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SUMMARY:Crouching Tigers\, Hidden Elephants
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhile a global phenomenon\, rock art has been a relatively recent subject of study in Southeast Asia with the number of known sites growing from a handful in the 1960s to over a thousand today. Research accelerated in the last 20 years with better recording and analytical techniques as evidenced by the increased number of papers on Southeast Asian rock art in international conferences and journals since the 2000s. The majority of sites are located from Indonesia and Thailand\, where sustained episodes of research have been conducted. New dates from Indonesia challenge long-standing ideas about the ‘origin’ of art while other discoveries shed light on the movements and activities of peoples across this diverse landscape. This lecture presents a survey of rock art across Southeast Asia from the deep past to more modern times and shows how rock art can help us better understand the archaeology of Southeast Asia. \nShort bibliography and/or website on lecture topic: \nhttps://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/rock-art-of-southeast-asia/ \n(includes a bibliography and overview) \nBio: \nNoel Hidalgo Tan is the Senior Specialist in Archaeology at the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts in Bangkok\, where he works to promote the archaeology of Southeast Asia by building capacity among regional archaeologists\, finding ways to engage the public about archaeological and cultural heritage\, and conducting archaeological research. His main research interest is in the rock art of Southeast Asia\, where he spent his postgraduate work documenting sites in Malaysia\, Thailand\, Cambodia\, Laos and Myanmar. His recent projects include rock art documentation in western Laos and southern Thailand; the protection of regional underwater cultural heritage; archaeology\, tourism and the protection of Southeast Asian cultural heritage sites; and developing future capacity in regional archaeology education in Southeast Asia. He is the managing editor of the SPAFA Journal (www.spafajournal.org) and runs an online resource website on Southeast Asian Archaeology (www.SoutheastAsianArchaeology.com) 
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/crouching-tigers-hidden-elephants-6/
LOCATION:Virginia Village Branch Library\, 1500 S Dahlia St\, Denver\, CO\, 80222\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240224T130000
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SUMMARY:Status and Gender in Hawaiian House Complexes
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nExploring the material culture of Hawaiian house sites is vital for a better understanding of ancestral social structures. Traditional household spaces were designed around the the ‘ai kapu (taboo) system of sanctions that governed social interaction to accommodate daily subsistence and production activities. Results indicate a distinct post-1650 C.E. intra-site distribution of faunal remains that is concomitant with status and potentially gender food consumption. This patterning\, however\, does not ideally match the model derived from ethnographic descriptions. \nBio:\nMichael J. Kolb (Ph.D. 1991\, UCLA) is Professor of Anthropology at Metropolitan State University and Presidential Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. His research focuses on ancient and historical household and political economies and the building of monumental architecture. He has published\, amongst other things\, on the labor energetics in medieval Sicily\, prehistoric Europe\, and Oceania. His most recent book is Making Sense of Monuments (London 2020).
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/status-and-gender-in-hawaiian-house-complexes/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aaron Theis":MAILTO:info@aiadenver.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230527T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230527T150000
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SUMMARY:The Archaeological Technicians of Quft and the Art of Excavation as Cultural Heritage in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe small town of Quft in southern Upper Egypt is unique in the history of archaeology for having developed a specialized craft industry of highly skilled archaeological excavators\, whose skills and networks in the field have been passed down through several generations of family “guilds” from the late nineteenth century to today. This talk traces the historical origins of the Qufti excavation system\, as well as the economic trajectory of its rise and decline as an archaeological “commodity;” describes the documentation and historical record it has left behind; and makes the case for conceptualizing the Quftis’ work as a kind of intangible cultural heritage in Egypt. \nBio: \nWendy is an historian of archaeology and modern Egypt. She is currently writing a history of archaeology and the Egyptian economy under the khedives (c.1850-1914)\, based on her doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written several articles on the history of archaeological labor and fieldwork and is also a member of the Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU excavations at Abydos\, Egypt\, and the Arabic Diaries Project of the Harvard University-MFA\, Boston Expedition to Egypt and Sudan Archive. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania\, an MA in Museology from the University of Washington\, and a BA in Linguistics and Anthropology from the University of Washington.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-archaeological-technicians-of-quft-and-the-art-of-excavation-as-cultural-heritage-in-egypt/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Aaron Theis":MAILTO:info@aiadenver.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230429T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230429T150000
