Archaeological Institute of America

The Arizona Sicily Project: Survey and Excavations in the province of Trapani presented by Dr. Emma Blake
2023-04-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
A decade of fieldwork in westernmost Sicily has revealed a previously unnoticed pattern: high quantities of North African artifacts in virtually all periods, from the Paleolithic to the present day. From prehistoric stone tools, to Carthaginian amphoras and Roman finewares, to the soda bottles of contemporary migrants, a picture emerges of a deep and enduring localized connection between Sicily and Tunisia. This talk presents the material traces of Tunisian influence in western Sicily from two field surveys and a new excavation, and explores the significance and nature of those complex interactions across the Sicilian Channel.
Bio: Emma Blake (Ph.D. University of Cambridge), is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is Editor-in-Chief (with Robert Schon) of the American Journal of Archaeology. Blake is a Mediterranean archaeologist, focusing on identity construction in Italy in the second and first millennia BCE. She is the author of Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy (Cambridge University Press 2014), as well as numerous articles. She has conducted fieldwork in western Sicily for many years and directs an archaeological field survey tracing the extent of Tunisian influence in western Sicily in all periods. She is co-directing new excavations at the ancient city of Segesta, Sicily.

With, For, and By: Doing Archaeology in a Grand Ronde Way
2023-04-19 19:00 (America/New_York), 2023-04-18 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

With, For, and By -- Doing Archaeology in a Grand Ronde Way
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Sara Gonzalez (University of Washington)
Come join us for a watch party of Professor Gonzalez’s live-streamed lecture. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.

Divine Mortals: Royal Ancestor Worship in Deir el-Medina (Hybrid Lecture)
2023-04-18 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Yasmin El Shazly, Deputy Director for Research and Programs, American Research Center in Egypt
The Egyptian craftsmen and artists who created and decorated royal tombs during the New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 BCE) lived in Deir el-Medina. Today, this well-preserved village is a key source of information about the daily lives, artistic practices, and religious traditions of ancient Egyptians. Yasmin El Shazly will discuss the importance of ancestor worship in Deir el-Medina—particularly of Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari. Prominently featured in homes, artwork, and tombs, these two royal figures held important positions in the Egyptian “hierarchy of being” and exerted great influence over the daily lives of Deir el-Medina residents.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Leviathan’s Revenge: Archaeology and the Destructive Convergence of Land, Sea, and Humans
2023-04-16 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, CA, 94954, United States

