Archaeological Institute of America

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students
2024-03-02 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-03 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-08 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-09 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-10 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-15 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-16 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-17 14:00 - 14:45 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00 pm October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply.
*Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024.
Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times, student schedules permitting.
Photo: EJSP Visual | Julieta Sarmiento

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students
2024-03-03 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-03-10 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-03-17 11:00 - 11:45 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Sundays at 11:00 am October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply. Free museum admission for Massachusetts residents every Sunday morning (year-round) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Proof of residency required. Free museum admission is not available to commercial groups.
*Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024.
Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.
Photo: EJSP Visual | Julieta Sarmiento

Drought-Induced Conflict Among the Ancient Maya
2024-03-03 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States

The People of the Roman Frontiers: Investigating Multicultural Populations in the Western Roman Empire Through Archaeology
2024-03-03 15:00 (America/Winnipeg) | 118 St Johns College, University of Manitoba, 65 Chancellors Cir, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2
Santen lecture

Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin / Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture
2024-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Towson University, Center for the Arts, 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD, 21252, United States
Please join the AIA Baltimore society for the 2024 Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin/Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture. Dr. Sam Holman (Princeton University) will speak on “Architectural Innovation at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace: The Engineering of the Stoa.” This will be a hybrid event, held on Towson University’s campus and on Zoom. The talk can be joined remotely with the following link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=[REDACTED]

Social Justice Through Archaeology
2024-03-09 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri History Museum, AT & T room, 5700 LINDELL BLVD, St. Louis, MO, 63112, United States
Joukowsky lecture

The Big Reveal: Airborne Laser Scanning and Archaeology of the Northern Maya Lowlands by Dr. Ken Seligson
2024-03-10 11:30 (America/New_York) | MA
Since 2009 lidar spatial imagery has been transforming the way that archaeologists approach settlement and landscape studies in the Maya lowlands. Lidar laser technology allows researchers to virtually peel back the dense canopy of the Maya jungle, revealing hundreds of thousands of ancient structures and landscape modifications. Deep in the hilly Puuc Region of the northern lowlands, a recent 240-sq-km lidar flyover has allowed archaeologists to confirm previous suspicions that the north was just as densely populated and architecturally complex as the south. This talk focuses mainly on the large site of Muluchtzekel (c. 500 BCE – 950 CE) and elaborates on the broader implications of the new mapping technology (both its benefits and drawbacks) for understanding changes in human-environmental relationships and socio-political organization over time.
Meeting ID: 820 0422 7184
Passcode: [REDACTED]

More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee
2024-03-14 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Art Auditorium, Art Building University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI, 96822, United States
Matson lecture

Imhotep: The Man, the Myth, the Monster
2024-03-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Room 140 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Julia Troche, Missouri State University, Springfield:
“Imhotep: The Man, the Myth, the Monster”
Sunday March 17, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 140, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
This in-person lecture will be recorded for later publication on YouTube.
About the Lecture:
“It comes to life!” is the tagline for the 1932 Universal film The Mummy wherein a reanimated Imhotep, as the mummy horror icon, brings terror and violence to all who encounter him. Imhotep, in fact, was a historical ancient Egyptian who is credited with engineering Egypt’s first pyramid, the stepped pyramid at Saqqara for King Djoser (c. 2650 BCE). In antiquity he was venerated as a folk hero and eventually worshiped as a god. How and why did Imhotep become a horror icon? The answer is what we refer to as “Egyptomania,” that is, our obsession with and consumption of ancient Egypt throughout history. This talk invites audiences to follow Imhotep and his many legacies throughout history as a way to explore Egyptomania. But it is not all fun and amusement park rides, as we consider some of the benefits and problems of Egyptomania in our everyday lives.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Julia Troche is an Egyptologist, historian, and award-winning educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Egyptology from Brown University and a B.A. in History from UCLA. Dr. Troche is currently Associate Professor at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO, and Visiting Scholar of Egyptology at Brown for her sabbatical (2023-24). She serves as a Governor for the Board of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), is President and co-founder of ARCE-Missouri, and for the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), she is co-chair of the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee and co-chair of the Archaeology of Egypt sessions for the annual meeting. Her first book, Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms was published in 2021 with Cornell University Press. She is currently working on a book about the god Ptah for Bloomsbury, a textbook (with B. Brinkman) for Routledge, and a series of articles on Egyptomania and Imhotep that she hopes to turn into a public-facing book.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, http://www.arce-nc.org, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

Trading With The Enemy: Greek Pottery In The Persian World
2024-03-19 17:30 (America/New_York) | Brown University, Rhode Island Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 2912, United States
Norton lecture

