Archaeological Institute of America

ISIS and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Syria
2021-10-03 14:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Lincoln-Omaha 1), Omaha, NE
Ingholt Lecture

Irresistible Logic: Rupestrian Art and Graphic Writing in the Kongo World
2021-10-03 14:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Lobban Lecture

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2021-10-01 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Toledo 1), Toledo, OH

Roman Footwear in Context: The assemblage of archaeological leather from Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall
2021-10-01 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Baltimore 1), Baltimore, MD
Baldwin Lecture

Archaeology Month at the Alamo
2021-10-01 16:00 - 2021-10-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | MD
Each week in October, Alamo archaeologists will upload an archaeology-themed post on the Alamo website. The posts will include general archaeology information, as well as details about Alamo archaeology.

Laboratoire d’archéologie publique / Public Archaeology Lab
2021-10-01 12:00 - 2021-10-17 17:00 (America/New_York) | Musée régional de Rimouski, 35, rue Saint-Germain Ouest, Rimouski, Quebec, G5L 4B4, Canada
We like to think of archaeologists as diggers who, trowel in hand, extract remains from the ground and describe their context. However, while excavation is the most visible and iconic activity in archeology, it is only part of their task. It is in the laboratory that they spend the most time processing their findings, analyzing their data and proposing interpretations that will contribute to our knowledge. As it takes place out of the public eye, this stage of the archaeological process is also the least understood.
To make this work more visible, the Laboratoire d’archéologie et de patrimoine (Archeology and Heritage Laboratory) of the University of Quebec at Rimouski is moving into the Rimouski Regional Museum. From October 1 to 17, 2021, visitors are invited to interact with the archaeologists in residence as they continue their research on local and regional archaeological material.

Before the Railway: Trade and the Syrian Hajj in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
2021-09-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Charleston 1), Charleston, SC
Forsyth Lecture

Tracing the Origins of Art
2021-09-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Atlanta 1), Atlanta, GA
Joukowsky Lecture

Matrices of the Mother Goddess: Some Reconsiderations of Kybele in Western Anatolia
2021-09-30 17:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Western Massachusetts 1), Northampton, MA
Kershaw Lecture

Marbles and Marines: The U.S. Mediterranean Squadron and the Earliest American Excavations in the Mediterranean
2021-09-30 17:30 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Columbia 1), Columbia, MO
Edward J. Bader Lecture

Terrace Utah, Population 0
2021-09-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | online, Portugal, Maia, AK, 0000, Egypt
Join us for our online webinar event!
Utah’s desert sands have buried incredible stories – now it’s time to uncover what has been lost.
Hustling and bustling to starkly quiet, the life of one of Utah’s largest railroad towns of the 1870s-1890s remains part of the historical and archaeological record.
Archaeologists with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and the Bureau of Land Management partnered with the Chinese Railroad Workers’ Descendants Association to complete two seasons of fieldwork at the town of Terrace, home to Utah’s third largest Chinatown in 1870. Though ravaged by time and vandals, the archaeological heritage of this site is rich and helping connect living peoples to this past experience. In honor of International Archaeology Day, this presentation will honor of the voices of those past residents of Terrace through the Chinese descendant community, archaeological discoveries, and work of numerous volunteers.
You can register for this event by clicking the button below.

Girls Will Be Boys? Investigating Images of Athletic Women in Ancient Etruscan Art
2021-09-29 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Central Indiana 1), Indianapolis, IN
Roberts Lecture

Digging Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben: The Archaeology of Enslaved Cooks
2021-09-29 18:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Cincinnati 1), Cincinnati, OH

Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: founders and foundation myths in the Roman Near East
2021-09-29 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Kansas City/Lawrence 1), Lawrence, KS

Royal Purple and Indigo: The Hidden Labor Behind Luxurious Dyes
2021-09-29 18:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar (Hartford), Hartford, CT, United States

Art and Identity in the Gardens and Garden Paintings on the Bay of Naples
2021-09-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Finger Lakes 1), Ithaca, NY
Jashemski Lecture

Currents and Commodities: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands
2021-09-28 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Toronto 1), Toronto, ON

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2021-09-27 19:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Alabama Huntsville, Wilson Theatre 001, Huntsville, AL, 35816, United States

Whim Rules the Child: The Archaeology of Childhood in Scandinavian Scotland
2021-09-27 19:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Worcester 1)
Please contact Llazar@assumption.edu or pclement@assumption.edu for the Zoom link.