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SUMMARY:April 29\, 2023: Toys\, Burial Goods or Ritual Objects? - West African figurines and their archaeological traces presented by André Luiz Ruivo Ferreira Burmann\, PhD candidate Institute for Archaeological Sciences\, Pre- and Protohistory of Africa\, Goethe-University\, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWest African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally\, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans\, animals\, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal\, iconographic and stylistic aspects of the figurines. A supra-regional examination of their long history of human interaction and deposition is often absent. Contextual studies on the archaeology of figurines are rather rare\, and\, mostly\, center on a small regional scale. However\, in the last few decades\, work taking place in some larger study areas\, such as the Nigerian Nok Culture\, have revealed new insights into the study of figurines. This presentation will share work in progress of a large-scale West African synthesis of archaeological sites and archaeological contexts that have yielded figurines. How were these objects disseminated over time and space? Which figurine traditions appeared when and where? What do we know about their (last) use respectively their way of deposition? Has the latter changed over time? And what role did the Nok Culture possibly play in this development? \nBio: \nAndré Luiz R. F. Burmann is a Ph. D. candidate in Pre- and Protohistory of Africa at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences\, Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Germany). He studied Prehistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces\, in addition to Portuguese Philology at the Universities of Munich and Frankfurt/Main. His 2016 Master thesis focused on the archaeological context of terracotta sculptures from the Central Nigerian Nok Culture (1500 BC–1 AD). For the three following years\, André Burmann was a research associate in the DFG Research Training Group “Value and Equivalence” at the University of Frankfurt. His Ph.D. research focuses specifically on West African figurines yielded from archaeological contexts\, aiming to analyze and compare relevant sites and features through time and space to examine the development of depositional patterns of figurines. Moreover\, André has worked in different museums and with curation teams since being a student. From 2019 to 2021\, he was a Scientific Trainee at the LWL Museum for Archaeology\, the Westphalian State Museum in Herne\, followed by a working stay in the Museée d´Angoulême in France. Burmann is an active member of the Pan-African Archaeological Association (PanAf)\, the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA)\, the West-African Archaeological Association (WAAA)\, the ICOM Germany Young Professionals Network and the children’s development organization Enfants avec Espoir e.V. Since September 2022\, he works at Engagement Global gGmbH in Bonn\, being responsible for networking and public relations in the German-African Youth Office.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/april-29-2023-toys-burial-goods-or-ritual-objects-west-african-figurines-and-their-archaeological-traces-presented-by-andre-luiz-ruivo-ferreira-burmann-phd-candidate-institute-for-archaeologica/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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SUMMARY:Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe past\, whether real\, tangible\, embellished\, or imagined\, can be a particularly powerful and alluring source of symbols\, narratives\, and ideas. Echoes from the distant past can\nreverberate and affect the lives of contemporary and descendant communities\, and issues\nrelated to politics\, cultural heritage management\, tourism\, and national identity can all be\ntied to our reconstructions of the past. This kind of dynamic is evident across many countries\, particularly those that have experienced recent histories of conflict\, regime change\, or newly gained independence. This lecture explores the social contexts and political dimensions of practicing archaeology\, and it features research on ancient Vietnam as a backdrop. Here\, archaeological investigations increasingly complement traditional sources of information\, such as ancient texts\, legendary accounts\, and heroic folk tales. As such\, artifacts\, remnant architecture\, and sacred landscapes have become significant for the national story of Vietnam\, its deeper past\, and the cultural identities of its past and present populations. \nBio: \nProfessor Kim is an anthropological archaeologist interested in sociopolitical complexity\, early forms of cities\, factors associated with significant cultural change\, and the relationship between modern politics\, cultural heritage\, and the material record. He is especially interested in the cultural contexts and social consequences of organized violence and warfare\, as manifested in various cultural\, spatial and temporal settings. Much of his recent research has been geographically focused on East and Southeast Asia\, and since 2005 he has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam at the Co Loa settlement in the Red River Delta. A heavily fortified site located near modern-day Hanoi\, Co Loa is purportedly connected to Vietnamese legendary accounts and is thus viewed by many as integral to the genesis of Vietnamese civilization and early state formation in Southeast Asia.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/cultural-heritage-and-imaginaries-the-politics-and-practices-of-archaeology/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230225T130000
