Archaeological Institute of America

Surviving the Maya collapse at Actuncan, Belize
2021-10-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (East Tennessee 1), Knoxville, TN

Tracing the Origins of Art
2021-10-21 17:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Charlottesville 1), Charlottesville, VA
Joukowsky Lecture

Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: founders and foundation myths in the Roman Near East
2021-10-21 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh 1), Pittsburgh, PA
Kershaw Lecture

“Illuminating the Past: An Application of Data Science to Archaeology”
2021-10-20 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Warren County History Museum, 238 S. Sunny Lane, Monmouth, IL, 61462, United States
Michael C. Sostarecz, Professor of Mathematics, Monmouth College (msostarecz@gmail.com)
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is an imaging technique used to non-invasively bring out surface details on artifacts. This lecture will share improvements on how the data is collected, an original model to combine the experimental images, and new options for post-processing. The artifacts presented will include Greco-Egyptian pottery from the Ashmolean and British Museums, arrow points from Monmouth College’s Native American Lithic Collection, and Greek coins from the College’s Shields Collection. With a focus on qualitative comparisons to current models for RTI, this presentation will be geared towards a general audience. Planned extensions of the project involve forensic science, dinosaurs, and scuba diving, albeit probably not at the same time.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 7:30 pm at the Warren County Historical Museum, 238 S. Sunny Lane, Monmouth, IL 61462
Live and on ZOOM: Meeting ID 605 178 8810 Passcode 3xQBD4

Archaeology and Ale with Dr. James Osborne
2021-10-20 19:00 (America/Chicago) | 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Fieldwork and COVID at Turkey’s ‘Newest’ Iron Age Capital:
Results from Türkmen-Karahöyük (Dr. James Osborne, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
In 2019, researchers with the Türkmen-Karahöyük Intensive Survey Project (TISP) identified the site to be one of the very largest Bronze and Iron Age cities in ancient Turkey, despite the fact that it had never been identified before by archaeologists. The chance find of a hieroglyphic inscription authored by a “Great King Hartapu” — one of Archaeology magazine’s Top 10 Discoveries of that year — proved the site must have been a local capital city during the Iron Age, and likely during earlier periods as well. Following a hiatus in 2020 due to COVID, TISP returned to the field in 2021 — only to have COVID remain a logistical and practical hurdle in many ways. This talk will present the background of the site, discuss some of the ways that COVID altered our fieldwork practices, and conclude with showing what we documented despite these challenges: a magnetometry map that shows us what buildings lie just under the surface, ready to be revealed by excavation.
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Gender, Creator Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu
2021-10-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Northern New Jersey 1), Montclair, NJ

Royal Purple and Indigo: The Hidden Labor Behind Luxurious Dyes
2021-10-20 18:30 (America/New_York) | TBA (Gainesville 1), Gainesville, FL, United States
Zoom ID: 745 130 9473

Putting the stone back in the Stone Age: New research on the end of the Maltese Temple Period, a lecture by Dr Huw S. Groucutt, Max Planck Independent Research Group leader in Jena, Germany
2021-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Malta) | Maryland
Abstract : After existing for over one thousand years, the Maltese Temple Period ended around 4,300 years ago. Understanding why has been a topic of considerable interest and debate. In this talk Dr Huw S. Groucutt will discuss this topic, outlining recent research on themes such as regional climate change and evidence for the arrival of new groups of humans. Chronological modelling studies are presented which indicate a correlation between archaeological activity and regional climate, which indicate a long-term societal decline in the final centuries of the Temple Period. Yet, does climate change alone explain the end of the Temple Period, or was something else involved, such as new groups of humans arriving, perhaps bringing a plague epidemic with them? Against this backdrop Dr Groucutt will outline recent research on the distribution and character of Maltese chert. Chert was the main kind of stone used to make stone tools in Maltese prehistory, and is therefore crucial to understanding ancient Maltese society, yet it has seen relatively little study. New insights on the distribution and character of chert in Malta are discussed. This offers new perspectives on the character of Temple Period material culture, and the extent to which the Maltese islands were isolated or integrated with neighbouring regions such as Sicily.

Matrices of the Mother Goddess: Some Reconsiderations of Kybele in Western Anatolia
2021-10-20 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Southern Nevada 1), Las Vegas, NV
Kershaw Lecture
Zoom details:
Meeting ID: 85444244180
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Power plays at Pylos: The past and memory in the tombs and at the palace
2021-10-20 16:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Western New York 1), Buffalo, NY
Zoom Meeting ID: 921 1429 3029
Passcode: [REDACTED]

A Feminist History of Ancient Medicine
2021-10-19 19:15 (America/Denver) | WEBINAR (Santa Fe 1), Santa Fe, NM

Archaeology of Beer
2021-10-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Maryland
It’s been found in the Egyptian pyramids, the cities of Mesopotamia, Viking longboats, the palace of Machu Picchu, medieval monasteries, and the world’s earliest farming villages. What is it? Beer! Beer has been used for thousands of years to pay taxes, heal the sick, and accompany the dead into the afterlife. Many religions worshiped gods and goddesses of beer and brewing, and some of the earliest known examples of both poetry and law codes are about beer. Join us for an evening webinar exploring the archaeology of beer with Public Archaeologist Patty Hamrick.

