Archaeological Institute of America

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students
2024-06-30 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-07-07 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-07-14 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-07-21 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-07-28 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-08-04 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

Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Islands
2024-07-29 - 2024-08-08 | MA
This is the perfect opportunity to explore all that Scotland’s Northern Isles have to offer: prehistoric stone circles, burial chambers, and settlements; quaint villages; huge seabird colonies; and remarkable plant life—all amidst dramatic landscapes. This will be Scotland seen slowly, with time for in-depth exploration at each site. The Orkney and Shetland islands have an amazing wealth of archaeological sites dating back 5,000 years. Together the islands have more than 18,000 known sites, with new discoveries being made every year. This archaeological saga is worth the telling, and nowhere else can the evidence be seen in more glorious a setting. Travel and learn with AIA lecturer and host Dr. Val Turner.
Highlights:
• A private tour of the active Ness of Brodgar excavations, a ceremonial site in the “Heart of Neolithic Orkney” that was in use for around 1,000 years. 2024 is the last year that excavations will be active.The site is within the UNESCO World Heritage Site on
Orkney, which also includes the chambered tomb of Maeshowe, estimated to have been constructed around 2700 B.C.; the Stones of Stenness; the 4,000-year-old Ring of Brodgar, one of Europe’s finest Neolithic monuments; Skara Brae settlement; and associated funerary monuments and stone settings. These are unquestionably among the most important Neolithic sites in Western Europe.
• “The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland”—including Mousa Broch, the best-preserved known broch in the world, Old Scatness, and Jarlshof—where the lack of intensive modern farming means that the preservation of these sites and their landscapes is exceptional.
• The Isles are a birdwatcher’s paradise, and one of the major seabird breeding and feeding areas in the North Atlantic. More than a million birds breed in very large colonies.
• All meals are included, and you will enjoy comfortable accommodations: four nights at the elegant Lynnfield Hotel, a comfortable overnight ferry from Orkney to Shetland and from Shetland to Aberdeen, and three nights at the remote and charming
Busta House Hotel.

In the Footsteps of Belzoni and Carter in the Valley of the Kings
2024-08-18 15:00 - 16:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://www.archaeological.org/event/in-the-footsteps-of-belzoni-and-carter-in-the-valley-of-the-kings/
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 Zoom lecture by Dr. Donald P. Ryan, Pacific Lutheran University:
In the Footsteps of Belzoni and Carter in the Valley of the Kings
Sunday, August 18, 2024, 3 PM PDT
Zoom Lecture. This meeting will not be recorded. A registration link has already been sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members, please send any registration requests no later than Friday, August 16. Registrations are limited to 100, so the sooner you register, the better.
About the Lecture:
The archaeological exploration of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the royal New Kingdom cemetery, offers a rich history of fascinating discoveries made by determined and often eccentric individuals. The Italian carnival performer-turned-antiquarian, Giovanni Belzoni, was responsible for the finding of the tomb of Seti I, among others, in the early 19th century, and Howard Carter was well involved in the Valley two decades before he encountered Tutankhamun.
In this lecture, Dr. Donald P. Ryan will describe some of his own work in the Valley of the Kings, during which he literally followed in the footsteps of both explorers, including the re-excavation of KV 21 (a Belzoni discovery) and three tombs discovered by Carter early in his career: KV 44, KV 45 and KV 60. The latter tomb is especially controversial with its occupant identified by some as the female ruler, Hatshepsut, after its rediscovery by Ryan.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Donald P. Ryan is an archaeologist affiliated with the College of Liberal Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., a Fellow of both the Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society, and a Research Associate of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway. A veteran of many field expeditions, Ryan is also the author of numerous scientific and popular articles and several books on archaeological subjects. Website: https://sites.google.com/plu.edu/donald-p-ryan/home
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings/, https://khentiamentiu.org/, and http://www.arce-nc.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

