New_York) | Musée régional de Rimouski, 35, rue Saint-Germain Ouest, Rimouski, Quebec, G5L 4B4, Canada
We like to think of archaeologists as diggers who, trowel in hand, extract remains from the ground and describe their context. However, while excavation is the most visible and iconic activity in archeology, it is only part of their task. It is in the laboratory that they spend the most time processing their findings, analyzing their data and proposing interpretations that will contribute to our knowledge. As it takes place out of the public eye, this stage of the archaeological process is also the least understood.
To make this work more visible, the Laboratoire d’archéologie et de patrimoine (Archeology and Heritage Laboratory) of the University of Quebec at Rimouski is moving into the Rimouski Regional Museum. From October 1 to 17, 2021, visitors are invited to interact with the archaeologists in residence as they continue their research on local and regional archaeological material.

Archaeology Month at the Alamo
2021-10-01 16:00 - 2021-10-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | Kuala Lumpur
Each week in October, Alamo archaeologists will upload an archaeology-themed post on the Alamo website. The posts will include general archaeology information, as well as details about Alamo archaeology.

Roman Footwear in Context: The assemblage of archaeological leather from Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall
2021-10-01 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Baltimore 1), Baltimore, MD
Baldwin Lecture

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2021-10-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Toledo 1), Toledo, OH

Irresistible Logic: Rupestrian Art and Graphic Writing in the Kongo World
2021-10-03 14:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Lobban Lecture

ISIS and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Syria
2021-10-03 14:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Lincoln-Omaha 1), Omaha, NE
Ingholt Lecture

The Collecting of Classical Antiquities by the Nazi Elite
2021-10-03 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Kuala Lumpur
Much has been written about Adolf Hitler’s interest in classical antiquity and its appropriation under National Socialism, but the question that has not been asked is: do the rhetoric/propaganda and supposed classical aesthetic match the practice among the Nazis of collecting classical antiquities? In this presentation, Dr. Romano will explore what we know about the ancient collections of Hitler and Herrmann Göring, as well as those acquired for the so-called “Führermuseum” envisioned in Linz, Austria, and will attempt to explain the discrepancies between National Socialist ideology and the reality of the collecting of classical antiquities in the Nazi era.

Ireland before the Saints and Scholars: Excavations at the Iron Age Site of Dún Ailinne, Co. Kildare
2021-10-03 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (North Coast 1), Santa Rosa, CA
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Adaptive Capacity of medieval water management systems in Cambodia
2021-10-04 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (San Joaquin Valley 1), Fresno, CA
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The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2021-10-04 19:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Valparaiso 1), Valparaiso, IN

Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Arcadia
2021-10-05 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kuala Lumpur
Dr. Mary E. Voyatzis
Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Classics at the University of Arizona
The mountainous region of Arcadia, situated in the heart of the Peloponnese, has attracted considerable attention since antiquity. Many ancient authors described the region in detail, describing its rich mythology, unusual gods, numerous sanctuaries, engaging history, diverse geography, and the fact that its inhabitants were indigenous, living there even before the moon, and the original inhabitants of Greece. During the Renaissance, Arcadia was depicted in art as a beautiful, pristine, and magical place with unspoiled wilderness. By the 19th c. European travelers were exploring the region, and later in the century archaeologists began excavating its various sites. Today we shall look at some recently excavated sites in Arcadia, focusing on two where the speaker has been involved, the Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea, and the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion. We shall see how archaeological discoveries have contributed significantly to our understanding of the history of Arcadia and enhanced our appreciation of this enchanting mountainous region.

Children at work and play making pottery in ancient Cyprus
2021-10-05 18:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (South Pennsylvania 1), Carlisle, PA
Cesnola Lecture

Homer and the Archaeology of Crete
2021-10-05 19:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Madison 1), Madison, WI
Anita Krause Bader Lecture

POSTPONED Stories of Ancient Resilience and Planet Texas 2050: how can archaeology inform our approach to future environmental and social stresses?
2021-10-06 16:30 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Mississippi-Memphis 1), University, MS
Coulson Lecture

This lecture will be rescheduled at a later date.

Tracing the Origins of Art
2021-10-06 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Boston 1), Boston, MA
