Archaeological Institute of America

Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Islands
2022-07-18
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.
Highlights:
The UNESCO World Heritage site on Orkney, which 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, a night at the Scalloway Hotel, and two nights at the remote and charming Busta House Hotel.

Sailing the Greek Isles
2022-07-11
Round trip from Athens aboard the Sea Cloud II
Known as the “Cradle of Western Civilization,” Athens, the Peloponnese, and small islands of the Aegean deliver an enticing blend of history, diverse cultural influences, stunning natural beauty, and archaeological gems. There is hardly a better way to visit this part of the world than in the company of Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Candace Weddle Livingston, aboard the 47-cabin Sea Cloud II, with an itinerary designed to allow ample time for sailing and a robust lecture program. Spend a night in Athens at the venerable Hotel Grande Bretagne on Syntagma Square before embarking on Sea Cloud II in Piraeus for a seven-night private charter. Sail to the isle of Delos, mythological birthplace of Apollo and a major religious center of the ancient world, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Continue sailing to the isles of Naxos, Milos, Kythera, and Hydra, which offer long sunny days, brilliant cerulean waters, and hidden gems waiting to be discovered. Visits to the Peloponnese peninsula’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Mycenae and Epidaurus, as well as to the beautiful historic town of Nafplio, round out the program.
AIA lecturer and host Candace Weddle Livingston, part of a team of onboard lecturers, will enrich the program through illustrated lectures and informal discussions on the archaeology and mythology that we encounter along our route. Savor fine dining in the luxurious salon or on the open teak deck, enjoy engaging presentations and casual conversation in the piano lounge, and depending on your interests, discover the library, fitness studio, spa services, or swim platform. You will also feel comfortable retiring to your cabin or suite—a spacious, stylish, and delightful retreat. And throughout your voyage, indulge in the personalized, exemplary care lavished by 60 crew members.

Arctic Odyssey: Exploring Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago
2022-07-08 - 2022-07-20
This summer, join a team of lecturers on a voyage that will explore one of the Arctic’s most interesting and magnificent areas, Norway’s Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Enjoy the comforts of a luxurious expedition ship while exploring a remote region far from tourist routes.
A group of islands located between Norway and the North Pole, Svalbard is a place of vast glaciers, calving icebergs, snowcapped mountains, and majestic serene fjords. Two thirds of the archipelago is covered by nature reserves created to protect the environment and the remarkable wildlife of the islands. Covered by ice for most of the year, the short Arctic summer that provides 24-hour days reveals the grandeur and natural life of Svalbard. The fish-rich sea that surrounds the islands attracts large numbers of birds, including kittiwakes, Arctic terns, fulmars, puffins, and black and Brunnich’s guillemots. Whales, seals, and walruses frequent the area, while the tundra supports a surprising number of flowering plants. But the undoubted king of this high Arctic archipelago is the polar bear. Svalbard is one of the best places on Earth to observe polar bears in their natural habitat. Estimated to number about 3,000, polar bears outnumber the human population of the islands.
Starting in Oslo, Norway’s lovely capital, we will fly to Tromso, located above the Arctic Circle, where we will embark our ship, and cruise across the Barents Sea to Bear Island, a nature reserve and home to thousands of birds. From Bear Island, it’s just an overnight cruise to the Svalbard archipelago, where we will spend seven days exploring this extraordinary group of islands and search for its wildlife, especially polar bears. Our Arctic Odyssey will end in Tromso, from where we will fly home.
Our home for this Arctic adventure will be SH Minerva, a state-of-the-art expedition cruise ship that was purpose built for polar exploration. Built in Finland and launched in December 2021, SH Minerva features the most advanced green mechanical technologies and systems, and accommodates a maximum of 152 guests in spacious staterooms and suites. A team of expert expedition leaders and naturalists will plan and lead our activities ashore, while a fleet of Zodiac landing craft will bring us into intimate contact with the places we will explore.

