Archaeological Institute of America

"They are still teaching us": Community Bioarchaeology and the Sisters of Loretto Project presented by Dr. Lauren Hosek
2023-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
In the summer of 2022, construction necessitated the relocation of a small 19th /20th century cemetery of nuns from southwest Denver. Before their reinterment, a team of local researchers and students worked with the Loretto Community to undertake a bioarchaeological analysis of the remains of the Sisters of Loretto. This ongoing project highlights community collaboration, education, and historical memory in the spirit of these women and their service to the Denver community.
Bio: Lauren Hosek (PhD Syracuse University 2020) is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder and a social bioarchaeologist with interests in skeletal approaches to embodied experiences of identity and social change. Broadly, her interests also include skeletal plasticity and the life course, paleopathology, materiality, religion and the body, and mortuary archaeology. Her research integrates skeletal analysis with the study of material culture and historical narratives to address the interactions between human bodies and their broader social, cultural, and physical environments. She is currently examining diet and mobility in early medieval Central Europe through the lens of stable isotopes, skeletal dental analysis, and archaeological data. She uses similar techniques to study different communities in 19th-century America.

In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marie Style pottery in Minoan Crete
2023-03-16 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall room 118, University of Richmond, 410 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA, 23137

Dr. Christine Johnston: “Merchants and Markets in Egyptian Trade”
2023-03-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
The role of centralized institutions in the economy of the Egyptian states has traditionally been over-emphasized, in part due to the exaggerated part played by state actors in surviving texts. This textual evidence presents the economy of Egypt as almost exclusively redistributive, with the state assuming a veritable royal monopoly on production, product circulation, and long-distance trade. Yet personal transaction records and depictions of marketplace exchange in tomb paintings reveal an alternative system in which both local and imported goods were mobilized through non-centralized systems incorporating independent merchants. We will explore the different mechanisms for trade and the movement of goods in New Kingdom Egypt by examining the distribution of imported Cypriot and Aegean pottery during the Late Bronze Age. The widespread appearance of these imported goods demonstrates the importance of merchants and traders working outside of royal institutions.
Dr. Christine Johnston, Western Washington University.

Open Archaeology and Anthropology Day
2023-03-18 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Piscataqua Room, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH 03824, 83 Main Street, Durham, NH, United States
WELCOME TO THE OAAD SITE!
Join us on Friday, April 3 from 1-4pm in Piscataqua Room, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH for a fun-filled afternoon of hands-on archaeology and anthropology! In its fourth iteration, Open Archaeology and Anthropology Day is a great way to learn about other cultures in both the past and present. Activities will include stone tool knapping (or flaking), simple pottery construction, ancient foodway sampling, atlatl throwing (spear thrower), and a mock excavation. In addition, there will be a presentation by UNH students working on a cultural heritage project in conjunction with Abenaki community members.

Let’s Draw: HMSC Sketching Weekend
2023-03-18 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-03-19 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture provide inspiration for all levels of artists and curious visitors. Elevate your own creative process by trying your hand at sketching this weekend. Meet HMSC Volunteer Sketching Facilitators in the galleries and learn what motivates them to draw in the museums. Then take time to explore, slow down, and sketch an object in the galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum, and Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (Sunday only) with your own sketchbook or drawing materials from the museum. Share your favorite museum-inspired drawing for everyone to admire.
Free with regular museum admission. Free event parking starting at noon at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.

ARCE-PA Lecture by Dr. Rune Nyord, Emory University
2023-03-18 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ARCE-PA Annual Felix Korsyn Lecture
Saturday March 18 at 3:30pm
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Rune Nyord, Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art at Emory University and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow (2022/23) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C.
Lecture Topic: “No other satisfactory reason can be given”: The European discovery of the ancient Egyptian afterlife
Abstract:
The modern understanding of the ancient Egyptians as bent on a quest for eternal life is the result of a long history of Western engagements with ancient Egypt. Associations like the preservation of bodies for eternity and initiation into religious mysteries interacted with textual sources of the Biblical and Classical traditions to shape images of the ancient culture that could be deployed in a variety of contexts for theological, philosophical, colonial, and other purposes. This lecture examines some key formative moments in this tradition, suggesting that many aspects of the modern understanding of Egyptian afterlife beliefs owe as much to the contemporary concerns of the milieus that helped shape them as to the ancient Egyptian sources that were only gradually becoming known as these ideas were crystalizing.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Rune Nyord is Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2022/23) in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on conceptions and experiences of representation, ontology, and personhood in ancient Egypt, especially as evidenced in ancient Egyptian funerary culture, as well as the history of Western engagements with ancient Egypt. He is the author of Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Museum Tusculanum Press 2009) and Seeing perfection: Ancient Egyptian images beyond representation (Cambridge University Press 2020), and has edited and co-edited of several volumes, the most recent being Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture (Brill 2019).
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).

