Archaeological Institute of America

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-01-27 18:30 (America/New_York) | Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, 43620, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

RESCHEDULED: "Otzi The Iceman": Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-01-30 17:30 (America/Chicago) | MA
Norton Lecture

Absolute Egypt
2023-01-31 - 2023-02-17 | MA
This itinerary is carefully crafted to provide the discerning traveler with the finest Egypt tour available. It combines all the best attributes of an in-depth, small-group, all-inclusive, well-paced, luxury trip.
Highlights:
Learn with a distinguished and engaging American scholar plus a wonderful local Egyptologist and an excellent tour manager. This trio has been receiving accolades for many years.
Travel with a maximum of just 16 guests plus your trio of leaders.
Enjoy the best accommodations, including 12 nights at luxurious, 5-star hotels in Giza, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan; one night at the best-available hotel in Abydos; and a three-night Nile cruise aboard a comfortable, eight-cabin dahabiya (traditional Nile sail boat).
Meet with excavators and conservators, including behind-the-scenes visits, when possible.
Discover the preeminent sites of the pharaohs from Cairo to Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel:
If it is open, spend two full days exploring the Grand Egyptian Museum that is scheduled to open in late 2022.
Tour the amazing Giza pyramids and Sphinx as well as Saqqara’s Step Pyramid of Djoser and newly-discovered, closed-to-the-public, Tomb of Wah Ti.
Explore the astounding temple complex of Karnak as well as Luxor Temple, plus spectacular royal mortuary temples and tombs in the Valleys of the Kings and Queens, such as those of Seti I and Nefertari.
Visit the remarkable Temple of Hathor at Dendara as well as Abydos, one of the oldest and most important cities in ancient Egypt, where Steve Harvey, your AIA lecturer, has been working since 1993.
Cruise the Nile from Esna to Aswan aboard an eight-cabin sail boat, away from the convoys of large riverboats, so that we visit remarkable temples without the typical crowds. From the spacious top deck, observe timeless pastoral scenes of feluccas, farmers, herders, and village life.
Fly to Abu Simbel to visit the stunning and enormous rock-cut temples of Ramesses II and Nefertari.
An optional, seven-day, post-tour extension to the Siwa Oasis and Alexandria

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-01-31 18:00 (America/New_York) | Emil W. Haury Anthropology Building, Room 216, University of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States

Great Lecture: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
2023-02-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Historic preservation has rarely been a subject taken up by historians. In an effort to address this ironic situation, this talk recounts some of the main themes and critiques shaping the development of built heritage and its preservation in the U.S.—and how this process was itself shaped by periodic reimagining of the American past, as well as by international movements such as UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention.
Speaker: Randall Mason, Professor of City & Regional Planning/Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design

Life and Death on the Nile: Diet, Origins, and Mobility in Ancient Nubia
2023-02-02 17:30 - 18:45 (America/Chicago) | AGED Building , Room 00102, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
Dr. Tosha Dupras, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Texas Tech University, will share her research on diet and mobility in ancient Nubia.

Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande
2023-02-04 13:00 (America/Chicago) | MA
ZOOM lecture: “Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande” by Cyril Dumas (Curator at the Musee Yves Brayer Baux de Provence). 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.

