Archaeological Institute of America

Choices and Changes: 13th Century Revitalization of Cahokia, Native North America's First City
2022-03-13 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Westchester 1), Westchester, NY
Stone Lecture

Unearthing A Slave Community
2022-03-13 08:00 - 2022-11-19 17:00 (America/New_York) | Florence, Florence, - None -, 9121, India
Over the next several years, we will be examining a number of different archaeological sites. What makes Montpelier a wonderful property for surveys and excavations is its relative undisturbed condition. All of the sites we excavate have never been plowed–and most were abandoned in the 1840s, leaving the archaeological features in pristine condition.
This season we will be excavating the Blacksmith Shop complex at the Madison plantation. All of our current projects are part of a larger effort to interpret and reconstruct the lives of the enslaved community so it can be accessed by visitors.
The LEARN Archaeology Expedition program has been operating at Montpelier for a decade-and-a-half, with many of the same volunteers returning year after year. We are, however, keen to add new faces to the program. All of the scheduled programs are designed to give participants actual excavation experience on an archaeological site working side-by-side with trained professional archaeologists. We have a staff of six archaeologists who work with participants both in the lab and in the field, which means you have personal interaction with archaeological staff and this allows you to work on sensitive features, artifacts, and deposits that normally one would not get to handle. You are treated as a member of the research team and we step you through the entire excavation process. While you are here at Montpelier, you will be engaged in lectures, and take tours of various archaeological sites on the property.
You can learn about all of our LEARN Archaeology Expeditions at the following link.
We also host a month-long university archaeology field school. For more information on this, please see our field school web page.
For more information contact Melissa Kerrat dig@montpelier.org

When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
2022-03-12 17:00, 2022-03-11 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Oliver Lecture

"De-composing and Re-composing the ancient Egyptian body"
2022-03-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Dr. Tasha Dobbin-Bennett (Emory University Oxford College) will speak on “De-composing and Re-composing the ancient Egyptian body.”
Join via Zoom at the link below. The password, if prompted is “baltimore”.

Set apart from within: Articulated women in commingled tombs from Early Bronze Age Arabia
2022-03-10 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Willamette University College of Law, 245 Winter Street SE, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Matson Lecture

RESCHEDULED - A Phonetic Zoo: The Origins of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing
2022-03-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Akron, Leigh Hall, Room 215, 150 E. Exchange Street, Akron, OH, 44325, United States
Abemayor Lecture; Reception at 6:30 PM
PLEASE NOTE: This lecture is being rescheduled, the new date will be posted as soon as possible.

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-10 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City 2), New York, NY
Norton/Haupt Lecture

The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress
2022-03-10 18:00, 2022-03-08 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
La Follette Lecture

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-09 16:00 (America/New_York)
Norton Lecture

Bird/Egg, Pen/Hand, Torch/Deer? Pairs of Ordinary Objects on Roman Coins
2022-03-08 | Room L140, Elvehjem Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706
Metcalf Lecture

Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture
2022-03-07 19:30 (America/Chicago)

The Application of LiDAR Scanning for the Documentation of Ancient Cities and Regions
2022-03-06 15:00 (America/Chicago)

Unearthed Voices From the First Emperor of Qin's Unification of China
2022-03-06 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | AIA-LA, 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, United States
Ahmanson Lecture

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
2022-03-05 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room, Thomson Hall, 1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States
The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia, with Miriam Stark, UH Manoa

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
2022-03-05 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall, 3380 N. 13th Street, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2022-03-05 13:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (St. Louis 2), St. Louis, MO
Anawalt Lecture

Gender, Creator Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu
2022-03-05 10:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton Science Center 255 (Chudd Auditorium), 300 College Park Avenue, Dayton, OH, 45469, United States

Israel: Treasures of the Holy Land
2022-03-05
Discover the kaleidoscope of Israel’s archaeological riches in springtime. Highlights include iconic ancient and religious sites, including five that are inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list: the spectacular, tragic fortress of King Herod at Masada; the Biblical Tel (settlement mound) of Megiddo; a view of Haifa’s Bahá’í Gardens from Mt. Carmel; the Jewish necropolis of Beit Shearim; and Bethlehem, with its 4th-century Church of the Nativity. Also spend six nights based in Jerusalem, exploring in-depth its archaeological sites, outstanding museums, and major Christian, Jewish, and Islamic holy places; and explore the impressive ancient trading port of Caesarea Maritima as well as Qumran, overlooking the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden for nearly 2,000 years. Limited to a maximum of 16 participants.