Symposium: Layers of Meanings in Benjamin West’s Neoclassical Venus and Cupid
2024-08-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join AIA-Nashville Society for an in-person symposium on August 19 at 6 PM at the Nashville Parthenon. This symposium is free and open to the public, and will take place in the Naos on Level 2. RSVP required.
Vivien Green Fryd, Professor Emerita in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Vanderbilt University, Ph.D, will share about American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820), including West’s Venus and Cupid (1765), part of the Parthenon permanent collection.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
Benjamin West’s Venus and Cupid (1765) in the Parthenon’s Cowan Collection marks the first commission this Philadelphia Quaker received upon arriving in Italy to study art. This work, the first history painting West created in the academic tradition, which rated history painting as the most important subject, represents the mythological Venus, the goddess of love, with her son, Cupid. It also evokes to topos of the Madonna lactans, or the nursing Madonna, which had been a prevalent subject throughout the Italian Renaissance, which he studied while in Italy. West showed emotion and love between parent and child that had not existed until the 1760s, and hence this work joins that of others created by Euro-Americans in the U.S. colonies and abroad who similarly represented changing attitudes towards child-rearing, family relations, and the definition of childhood. West was at the forefront of establishing neoclassical subjects and styles as the premier manner of painting during the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
2024-08-28 - 2024-08-31 | Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, 00185, Italy
The 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists will take place in Rome, Italy from 28 to 31 August 2024.
The call for papers is open until 8 February 2024.
Submit your abstract via the online system here: https://eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2024/
Further information on the scientific programme is available here. https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024/Programme.aspx?WebsiteKey=20b5538d-68f8-4056-9596-1ae1ce0ead47&hkey=fe6595a9-39e9-47f1-8159-520091f89dfa&Program=3#Program

Ireland’s Southern Coast
2024-09-03 - 2024-09-16 | MA
This journey takes you through the archaeology, history, and landscapes of Ireland’s southern coast, from east to west. Starting and ending in Dublin, this tour has been designed to give you a deep understanding of the multitude of landscapes and the rich heritage of Ireland, as well as the striking difference between Ireland’s fertile east coast compared to its dramatic and breathtaking southwest. After a gentle start in Dublin, we will head to the sunny southeast and the scene of the Anglo- Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. There is no better place to understand the impact of this invasion on the existing Irish and Norse populations, and the shifting of political and military power over the following centuries, than here where it all played out. We will then will make our way along the south coast, stopping in Waterford, Cork, and West Cork, with an overnight in Killarney before heading back to Dublin. We will explore hidden archaeological sites from earliest prehistory to the Iron Age (Celtic Period), through early Christian sites to the later medieval period and Ireland’s more recent history, all in the company of highly respected academics, engaging guides, and a tour manager. Travel in a small group and enjoy the personal attention and service of a highly respected Irish academic lecturer/host Dr. Stephen Mandal, who is both a geologist and archaeologist.
Highlights include:
– Visits in Dublin to the National Museum of Ireland and The Irish Emigration Museum.
– Exploring the Hook Peninsula, starting with a visit to Hook Head, home to the world’s oldest operational, fully intact lighthouse (at over 800 years old), set in a dramatic landscape. Afterwards, we drive the short distance
to Tintern Abbey, a Cistercian abbey founded ca. 1200, where several important ruins survive, including parts of the nave, chancel, tower, chapel, and cloister. Enjoy lunch, tour the ruins, and walk in the beautiful Victorian
gardens.
– A guided tour of the Dunbrody Famine Ship an authentic reproduction of an 1840s emigrant vessel that provides a world-class interpretation of the famine emigrant experience.
– Visit the spectacular Charles Fort, a wonderful example of a star-shaped, 17th-century fort. As one of the largest military installations in the country, Charles Fort has been associated with some of the most momentous
events in Irish history, the most significant of which were the Williamite Wars (1689-91) and the Civil War (1922-23).
– Seeing the Bronze Age Drombeg Stone Circle. Drombeg is probably Ireland’s most famous stone circle, consisting of 17 pillar stones that are graded from the two large portal stones, each nearly seven feet high, at the
northeast towards the recumbent stone to the southeast.
The pace of this tour is MODERATE: Must be able to walk one to three miles per day on mostly flat, but often uneven, terrain. For further details and questions, please see the “What to Expect” section of the brochure.