Society Sunday 2023 Public Lecture
2023-02-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | MA
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Going to Work in the Roman Empire: The archaeology of Potters and Potting
Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Elizabeth Murphy. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language.
Professional working lives define our place in society and structure the rhythms of our daily experience—how, then, were such lives lived in the past? In this talk, Elizabeth Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Florida State University, will investigate the everyday working lives of ancient craftspeople by venturing into the workshops of a single, common profession—potters.
With many hundreds of kilns documented from the Mediterranean, with elaborate trade networks reconstructed from distributed pottery, and with workshops appearing in a range of settings (from cities to rural estates), potters and their ceramic products are arguably the most archaeologically visible craft profession of the ancient world, yet we have no biographical accounts or personal narratives from the period on the lives of these workers. Using the rich archaeological record, she will investigate their workplaces and working lives—from the technologies of production to the rituals and magic of workshops.
Elizabeth A. Murphy is an archaeologist specializing in the study of the Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods. Her research and teaching concern the social and economic organization of the Roman world; more specifically, her work focuses on the history and archaeology of labor, production, and technology. She is a specialist in material culture studies, with particular emphasis on the artifactual record of crafts production, and her fieldwork projects have spanned the ancient Mediterranean world from Asia Minor to Italy. She currently co-directs the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project (LASS), a diachronic landscape project in the modern region of Sulcis (Sardinia, Italy). With LASS, she is investigating the settlement organization, landscape exploitation, and daily life practices of this rural region during the period of the Roman Empire.
The lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-02-05 14:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Room TBD, Paterson Hall 303, Ottawa, Canada
Kershaw Lecture

West Coast Tut Tour: An afternoon with Aidan Dodson in San Francisco, Feb. 5, de Young Museum
2023-02-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
To anyone in the SF Bay Area interested in Ancient Egypt,
I wanted to let you know about an exciting event that ARCE Northern California is hosting with the American Research Center in Egypt and the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. On February 5 at 2pm, the Tut Chapter Tour is coming to the de Young Museum, and features a lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson. For more information, please go to https://www.arce.org/west-coast-tut-tour. Be advised that although the event is free, registration is required. To go straight to registration, click on this link: https://secure.everyaction.com/imoaeYmGY0WyV2Q0J-9qpQ2 .
Hashtags: #TutChapterTour #ARCE #AidanDodson #deYoung
There will be a discount on ARCE membership for people who sign up at the lecture. Hope you can join us!
Glenn Meyer
ARCE Northern California Publicity Director

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (Room TBA), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, CA, 93740

Waterscapes in Etruria: Vulci (10th cent. BCE-5th cent.CE)
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Berkeley, Dwinelle 370, 101 Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis
2023-02-07 17:30 (America/New_York) | 1214 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, 27412

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-02-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | MA

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-09 18:00 (America/New_York) | Behavioral Sciences Building (BEH) 103, USF Tampa Campus, 4209 USF Willow Drive, Tampa, FL, 33620

AIA Webster Lecture: The International Space Station Archaeological Project
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | DePaul University, McGowan South 107, 1110 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614, United States
Since 2015, Justin Walsh and Alice Gorman have been leading the first archaeological study of a human habitation site in space, the International Space Station. In that time, they have studied crew-created visual displays, processes for handling cargo returned to Earth, population distributions in the various ISS modules, the use of simple technologies as “gravity surrogates,” and more. Recently, they performed the first archaeological work in space, with the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE), which had the crew document six locations around the space station through daily photography.
This project just received the AIA’s Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology!

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | John C. Hitt Library Room 402, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States

Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes!
2023-02-11 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Teen Saturdays! is designed for Latino teens interested in culture and community. High school students of Hispanic heritage are invited to monthly workshops to explore notions of culture and identity through bilingual discussions, hands-on activities, and exploring their reactions to exhibits. Sign up for one session or more. Meet people, munch on snacks, learn something new, and help make the museums more accessible to Latino audiences. February–May sessions will focus on Indigenous cultures. Teens will have the opportunity to suggest topics to explore in future sessions.
The program includes:
• Gallery visits to the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
• Hands-on projects
• Spanish/English sessions
• All materials and tools for projects
• A certificate of participation if attending three or more sessions
• Tasty snacks
Free. Advance registration required by February 8 at 5:00 pm for the February 11 event. Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
Saturdays:
February 11: Arctic Engraving
March 4: Healing Stress
April 1: Poetry & Music
May 13: Solstice Traditions
¡Sábados de Jóvenes! está diseñado para adolescentes latinos interesados en la cultura y la comunidad. Los estudiantes en preparatoria de herencia hispana están invitados a talleres mensuales para explorar nociones de cultura e identidad a través de diálogos bilingües, actividades prácticas y exploración del museo. Regístrate para una sesión o más. Conoce gente, disfruta de snacks, aprende algo nuevo y ayuda a que los museos sean más accesibles para audiencias latinas. Las sesiones de febrero a mayo se enfocarán en las culturas indígenas. Los joìvenes tendraìn la oportunidad de sugerir temas que les gustariìan que el grupo explorara en futuras sesiones.
El programa incluye:
Visitas a galerías de los Museos de Ciencia y Cultura de Harvard Proyectos prácticos
Sesiones en español/inglés
Todos los materiales y herramientas para proyectos
Un certificado de participación si asisten a tres o más sesiones Sabrosos snacks
Gratis. Inscripción previa requerida para el 8 de febrero a las 5:00 pm para asistir al taller del 11 de febrero.

