Archaeological Institute of America

Jessi Halligan, “Why underwater? The importance of submerged landscape research for understanding Pleistocene peoples in the New World”
2024-03-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Tuesday, March 19, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Belk Visual Arts Center 117
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
This lecture is FREE and open to the public. Please join us if you’re an archaeology enthusiast!
About the lecture:
Perhaps most people think of shipwrecks when underwater archaeology is mentioned, but numerous formerly-terrestrial sites have survived drowning in our freshwater lakes and rivers and on our continental shelves. These sites can even be better preserved than their dry counterparts, and in some cases they can help us answer some of the most pressing questions about people in the past. Thousands of Pleistocene artifacts have been discovered in Florida’s rivers and springs, along with some of the best preserved early sites in the Americas. These sites are challenging archaeological models for the peopling of the Americas, and are providing us with informaƟon about the lifeways of early Indigenous peoples in the New World.
About the speaker:
Dr. Jessi Halligan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University, specializes in geoarchaeology and underwater archaeology. She focuses on the initial peopling of the Americas through an active research program in submerged Paleoindian sites in Florida. This focus leads to complementary foci in hunter-gatherer societies, geoarchaeology, sea level rise and submerged landscape studies, including underwater field methods. She has more than two decades of field and lab experience, having conducted research and/or worked on Cultural Resource Management projects all over the Northeastern United States, the Northern Plains, Texas, and the Southeast. Other major interests include climate change during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene, coastal site preservation, and human adaptation to major climate change.

Why Underwater? The Importance of Submerged Landscape Research for Understanding Pleistocene Peoples in the New World
2024-03-19 19:30 (America/New_York) | Room 117 (Semans Auditorium), Belk Visual Arts Center, 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Matson lecture

Archaeology and Conservation: The Tombs at Rio Azul, a Treasure in Guatemala
2024-03-19 19:00 (America/Denver)
Joukowsky lecture
Meeting ID: 832 2135 7072
Passcode: [REDACTED]

A Museum Object from Antiquity Reexamined - Head of a Ruler
2024-03-19 18:00 (America/New_York) | General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Friends of AIA-NYS invite you to a special lecture!
The Metropolitan Museum Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art cares for approximately 7,000 works from 8th Century B.C. to 7th Century A.D. The objects come from an area that today comprises Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean coast, Yemen, and Central Asia. The Met’s Jean-François de Lapérouse and Dr.Kim Benzel will focus on a particular antiquity object as they reveal how cutting-edge technology and new scholarship have led to the reattribution of The Met’s bronze Head of a Ruler, transforming our understanding of the chronology of lost wax casting technology. Available online and in person.
Presented in partnership with Friends of AIA-NYS. Please email hjames@studiolxiv.com – AIA members have free entry. RSVP required for Entry or Link.
Lecture held at The General Society Library
20 West 44th Street
6PM

Trading With The Enemy: Greek Pottery In The Persian World
2024-03-19 17:30 (America/New_York) | Brown University, Rhode Island Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 2912, United States
Norton lecture

Imhotep: The Man, the Myth, the Monster
2024-03-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Room 140 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Julia Troche, Missouri State University, Springfield:
“Imhotep: The Man, the Myth, the Monster”
Sunday March 17, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 140, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
This in-person lecture will be recorded for later publication on YouTube.
About the Lecture:
“It comes to life!” is the tagline for the 1932 Universal film The Mummy wherein a reanimated Imhotep, as the mummy horror icon, brings terror and violence to all who encounter him. Imhotep, in fact, was a historical ancient Egyptian who is credited with engineering Egypt’s first pyramid, the stepped pyramid at Saqqara for King Djoser (c. 2650 BCE). In antiquity he was venerated as a folk hero and eventually worshiped as a god. How and why did Imhotep become a horror icon? The answer is what we refer to as “Egyptomania,” that is, our obsession with and consumption of ancient Egypt throughout history. This talk invites audiences to follow Imhotep and his many legacies throughout history as a way to explore Egyptomania. But it is not all fun and amusement park rides, as we consider some of the benefits and problems of Egyptomania in our everyday lives.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Julia Troche is an Egyptologist, historian, and award-winning educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Egyptology from Brown University and a B.A. in History from UCLA. Dr. Troche is currently Associate Professor at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO, and Visiting Scholar of Egyptology at Brown for her sabbatical (2023-24). She serves as a Governor for the Board of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), is President and co-founder of ARCE-Missouri, and for the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), she is co-chair of the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee and co-chair of the Archaeology of Egypt sessions for the annual meeting. Her first book, Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms was published in 2021 with Cornell University Press. She is currently working on a book about the god Ptah for Bloomsbury, a textbook (with B. Brinkman) for Routledge, and a series of articles on Egyptomania and Imhotep that she hopes to turn into a public-facing book.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, http://www.arce-nc.org, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students
2024-03-17 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-16 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-15 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-10 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-09 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-08 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-03 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-03-02 14:00 - 14:45 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00 pm October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply.
*Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024.
Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times, student schedules permitting.
Photo: EJSP Visual | Julieta Sarmiento

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students
2024-03-17 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-03-10 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-03-03 11:00 - 11:45 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Sundays at 11:00 am October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply. Free museum admission for Massachusetts residents every Sunday morning (year-round) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Proof of residency required. Free museum admission is not available to commercial groups.
*Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024.
Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.
Photo: EJSP Visual | Julieta Sarmiento

More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee
2024-03-14 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Art Auditorium, Art Building University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI, 96822, United States