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and Migrating Farmers: The Spread of Agriculture to Southern Europe
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nFarming spread from its center of origin in western Asia to southern Europe at the beginning of the Holocene. This phenomenon has prompted many questions. Why did farming spread when it did? Who brought it to southern Europe\, and by what means? Migrant farmers from western Asia reached the Aegean before 9\,000 cal BP (c. 7\,000 BC). Then there was a pause that lasted a millennium. The onward spread of farming took this new economy rapidly inland to the Danube Basin\, and westward to the Adriatic and beyond. The westward dispersal took place along the coasts; the only reasonable explanation is that it was carried forward by migrating farmers looking for new lands to settle\, an hypothesis supported by the latest ADNA evidence. The question then is\, why did they leave the Aegean for the Adriatic and beyond so suddenly? Results from the “Early Farming in Dalmatia Project” are providing answers to these questions. Recent research has focused on the impact of a sudden reversal of climate\, the “8\,200 cal BP event”. During this episode the climate of the early Holocene became cold and dry. This phase lasted about 300 years\, or 10 human generations\, enough to disrupt the existing farming economy in the Aegean and over a much wider area. It caused some of these farmers to leave their homeland in search of fresh lands to colonize. It was these migrants who brought farming to the Adriatic and beyond. \nBio: \nAndrew M.T. Moore is Immediate Past President of the AIA. Recently retired from Rochester Institute of Technology\, he also taught European and world archaeology at the University of Arizona and Yale University. Dr. Moore has a particular interest in Scandinavian and Viking Age archaeology. Since 1960\, he has participated in archaeological surveys\, excavations\, and field research in England\, Italy\, Malta\, Croatia\, Greece\, Turkey\, Israel\, Iraq\, Jordan\, and Syria. His earlier research concentrated on the advent of agriculture and sedentary life in western Asia\, especially in Syria. In 2002\, Dr. Moore began a new project to investigate the spread of farming around the Mediterranean and into southern Europe. At the invitation of colleagues in Croatia\, he is conducting this research in central Dalmatia\, through surveys and excavations at the Neolithic villages of Danilo and Pokrovnik.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/february-25-2023-climate-change-and-migrating-farmers-the-spread-of-agriculture-to-southern-europe-presented-by-andrew-moore-phd-past-president-of-the-archaeologial-instute-of-america-roche/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aaron Theis":MAILTO:info@aiadenver.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220326T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220326T150000
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SUMMARY:Kathleen M. Lynch\, PhD\, University of Cincinnati: Wine and Truth: The Ancient Greek Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Biography: \nKathleen is a Classical Archaeologist who has worked on sites in Italy\, Greece\, Albania\, and Turkey. In particular\, she is a ceramic specialist interested in Athenian figured wares from archaeological contexts. Her research currently spans a number of ceramic related topics from issues of Attic chronology to iconography to symposia to the Greek household. In addition\, her research considers the role trade played in shaping Attic potters’ and painters’ outputs. In general\, the goal of Kathleen’s research is to place material culture back into its context of use in order to understand better the people who used the objects. She is currently publishing ceramic material from Gordion and the excavations of the Athenian Agora. \nKathleen’s book\, The Symposium in Context\, ASCSA Publications\, won the 2013 AIA Wiseman Award for best book in archaeology. She won the 2014 UC Dolly A.B. Cohen Award for excellence in teaching\, and the Provost’s Award for faculty excellence in 2016. \nAt UC she teaches Classical Mythology and courses on Greek and Roman archaeology. \nWhen she isn’t poring over pottery\, she enjoys knitting and gardening. \nAbstract: \nThe ancient Greeks developed an elaborate system of preparing and serving wine\, enjoyed by small groups of men in a practice called the symposium. This form of wine drinking required specialized pottery shapes\, and these shapes frequently bear self-referential sympotic or cultural imagery. As the wine warmed the drinkers\, they formed bonds that carried over into their daily lives including providing political allies\, a particularly useful thing in the early years of Athenian democracy. This talk will explore the immensely important social role of Greek wine drinking as well as the surprisingly underwhelming role of food in Archaic and Classical Athens (600-400 B.C.). We’ll examine the cupboards of an ancient house to understand the importance of the symposium to real Athenians. Feel free to enjoy a glass of wine during the lecture!