Lecture to be followed by question and answers and virtual wine & cheese.

Co-sponsored by the Human Arts Series, the History Program, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, and the Office of the Provost of Assumption University.

Violence against the Enslaved in Ancient Rome
2021-09-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | MD
A number of publications have criticized the motif of the “happy slave” in antiquity. This presentation by John Gruber-Miller of Cornell College is meant to provide a corrective to that representation, and take a deeper look at the evidence for how the enslaved experienced “social death” (Patterson). As Kamen (2010), Trimble (2016), and others have pointed out, Roman slaveholders used a variety of ways to mark slaves as property and to stigmatize them as social outcasts—workhouses, slave collars, brandings, tattoos, and scars. This presentation will lead participants through a sampling of the material and textual evidence for technologies used by slaveholders to control slaves’ bodies and to assert their ownership. Furthermore, Gruber-Miller will suggest an approach for exploring the radically different perspectives of the slaveholder and the enslaved.
Warning: this presentation will show potentially disturbing images and discuss difficult topics of confining, branding, whipping, and scarring human beings without their consent. We request that all attendees behave respectfully and demonstrate civility. Anyone violating these basic guidelines will be removed from the meeting and will not be allowed to log back in.

Let them Rest in Peace: The Sacred Burials of Frescoes, Pots, and Rooms in the House of the Frescoes at Knossos
2021-09-27 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Princeton 1), Princeton, NJ
Thompson Lecture

The Roman Villa Project: Archaeology, Paleobotany, and Sustainable Agriculture in Italy’s Sabine Hills
2021-09-26 15:00 (America/New_York) | MD
The Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Public Lecture Series is excited to welcome Mark Usher, University of Vermont, as our first lecturer of the season. Dr Usher will speak about, “The Roman Villa Project: Archaeology, Paleobotany, and Sustainable Agriculture in Italy’s Sabine Hills.” See the poster below.
The lecture will take place via Microsoft Teams on Sunday, September 26 at 3:00 pm EDT.
Pre-registration through this link is required: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FRGudvwe8kqlNuKyRDrxoCEKDnEtoJ5PlMr0iwglNS1UQlBRT1VTVjVQS1ZXQUJaMFJBTE9STEFUMS4u&wdLOR=c1EB8B1C8-2996-4B4B-9B98-ED3E863F6796.
AIA lectures are free and open to the public. For more information and our 2021-2022 lecture schedule, see: https://brocku.ca/humanities/classics/outreach/aia-niagara/ or find us on Facebook @AIANiagara (https://www.facebook.com/AIANiagara).

Egyptology and Race
2021-09-26 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Rye Free Reading Room, 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, New York, 10580, United States
Egyptologists make decisions about how to define the discipline. They make decisions involving time, space, and values. These actions are perfectly normal in that there is a limit as to how much data one mind can absorb. One also has the opportunity to stand back and view these decisions in aggregate. This especially applies to the ones made at the beginning of Egyptology before everything was settled and these decisions had not yet become paradigms, standards, or ruts.
This talk will examine some of these decisions about how Egyptologists defined Egyptology. It will look at what has been included and what has not. One should note that the general public has been part of this decision-making process. Egyptologists do not operate in a vacuum. Next year will be the centennial of the discovery of the tomb of King Tut (ankhamun). The opening words to the 1952 number one hit in both England and the United States to the romantic ballad “You Belong to Me” are “See the pyramids along the Nile” express the dominance of those structures in the public mind.
The focus here will be on how did it come to be that the Egyptian civilization emerged capable of building those pyramids. What happened to transform a people who had lived a certain way for millennia to one that became known as “Pharaonic Egypt”? The answers Egyptologists developed included such concepts as the Dynastic Race which will be included in this talk and the Hamite Hypothesis which requires a separate talk. These concepts live on until today even if different terms are used.
In-person and virtual. To register go to http://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/xp_newpopevent.cfm?zeeOrg=RFRR&EventID=6725193&sw=1366