Peru: Ancient Cultures of the Coast & Andes
2024-09-09 - 2024-09-24 | MA
Travel and learn with anthropological archaeologist Dr. Gabriela Cervantes- Quequezana. She has done extensive field research through survey and excavations in several regions of Peru, including the north, south, coast, and highlands. Through illustrated lectures and informal discussions, she will provide an understanding of the numerous ancient Peruvian societies whose sites we visit, and the complex processes of adaption they each made in the many different ecological regions of Peru. This custom-designed, 15-night itinerary is carefully paced with three nights each in Cuzco, Chiclayo, and Urubamba’s Sacred Valley; plus two nights each in Machu Picchu Pueblo, Lima, and Trujillo.
Highlights include:
– Gabriela Cervantes-Quequezana plus a professional tour manager and local guides will provide insights to spectacular archaeological sites from Peru’s many layers of ancient civilizations, plus anthropological insights to the
country’s diverse cultural traditions and ecosystems.
– Four of your six hotels are luxurious and the other two offer generous comfort.
– Enjoy in-depth explorations of many of the greatest archaeological sites in Peru: pyramids, temples, royal tombs, and colonial churches; plus splendid museum collections.
– Peruvian cuisine is world renowned, and you will enjoy many special meals.
THIS TOUR IS ACTIVE and requires an elevated level of fitness: Must be able to walk three or more miles per day on mostly uneven terrain, and up and down inclines and steps. Please see the “What to Expect” section of the brochure for more details.

Julius Caesar, the End of the Republic, and Dueling Messages on Coins
2024-09-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Iowa, 240 Art Building West, 120 Riverside Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States
William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics

Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant
2024-09-12 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Boswell Hall 220, The College of William and Mary, 100 Ukrop Way, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, United States
Kershaw Lecture

90th annual Stone Age Fair
2024-09-14 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | The Ranch, 4H bldg., Arena Circle, Loveland, CO, 80538, United States
Celebrate Women in Archaeology themed event including Lectures by Dr. Pegi Jodry and Dr. Julie Morrow, world class displays of artifacts by avocation archaeologists, flint knapping demonstrations and much more. Non-commercial.

The Maritime Infrastructure and Network of the Delian Emporium
2024-09-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Paterson Hall, Room 303, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5R1, Canada

In the Shadow of Egypt’s Last Pyramid: Uncovering the Ahmose Cemetery and Its Historical Implications
2024-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE-NC Lectures, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg., 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 Emily Smith-Sangster, Princeton University:
In the Shadow of Egypt’s Last Pyramid:
Uncovering the Ahmose Cemetery and Its Historical Implications
Sunday September 15, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Room 175 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
This in-person lecture will be recorded for later publication on YouTube.
About the Lecture:
In early 2023, the Abydos South Project (ASP) began its inaugural season working on a plot of land to the local north of the Ahmose Pyramid. The goal of the season was to explore this area of the concession in the hopes of better understanding its use history. This area, previously unexcavated save for shallow test trenching in 1966 by the EAO, and surface collection in 1993 by the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project, had been identified as the possible location of the Ahmose Pyramid Town.
ASP’s excavations, however, discovered that this area was, in fact, a large elite necropolis used for an exceedingly brief period of time. While analysis is still in progress, it is clear that this discovery offers significant data that will help us develop our understanding of expressions of elite agency and identity in the cemeteries of Abydos, while also allowing us to further contextualize elite activity at this site within the wider history of the early New Kingdom.
This lecture will discuss these excavations and resulting discoveries, while also highlighting the impact this discovery will have on our understanding of the Ahmose period at Abydos and beyond.
About the Speaker:
Emily Smith-Sangster is a Ph.D. Candidate in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and Associate Director of the Abydos South Project. Her dissertation investigates the construction and expression of post-mortem identity during the early New Kingdom at Abydos, with a particular focus on the Ahmose Cemetery. Her work interacts with themes of landscape, sensorialism, gender, and embodiment.
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About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, and https://khentiamentiu.org.