Let them Rest in Peace: The Sacred Burials of Frescoes, Pots, and Rooms in the House of the Frescoes at Knossos
2021-10-19 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Greensboro 1), Greensboro, NC
McDonald Lecture

Royal Purple and Indigo: the Hidden Labor Behind Luxurious Dyes
2021-10-19 18:00 (America/New_York) | Carraway Building (CAR), 315, 909 Antarctic Way, Tallahassee, FL, United States

Drink Your Hot Chocolate Like a Maya Ruler! Make Your Own Maya Drinking Cup (in English, until October 31st)
2021-10-19 09:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
Have fun learning about Maya ceramics for International Archaeology Day! This activity is a digital kit you can do any time on your own to explore the art and function of ancient Maya painted ceramics. Using various digital resources (including an online video tutorial) you will learn about some of the forms, designs, and functions of Maya ceramic vessels, with special attention to the Maya drinking cup. Complete our Maya drinking cup art activity to enjoy your favorite hot beverage!
Download our digital kit here: https://bit.ly/3oi390T
For an added bonus, if you email a photo of your completed drinking cup to mesoamericacenter@gmail.com by Sunday October 31, 2021 you will be eligible to win a gift box of Guatemalan hot drinking chocolate, ceramic drinking cup, and other small Guatemalan artisan crafts. Three winners will be selected from the submitted photo entries.

Family, food and health in the Bronze Age Aegean: Novel bioarchaeological insights into Mycenaean and Minoan societies
2021-10-17 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Since the famous excavations of Heinrich Schliemann in Mycenae and of Arthur Evans in Knossos, we have been trying to understand the life of the Mycenaean and Minoan societies of the second millennium BCE. Outstanding palaces, literary sources and rich burials have inspired our fascination of the Aegean Bronze Age. However, many basic questions have remained unanswered: How were families structured? What about individual mobility in the Aegean? Did people move from Anatolia to the Aegean or from Mainland Greek to Crete? What about their food and health? Now, a plethora of bioarchaeological approaches from archaeogenetics to the study of food residues in human dental calculus opens up new horizons of knowledge. Within my European Research Council project “FoodTransforms” and at the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, we have now assembled a bioarchaeological dataset of the Aegean Bronze Age, which enables novel insights into Bronze Age marital rules, biological relationships in collective burials, human mobility, culinary practices, resource management and infectious diseases in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC Aegean. I will present these datasets and integrate them into our rich archaeological evidence in order to shed a new light on Mycenaean and Minoan societies.

Aridity and adaptation among Arabian Bronze Age communities: Investigating mobility and climate change using isotope analysis
2021-10-17 15:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Milwaukee 1), Milwaukee, WI
Braidwood Lecture

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Webinar ID: 951 4313 4365
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Syracuse, Empire in a City: An Archaeology of Magna Graecia’s Unwilling Immigrants
2021-10-17 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Maryland
Classical Syracuse was a city of immigrants. Some came seeking work and high wages, others as refugees fleeing the Carthaginians’ advance across Sicily. But most arrived by force after being defeated by the Syracusans and dispossessed of their land. Since the late Archaic period, the Syracusans regularly forced the people they conquered to relocate to Syracusan territory as citizens and then gave away the land they left behind to people from outside of Syracusan society. In this talk, we will explore how the Syracusans competed with their rivals in the Classical period by forcing the people they conquered to become unwilling immigrants at Syracuse, a tumultuous history that saw the Syracusans rapidly uproot much of Magna Graecia. We will examine excavation assemblages from the ancient sites of Naxos, Leontinoi, and Syracuse to see what was so distinctive about Syracusan imperialism in the ancient world and what set them apart from their imperial contemporaries at Athens and Rome. Through it all, we will see how the Syracusans were on their way to constructing one of the Mediterranean’s first quasi-planned economies—an empire in a city.

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2021-10-17 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Orange County 1), Anaheim, CA

Methods of laboratory processing and documentation of findings in archaeological depositories
2021-10-17 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Prague) | Archeological laboratory at Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Na Hradě 245/5, Olomouc, 77900, Czechia
The workshop is organized by Palacký University Olomouc in cooperation with the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Brno and the Regional Museum in Mikulov as part of the World Day of Archeology. The workshop will use the findings from the Pavlov-Horní pole site and the general public will be practically acquainted with the individual conservation and documentation procedures of archaeological material processing (cleaning and completion of artifacts, gluing and plastering of ceramic vessels, drawing, photo documentation, etc.).