Sábados:
11 de febrero: Grabados del Aìrtico
4 de marzo: Aliviando Estreìs
1 de Abril: Poesiìa y Muìsica
13 de Mayo: Tradiciones de Solsticio

Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica
2023-02-12 11:30 (America/New_York) | MA
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Elise Poppen, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Buffalo State University of New York, will present on “Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica.”

Second Sunday Culture Films: Wall Stories & The Calligrapher of Old Delhi
2023-02-12 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, 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.
Wall Stories
dir Shashwati Talukdar (2014)
A shrine to a saint in India is a vibrant spiritual home for people of many faiths, and the murals on its walls reveal the syncretic confluence of peoples and beliefs. This charming film features animation and other experimental storytelling modes that turn the subjects of these historic paintings into dynamic, living figures.
The calligrapher of Old Delhi
dir Ambarien Al Qadr (2023)
A calligrapher writing in Urdu, Persian and Arabic continues his craft in the marketplace, despite the pressures of the Hindu majority and threats to diversity and cultural heritage.
Speakers: Presented by Harjant Gill, Towson University, in conversation with the filmmakers.

Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
2023-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures, Room 126 Social Sciences Building, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg., UC Berkeley, 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. Peter Brand, University of Memphis:
Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
Sunday, February 12, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
No Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
Ramesses II was both a great warrior and visionary statesman. For two decades, he fought the mighty Hittite Empire for control of Syria including the famous Battle of Kadesh. His military campaigns were the culmination of over six decades of hostilities between these ancient superpowers. Yet Ramesses had the vision to make a lasting peace with Egypt’s bitter rival, when he concluded a treaty in his twenty-first regnal year with his Hittite counterpart Hattusili III. A remarkable cache of diplomatic letters, second only to the famous Amarna Letters, offers a fascinating glimpse of the pharaoh’s boisterous and often tense diplomatic exchanges with Hattusili III and his formidable consort, the Hititte Queen Puduhepa. Fifteen years later, Ramesses negotiated with Puduhepa to marry a Hittite princess. His lively debates with the Hittite king and queen reveal a very different Ramesses II than the god-king and warrior pharaoh we see on his monuments.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Peter Brand is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto and a naturalized American citizen. He is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at the University of Memphis. Since 2001 Dr. Brand has served as the Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project sponsored by the University of Memphis, which aims to record and publish all the monumental inscriptions and reliefs from this huge building.
Dr. Brand studied at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis before completing his PhD in Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto in 1998. His dissertation, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis, was published by Brill in 2000. Dr. Brand’s area of focus in Egyptology is the history and culture of the New Kingdom, particularly the late 18th Dynasty and the Ramesside Period. In his research and teaching he uses a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates history, art history, language and epigraphy.
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Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii
2023-02-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 601, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States
Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
For Zoom attendance, please register here: https://bit.ly/3R8sJBY
Dr. Catherine Baker (Mount Holyoke College) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii.”
Abstract: From the chipped corners of an ancient die to the mortar on a reused inscription, artifacts tell stories. Archaeologists reconstruct these object biographies, tracing the lives of ancient artifacts from their creation to their final deposition. In this talk, I explore the stories of some of the artifacts excavated by the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (University of Cincinnati), including dice and gaming pieces, statuettes, tools of potters, and even nails. These object biographies shed light not only on the way people first used these objects, but on their afterlives – the ways in which objects were discarded, recycled, and reused. These lives and afterlives of objects, in turn, shape the archaeology of a site, allowing us to trace the complex patterns of use, reuse, and discard which characterized the history of one neighborhood in the Roman city of Pompeii.