The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island
2023-04-16 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building, University of California, 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 Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper, National Museums, Berlin:
“The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island”
Sunday, April 16, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
About the Lecture:
Elephantine was a militarily and strategically very important island on the river Nile at the southern border of Egypt. No other settlement in Egypt is so well attested through texts over such a long period of time, 4000 years. Its inhabitants form a multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious community that left us vast amounts of written sources detailing their everyday lives from the Old Kingdom to beyond the Arab Conquest. Today, several thousand papyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine are scattered in more than 60 institutions in 24 different countries across Europe and beyond. Their texts are written in ten different languages and scripts, including Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Coptic and Arabic. 80% of these manuscripts were unpublished or unstudied before.
Thus, access was gained to these texts, making them publicly available in an open access online research database. Links could be identified between papyrus fragments from different collections, and an international ‘papyrus puzzle’ undertaken, incorporating cutting-edge methods from digital humanities, physics and mathematics (e.g. for the virtual unfolding of papyri). For the first time in the history of papyrology, papyrus packages can now be read virtually, without physically opening them. Using this database with medical, religious, legal, administrative, even literary texts, the everyday life of the local and global (i.e. ‘glocal’) community of Elephantine can be studied. Elephantine can thus be used as a case study and a model for the past, present and future.
About the Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper is the Curator of the Egyptian and Oriental Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum, National Museums Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is in charge of a collection with around 30,000 objects in ten different languages and scripts and has managed several exhibition and research projects in Germany and abroad (Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Bonn, Doha, Harvard) with a team of employees.
She conducts research on topics such as Egyptian and Oriental papyri, literary and cultural history, and the history of science and art. To this end, she has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues with international publishers.
Dr. Lepper studied Egyptology, Semitic Philology, Christian Orient Studies and Hebrew Bible at Bonn, Cologne, Tuebingen, Oxford and Harvard University. She has received several awards for her scientific and curatorial work, including the highly renowned ERC-Grant from the European Research Council for the project: “Elephantine”.
To promote Arab-German academic exchange, she founded the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in 2013. She is involved in numerous committees in the field of scientific and cultural policy and diplomacy. Visiting professorships and fellowships have also taken her to Harvard and Princeton University.
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The Many Faces of James Loeb
2023-04-16 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Venture with us into the world of collector and philanthropist James Loeb to uncover his personality, examine his influence on ancient studies, and delight in the small objects that filled his life. Specialists from different fields will present various aspects about Loeb, and together they will help us see a complete portrait.
Florian Knauss, from the State Collections of Antiquities and Glyptothek in Munich, will discuss Loeb as a collector and philanthropist. He will highlight objects from Loeb’s collection and give an overview of Loeb’s collecting activities and the legacy of his charitable achievements.
Mirte Liebregts, from the Radboud University in the Netherlands, will focus on the establishment of the Loeb Classical Library, the bilingual publication series founded by James Loeb. She will examine Loeb’s motivations for creating the series and their relationship to his collecting.
Harvard professor Richard F. Thomas will moderate a conversation after the two presentations.
This event accompanies the exhibition A World within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, on view through May 7, 2023.
The galleries will be open until 5pm. You are encouraged to view the exhibition either before or after the event.
Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

ARCE-PA Lecture by Dr. Ellen Morris, Barnard College
2023-04-15 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ARCE-PA Lecture
Saturday April 15 at 3:30pm
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Ellen Morris, Associate Professor of Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
Lecture Topic: Famine and Festival in Ancient Egypt
Abstract:
In pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, two occurrences had the power to radically transform the status quo: revolts and episodes of mass mortality. When the two co-occurred, they destabilized a rigid social hierarchy. Such moments – at which underlings threatened to gain the upper hand or at least exhibited a marked reluctance to return to their former subservience – caused an immense degree of anxiety among Egypt’s elites. Extremely severe famines and the plagues that often engendered this destabilization occurred infrequently. The magnitude of the upheavals and social transformations that happened in their wake, however, ensured that their memory was passed down (and needed to be passed down) through generations as a caution. For people who knew only strong kings and times of plenty, it was necessary to “remember” hunger, suffering, and terror in order that warning signs be taken seriously. Although written testimony and prophesy helped keep such memories alive, echoes of social upheavals incorporated into festivities surrounding the Egyptian New Year may have been far more effective agents of intergenerational transmission.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Ellen Morris, an Associate Professor of Ancient Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, writes on imperialism, political fragmentation, state formation, sexuality and sacred performance, retainer sacrifice, landscape theory, and divine kingship in Egypt’s social history. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the (esteemed) University of Pennsylvania, she has published a great many articles (most of which are freely available on academia.edu) and two books: The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom (Brill, 2005), Ancient Egyptian Imperialism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). A Cambridge Element titled Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt is forthcoming in 2023. She has also excavated at Abydos, Mendes, Deir el-Ballas and Amheida at Dakhleh Oasis.
Lectures are FREE for ARCE members. For non-ARCE members admission is as follows: $10 general admissions; $7 for Penn Museum members, Faculty & Staff; $5 for Students with ID (12 and under FREE).

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-04-15 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room in Thomson Hall, 1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States
Stone Lecture

Diet and Cuisine at Pompeii
2023-04-15 13:00 (America/Chicago)
ZOOM Lecture entitled “Diet and Cuisine at Pompeii” by Dr. Scott Stull ( SUNY – Cortland). 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.