"Four Hour Field School" An OKPAN Archaeological Skills Workshop
2021-10-17 12:30 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Cleveland County Fairgrounds, 615 E. Robinson St., Norman, OK, 73071, United States
Oklahoma Archaeology Month has arrived, and with it, OKPAN’s October Archaeological Skills Workshop! Please join us Sunday, October 17, from 12:30 to 4:30 PM) to learn four different archaeological skills. This workshop is open to anyone who cares about caring for cultural heritage – no experience required – and it is a perfect opportunity for students and members of the public to sample what archaeologists do in the field. Attendees will learn how to participate in archaeological survey, set up an excavation unit, illustrate soil profiles, and clean and refit artifacts, all in a single afternoon!

NATIONAL SEMINAR ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE IN PRESENT ERA
2021-10-16 20:00 - 22:00 (Asia/Dili) | JABALPUR, NIRGRANTH CENTRE OF ARCHEOLOGY, JABALPUR, Madhya Pradesh, 482002, India
NIRGRANTH CENTRE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND SHRI BHARATVARSHIYA DIGAMBER JAIN TEERTH SAMRAKSHINI MAHASABHA JOINTLY ORGANSE AN NATIONAL EVENT ON
INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLGICAL DAY ,
16th OCTOBER’2021
AT 08:00 PM (IST DILI)
WELCOME SBDJ (TS) MAHASABHA ZOOM’s Meeting
Topic: तीर्थ संरक्षणी महासभा एवं निर्ग्रन्थ सेंटर ऑफ़ आर्कियोलॉजी के तत्वाधान में दिनांक 16 अक्टूबर -2021 दिन शनिवार को अंतरास्ट्रीय पुरातत्व दिवस के अवसर पर ज़ूम मीटिंग
Time: Oct 16, 2021 08:00 PM India
श्री भारतवर्षीय दिगम्बर जैन तीर्थ संरक्षणी महासभा एवं निर्ग्रन्थ सेंटर ऑफ़ आर्कियोलॉजी के तत्वाधान में दिनांक 16 अक्टूबर -2021 दिन शनिवार को अंतरास्ट्रीय पुरातत्व दिवस के अवसर पर ज़ूम मीटिंग रात्रि 8 बजे से 10 बजे तक तीर्थ संरक्षणी महासभा के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष श्री गजराज जी जैन गंगवाल की अध्यक्षता में रखी गयी है कृपया मीटिंग में उपस्थिति होकर अपने विचार एवं मार्गदर्शन देने की कृपा करे
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श्री भारतवर्षीय दिगंबर जैन तीर्थ संरक्षणी महासभा
अंतरराष्ट्रीय पुरातत्व दिवस
16 अक्टूबर 2021
समय:- रात्रि 8:00 बजे से 10:00 बजे तक
विषय:
वर्तमान समय में पुरातत्व का महत्व
( Importance of archaeology in present era)
कार्यक्रम विवरण
08.00-08.05 -मंगलाचरण श्रीमती ज्योति बड़जात्या बेंगलुरु
8:05 से 8:15 – दीप प्रज्वलन एवं उद्बोधन श्री गजराज जैन गंगवाल, राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष
08:15-08:20 स्वागत भाषण एवं भूमिका डॉ यतीश जैन
08:20-08:35 डॉ सुजीत नयन, पंडित दीन दयाल इंस्टीट्यूट आफ आर्कियोलॉजी
08:35-08:50 प्रोफेसर एल सी जैन, जबलपुर
08:50-09:05 प्राध्यापक रंजना जैन, जबलपुर
09:05-09:20 श्री शुभ मजूमदार, आर्कियोलॉजिकल सर्वे ऑफ इंडिया, कोलकाता
09:20-09:30 श्री एम के जैन, वरिष्ठ कार्याध्यक्ष
09:30-09:35 श्री टी के वेद, प्रदेश अध्यक्ष, मध्य प्रदेश
09:35-09:50 श्री राजकुमार जैन सेठी, महामंत्री
09:50-10:00 आभार प्रदर्शन श्री कमल कुमार जैन, संयुक्त महामंत्री

National seminar on archaelogical importance in present era
2021-10-16 20:00 - 22:00 (Asia/Dili) | National seminar on importance of archaeology in present era, Jabalpur, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, 482002, India
The members of Nigranth centre of archaeology and Digamber jain tirth sanrakshan mahasabha jointly organises the event on international archaeological day 16th October 2021.
key speaker:
Professor Lakshmi Chand Jain and
Professor Ranjana Jain
convener :
Dr Yatish Jain

