Archaeological Institute of America

Street Theater: A Pompeian Neighborhood in Five Acts by Dr. Jeremy Hartnett
2022-04-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver)
When we think of Roman cities, it is tempting to conjure images of temples, baths, and amphitheaters. This talk storms into the narrow streets of Pompeii to make the case that, for most Romans, the real action happened on the neighborhood level. As told through five different stories, we will see how ancient historians repopulate “empty” ancient spaces with a raucous cast of upper-class politicians, slaves, hucksters, donkeys, and so many more – all trying to scratch out a living, make their mark, and upstage competitors in the street.

Ruined Gardens of Babylon: Dark Ecology and Heritage Politics in the Middle East
2022-04-14 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Kershaw Lecture

Street Theater: A Pompeian Neighborhood in Five Acts
2022-04-14 19:00 (America/Denver) | CU Boulder ECCR 265, 2055 Regent Dr, Boulder, 80305
Russell Lecture

Coastal Heritage and Climate Change—A Monumental Challenge to Preserve the Past in the 21st Century
2022-04-14 18:00 (America/New_York)

Bird/Egg, Pen/Hand, Torch/Deer? Pairs of Ordinary Objects on Roman Coins
2022-04-14 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | TBA (Eugene), Eugene, OR
Metcalf Lecture

Keepers of Time: Ancient Egyptian Sundials and Water Clocks
2022-04-14 17:00 (America/New_York) | Andrews Hall, Room 101, College of William & Mary, 605 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA, 23187, United States
Webster Lecture

Hawaiian Archeology – NH Archeology Month
2022-04-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
An insightful discussion of Hawaiian Archeology within the context of a vibrant contemporary native Hawaiian culture lead by an archeologist from New Hampshire who works in Hawaii, followed by discussion REGISTER: bit.ly/22signupNHAS

An Introduction to the Archaeology of Childhood
2022-04-13 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Akron, Leigh Hall, Room 215, 150 E. Exchange Street, Akron, OH, 44325, United States
This lecture will also be streamed on Teams. Those who wish to attend virtually should RSVP before 5:00 pm on the lecture date by contacting Dr. Evi Gorogianni (eg20@uakron.edu).
Reception at 6:30 PM

Matrices of the Mother Goddess: Some Reconsiderations of Kybele in Western Anatolia
2022-04-13 19:00 (America/New_York) | School of Business (SBUS) 110, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07043

The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
2022-04-13 19:00 (America/New_York)

The Application of LiDAR Scanning for the Documentation of Ancient Cities and Regions
2022-04-13 19:00 (America/New_York) | Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States

Synoikismos: The Formation and Form of Ancient Greek Cities
2022-04-13 18:30 (America/Denver)

Sensing the Past: Sensory Experiences in Ancient Mesopotamia (a 4-D Presentation)
2022-04-13 17:00 (America/New_York)
Manton Lecture

A Feminist History of Ancient Medicine
2022-04-12 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Chapman Auditorium (in Chapman Center), Trinity University, E Rosewood Ave, San Antonio, 78212

Lost Landscapes of Sicily, Italy. Submerged Cities and Ancient Shorelines from Prehistory to the Roman Period.
2022-04-12 19:00 (America/New_York)
McCann/Taggart Lecture

Watching the Hours of the Night: Astronomical Timekeeping in Ancient Egypt
2022-04-12 18:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Tampa 2), Tampa, FL, United States

NH SCRAP Discoveries — Summer of 2021 - NH Archeology Month
2022-04-12 07:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
This presentation will summarize recent archaeological work at Pillsbury and Bear Brook State Parks as well as detailed plans for upcoming investigations. Further discussion will focus on the value of converting archeological data into interpretive programming to further enhance the public’s knowledge of, interest in, and appreciation for, New Hampshire’s archeology. REGISTER: bit.ly/22signupNHAS

Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery
2022-04-10 15:00 - 16:00 (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. Meredith Brand, California State University, San Bernardino:
“Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery”
Sunday, April 10, 2022, 3 PM Pacific 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 8. The number of registrations is limited, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
Ritual in ancient Egypt required vast amounts of goods. For instance, Ramesses III’s Great Harris Papyrus lists donations of millions of material items, food, drink, and even flowers to Egypt’s temples. At Medinet Habu temple alone Ramesses III offered more than 80,000 beer jars per year to the cult. Indeed the abundant material culture excavated at temple sites supports the idea that ancient Egyptian ritual needed lots of things. This is particularly clear at Abydos, the main cult site of the god of the underworld Osiris, where the landscape is covered with pottery and other goods related to temple and cultic ritual. The number of artifacts can be quite staggering – the French archaeologist Amélineau estimated over 20 million pots were deposited at Umm el-Qa’ab, the focal point of an annual festival for Osiris. More recently, University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone project excavated over 100,000 pieces of pottery from a few squares near the Osiris Temple Enclosure.
The sheer quantities of material culture used for private and temple ritual at Abydos raises many questions about who produced these goods, how they organized such a scale of production, and the relationships between craft workers and state institutions. It is important to examine such questions as they provide insight into an often ignored aspect of ritual – the potters, brewers, bakers, weavers, florists, etc. whose work was vital for ritual practices in ancient Egypt. This talk examines the social and economic context of craft production for ritual with a case study on the production of pottery at Abydos for cultic use in the popular festival of Osiris at Umm el-Qa’ab and a chapel of Thutmose III in the North Abydos Votive Zone. The conclusions of this talk suggest how craft workers made their living and provide insight into both how temples functioned economically and how people got the material goods they needed for private cult.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Meredith Brand obtained her PhD from the Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Department at the University of Toronto with her dissertation The Socio-Economic Organization of Votive Pottery Production at Abydos, Egypt in the New Kingdom: A Metric Analysis Study. She is currently the W. Benson Harrer Egyptology Scholar and Residence at California State University San Bernardino and an instructor in the Rhetoric and Composition Department at the American University in Cairo. Dr. Brand’s research focuses on pottery analysis, material culture, archaeological science, and the social history and economy of ancient Egypt. She is a co-Director and the ceramicist of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition that surveys and excavates mines and mining settlements in the Eastern Desert. She has been the ceramicist at University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone Project and the assistant ceramicist at other sites in Egypt, and has conducted mineralogical analysis of pottery from sites in Egypt and Sudan.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://arce-nc.org/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

Providing for the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt and Early China
2022-04-10 15:00 (America/New_York)
English Lecture

Why We Repatriate: On the Long Arc Towards Justice at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2022-04-10 14:00 (America/New_York)
Bernard Lecture

A History of Violence: Understanding the Slave Trade in Ancient Greece
2022-04-08 17:00 (America/New_York)
Renner Lecture
Join via Zoom at the link below. The password, if prompted, is “baltimore”.

Sifting Through Time Archaeology Expo! - NHAS Archeology Month
2022-04-08 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Manchester Community College – Student Union, 1066 Front St, Manchester, NH, 03102, United States
There will be demonstrations of flint knapping (making of stone tools), basketry, and geophysical prospection. Also, displays of stone tools, pottery and ancient hunting implements, and a discussion of maps in archeology. Stop by and try making a stone blade, or see if you could hunt a Mastodon! At the Manchester Community College Student Union 1066 Front St, Manchester, NH.

The Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain’s Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland
2022-04-08 15:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Albany), Albany, NY, United States

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2022-04-07 19:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
Joukowsky Lecture

Ancestors, Warriors, Looters: Aidonia and the TAPHOS project
2022-04-07 19:00 (America/Chicago) | SMU, Dedham Life Sciences, Room 131, 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, 75205
Mellink Lecture

Race, America, and Ancient Greece
2022-04-07 19:00 (America/New_York)
Renner Lecture

A Tale of Two Wells: Birth, Death, and Midwives in ancient Greece
2022-04-07 18:30 (America/New_York)
Matson Lecture

Manifest: Thirteen Colonies (Free Virtual Lecture)
2022-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies, Stockton University; 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
In conversation with Brenda Tindal, Executive Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums,and archives of the original thirteen English colonies. Conceived by photographer Wendel White, this project is a personal, selective reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public and private collections. In this program, White will discuss his approach to finding, selecting, and photographing artifacts—from rare singular objects, to more quotidian materials—and highlight their significance as forensic evidence of Black life and history in the United States. A conversation with public historian Brenda Tindal will follow.
This program is supported by the Robert Gardner Fellowship Fund
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2022-04-07 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Tsakirgis Lecture

Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects in Pompeii
2022-04-07 17:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Missouri – Columbia, 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. 9th Street, Columbia, MO, 65211, United States
5:00 PM reception, LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED