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
2022-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Lecturer: Miriam Stark (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Angkor’s first great king, Jayavarman II, established Cambodia’ Angkorian state on the banks of the Tonle Sap in 802 CE and built his first capital, Mahendraparvata, on the slope of the nearby Kulen mountains. What followed were six centuries of political competition, warfare, and imperial rule by Angkor’s kings. Like rulers of other ancient states, Khmer kings built vast stone monuments to honor their predecessors and gods that still stand today. A century of scholarly research on the Khmer empire’s achievements has shed light on the scale and nature of premodern Southeast Asia’s most influential polity; it has also shaped political agenda in unanticipated ways. This lecture introduces the Angkorian world, from its temples to its ceramics, and examines how cosmology and statecraft created Southeast Asia’s greatest premodern empire and the world’s largest preindustrial city.
This event will be hosted remotely via Zoom. To register in advance, please use the link provided below.

Coastal Heritage and Climate Change—A Monumental Challenge to Preserve the Past in the 21st Century
2022-03-03 19:00 (America/New_York)

Religious Ritual on board the Greco-Roman Ship
2022-03-03 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Bass Lecture

Mosaics and the Antioch Recovery Project
2022-03-03 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | TBA (Central Arizona), Phoenix, AZ, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Ramesside Royal Women’s Tombs, the Book of the Dead, and the Deir el-Medina Iconographic Tradition
2022-03-03 17:30 (America/New_York)

Etruscans at the Crossroads: The Lost Cities of Tuscany
2022-03-03 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Zoomed lecture, free and open to the public.
Rachel Horner Brackett Lecture – Etruscans at the Crossroads
Thursday, March 3 · 4:30 – 6:00pm
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"The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The Role of Wives, Children and Families in Roman Military Communities" Elizabeth M. Greene
2022-03-02 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
Elizabeth M. Greene, Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology, University of Western Ontario (egreene2@uwo.ca)
Research over the past few decades has shown quite clearly that women and children were part of life in the Roman army far more than had ever been considered before. The evidence and spatial patterning of material within and outside Roman forts makes this clear, but still research on the social role of these individuals lags behind. This presentation concentrates on Dr. Greene’s current research into this aspect of the Roman army, considering the evidence that illuminates the varied roles of non-combatants within these somewhat unique settlements. The presentation highlights the very different realities for the wives and children of officers and the family members of, for instance, a foot soldier, who was paid far less and was not legally allowed to contract a marriage while serving. This lecture follows on past talks I have given that present the archaeological evidence for the presence of women at Vindolanda and pushes the argument toward women’s social roles within military communities and the intersectional identities of those living in the Roman provinces and in military communities on the frontiers.

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2022-03-02 18:00 (America/New_York)
Caskey Lecture

Synoikismos: Formation and Forms of Ancient Greek Cities
2022-03-02 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Bryant Hall 209, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, United States

“In the Footsteps of Roman Soldiers: Excavations at Vindolanda and the Archaeological Landscape of Hadrian’s Wall”
2022-03-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
In the past few decades the Roman fort at Vindolanda has had some of the most extraordinary finds from the northern frontier of the Roman Empire that have truly changed our understanding of life in the Roman army. The site lies near Hadrian’s Wall in a remote countryside in Northumberland, England and was part of the original frontier line in this location in the late first century CE. Decades of excavation at the site have given us an extraordinary view into the lives of soldiers living in this frontier region. Greene has excavated at Vindolanda since 2002, directing trenches in new areas of the site for several years, and will give a presentation focusing on the recent excavations and new hypotheses from this work. Highlights of the presentation concentrate on the extraordinary finds from the site, including Roman shoes, numerous inscriptions and artifacts, as well as the unparalleled corpus of writing tablets (letters and military records), to reveal what life was like on the edge of the Roman empire and how the site has changed many accepted views of life in the Roman army.
Speaker: Elizabeth Greene, University of Western Ontario
To join the virtual meeting, go to https://knox-edu.zoom.us/j/89207455252?pwd=[REDACTED]