Antiochia ad Cragum: Pirates, Romans, and More Pirates – Updates from the 2022 Season
2023-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | MA
Dr. Michael Hoff
Professor of Art History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Roman-era city of Antiochia ad Cragum lies on the south coast of Turkey in the region of ancient Rough Cilicia. Prior to the city’s foundation the site served as one of the major bases of the infamous Cilician Pirates who preyed on shipping along the coastal waterways of the Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic period. Following the resolution of the pirate threat in the first century BCE, the city was founded and eponymously named by Antiochus IV of Commagene. Since 2005 the city has been undergoing excavation which during the last 16 years has brought to light much of the urban fabric of a Roman city: Temples, Baths, Aqueducts, Colonnades. This lecture presents the highlights of the discoveries made over the years, particularly the many well-preserved mosaics. This lecture will discuss new findings from the 2022 summer excavation season.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.
To register, visit https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpde2rqDsuG9XAXAfIftozW17I0qsdGJJp

The Painted Forest: The Rock Art of the Serrania de la Lindosa, Colombian Amazon
2023-02-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Virtual lecture given by Dr. José Iriarte, Professor of Archaeology from University of Exeter, UK

Dr. Randall Souza: “Survival and resilient communities in ancient Sicily: The lessons of Entella”
2023-02-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
When communities dissolve, it is rare for them to be reborn. During the First Punic Wars (ca. 264-241 BCE), the people of Entella were expelled from their city; a critical portion of the refugees actually managed to return to Entella and restart the life of their Community thanks to the aid of various kinds from friendly cities and individuals. The fact that their community had survived because of a network of benefactors did hot escape the newly reinstated citizens of Entella, who thanked their benefactors in ways particularly geared toward strengthening that very network. The decrees they inscribed on bronze tablets preserve a rare first-person account of a community at the mercy of greater powers. This talk analyzes the inter- and intra-community relationships at play in the survival and resurgence off Entella as a community. The people of Entella had faced elimination, and instead of turning inward, they ensured their future by cultivating connections with other groups in order to create a new, more expansive community.
Dr. Randall Souza, Seattle University.

Collapse of the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A View from the Suburbs
2023-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | MA
The Archaeological Institute of America’s Iowa Society welcomes Dr. Andrew Somerville (Iowa State University, Dept of World Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Marion Forest (PaleoWest Archaeology and Arizona State University) who will present “Collapse of the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A View from the Suburbs”. This is a live, virtual presentation (7:00 PM central time) with time for Q&A from participating audience members at the end.
Abstract: Between approximately A.D. 1-550, the ancient city of Teotihuacan was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Located just north of Mexico City, Teotihuacan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the most visited tourist attraction in Mexico today. Despite containing a population of about 100,000 people for over five centuries, the state of Teotihuacan underwent a collapse at around A.D. 500 and the urban population fell by up to 80%. For decades, scholars have debated the causes for Teotihuacan’s decline, invoking various factors including climate change, invasion, and revolt. This paper reviews evidence for the collapse of Teotihuacan and discusses our new excavations at the suburban neighborhood of Hacienda Metepec, a residential and ceremonial center on the eastern edge of the city that was occupied before and after the collapse.
Please register in advance: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdeGrrjIqHdIf-CA6iY6-PlKZxhawBmYO#/registration

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-21 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis – St. Paul), Minneapolis, MN
Norton Lecture
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A Maritime Small World in Western Cyprus: Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, and Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.