Minoan Crete & the Cycladic Isles
2021-09-26 | MD
Step back in time to explore the island of Crete, center of the Minoan civilization during the Bronze Age, as well as the nearby Cycladic Islands of Santorini, Mykonos, and Delos. Marvel at the physical evidence of this first advanced civilization in Europe, which created palace complexes, stunning works of art, a unique writing system (called Linear A), and an extensive trade network. You will stay in comfortable, four- and five-star hotels, perfect for exploring or just relaxing, with nine nights on Crete in the capital city of Heraklion, in the traditional village of Sfaka Sitias, and in the coastal town of Agios Nikolaos; plus two nights on whitewashed Santorini and two nights

“Man Does not live by bread alone” (Deut 8:3): Daily Life in Biblical Times
2021-09-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | MD
Dr. Oded Borowski
Emory University
For a very long time, archaeologists were busily investigating major biblical sites trying to recover remains related to figures mentioned in biblical stories. Related to this, they were also establishing chronologies through the study of pottery. More recently, attention was diverted to the study of daily life of the average people who lived in small rather than large sites. In this presentation we will review some topics that generally are considered aspects of daily life in the period of the Hebrew Bible. After looking at sources of information for daily life, we will look at subjects such as the economy, diet, women’s role, settlement design, religion, and more.
To register, please use the “Visit Event Website” in the Details section below.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.

Bigger fish to fry: Fishing and fish consumption in Archaic Greek Sicily
2021-09-23 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Nashville 1), Nashville, TN

Wonderwerk Cave: Archaeology at the Edge of the Kalahari
2021-09-23 17:30 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Lubbock 1), Lubbock, TX

Finding the elusive household in the Bronze Age Aegean
2021-09-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | MD
The household has been a topic of considerable anthropological interest since membership in a residential unit is often held as one of the prerequisites for belonging to the wider political, religious and cultural groupings. The paper focuses on the settlement of Ayia Irini on the island of Kea (Aegean, Greece) and puts the spotlight on the households dating from the end of the Middle Bronze Age to the middle of the Late Bronze, or 17th to 15th c. BCE. Aided by GIS and ethnographic analogies, a delineation of various households is proposed based on a combination of various types of archaeological evidence, such as hearths, concentrations of cooking paraphernalia, and storage facilities. Households are analyzed in order to assess their position within the socio-economic landscape of the site and trace patterns of social interaction (from cooperation and peaceful coexistence to competition and conflict).
All attendees must RSVP for the meeting to reserve a seat and/or receive the Zoom invitation. Please email your RSVP to Dr. Elisha Dumser, edumser@uakron.edu before 5pm on Sept. 22nd.

Landscapes of Conflict
2021-09-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | MD
Fortification and Institutionalized Inequality in Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico
In this talk, Christopher Hernandez of Loyola University’s Department of Anthropology argues that the ancient inhabitants of the Mensabak region of Chiapas, Mexico, incorporated various aspects of their environment to create layer upon layer of defense that in turn promoted social inequality. Within a heavily guarded settlement, elites occupied the highest and most well defended terrain, while exposing the rest of the population to greater potential levels of violence. These differing levels of protection inscribe inequality on the landscape, and perpetuated it across generations. By partnering with local Maya in the archaeological process, his work also addresses contemporary issues. Crafting new histories written with a local Maya community is one step in amplifying the voice of Indigenous peoples and addressing the oppressive legacies of nationalist and colonialist projects.

Muchos Méxicos: Virtual Exhibition Preview and Conversation | Recorrido virtual de la exhibición y conversación
2021-09-22 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | MD
Speakers
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Harvard University
Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Octavio Murillo, Director of Archives, Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (National Institute of Indigenous Peoples), Mexico
Onsite Guide for Virtual Visit: Andrew Majewski, Museum Education Specialist, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Live interpretation in English and Spanish
Join us for a virtual preview and conversation about the Muchos Méxicos exhibition. Three scholars who contributed to the making of the show will discuss their favorite objects and how they each tell stories of exchange and innovation—as well as loss and perseverance—across time and space.
Interpretación en vivo en inglés y español
Únase a un recorrido virtual y conversación sobre la exhibición Muchos Méxicos. Tres académicos que contribuyeron a la realización de la exhibición hablarán sobre sus objetos favoritos y cómo cada uno de ellos cuenta historias de intercambio e innovación, así como de pérdida y perseverancia, a través del tiempo y el espacio.