Hiking Scotland’s North Highlands & Isle of Lewis
2022-07-08
Join archaeologist Mary MacLeod Rivett and a small group of like-minded travelers on this 11-day tour of Scotland’s remote north Highlands and the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Mostly we will explore off the well-beaten Highland tourist trail, and along the way we will be treated to an abundance of archaeological and historical sites, striking scenery – including high cliffs, sea lochs, sandy and rocky bays, mountains, and glens – and, of course, excellent hiking.
Scotland’s long and varied history stretches back many thousands of years, and archaeological remains ranging from Neolithic cairns and stone circles to Iron Age brochs (ancient dry stone buildings unique to Scotland), medieval castles, and deserted clearance villages cover these landscapes. Seven of our touring days involve hikes of 4.5 to 6 miles per day, and we will rest and reflect in comfortable hotels that extend Highland warmth and hospitality.

The City is [NOT] a Tree: The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities
2022-07-05 09:00 - 2022-07-07 17:00 (America/New_York) | Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, Staatsartillerie Rd, Pretoria West, Pretoria, 0183, South Africa, Pretoria, Pretoria West, 00183, South Africa
THE CITY IS [NOT] A TREE: THE URBAN ECOLOGIES OF DIVIDED CITIES is an international collaboration, with associates principally from Europe and Africa, and open to collaboration with contributors from other parts of the world. We are interested in analyses, remedies and healing in divided cities and societies. Although these often relate to specificities of history, context, place and population, they nonetheless speak to a universal condition, with many commonalities in both cause and effect.
The title of this collaboration, being a wordplay on Christopher Alexander’s 1965 essay title A City is Not a Tree, uses the inference of a city being a tree in a different milieu. Whereas Alexander’s focus in terms of the analogy was to describe the physical composition of a city being either the mathematical structure of a tree or that of a semi-lattice, in this instance it refers to the city as a socio-spatial ecosystem.
The question of divided cities represents a complex and multi-stranded urban ecology – at once both social and spatial; it cannot be limited to a single science or discipline, such as social or spatial fields. This suggests integrated and cross-disciplinary understandings, as well integrated or parallel approaches and solutions.
Urban ecologies of division manifest in multiple forms. One of their most palpable expressions is conflict, with parallels around the world, and often with correlations in the spatial fabric. Violence in such contexts is often a surface expression of deeper socio-economic or ideological differences. Whether as result of intervention by authority or by dissent between groups, a divided city inevitably becomes a place of conflict in various forms and intensity, eroding the joy of living and sense of collective belonging to the detriment of all. In effect, it erodes the collective advantage of being part of a more unified society. In tandem with conflict as a surface expression of such ecologies are the social undercurrents, such as the making of the ‘other’, the unfamiliar and the unknown, where whole swathes of cities and towns could remain ‘other’ for many citizens – a terra nullius – even for long-term residents.

ARCE Tut Tour Boston
2022-06-27 18:00 (America/New_York) | Convene at One Boston Place, 201 Washington St. 2nd Floor, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, in collaboration with ARCE-NE, is pleased to present a special evening with Dr. Marc Gabolde in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A light reception will take place after the lecture. Registration is required: https://www.arce.org/tut-chapter-tour

ARCE Tut Tour Philadelphia
2022-06-26 14:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum – Widener Auditorium, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, in collaboration with ARCE-NE, is pleased to present a special afternoon with Dr. Marc Gabolde in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A light reception will take place after the reception. Registration is required: https://www.arce.org/tut-chapter-tour

ARCE Tut Tour DC
2022-06-23 18:00 (America/New_York) | Egyptian Embassy, 3521 International Ct. NW, Washington, DC, 20008, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, in collaboration with the Egyptian Embassy and ARCE-DC, is pleased to present a special evening with Dr. Marc Gabolde in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A light reception will take place after the lecture. Registration is required: https://www.arce.org/tut-chapter-tour

