Archaeological Institute of America

Death comes to the Theban Sacred Band: Skeletons from the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC)
2021-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (D.C. 1), Washington, DC
Matson Lecture

Vitality Materialized: On the Piercing and Adornment of the body in Mesoamerica
2021-11-08 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City 1), New York, NY
Brush Lecture

Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World
2021-11-07 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Ottawa 1), Ottawa, ON
Santen Lecture

Limestone Sculpture of Cyprus: Portraits of Culture
2021-11-07 11:00 (America/New_York) | Hofstra University, Breslin Hall, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, 11549, United States
A lecture by Dr. Pam Gaber, Professor of Archaeology and Art History on Lycoming College, on how Cyprus has yielded hundreds of votive sculptures from the First Millennium BCE, and how they reveal religious worship, travel, and trade in the Ancient Near East.

Zoom Meeting ID: 870 1437 5777
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Historic Bike Tour
2021-11-06 13:45 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Florida Museum, 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, 32601, United States
Take a ride through history! Experience the University of Florida from a completely different perspective on this FREE tour exploring archaeological sites and historic features that make the campus unique.
Led by the Florida Public Archaeology Network, with support from the Gainesville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, this family-friendly tour includes information about the Native Americans who lived and thrived in this area for thousands of years, long before UF existed, before Victorian houses and railroad depots were built, and prior to when the Seminole and Spanish wrangled cattle on the Prairie.
Tour Stops
More venues may be added to this list:
Begin at the Florida Museum
Baughman Center
Lake Alice
University of Florida Levin College of Law
End at the Florida Museum

Weapons, Warfare, and Women
2021-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Whitman College, Maxey Hall, 413-461 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
The Dangerous Lives of Early Bronze Age Women in Central Anatolia
Speaker: Stephanie Selover
Abstract:
In archaeology and art history, women of the ancient world are often identified through stereotypically “feminine” materials such as jewelry or weaving tools. This study of ancient cultures and the rise of early urbanism in the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000-2000 BCE) reveals the reality to be less simple. Art historical studies combined with evidence from Anatolia (modern Turkey) Egypt and Mesopotamia, reveal that both male and female graves contained functional weapons, and that women were also sometimes depicted with weapons and as fighters. This talk investigates the increase in weapons as grave goods in both male and female graves, and how this change relates to alterations in the social order in a time of increasing warfare and violence.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This lecture will be hosted as a hybrid event, with an option of either in-person or remote attendance (via Zoom).
The in-person event will be hosted on the Whitman College campus, in Maxey Hall room 207. Please note that proof of full vaccination (date of final dose no later than October 21st) or Whitman ID will be required at the door, at the west entrance of Maxey. Masks will also be required at all times within the building.
To register for the remote, live-streamed version over Zoom, please use the following link:

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2021-11-04 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (San Francisco 1), San Francisco, CA
Norton Lecture

Ritual at the crossroads: a sacred stone in ancient Athens
2021-11-04 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Columbus 1), Columbus, OH

State Formation in Anglo-Saxon England
2021-11-04 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis-St. Paul 1), Minneapolis, MN

POSTPONED!!! “Archaeology through Art: Early Modern Japanese Ship Construction”
2021-11-03 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale
THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL SOMETIME IN THE SPRING.
Michelle Damian, Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth College (mdamian@monmouthcollege.edu)
Maritime trade and transport flourished during Japan’s early modern (Edo, 1603 – 1868) period, connecting the urban centers of Osaka and Edo with the farthest reaches of Hokkaido and Kyushu. The omnipresent nature and variety of styles of boats, from local ferries, to fishing vessels, to large trade ships are recorded diligently in hundreds of woodblock prints by numerous different artists. Careful analysis of the construction styles and contexts of these vessels in the prints, in conjunction with contemporary ships’ treatises, extant artifacts in museum collections, and ethnographic research suggests that shipwrights strove to create visually striking watercraft that were adapted to the waters they plied. This lecture will highlight some of the distinctive features of Japanese ship construction and explore the role that different vessels play in the early modern maritime cultural landscape.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 7:30 pm, Trustees’ Room (Room 302), Alumni Hall, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 61401
Plans are to zoom this lecture live. Watch this space for more information.

U2 Spy Plane Photos and The Archaeology of the Middle East
2021-11-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale
Declassified military imagery from planes and satellites plays an important role in landscape and environmental archaeology. Historic imagery sources, especially the large archives generated by the US during the Cold War, are far better than Google Earth for providing archaeologists with a window into the past, before development and intensive agriculture took hold in many rural parts of western Asia. In the mid-late 1990s, the archaeology of arid regions in Eurasia was revolutionized by the declassification of CORONA “spy satellite” photographs showing large swaths of the region in high-resolution, as they appeared in 1967-1972. Now there is a new source of even older high-resolution historical imagery: photos from U2 spy planes captured 1958-1960.
In this lecture, Dr. Emily Hammer (UPenn) presents case studies showing how U2 photos can be used to shape archaeological and historical conclusions about early southwest Asia. These new datasets allow for a better understanding of the environmental distribution of prehistoric hunting traps (“desert kites”) in eastern Jordan, the size of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur in southern Iraq and this city’s ancient water supplies, as well as the spatial demography of 20th-century communities living around the marshes of southern Iraq.