A Museum Object from Antiquity Reexamined - Head of a Ruler
2024-03-19 18:00 (America/New_York) | General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Friends of AIA-NYS invite you to a special lecture!
The Metropolitan Museum Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art cares for approximately 7,000 works from 8th Century B.C. to 7th Century A.D. The objects come from an area that today comprises Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean coast, Yemen, and Central Asia. The Met’s Jean-François de Lapérouse and Dr.Kim Benzel will focus on a particular antiquity object as they reveal how cutting-edge technology and new scholarship have led to the reattribution of The Met’s bronze Head of a Ruler, transforming our understanding of the chronology of lost wax casting technology. Available online and in person.
Presented in partnership with Friends of AIA-NYS. Please email hjames@studiolxiv.com – AIA members have free entry. RSVP required for Entry or Link.
Lecture held at The General Society Library
20 West 44th Street
6PM

Archaeology and Conservation: The Tombs at Rio Azul, a Treasure in Guatemala
2024-03-19 19:00 (America/Denver) | MA
Joukowsky lecture
Meeting ID: 832 2135 7072
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Why Underwater? The Importance of Submerged Landscape Research for Understanding Pleistocene Peoples in the New World
2024-03-19 19:30 (America/New_York) | Room 117 (Semans Auditorium), Belk Visual Arts Center, 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, 28036, United States

Jessi Halligan, “Why underwater? The importance of submerged landscape research for understanding Pleistocene peoples in the New World”
2024-03-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Tuesday, March 19, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Belk Visual Arts Center 117
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
This lecture is FREE and open to the public. Please join us if you’re an archaeology enthusiast!
About the lecture:
Perhaps most people think of shipwrecks when underwater archaeology is mentioned, but numerous formerly-terrestrial sites have survived drowning in our freshwater lakes and rivers and on our continental shelves. These sites can even be better preserved than their dry counterparts, and in some cases they can help us answer some of the most pressing questions about people in the past. Thousands of Pleistocene artifacts have been discovered in Florida’s rivers and springs, along with some of the best preserved early sites in the Americas. These sites are challenging archaeological models for the peopling of the Americas, and are providing us with informaƟon about the lifeways of early Indigenous peoples in the New World.
About the speaker:
Dr. Jessi Halligan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University, specializes in geoarchaeology and underwater archaeology. She focuses on the initial peopling of the Americas through an active research program in submerged Paleoindian sites in Florida. This focus leads to complementary foci in hunter-gatherer societies, geoarchaeology, sea level rise and submerged landscape studies, including underwater field methods. She has more than two decades of field and lab experience, having conducted research and/or worked on Cultural Resource Management projects all over the Northeastern United States, the Northern Plains, Texas, and the Southeast. Other major interests include climate change during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene, coastal site preservation, and human adaptation to major climate change.

The Becoming of Mesoamerican Pigments: The Olmec presented by Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez (CU Boulder)
2024-03-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
This lecture presents a new study of pigments and coloring materials that offers a unique window into the development of indigenous science, ideology, and learning processes to innovate knowledge. The color palettes of Juxtlahuaca, Cauadzidziqui and Oxtotitlan caves, all located in the state Guerrero, Mexico, will be compared and evaluated and I will propose how and why the Olmecs began a technological revolution in the manufacture of colors in early Mesoamerica.

Dallas - Ft. Worth Society National Lecture Program lecture
2024-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | TBA (Dallas/Ft. Worth), Dallas, TX

Corpse Wine: The Fermentation of the Dead in Roman Sarcophagi
2024-03-21 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Swallow Hall 101, University of Missouri, 101 Swallow Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, United States

Archaeology, Museums, and War in the 21st Century
2024-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Althouse #106, Dickinson College, 22 North West Street, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States

From the City of Victory to the Foothills of the Himalayas: An Archaeologist in India
2024-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall, Room 109, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Bernard Means (Virginia Commonwealth University). Free and open to the public.

“Reconceiving the nomad: tropes, archaeological reality, and why it matters!” By Tekla Schmaus PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
2024-03-21 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
“Reconceiving the nomad: tropes, archaeological reality, and why it matters!” By Tekla Schmaus PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Abstract coming soon.
About Dr. Tekla Schmaus:
Tekla Schmaus received her PhD from Indiana University in 2015. She is an archaeologist working in Central Eurasia whose research focuses on human-environment interactions, prehistoric economy and diet, and changing political structures in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Her work on human-animal mobility patterns includes methods from zooarchaeology and dental anthropology. In addition, she has extensive fieldwork experience in Kazakhstan, and has directed excavation in Kyrgyzstan.
The lecture will broadcast in realtime via Zoom.
Join Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84120684037?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 841 2068 4037
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