ARCE Tut Tour NYC
2022-06-22 18:30 (America/New_York) | The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Parks S., New York, NY, 10003, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, in collaboration with ARCE/NY and the Archaeology Committee of The National Arts Club, is pleased to present a special evening with Dr. Marc Gabolde in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A light reception will be offered after the lecture. Registration is required: https://www.arce.org/tut-chapter-tour

Irving Finkel Returns! Voices Out of the Darkness
2022-06-05 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago)
Dr. Irving Finkel returns to Zoom for a talk hosted by Archaeology Now about the “people between the rivers” — the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, that is. Were the people of ancient Mesopotamia so very different from us? Did they enjoy a good dinner, rejoice in love, fling curses at a faithless spouse, and quake in fear at the wrath of gods? We are fortunate because we have their most intimate thoughts, inscribed in clay thousands of years ago, still accessible to us. Dr. Finkel, a renowned expert, unlocks their writing in cuneiform, opening a dramatic window into the ancient Mesopotamian world, revealing lives that are every bit as complex and human as are our own lives today.

Sicily: A Circumnavigation aboard Sea Cloud II
2022-06-04
Join Archaeological Institute of America President Laetitia La Follette on a spring cruise circumnavigating Sicily aboard the luxurious, 47-cabin, three-masted barque Sea Cloud II. Begin and end on the island of Malta which, together with Sicily, has witnessed and bears the stamps of all the
major civilizations that the Mediterranean cradled: Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Christians, Jews, Byzantines, and Muslims. Each civilization left important stylistic traces in major architectural, urban, and artistic monuments.
Classical temples, open-air theaters, villas adorned with mosaics and frescoes, magnificently adorned churches and chapels, Islamic cloisters, and Baroque cathedrals are all found in abundance.
Begin in Valletta, the vibrant capital city of the island nation of Malta and one of the most concentrated historic areas in the world. Then embark Sea Cloud II for a splendid seven-night cruise circumnavigating Sicily. Explore the island’s treasures with stops in Trapani (for Segesta, and Erice or Marsala), Palermo, Giardini Naxos (for Taormina and Mt. Etna), and Syracuse. This itinerary also spends a day in the Aeolian Islands, one of seven UNESCO sites visited during this cruise, as well as a specially-timed sailing to enjoy up-close views of the still-active Stromboli volcano. Also available is an optional, post-trip extension on Malta and Gozo, with visits to remarkable Neolithic and medieval sites.
Your host vessel, the Sea Cloud II, offers excellent cruise accommodations while capturing the timeless elegance of sailing. To be on deck when the sails are fully extended is an unforgettable experience. Thus, this itinerary is planned to ensure ample sailing time to enjoy the majesty of this vessel and the thrill of sailing.
A robust educational program rounds out this outstanding journey. AIA lecturer and host Laetitia La Follette, Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, and Gary Radke, an expert on Italian medieval and Renaissance art and architecture, will offer a series of illustrated lectures and informal discussions along the way.

2022 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference
2022-06-03 | Trenton War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, NJ, 08608, United States
2022 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference
Friday, June 3, 2022, at the Trenton War Memorial
Registration: http://ow.ly/9TI850IPQuf
The New Jersey History and Historic Preservation conference is the annual state-wide educational and networking opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and volunteers in the fields of architecture, planning, heritage site and museum management, public history, archaeology, municipal preservation commissions, county heritage offices, developers, students, and more! Conference highlights include:
• Exciting keynote speaker, Dr. Erica Avrami, PP, James Marston Fitch Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
• Choice of nine educational sessions
• Marketplace sponsor and vendor exhibits
• Choice of a Downtown Trenton Walking Tour, State House Tour, Old Barracks Museum tour, Archaeology at the State House, and/or a behind-the-scenes tour of the War Memorial.
• Closing reception
Registration ends June 1, 2022. Please visit the conference website to learn more, njpreservationconference.org.