Reports from the Field
2024-09-16 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Doe Library 308 A, UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, California, United States
We are pleased to begin our programming this year by hearing from UC Berkeley graduate students who have spent part of the past year working on archaeological projects at various sites around the world. Leah Packard-Grams will discuss her work in Egypt over the winter at the site of Amheida, a Roman town in the remote Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert, and specifically will focus on her work with ceramics, translation of ostraca, and a larger interest in writing in the town. Tanya Bertone will discuss the 2024 field season of the Clear Lake Archaeological Project (CLAP), a low-cost summer field school in Clearlake, California. Sandra Oseguera will discuss her 2024 archaeological field season in San Juan Luvina, Oaxaca, focusing particularly on three of the project’s objectives: strengthening ties with the Indigenous community, establishing a collaborative methodology for a long-term archaeological project, and collecting soil samples.

The Galisteo Basin as a Multicultural Landscape
2024-09-17 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Pecos Trail Café, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505, United States
Lecture. Eric Blinman (former director Museum of New Mexico, Office of Archaeological Studies). Puebloan peoples are stereotyped under a single label, which is a profound injustice to their rich cultural diversity. This diversity also implies the existence of distinct histories, and the unique setting of the Galisteo Basin provides an opportunity to explore these histories. The uniqueness of the Galisteo Basin is largely due to its susceptibility to climate change and the interaction of the environment with human economies. Tiwa, Tewa, Tano, Towa, and Keres cultural groups were well established in north central New Mexico at the beginning of the twelfth century, enjoying a stable climate pattern that supported a cultural florescence in the Four Corners region. Drought and a change in the monsoon rainfall pattern in the mid-to-late 12th century disrupted the stable cultural geography, and the Galisteo Basin was opened to agricultural homesteading. By the mid-twelfth century, more than five generations before the Mesa Verde abandonment, immigrants began colonizing the Basin. More than 200 years of conflicts-of-interest and conflict ensued, resulting in the 15th century formation of the Galisteo Basin Pueblos, and giving form to the cultural diversity encountered during European colonization.

The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world
2024-09-17 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
The Ann Santen Endowed Lecture
Okasha El Daly, “The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world”
Tuesday, September 17
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Davidson College
Visual Arts Center VAC-117 Semans Lecture Hall
These lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee and the departments of Art, Classics, Educational Studies, and History.
About the lecture:
Contrary to the prevailing view that the conversion of Egyptians first to Christianity and then Islam ended interest in their own heritage, they continued to study their own past with great pride. Many medieval Arab scholars visited Egypt to study its heritage and ancient scripts. This interest in ancient Egyptian scripts led to many scholarly attempts to decipher them. Here is a brief study of the motivations behind their interest and the degrees of their success in the decipherment and understanding of ancient Egypt. Nearly all the writers interested in Egyptian hieroglyphs were alchemists; many were also called Sufis or Mystics (for example, Jabir, Dhu Al-Nun, and Ibn Waḥshiyah). The fame of Egypt as the land of science, wisdom, and mysticism created a welcoming environment for the reception of ancient Egyptian thought and arts among medieval Muslim scholars and the general public. This medieval Muslim reception fills a gap of about a thousand years in the history of Egyptology.
About the speaker:
Dr. Okasha El Daly specializes in the history, art, religion, and languages of Egypt from the birth of its civilization to its contemporary history and current affairs. He has served as Inspector of Antiquities in the Giza Pyramids Area, worked as a guide and lecturer in Egypt, and lectured on the AIA’s national lecture circuit. He has directed several international projects, including the Foundation for Science, Technology, and Civilisation in the UK and the recent Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project. His book, Egyptology: The Missing Millennium (2005), shows that medieval scholars in Egypt and beyond were as keen as we are to explore ancient Egyptian sciences and arts.
These lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee and the departments of Art, Classics, Educational Studies, and History.
Individuals can support us by joining the Archaeological Institute of America for $55 (students $30), which includes a subscription to Archaeology magazine. Be sure to join Society 333!
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Society 333 Board Members
President:
Susan Walker, susan.walker.books@gmail.com
Vice President
Joey Noto, joey_mets@yahoo.com
Secretary:
Gypsy Price, gypsycpriceufl@gmail.com
Treasurer:
Annie Truetzel, antruetzel@davidson.edu
Program Coordinator:
Peter Krentz, pekrentz@davidson.edu
Board Member At-Large:
Janet Levy, jelevy@charlotte.edu

