Archaeological Institute of America

Halieis. An Ancient Greek City Lost and Found
2022-03-21 17:00 (America/New_York) | Universite de Montreal, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Room C-1017-02, 3150, rue Jean Brillant, Montreal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada
Biggs Lecture

Charismatic Rulers and Spatial Void in a Material World: Art from the Akkadian Empire, c. 2350-2150 BCE
2022-03-21 16:30 (America/New_York) | Princeton University, Green Hall, 3-S-15, Princeton, 08540
Ettinghausen Lecture

Due to Covid precaution policies at Princeton, only accept 10 non PU ID attendees will be accepted. They must register with Mo Chen (mochen@princeton.edu) in advance and attest to being fully vaccinated, including the booster. Face masks must be properly worn in the building. Non PU ID holders must be at the front door of Green Hall by 4:20pm so staff can let them in. All campus building doors are locked to the public. Attendees will be checked in.

Synoikismos: The Formation and Form of Ancient Greek Cities
2022-03-21 11:45 (America/New_York) | Universite de Montreal, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Room C-1017-02, 3150, rue Jean Brillant, Montreal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada
In-person lecture by Bradley Ault
Following the Late Bronze Age “collapse” of Mycenaean civilization (ca. 1200 BCE), the formative Greek states and the palace centers that spawned them had vanished. What emerged in their wake over the course of the following centuries was the city-state or polis, a system with a remarkably different pedigree. Bottom-up formations rather than top-down creations, established by people and populations, rather than implemented by aristocratic monarchies. More than 1000 such city-states existed in the ancient Greek world, some 600 in the Aegean homeland and another 400 in colonial settings abroad. That is how successful this system proved to be. This lecture will explore not only the mechanisms of Greek city-state formation, but the character of its urban core, and especially how this organization reflected its socio-cultural profile.

Bronze Age Monkeys and the Case for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
2022-03-20 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Gregorian Lecture

Across the Ocean Blue: Evidence for Precolumbian Voyages and Contacts
2022-03-20 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Philippianus and his late Roman estate: recent excavations at Gerace, central Sicily
2022-03-20 14:00 (America/New_York) | Department of Classics & Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Desmarais Building, Room TBA, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada

Foreigners as Symbols in Ancient Egyptian Tombs (1550-1372 BCE)
2022-03-18 19:30 (America/Halifax) | Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Kantor Lecture

The Art of Food in Ancient Egypt
2022-03-17 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | TBD, Trinity University, San Antonio, 78212, United States
When modern observers think of ancient Egyptian food, they will usually come up with an image of the deceased seated in front of a pile of mysterious objects. Others may call to mind the offering formula of 1000 of bread and 1000 of beer, and then pause, unsure what comes next. This presentation will look beyond the bread and beer to investigate the complexities of pharaonic cuisine.
Lyn Green received her PhD from the University of Toronto for a dissertation on the royal women of the end of the 18th dynasty (from the reign of Thutmose IV to that of Horemheb). She has excavated at Tell el-Amarna and at East Karnak and worked for the Akhenaten Temple Project, researching the talatat blocks used to build the palaces and temples of Akhenaten. Currently she is a Research Associate of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Her published articles cover many varied aspects of ancient Egyptian culture, including crowns and regalia, feasting, dance, religion, medicine, clothing and beauty, sexuality, history, music and art in a wide variety of publications. These include: The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt; KMT magazine; the Journal of the SSEA and the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Egyptian Archaeology; Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Donald B. Redford; and more.

An Archaeologist, World War II and Prehistoric Thailand
2022-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Dr. Cyler Conrad (University of New Mexico)
The popular Hollywood film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, portrays an important series of events for prisoners of war during World War II in Thailand, also known as the infamous China-Burma-India theater of conflict. While the film’s creative story garnered acclaim and praise after its release in 1957, it masked the true experience of these prisoners in Thailand during the war. This talk will focus on the legacy of Hendrik Robert van Heekeren, a prisoner captured by the Japanese in 1942 and sent to the “Railroad of Death” camps in Thailand in 1943. van Heekeren’s experience during the war including captivity and work on the railroad – common scenes depicted in the film – but his legacy stems from the significant archaeological work and contributions he completed while a prisoner of war and after in Thailand, during the 1960s. The lecture discusses the intersection of van Heekeren, prisoners in Thailand during World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and the broader record of prehistoric archaeology influenced by these events
via Zoom

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-17 17:30 (America/New_York) | Michigan Union, 530 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1308, United States
Norton Lecture, LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED

Trinity College Dublin Classics Department Research Seminar, "Rethinking Archaeological Publication in the Age of Born-Digital Data"
2022-03-16 17:30 (Europe/Dublin)
Wednesdays, 17:30 Dublin/London time
Please register at EventBrite using this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/derek-counts-u-of-wisconsin-milwaukee-tcd-classics-research-seminar-tickets-239356199837
Zoom links will be available to all registrants

21st Century Tools For Studying Ice Age Art
2022-03-15 19:15 (America/Denver)
Sheppard Lecture

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-15 18:15 (America/New_York) | The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Norton Lecture
To attend in-person or virtually, please register at the link below. Masks are required (but no longer proof of vaccination).

Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
2022-03-13 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. Carly Maris, University of San Diego:
“Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae”
Sunday, March 13, 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, March 11. Registrations are cut off at our attendance limit, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
The Deipnosophistae is a late second- to early third-century CE dialogue written by grammarian Athenaeus of Naucratis. The text follows the style and themes of Plato’s Symposium, presenting an imaginary conversation between philosophers that takes place during a Roman banquet. Scholars have found value in the Deipnosophistae for its inclusion of lengthy quotations from earlier Greek texts that have otherwise been lost. It provides key insight as to the historical resources and documents available to the educated classes during the height of the Roman Empire. Included in the Deipnosophistae are multiple historical accounts of Egypt–including descriptions of its geography and climate, the history of Egyptian wine, and stories about various rulers (including a description of a massive parade during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus). My talk will focus on how Athenaeus viewed the ancient Egyptian past, and will place this in context with broader visions of Ancient Egypt during the Roman Empire.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Carly Maris is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of San Diego. Her research looks broadly at Western perceptions of the East, and explores how Near Eastern culture influenced the Roman empire. She is currently working on a book titled Parades of Antiquity, in which she explores the history of imperial parades in the Near East, and how they impacted the spectacle of Roman triumphal parades up through the early Byzantine period.

Counterfeit goods in the Roman commercial landscape
2022-03-13 15:00 (America/New_York)

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) | MD, United States
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