The Dirt Podcast LIVE! - Let's Call It a Ritual Object
2021-10-16 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Maryland
We all know the old joke: archaeologists find something, can’t figure out its purpose, and decide it must have a “ritual function.” But what’s the real story when it comes to exploring ritual in the archaeological record? In this special live recording of The Dirt, Anna and Amber tackle that very question by exploring the theory that informs ritual, before doing a roundup of sites and studies that give us a glimpse into a different side of people’s lives in other times and places.
After the show, the hosts will hang around for a Q&A about the episode’s topic, science communication, podcasting, and ways to get involved in archaeology no matter your age or background. Learn more about The Dirt Podcast at: thedirtpod.com

Did you ever wonder how tools were made in the Stone Age?
2021-10-16 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | International Center, BrockUniversity, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada
Learn about flint-knapping with local expert Dan Long. Saturday, October 16th at 3 pm. This International Archaeology Day event sponsored by the Niagara Peninsula Society will be held outdoors in front of the International Center at Brock University in St Catharines, ON (a rain date will be announced in case of inclement weather). Pre-registration is required and spaces are limited. All participants must complete Brock’s COVID-screening form on the day of the event. This event is free of charge and all are welcome to attend. For more information and registration visit our Facebook page (@AIANiagara) or website https://brocku.ca/humanities/classics/outreach/aia-niagara/

International Archaeology Day at Poverty Point World Heritage Site
2021-10-16 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana Public Archaeology Lab, 2204 Johnston St, Lafayette, LA, 70506, United States
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Anthropology Society presents:
“A Student’s Experience in the Field on the Coushatta Archeology Project”
Louisiana Archaeology Month Presentation by Garrett Crunkleton
“I will discuss where I started and where I am now. I have been working with Sam Huey, the project director of the Coushatta Historical Archeology Project(CHAP). This investigation is between the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. During my time I have learned communication skills, artifact identification, and proper site excavation. I will be sharing photos from the CHAP project of me out in the field. I am grateful for this opportunity and look forward to sharing my experiences.”
In person at the Louisiana Public Archaeology Lab at 2204 Johnston St, Lafayette, LA 70503
Or on Zoom (Meeting ID 916 61232306) on International Archaeology Day.

Ancient Egyptian History: Why Bother?
2021-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
For those of us who are fascinated by the ancient history of Egypt it seems normal that the subject is taught in universities worldwide, but this may not be true for today’s students (and their parents paying the tuition bills). Does the subject have a relevance beyond mere knowledge of what happened in the past? As a long-time teacher of ancient Egyptian history to large audiences at Columbia University and author of a textbook on the subject, Professor Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia University, will reflect on this question.

Through the ages around the world with clothes on the back
2021-10-16 12:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiu, pl. Jana III Sobieskiego 2, Bytom, Silesian Voivodship, 41-902, Poland
There’s no International Day of Archeology last year because of lockdown. This year we’re going to repeat that event within the walls of our museum. The subject is as close as a shirt to the body, because the title is “Through the ages around the world with clothes on the back”. During the lecture you will find out, among others how did it even happen that our very distant ancestors began to wear clothes, what was the difference between a chiton and a toga, and what did the brooches look like and what were. The “Medieval Chic” shows are an opportunity to meet face to face with the knight and his lady, as well as with early medieval warriors and whiteheads. For children, we offer workshops on the production of ornaments – bracelets, pendants as well as frames and pouches. We will host a historical reconstruction group – late medieval Chorągiew Ziemi Górnośląskiej from Toszek Castle and early medieval Golęszycka Drużyna Dąb.

Interactive Bridging Time: Exploring Saskatoon’s Hidden Heritage
2021-10-16 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Regina) | City of Saskatoon, Traffic Bridge, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7K 1V9, Canada
Join us at a variety of locations throughout the City on Saturday, October 16, 2021 to learn more about the archaeological heritage of Saskatoon. Visit our event page (https://thesas.ca/culture-days-2021-interactive-bridging-time/) to download a map (available October 2021) of the archaeological locations along the South Saskatchewan River within the City of Saskatoon where our archaeological interpreters will be located to introduce you to the archaeological history of that particular location. Learn more about sites such as the Gowen sites, the Marr Residence, Clinskill House, the SS Medicine Hat, the Norby site, and Factoria!

Joint Archeology Day and Junior Ranger Jamboree
2021-10-16 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Arlington Lawn, 369 Central Ave, Hot Springs, AR, 71901, United States
This family-focused day will highlight the importance of archeology in parks and will be full of hands-on activities, archeological displays, opportunities to get dirty, hands-on workshops, and guided hikes, and collaborations with surrounding agencies and parks.