Finding Lost, Stolen, and Kidnapped Children in Indian Boarding School Cemeteries Using Multi-Instrument Geophysical Survey: Chemawa Indian Boarding School
2023-04-15 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton., 450 East Stewart St, Dayton, OH, 45409, United States
The final presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America’s Dayton Society 2022-2023 Lecture Series presented by Northern Cheyenne Tribe citizen Marsha Small, M.A. from Montana State University and Dr. Jarrod Burks from Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc.
Since 2016 Marsha Small and Jarrod Burks have been conducting geophysical investigations to identify the locations of over 200 unmarked burials at the Chemawa Boarding School in Salem, OR. The school originally opened in 1880 and today is one of four remaining off-reservation boarding schools funded and operated by the federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). From the 1880s to about 1940 students who died at the school were buried in the school cemetery. Disturbances in the cemetery had by 1960 removed any grave markers that were there and since then new markers were placed to create a memorial garden, though those markers did not mark actual grave locations.
This lecture is currently scheduled to take place in person in the Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton.
For those planning to attend in person please see info on UD’s guidance on face coverings here: https://udayton.edu/coronavirus/frequently_asked_questions.php#face_coverings
For a campus map with building and parking information visit https://udayton.edu/map/
Thanks to the Archaeological Institute of America’s Lecture Program and its Dayton Society members this lecture is free and open to the public.

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2023-04-13 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | John C Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette University, 245 Winter Street SE, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Archaeology of Portugal Lecture

"New Views on an Old Temple: The Parthenon and Its Decoration"
2023-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
2023 Richard Hubbard Howland Lecture, Washington, DC Society; by Professor Jenifer Neils, Professor Emerita, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is perhaps the most readily recognizable building in the world, and during the past two millennia our understanding of it and its sculptural decoration has continued to evolve. This lecture will examine some of these changing interpretations and how they are – or are not – related to the cultural, social and political context of 5th-century BCE Athens. Primarily a lavish marble temple dedicated to the patron goddess of Athens, the Parthenon is also a civic monument celebrating the democratic state’s victories in war, the valor of its heroes, the beauty of its citizenry, and even the status of its women.

Where's the Beach?: A Decade of surveying Minong's Relict Nipissing Shoreline
2023-04-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Where’s the Beach?: A Decade of surveying Minong’s Relict Nipissing Shoreline – NHAS
Seth DePasquale, Cultural Resource Manager, Isle Royale National Park (Minong)
Since 2012, the cultural resource program at Isle Royale National Park has conducted focused archaeological survey work on the island’s Nipissing beach, a relict Lake Superior shoreline dating to approximately 5,000 BP. The 2022 field season celebrated 10 years of this annual research project, which has yielded many interesting results. To date, at least 150 relict beach locations have been surveyed island wide. Among them, 40 new Archaic period sites have been identified. One of these sites is a previously undiscovered precontact mining district comprised of mining pits and at least five occupation locales. The boundaries of this district are still being delineated, but we do know that features are spread across a 2.3 km distance. If nothing else, the totality of our work showcases that the Archaic period on Minong was as active as any other, perhaps even more so with respect to precontact copper mining activities. This presentation will discuss the methodologies and related findings associated with the Relict Shoreline Survey Project. REGISTER: bit.ly/2023NHASevent

1177 BC Revisited: Updating the Late Bronze Age Collapse
2023-04-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall 118, 211 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at George Washington University. Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies and the Richmond Society of the AIA.

Decorated Caves of the Pyrenees & the Rhone Valley
2023-04-13 - 2023-04-24
Discover a collection of magnificent but largely unheralded examples of Ice Age art while in the company of acclaimed paleoanthropologist and popular trip leader Ian Tattersall. Admire unusual, elegant bas-relief animal images in Basque caves, a profusion of hand prints at Gargas, and the famous panels of line-drawn and subtly shaded bison, horse, and ibex at Niaux. The trip concludes with a visit to the spectacular Chauvet cave replica at Vallon-Pontd’Arc, which expertly re-creates the earliest, and perhaps most impressive, of the many masterpieces of Ice Age art dated to some 35,000 years ago. Enjoy fine food and delightful accommodations while an expert tour manager handles all the logistics.