The Big Reveal: Airborne Laser Scanning and Archaeology of the Northern Maya Lowlands by Dr. Ken Seligson
2024-03-10 11:30 (America/New_York)
Since 2009 lidar spatial imagery has been transforming the way that archaeologists approach settlement and landscape studies in the Maya lowlands. Lidar laser technology allows researchers to virtually peel back the dense canopy of the Maya jungle, revealing hundreds of thousands of ancient structures and landscape modifications. Deep in the hilly Puuc Region of the northern lowlands, a recent 240-sq-km lidar flyover has allowed archaeologists to confirm previous suspicions that the north was just as densely populated and architecturally complex as the south. This talk focuses mainly on the large site of Muluchtzekel (c. 500 BCE – 950 CE) and elaborates on the broader implications of the new mapping technology (both its benefits and drawbacks) for understanding changes in human-environmental relationships and socio-political organization over time.
Meeting ID: 820 0422 7184
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Social Justice Through Archaeology
2024-03-09 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri History Museum, AT & T room, 5700 LINDELL BLVD, St. Louis, MO, 63112, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin / Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture
2024-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Towson University, Center for the Arts, 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD, 21252, United States
Please join the AIA Baltimore society for the 2024 Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin/Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture. Dr. Sam Holman (Princeton University) will speak on “Architectural Innovation at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace: The Engineering of the Stoa.” This will be a hybrid event, held on Towson University’s campus and on Zoom. The talk can be joined remotely with the following link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=[REDACTED]

The People of the Roman Frontiers: Investigating Multicultural Populations in the Western Roman Empire Through Archaeology
2024-03-03 15:00 (America/Winnipeg) | 118 St Johns College, University of Manitoba, 65 Chancellors Cir, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2
Santen lecture

Drought-Induced Conflict Among the Ancient Maya
2024-03-03 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States

Animal Lives At Petra
2024-02-29 19:30 (America/New_York) | HIghsmith Union, UNC Asheville, One Carmichael Heights UNCA, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States
Kershaw lecture

The First Kings Of Europe: An International Exhibition About The Prehistoric Balkans
2024-02-29 13:00 (America/New_York) | Wellesley College, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA, 02481, United States
Thompson lecture

Unmarked Grave Search of Dedan Kimathi Utilizing Archeological Geophysical Techniques
2024-02-29 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | LOUICE LEAKEY AUDITORIUM, Address: Kipande Rd, Nairobi, Nairobi, county of nairobi, 40658- 00100. Nairobi,Kenya., Kenya
The “Unmarked Grave Search of Dedan Kimathi Utilizing Archaeological Geophysical Techniques” workshop, set to take place at the prestigious Louise Leakey Auditorium on February 29th, 2024, is a groundbreaking event aimed at leveraging advanced geophysical methods to uncover the final resting place of one of Kenya’s most revered freedom fighters, Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi.
This workshop represents a collaborative effort between leading experts in the fields of geophysics and archaeology, united in their quest to shed light on this historical mystery. Through a combination of theoretical discussions, practical demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, participants will delve into the intricacies of archaeological geophysical techniques and their application in locating unmarked graves.
The significance of this endeavor cannot be overstated. Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi played a pivotal role in Kenya’s struggle for independence, symbolizing the resilience and determination of the Kenyan people in the face of oppression. Yet, the exact whereabouts of his grave remain unknown, leaving an important chapter of Kenya’s history shrouded in uncertainty.
By harnessing the power of cutting-edge geophysical technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, electromagnetic surveys, and resistivity imaging, participants will embark on a journey to unravel this mystery and honor the legacy of Dedan Kimathi. Under the guidance of seasoned experts, attendees will learn how these techniques can penetrate beneath the earth’s surface, revealing hidden structures and anomalies that may indicate the presence of a gravesite.
Moreover, this workshop serves as a testament to the enduring spirit of collaboration and innovation within the scientific community. By bringing together professionals from diverse backgrounds, it fosters an environment of interdisciplinary exchange and collective problem-solving. Through shared knowledge and expertise, participants will explore new avenues for advancing the field of archaeological geophysics while paying homage to Kenya’s rich cultural heritage.
As participants engage in lively discussions and hands-on activities, they will gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities inherent in the search for unmarked graves. Ultimately, the “Unmarked Grave Search of Dedan Kimathi Utilizing Archaeological Geophysical Techniques” workshop represents a significant step forward in the quest to uncover the truth behind this historical enigma and ensure that the legacy of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi endures for generations to come.

Unmarked Grave Search of Dedan Kimathi Utilizing Archaeological Geophysical Techniques
2024-02-29 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | LOUICE LEAKEY AUDITORIUM, Address: Kipande Rd, Nairobi, Nairobi, county of nairobi, 40658- 00100. Nairobi,Kenya., Kenya

AIA Archaeology Hour with Nam C. Kim
2024-02-28 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Nam C. Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) presents “Barbarians”, Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Vietnamese lore tells us that over two thousand years ago the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of “civilizing”, prompting imperial annexation of the region. This lecture explores the region’s archaeological record and what it means for scholarly debates, as well as for Vietnam’s national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Nam Kim. “'Barbarians,' Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam"
2024-02-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 116, 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, 99324, United States
Vietnamese lore records that over two thousand years ago, the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of “civilizing,” prompting imperial annexation of the region. This lecture explores the region’s archaeological record and what it means for scholarly debates, as well as for Vietnam’s national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.
Please join us for this livestream presentation.