Prehistoric Cave Art of Spain & France
2024-09-18 - 2024-09-30 | MA
Investigate southwestern Europe’s most extraordinary prehistoric caves, including Lascaux IV, a new, exact reproduction of one of the most remarkable prehistoric sites ever discovered; Altamira II, a precise replica of the original that is often called the “Sistine Chapel of Prehistoric Art”; Atapuerca, the most significant early human site in western Europe; Las Monedas Cave and Cueva del Castillo, where 455 animal likenesses were painted and engraved some 22,000-14,000 years ago, but other motifs such as hand stencils and red dots have been dated to more than 40,000 years ago, meaning that they may well have been made by Neanderthals; Cougnac, which features paintings of extinct megaloceros and mammoth; Pech Merle, known for its “negative handprints”; and others.
Highlights include:
– Travel with world-renowned archaeological author Paul Bahn, a gifted and popular lecturer who regularly leads tours to study the prehistory of Spain and France, including this program. Dr. Bahn will enhance your understanding of the sites with lectures and informal discussions.
– Enjoy excellent accommodations in fine hotels and charming inns, as well as fine wine and cuisine.
– Tour archaeological and ethnographic museums with superb exhibits of prehistoric artifacts, including the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos, Altamira Museum, Museum of Les Eyzies, and the Museé d’Aquitaine; plus
the modern art collections of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum.
– Explore charming villages and cities, including Santillana del Mar and San Sebastian.

King Richard III: The Resolution Of A 500 Year Old Cold Case
2024-09-19 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West First Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship

King Richard III: The Resolution of a 500 Year-Old Cold Case
2024-09-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84120684037?pwd=[REDACTED]
Dr. Turi King will share the Grey Friars project, aimed at finding and validating the remains of Richard III.

6th Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium
2024-09-20 14:00 - 2024-09-21 16:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Come join us for the 6th Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium, co-hosted by the American Research Center in Egypt – Missouri Chapter (ARCE-MO) and the Archaeological Institute of America – Central Missouri Chapter. Eight presenters will discuss their latest research on aspects of ancient Egyptian Archaeology, with a keynote address by Dr. Didi El-Behaedi (University of Missouri – Columbia).
All paper presentations will be held in person on Saturday, September 21st in Swallow Hall 101, at the University of Missouri – Columbia. The evening before, on September 20th, there will be a pre-conference social event at Hexagon Alley board game cafe in Columbia, with appetizers provided. Here you’ll have the chance to play a variety of board games inspired by ancient Egypt!
Free and open to the public!

"France: The Reach of the Romans"
2024-09-21 - 2024-10-02 | MA
Join archaeologist Patrick Hunt on this exciting itinerary from Turin to Nice and discover how the ancient Gauls and Romans interacted with the landscapes and shaped the history and cultures of northern Italy and southern France. Together we will cross the Alps by high-speed train, from Turin to Lyon.
Highlights:
• Travel with award-winning archaeologist and author Patrick Hunt, who has been doing fieldwork in the Alps since 1994.
• Visit several outstanding museums, including the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the only museum outside of Cairo solely dedicated to Egyptian art and culture; and the new Musée de l’Arles Antique, housing the world’s second finest collection of sarcophagi
after the Vatican’s.
• Marvel at six UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Roman and Romanesque monuments of Arles, the Roman theater and Arc de Triomphe of Orange, the Roman aqueduct at Pont du Gard, the historic center of Avignon, the historic city of Lyon, and the
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in Turin.
• Explore the archaeological site of Saint-Romain-en-Gal, also called “little Pompeii,” and take a guided tour of its museum with the curator in charge of the mosaic restoration.
• See the village of Vaison la Romaine, the largest archaeological site in France; and take a behind-the-scenes tour inside the aqueduct at Pont du Gard (pending confirmation).
• You will be accompanied by excellent local guides plus an expert tour manager who will handle all of the logistics so you can relax, enjoy, and learn.
• Savor fine cuisine at carefully-chosen restaurants for included lunches and dinners, and enjoy the flexibility of independent meals as well. Your tour manager can assist you with restaurant recommendations and reservations.