Convergence of Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science in Archaeology
2023-04-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Convergence of Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science in Archaeology- NHAS
Paul Pouliot, Sag8mo & Denise Pouliot, Sag8moskwa – Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People
Exploring the integration of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives into archaeological field practices and analysis. REGISTER: bit.ly/2023NHASevent

Myth-ing Sound: Exploring Markers of Music in Athenian Vase Paintings
2023-04-12 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Manton Lecture
Please contact Phil Stinson and William Bruce for the Zoom link.

Great Lecture: North American Mounds as World Heritage
2023-04-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
A millennium ago, Native people constructed over 120 earthen mounds at the site of Cahokia, a World Heritage site in Illinois. Built entirely by hand, the largest of these constructions towered 100 feet over a city that was more densely populated than the contemporary medieval city of London. Over two thousand years before Cahokia’s construction, Native people in Louisiana built Poverty Point, another World Heritage site, and one of the only earthwork complexes that rivals Cahokia’s size and complexity–and they did so without agriculture or permanent settlements. These sites highlight the incredible engineering ability of ancient Americans, and remind us that we don’t need a passport to visit sites of outstanding universal value.
Speaker: Megan C. Kassabaum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UPenn

NCPH 2023
2023-04-12 08:00 - 2023-04-15 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hyatt Regency Downtown Atlanta, 265 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
The National Council on Public History requests session, working group, and workshop proposals for our 2023 annual meeting, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 12-15, 2023. Final proposals are due July 15; proposers may submit an optional topic proposal by June 15 to seek feedback and co-presenters.
The conference theme is “To Be Determined.” The abbreviation TBD—meaning “to be determined”—is a device that holds space for unknown futures. It indicates that the process of knowing and planning is still actively unfolding. But “to be determined” has other meanings, too, signaling resolve, commitment, and intention. The 2023 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, as NCPH reconvenes in person for the first time in four years, will explore and embrace these dual ways we can interpret and apply TBD.

Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
2023-04-11 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Room L140, Elvehjem Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706
Norton Lecture

From sea to Mountain: Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Lebanon
2023-04-07 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Please join the AIA Baltimore Society for the 2023 Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture. Dr. Jennie Bradbury (Bryn Mawr College) will speak on “From sea to mountain: archaeology and cultural heritage in Lebanon.” This lecture will be held on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Zoom link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=[REDACTED]

AIA-Central and Western Michigan Society
2023-04-07 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | McDonel Hall room C-103, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Northern Realms of the Mongol Empire: Salvage Archaeology and Science in Mongolia
Dr. Alicia R. Ventresca-Miller (Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Communities in northern Mongolia lived between two imperial powers during the politically tumultuous Mongol period (around ~1200 CE). Northern communities were poised to influence Silk Road routes traversing the region, yet while trade into the heart of Mongolia is discussed in historical sources, it is uncertain how peripheral groups took part in these networks. Our salvage work on looted cemeteries in the Darkhad Depression have resulted in the recovery of silk robes, equestrian tack, shoes, and personal adornments. Finds preserved in the permafrost include dairy and tallow in ceramic vessels, birchbark hats, and clothing. We anticipate that continued excavations will reveal additional remarkably preserved textiles and foodstuffs. To understand how peripheral herders became cosmopolitan elites, we brought together an interdisciplinary team using novel techniques (isotopes, proteomics) to explore the cuisines of local communities and provide insight into the lives of elites and commoners. In this talk I will highlight our ongoing excavations and proteomic results.

Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yap's Famous Stone Money
2023-04-06 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States

Not Black and White: Seeing and Naming Africans in Greek Art
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Denver) | Hager Auditorium, the Museum of the Rockies, 600 W. Kagy Blvd., Bozeman, MT, 59717

Shopping for artists’ materials in ancient Rome: pigment shops, pigments, and product choice
2023-04-06 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Agricultural Communication and Education Building, Room 00102, Texas Tech University, 2810 15th St, Lubbock, TX, 79409

Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
2023-04-06 16:30 (America/New_York)