Scottish Isles & Norwegian Fjords
2022-05-26
I invite you to join AIA lecturer and host Colleen Batey on this magnificent cruise from Norway to Scotland, visiting remote destinations forever linked by their Viking heritage. Embark (and unpack just once) the five-star Le Dumont-d’Urville with only 92 suites and staterooms, each with a private balcony, providing all the luxury and sophistication of a fine hotel.
Dr. Batey will be part of a team of onboard experts who together will offer a series of lectures and informal discussions. This specially-designed itinerary follows the stepping stones of Scottish and Nordic civilizations during the best time of year when the weather is mild and the days are long—a rare voyage accomplished only aboard a small ship cruising into smaller ports where larger vessels cannot venture.
Set out from charming Bergen, where rows of colorful, gabled houses on the historic Bryggen waterfront evoke the city’s past as a center of Hanseatic League trade. Cruise into the majestic Sognefjord, Norway’s longest and deepest fjord; and take one of the world’s most scenic train rides along Norway’s spectacular mountain landscape aboard the Flåm Railway. Continue onward for Scotland’s Orkney and the Shetland Islands, with their remarkable links to the distant past. Learn more about the islands’ fascinating Neolithic history from the guest lecturer and renowned archaeologist Nick Card, noted for his incredible commitment to research in the region. Marvel at the Neolithic standing stones of the Ring of Brodgar; the 5,000-year-old village of Skara Brae; and the settlement of Jarlshof, revealing layers of thousands of years of human history.
A pre-cruise extension in Norway and Copenhagen, and a post-cruise extension in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, are also available.

All the King’s Men: Officials’ Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes
2022-05-21 12:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Jacksonville 2), Jacksonville, FL, United States
Cohn Lecture

Wine jars and jar makers of Cyprus
2022-05-19 18:30 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Dr. Gloria London (Independent Scholar, Seattle WA)
Lecture in Memory of Dr. Sarah Keller
A Danish police officer, who volunteered for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, spent his spare time documenting traditional technologies, especially those related to pottery production, farming, and bread. Knud Jensen recorded over 60 pitharia, the immense jars for fermenting wine, produced for centuries until 1972. He correctly speculated that the names incised on unfired jar shoulders held information about the history of Cyprus. Detective Jensen’s police training successfully enabled him to trace century-old jars back to the people who made and them used. His findings, combined with more recent ethnoarchaeological research, provide practical templates to: 1) reconstruct the ancient ceramics industry; 2) assess the markings on archaeological pottery; and 3) explain the multiplicity of traditional and ancient regional terms for essential household items.

so so head
2022-05-19 18:00 - 2022-05-20 20:00 (America/New_York)

Springtime in Provence
2022-05-18
Burgundy • Beaujolais: Cruising the Rhone and Saône Rivers
Join Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and congenial host Michael Hoff, a classical archaeologist who specializes in Roman architecture, for this exclusive, nine-day spring sojourn through Provence and the wine regions of Burgundy and Beaujolais. May is a wonderful time to visit when the region’s famous flora radiates throughout the timeless French countryside.
Cruise for seven nights, round trip from historical Lyon, along the fabled Rhône and Saône Rivers aboard the deluxe, exclusively-chartered Amadeus Provence. Dock in the heart of each port town and visit six UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the medieval papal palace of Avignon; the wonderfully preserved Roman amphitheater in Arles; the Roman theater in Orange; and the Pont du Gard aqueduct, a true masterpiece of ancient Roman architecture.
Daily excursions include tours of châteaux, vineyards, old towns, wine tastings, a world-class piano concert, and more. Aboard your deluxe riverboat, enjoy a series of onboard lectures by Professor Hoff and other experts.
This is the quintessential Provençal experience and an excellent value featuring a comprehensive itinerary through southeastern France in full bloom. We encourage you to book now while “welcome back” savings are still available.

Daily Lives in an Age of Empires: Local Economic Life during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE, Turkey)
2022-05-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Florence, Florence, - None -, 9121, India
The Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE) in the Eastern Mediterranean stands out in the history of the ancient world as a time of political and economic consolidation, with multiple great powers – Mycenae, Babylonia, Egypt, the Hittites – exerting their military power in the region and engaging in an unprecedented degree of international trade and diplomacy. The archaeological and historical records from this period offer a treasure trove of evidence including monumental architecture, kingly correspondence, and luxury goods from far-off locales.
As a result, research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and histories, but the daily lives of non-elite individuals have remained largely unexamined. What was life like for those living outside of imperial capitals and other major centers? How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial aims? How deeply were rural settlements embedded in the political and economic structures of empire?
In this lecture, I address these questions using evidence from the site of Çadır Höyük, a rural center in the provinces of one of the major political players of the Late Bronze Age, the Hittite empire (modern-day Turkey). In particular, I use the ancient animal remains from Çadır Höyük to reconstruct the organization of day-to-day economic activities at the settlement. I consider the choices Çadırans made about which animals to raise (e.g., more cattle? fewer goats? lots of pigs?) and what products to focus on (e.g. meat? wool/fiber? dairy? a combination?). I then discuss how these choices relate to the settlement’s place within the broader economic system of the Hittite empire and how they can help us characterize what life was really like at Çadır during the Late Bronze Age.
Sarah Adcock is a Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2020) and her BA in Archaeology and English Literature from Baylor University (2008). Her current work focuses on the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean region around 1200 BCE.
For her dissertation research, she examined local responses to the Hittite collapse in central Turkey at the end of the Late Bronze Age through the analysis of animal remains from the Hittite capital Hattuşa and from Çadır Höyük, a Hittite provincial center. By comparing her results from these sites, she considered the specific impacts empire’s collapse had on animal management systems and the economic organization of food production both at the Hittite capital and in the empire’s provinces.
Her current work expands the focus of her research from the collapse of the Hittite empire to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean region more broadly. The Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean is one of the largest and best known collapse events in human history, and it affected multiple polities across the region, presenting an opportunity for exploring differing responses to the processes associated with societal collapse. This project, “Everyday Lives at the End of the World?: Post-Collapse Animal Economies in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean” works to develop a macro-level understanding of changes and continuities in animal management and foodways that accompanied the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean. The goal of this work is to offer a new perspective from which to examine the massive political, economic, and social changes that occurred at the end of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean and to critically examine the historical narratives and theoretical frameworks that create our conceptions of collapse and “dark age.”

Garden Forests of the Amazon
2022-05-12 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
To attend this lecture in-person, proof of vaccination plus booster and a K(N)-95 mask is required. Masks will be provided at the door (southern entrance of Olin Hall) for anyone who doesn’t have one.

Earthquakes and the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society: the longue durée of human-geological environment relationships in Helike, Greece (SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture)
2022-05-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Speaker: Amanda Gaggioli, PhD Candidate, Department of Classics | Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University
Bio: Amanda’s research combines specializations in archaeology, history, and ancient languages with environmental sciences, particularly geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology, to interpret cultural forms of environmental knowledge, cultural practices, landscapes, and paleoenvironments that factored into societal developments. This combined work accounts for the resilience and political ecology of socio-environmental systems in all aspects of Greco-Roman civilization.
Abstract: Earthquakes have been linked with societal collapse in various places throughout the past, most notably in the eastern Mediterranean with the end of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE) and the division and decline of the Roman Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE. Archaeological evidence of widespread destruction, complemented by an inflation of historical earthquake records for late Roman contexts, points to periods of higher seismicity coinciding with political and economic weakening and socio-cultural downturn. However, since ancient times, humans living with persistent earthquake hazards have demonstrated forms of resilience. I show how earthquakes traditionally perceived as ‘natural’ disasters are not ‘natural’ but social and a critical factor in political ecological relationships through the case of Helike, Greece from the third millennium BCE to fifth century CE. New methods from geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology combined with evidence ranging from Greco-Roman perceptions on earthquakes in textual records combined with destruction, innovation, and invention in settlement architecture and soft sediment deformation structures (SSDS) in soil thin sections prove such ‘catastrophe’ theories to be either false or simplistic. The results expose the persistent factor of earthquakes and other geological hazards in the resilience and political ecology of human-environment relationships in the Greco-Roman society and culture.
The case of Helike demonstrates how factors of earthquakes and other geological hazards persistently shaped and were shaped bysocio-cultural, economic, and political developments. The use of innovative methodological approaches and techniques to new types of data confronts catastrophe narratives and reveals a resilience and political ecology of human-earthquake relationships.