Scholarships Available ! International MA, Dept. of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University
2023-03-20 18:00 - 19:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | CA
The Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Lowy International School, welcomes you to join our introductory webinar: March 20, 2023.
We will present our outstanding program:
The International one year MA to study:
History and Archaeology of the Bible
IN the Land of the Bible.
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Program Overview:
The International Graduate Program in Ancient Israel Studies at Tel Aviv University is an intensive one year MA, taught entirely in English. The outstanding Program offers students a “hands-on” experience with the ancient past while learning about the region’s fascinating history, back to biblical times and beyond. The unique program puts students at the forefront of archeological, historical, and biblical research. The combination of classroom, fieldtrips and archeological excavation season in the summer provides an intellectual and social component like no other program.
The vibrant and nurturing environment of the program is unparalleled and prepares students for an academic or professional global career in Archaeology and related professions.

RESCHEDULED: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
2023-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Kennedy Building, room 112 (Assumption University Campus), 500 Salisbury St, Worcester, MA, 01609
Joukowsky Lecture

Recent Research at the Site of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) in Southern Iraq
2023-03-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | CA
Virtual lecture given by Dr. Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Lagash Archaeological Project

The Archaeology and Reconstruction of the Lake Champlain steamboat Phoenix II
2023-03-21 19:00 (America/Denver) | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505

“The Archaeology of an Underwater Battlefield: The WWII Battle for Saipan”
2023-03-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Jennifer McKinnon Flyer 2About the lecture:
From shipwrecks to aircraft wrecks to amphibious vehicles, Saipan’s waters in the Mariana Islands contain sunken sites that together tell the story of a critical battle in the WWII Pacific War between US and Japanese forces in June and July of 1944. This lecture will provide a brief overview of the WWII battle for Saipan and highlights of over a decade of archaeological research, much of which has involved working with the community members and medically retired Special Forces operators.
About the speaker:
Jennifer McKinnon, chair and associate professor of history at East Carolina University, has a background in historical and maritime archaeology and cultural heritage management. She has worked in the US, Australia, the Pacific, and Europe on sites ranging from the colonial period to WWII. Her research areas include Spanish colonial archaeology, archaeology and history of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, conflict archaeology of WWII in the Pacific; landscape and seascape archaeology; in situ conservation and preservation, and Community Archaeology. Jennifer has published a number of book chapters and journal articles and co-edited (with Dr. Toni L. Carrell) a book with Springer Press entitled Underwater Archaeology of a Pacific Battlefield: The WWII Battle of Saipan (2016). McKinnon is a Research Associate of Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research, Inc., a non-profit organization with which she has partnered to conduct WWII-related research in the Pacific.

Climate Change in the Arctic: It’s Happening Fast, and It’s Happened Before
2023-03-22 17:30 (America/New_York) | Rhode Island Hall 108, Brown University, 60 George St., Providence, 02912, United States

City Making in Byzantine Athens
2023-03-22 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Jones Hall 108, Uptown Campus of Tulane University, 6801 Freet St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-03-22 19:30 (America/New_York) | Highsmith Union, Rooms 225/226, 700 Founders Drive, Asheville, NC, 28804

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-03-22 19:30 (America/New_York) | Highsmith Union, Rooms 225/226, 700 Founders Drive, Asheville, NC, 28804
Cinelli Lecture

Traitors or Native Conquistadors? The Role of Tlaxcala in the Fall of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | CA
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Space, Symbols, Society: Ritual Dynamics in Ancient Lucania
2023-03-23 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, 65201, United States
Dr. Ilaria Battiloro (Associate Professor, Classics and Visual and Material Culture Studies departments at Mount Allison University)
This talk offers an overview of the archaeological evidence for Lucanian sanctuaries and discusses how cult sites were conceived and used by people who built, frequented, and finally abandoned them. For this purpose, special emphasis is put on two aspects of the issue: spatial organization of cult places as reconstructed from architectural remains and distribution of archaeological finds, and the formalization of the ritual activities performed within the sanctuaries themselves, and their visibility through devotion forms (in primis votive offerings). By looking at this evidence, it is possible to comprehend how Lucanian cult sites were structured in the plurality of their functions, and whether recurring characteristics can be discerned

In Search of Greener Pastures: Climate Change, Migration, and the Emergence of Fort Ancient Societies in the Middle Ohio Valley
2023-03-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe), 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, 40203, United States
How did climate change and migration shape early settlement in the Middle Ohio Valley? Archaeologist Aaron Comstock (Indiana University East) addresses this in his upcoming talk.
The spread of maize agriculture into the Eastern Woodlands of North America was a process that resulted in significant cultural transformations. In the Middle Ohio Valley, the origins of the first maize farmers, referred to as Fort Ancient societies, are unclear. While traditionally considered an in situ development, recent research suggests that some Fort Ancient sites exhibit traditions practiced by neighboring Mississippian polities. This presentation explores recent fieldwork at the Guard and Turpin sites, early Fort Ancient villages occupied between AD 1,000-1,300, with the goal of characterizing some of the first villages in the Middle Ohio Valley. By examining these sites in a broader regional context that includes climate change and migration, a more complex and dynamic picture of the first farmers in the region emerges.

Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard
2023-03-26 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Find out how archaeology expands upon written historical records and helps to diversify our understanding of human behavior. Explore North American, South American, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian archaeology across the exhibit halls of two museums. Experience human history and prehistory through exhibits, hands-on opportunities (indoors and outdoors), and discussions with student archaeologists. Activities include ancient DNA analysis, animal mummies, King Tut’s throne, spear throwing, flintknapping, and other surprises during this popular annual event.
Free with regular museum admission. Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. This program is part of HMSC’s 10-Year Anniversary celebration.

Living in ruins: Vibrancy and decay in the ancient Maya city
2023-03-26 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Westchester), Westchester, NY
Stone Lecture

“Placing” a Maritime Territory at Hellenistic Miletus
2023-03-26 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Room 118, St Johns College at the University of Manitoba, 92 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
McCann/Taggart Lecture

Mystery, Medicine, and Music in a Greek Healing Sanctuary
2023-03-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Art Building West 116, University of Iowa, 150 Art Building West,, Iowa City, IA, 52246

Mystery, Medicine, and Music in a Greek Healing Sanctuary
2023-03-27 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Iowa ABW 116, University of Iowa, Art Building West Room 116, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States
Dr. Bronwen Wickkiser (Wabash College) will present a HYBRID (in-person and live via Zoom) lecture entitled “Mystery, Medicine, and Music in a Greek Healing Sanctuary”. Her abstract for this talk is as follows: “At the center of a bustling sanctuary in southern Greece dedicated to the healing god Asklepios stood a mysterious building that continues to confound scholars. The building is remarkable for many reasons: large and circular in shape, with an underground labyrinth, it was constructed of marble and other lavish materials, incorporated exquisite decorative detail, and cost an enormous sum to build. Yet no surviving source reveals its function. We will explore the remains of this marvelous edifice within the context of the architecture and rituals of the surrounding sanctuary and will consider a function for the building that has recently been suggested by a team of international scholars: music therapy.” For those who can visit in-person, we will meet at the University of Iowa’s Art Building West room 116. If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register here: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOCtqDkqGNJ_OCZVTKkvqHlasoMR_sbH#/registration

Gallery Talk: Digging up Ancient Samaria-Sebaste
2023-03-28 15:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Explore a display about early 20th-century excavations of the ancient city of Samaria-Sebaste, with curatorial fellow Caitlin Clerkin. You’ll learn how photographs and payroll records help us rewrite the history of archaeology—one that acknowledges the people behind the excavation of the objects on display.
Our galleries are full of stories—this series of talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.
Led by:
Caitlin Clerkin, Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art

Digging Phoenicians: The Evidence from Tel Dor
2023-03-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences, C-2059, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada, H3T 1N8
Kershaw Lecture

FemiNetworX: Mapping Female Maritime Mobility Patterns
2023-03-28 18:00 (America/New_York) | Anthropology Building 130 (St. George Campus), 19 Ursula Franklin St., Toronto, Ontario

Research and Excavations at Sardis
2023-03-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
In this year’s Sardis Biennial lecture, Professor Nicholas D. Cahill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Türkiye from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Recent accomplishments at the site include the discovery of some of the world’s earliest silver coins in a historical context, the restoration of antiquity’s largest synagogue, and the unearthing of Roman houses destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
Speaker:
Nicholas D. Cahill, Field Director, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, and Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anemurium: a Roman and early Byzantine city on Turkey’s southern shore, lecture by Hector Williams (U. British Columbia)
2023-03-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | CA
George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Excavations by the University of British Columbia on Turkey’s southernmost promontory, Cape Anamur, have uncovered a picture of life in a modest but prosperous urban community from the third to seventh centuries of our era. Local benefactors built large public baths with exercise grounds, a theatre, one of the best preserved odeons (roofed small theatre) in the Roman world, hundreds of tombs, four early Christian churches (some with fine mosaic floors), houses and a small well preserved set of Byzantine baths. Industrial establishments that produced pottery, roof tiles

Sifting through Time
2023-03-29 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Manchester Community College – Student Union, 1066 Front St, Manchester, NH, 03102, United States
Get ready for a great interactive experience related to the study of archeology and anthropology!
The Social Science program will host its second archeology/anthropology expo on Wednesday, March 29th from 11am-2pm in the Student Center. Professors Kurt Springs and Kimberly Kulesza will be joined by members of the New Hampshire Archeological Society in presenting an interactive experience for participants.
The expo event is open to students, faculty, staff and the public. We hope to see you there!