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/kathleen-m-lynch-phd-university-of-cincinnati-wine-and-truth-the-ancient-greek-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Climate Change to Culture Change? The Case Study of the Copper to Early Bronze Age Transition in Iberia presented by Katina Lillios\, PhD\, University of Iowa
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nHow can we trace the relationship between climate change and culture change in the ancient past? A collaborative and interdisciplinary project coordinated by Katina Lillios\, with Antonio Blanco-González\, Brandon Lee Drake\, and Jose Antonio López-Sáez\, offered insights into this question through the lens of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE of Iberia. This project was the first to comprehensively examine of one of the major episodes of cultural change in later prehistoric Iberia from a comparative regional perspective and assess its relationship to the 4.2 ky BP climate event. In this talk\, I summarize the available cultural\, demographic and paleoenvironmental evidence for Iberia\, and explore the diverse ways that the 4.2 ky BP event seems to have played out in different regions. \nProfessor Lillios is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. She received her BA in Archaeology and Art History from Boston University\, and her PhD in Anthropology from Yale University. Her research has centered on the histories of the people who lived in Portugal and Spain from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age (4000-1000 BC)\, a dynamic period characterized by episodes of political centralization\, devolution\, and climate change. In this research\, she brings together a concern for memory and object biographies to understand the ways that people of the past used objects and monuments of their own past\, such as heirlooms and ancestral burials\, to shape their futures. She recently authored the book The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula: From the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press\, 2020). \nPlease visit aiadenver.org to register
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/climate-change-to-culture-change-the-case-study-of-the-copper-to-early-bronze-age-transition-in-iberia-presented-by-katina-lillios-phd-university-of-iowa/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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SUMMARY:Colonizing Provincial Egypt: Pyramids and the Early State presented by Professor Richard Bussmann\, PhD\, University of Cologne
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWhen we think of the pyramids of Egypt\, we usually refer to the gigantic pyramids of Giza. These were statements of power in the early ancient Egyptian state. Yet\, power does not become effective simply by building monuments. It rests on the ability of rulers to manipulate social relationships. In Egypt\, the relationship between centre and the hinterland was key for governing the country. The early state struggled for over one thousand years\, ca. 3000 to 2000 BC\, with defining this relationship. One attempt to colonize the hinterland was by the crown to build small pyramids at provincial sites in order to impose royal authority locally. This lecture presents fresh archaeological fieldwork from one of the provincial pyramids. It discusses challenges archaic states were facing in early history and the ways people accommodated their lives within them. \nBio:\nRichard Bussmann studied Egyptology\, Assyriology and Theology at the Univeristy of Heidelberg\, the Free University of Berlin\, Humboldt University Berlin and Goettingen University. He received his PhD in Egyptology from the Free University of Berlin in 2007. His PhD thesis focused on the archaeology and history of local community shrines in the times of the pyramids. In 2010\, he held a post-doctoral research fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation at Cambridge University. In the same year\, he was appointed Lecturer\, and in 2014 Senior Lecturer in Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology at University College London. In 2016\, he took up his current position as professor of Egyptology at the University of Cologne. Dr Bussmann combines archaeology and philology in his research. He is interested in the society and culture of provincial Egypt in the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2700 to 1700 BC)\, using theories from social anthropology\, archaeology\, and cultural history. He directs a project on the early inscriptions of ancient Egypt and is co-director of an archaeological fielwork project at Zawyet Sultan\, in Middle Egypt. Dr Bussmann is currently finalising a book for Cambridge University Press\, provisionally entitled “Egypt in the shadow of the pyramids: archaeology of society and culture\, 2700-1700 BC”.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/colonizing-provincial-egypt-pyramids-and-the-early-state-presented-by-professor-richard-bussmann-phd-university-of-cologne/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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