The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival
2022-05-11 - 2022-05-15 | Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, 868 High St at E Broadway, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Begun in 2003, this is the only juried film competition in this genre in the Western Hemisphere. We organized it to exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. Through this Festival we wish to promote the genre and the makers of film and video productions about archaeology and indigenous peoples.

From Stonehenge to Carnac
2022-05-10
Megaliths, Monuments & Tombs of Wessex & Brittany
Explore the extraordinary prehistoric sites of Wessex, England, and Brittany, France. Amidst beautiful landscapes see world-renowned, as well as lesser-known, Neolithic and Bronze Age megaliths and monuments such as enigmatic rings of giant standing stones and remarkable chambered tombs.

War on Looting: Contested Object Case Studies
2022-05-09 18:00 (America/Chicago) | on Zoom – pre-register via our partner org here: https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/areas-of-study/art-history/, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
Please join us for an hour of brief case studies and Q&A about Looting presented by UST Art History graduate students!

New Research at St. Mary's City in Maryland
2022-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Dr. Tim Horsley describes the new geophysical and archaeological discoveries at St. Mary’s City in Maryland.

ARCE-NC Lecture May 1 by Aidan Dodson: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
2022-05-01 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol:
The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
Sunday, May 1, 2022, 2 PM Pacific Time (note the earlier time)
Zoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically 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, April 29. The number of registrations is limited, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
Egypt was unified around 3000 BC, beginning the history of pharaonic Egypt and setting the ground-rules for the nature and constitution of the state and kingship that would endure for three millennia. This afternoon we will explore the way in which the memories of the first pharaohs were maintained and used by their successors down to Roman times, and how, after millennia of oblivion, they were rediscovered by modern scholarship.
About the Speaker:
Professor Aidan Dodson
has taught at the University of Bristol since 1996, where he has been honorary Professor of Egyptology since 2018. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, and was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for spring 2013. He is the author of some 400 articles and reviews, and 25 books; his latest is The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives, which was published by the American University in Cairo Press in October 2021.

Minoan Crete & the Cycladic Isles
2022-05-01
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

Daily Lives in an Age of Empire: Local Economics Life at Cadir Hoyuk (Turkey) during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE)
2022-05-01 | Hofstra University, Breslin Hall, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, 11549, United States
Dr. Sarah Adcock, Assistant Professor at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will speak about how research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and history, but the daily lives of non- elite have remained unexamined. How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial aims?

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2022-04-29 | TBA (Stanford 2), Stanford, CA, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Adventures with Animal Mummies
2022-04-28 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | University of Hawaii, Art Auditorium, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, 96822
Masks and vaccination required for in-person attendance.

Ancient Graffiti and Ancient Voices: Culture and Communication Across Pompeii and Herculaneum
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Public Lecture by Rebecca Benefiel, Professor of Classics, Washington and Lee University.
Rebecca Benefiel is a Professor of Classics who specializes in Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural history of the Roman Empire and Latin epigraphy. She is a supervisor for the Epigraphic Database Roma, part of the EU best practice network, EAGLE (The Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), and is overseeing the preparation of ancient graffiti from Pompeii and Herculaneum. She is also Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.