1177 BC and After: The Collapse and Survival of Civilizations
2024-09-21 15:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
In-person lecture
Saturday, September 21 at 3:30 pm EST
Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium
In collaboration with the Dept. of Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, UPenn
A short reception will follow the lecture
Speaker: Dr. Eric Cline
Lecture Topic: 1177 BC and After: The Collapse and Survival of Civilizations
Abstract:
For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a complex international world in which Egyptians, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots, and Canaanites all interacted, creating a cosmopolitan and globalized world-system such as has only rarely been seen before the current day. It may have been this very internationalism that contributed to the apocalyptic disaster that ended the Bronze Age. When the end came, as it did after centuries of cultural and technological evolution, the civilized and international world of the Mediterranean regions came to a dramatic halt in a vast area stretching from Greece and Italy in the west to Egypt, Canaan, and Mesopotamia in the east. Large empires and small kingdoms, that had taken centuries to evolve, collapsed rapidly.
While the centuries following the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean were a time of catastrophe, they were also a time of rebirth and resilience — it was less of a Dark Age and more of a reboot for many of the societies which were affected. While there are examples of failure to thrive or even to survive in some cases, others managed to adapt and transform. In effect, we have eight case studies of what to do (and what not to do) in the event of a systems collapse, ranging from the Assyrians to the Egyptians to the Mycenaeans and others in between. We will focus on the people and places that emerged from the ashes, highlighting some of the events and developments that took place in Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant. We will also consider whether there are any relevant lessons to be learned from this dramatic story of resurgence and revival, especially considering what is going on in our world today.
Speaker Bio:
Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classics, History, and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University, in Washington DC. A National Geographic Explorer, NEH Public Scholar, Getty Scholar, and Fulbright Scholar with degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, he is an active field archaeologist with more than 30 seasons of excavation and survey experience in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States, including ten seasons at Megiddo (1994-2014), where he served as co-director before retiring from the project in 2014, and another ten seasons at Tel Kabri, where he currently serves as Co-Director. He is the author or editor of 20 books and nearly 100 articles; translations of his books have appeared in nineteen different languages. Among them are Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology; Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works; 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed and (with Glynnis Fawkes) 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed; and After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations (all Princeton). He is a member of the Washington DC chapter of ARCE.
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Registration is NOT required. Lectures are FREE to ARCE Members, $7 for University of Pennsylvania Museum Members and UPenn Staff and Faculty, $5 for Students with ID, and $10 for the general public.
Light refreshments served starting at 3pm.
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge among the general public, and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties. The ARCE Pennsylvania Chapter (ARCE-PA) is the local branch of the national institution. We host monthly events including scholarly lectures, Egyptian-themed workshops, social events, and guided tours of the Penn Museum’s Egyptian galleries. For more information or to learn about the perks of membership, please send an e-mail to info@arce-pa.org, or visit our website at www.arce-pa.org.

Deconstructing Notions of the "Classical": An Archaeology of Disability
2024-09-22 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sabin Hall, Room G90, 3413 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

The Maritime Infrastructure and Network of the Delian Emporium
2024-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Chazen Museum of Art, Elvehjem Building, Room L140, University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 8th Edition
2024-09-24 08:00 - 2024-09-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, 56122 Pisa PI, Italy, Illinois, 00000, Italy
Every city possesses a unique and valuable identity that is expressed through its physical and visual form. This identity is perceived by its residents and users, shaping their collective memories. The city’s identity comprises its physical spaces and the images formed through memory cues, which in turn affect tourism, education, culture, and economic prosperity. Arts and architecture play a significant role in shaping the history of civilizations and fostering the growth of ancient and modern cities. This extends beyond buildings and constructions to encompass traditions, cultural beliefs, and communal arts.

The Hidden Dead: Bioarchaeology of Ancient Maya Cave Ritual
2024-09-24 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Dickinson College, Denny Hall, Room 317, West High Street, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States
Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lectures