The Spirit of Repatriation Under NAGPRA
2021-11-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Boston 2), Boston, MA

SASA's Halloween Bash
2021-11-03, 2021-11-01, 2021-10-31, 2021-10-30, 2021-10-29, 2021-10-28 | Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale
FREE and open to the public, this celebration of SASA’s progress and call to action to support our mission is complete with a 10-day lineup of special events! From Mesopotamian ‘vampires’ and the underworld, to Pictish monsters, ‘Assassins Creed: Valhalla’ archaeogaming, and a feature on ‘Lovecraft’, join us to explore the history of Halloween and the related festivals and figures from the ancient world.
FREE Halloween Bash Event Lineup:
~Oct. 23 – 2pm EDT – SASA Book Club LIVE: ‘Murder Mystery in the Roman Republic’ by Dr. Emma Southton, hosted by Jack Chandler
~Oct. 25 – 2pm EDT – Art Contest Winners Reveal
~Oct. 26 – 2pm EDT – “Death, Dying, and the Dreary Underworld in Mesopotamia” led by Dr. Petra Creamer
~Oct. 28 – 1pm EDT – SASA Archaeogaming LIVE: “Rainbow Road to Asgard: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour” hosted by Kate Minniti and Jacob Coffey
~Oct. 29 – 12pm EDT – “The Gods and Myths of the Picts” led by Dr. Kelly Kilpatrick
~Oct. 30 – 2pm EDT -SASA Q&A LIVE: ‘Lovecraft’ w/ S. T. Joshi, hosted by Jackson Reinhardt
~Oct 31 – 1pm EDT – SASA Halloween Spooktacular Party
~Nov. 1 – 2pm EDT – ”Ancient ‘Monsters’ as seen in Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals of the Morgan Library Collection” led by Nicole Leist
~Nov. 3 – 11am EDT – “Lilith: not quite a ‘Babylonian vampire’, but…” led by Dr. Martin Worthington

Awash in Innuendo at the Baths of Caracalla
2021-11-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven 1), New Haven, CT
a remote ZOOM lecture by Maryl Gensheimer, University of Maryland
Archaeological Institute of America, New Haven Society
November 2 2021, from 5-6 pm
Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/93935437567

You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Zoom is Yale’s audio and visual conferencing platform.
Topic: AIA Fall 2021
Time: Nov 2, 2021 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 939 3543 7567
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The Power of the Ancestors at Pylos
2021-11-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Andrews Hall, Room 101, College of William & Mary, 605 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA, 23187, United States
Howland Lecture

Celebration of International Archaeology Day (IAD): Archaeology Book Club
2021-10-30 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale
Ashley Morton will be leading us in a discussion of Sarah Moss’ novel, Ghost Wall (“a taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior…”). Come celebrate International Archaeology Day with us!
This event will be hosted online, via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Please use the following link to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlcuGtpz8vHtJaAHpwig6ngkQ87yhwH1wu.

International Archaeology Day: Tour of Oak Woods Cemetery
2021-10-30 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale
Come enjoy a beautiful fall day with an informal tour of Chicago’s oldest chartered rural garden cemetery- Oak Woods. Dr. Jane Baxter will provide some insights to the cemetery, and show us not only the final resting places of some of Chicago’s (and America’s) past luminaries, but also how using tools of archaeology to examine the headstones and landscapes can offer insights into Chicago’s past. The tour will include some formal presentation in a relatively concise area of the cemetery, and the opportunity to explore further afield on your own- so the tour is suitable for varying levels of fitness and interest. (This will be a completely outdoors event, but please bring a mask, for example, in case you wish to explore indoor spaces at the cemetery) Parking is not available in the cemetery itself.
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Berry site "Dig Day"
2021-10-30 10:00 - 2021-11-03 14:00 (America/New_York) | Berry site, Henderson Mill Road, Morganton, NC, 28680, United States
Volunteers are invited to join in the excavation of the Berry site, located outside of Morganton, North Carolina. Berry is the location of the Native town of Joara and the Spanish Fort San Juan which was built in January 1567 and destroyed in 1568. Fort San Juan, occupied by 30 Spanish soldiers, constitutes the earliest European colonial settlement in the interior of the United States.

Shipwrecks and the Transport of Luxury in the Roman Mediterranean
2021-10-29 19:30 (America/Halifax) | WEBINAR (New Brunswick 1), Fredericton, NB
Steffy Lecture

Boomtown Blues: Archaeologies of Expansion and Collapse in Amazonia
2021-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Room 106, Psychology Building, 4111 Pictor Lane, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States
Stone Lecture
You can attend the lecture either in-person or via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent out to all registered attendees on the day of the lecture. Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boomtown-blues-archaeologies-of-expansion-and-collapse-in-amazonia-tickets-185960060547

Torches, Fireflies, and Moonlight: The Brilliance of Classic Maya Lightscapes
2021-10-28 19:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Rochester1), Rochester, NY
Borowski Lecture

Ten fingers and ten toes: disability and infanticide in ancient Greece
2021-10-28 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | WEBINAR (Central Arizona 1), Phoenix, AZ
Young Lecture

Bird/Egg, Pen/Hand, Torch/Deer? Pairs of Ordinary Objects on Roman Coins
2021-10-28 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom
Metcalf Lecture

Urban Borehole Surveys And The Origins Of The Roman Forum
2021-10-28 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Chicago) | 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, 65201, United States
A lecture by Prof. Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan) presenting the results of a recent borehole survey carried out in the monumental core of Rome, and discussing the main implications for our understanding of both the city’s original environmental setting and the creation of the earliest urban infrastructure.

Drink Your Hot Chocolate Like a Maya Ruler! Make Your Own Maya Drinking Cup (in English, until October 31st)
2021-10-28 09:00 (America/New_York) | Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale
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.
