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SUMMARY:A Gateway into the Desert: History\, Exploration\, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Aleksandra Ksiezak\, University of Toronto\, CSU San Bernardino: \n“A Gateway into the Desert: History\, Exploration\, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat” \nSunday\, December 11\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nNo Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nOnce a distributary of the Nile\, Wadi Tumilat is a dry river valley in the Eastern Nile Delta. In antiquity\, the wadi was a major communication artery for trade between Egypt and her neighbours to the east\, and its importance was recognized by many great strategic minds of their day. Across Wadi Tumilat are numerous archaeological sites\, dating from the 3rd millennium BCE to the Late Roman Period. Accompanying them was a navigable canal—an impressive waterway that not only provided the arid valley with water but allowed transportation of goods and people in and out of Egypt. While the ancient canal and its surrounding ruins were a source of fascination for ancient geographers\, and historians\, and were recorded in their writings\, it took centuries for these antiquities to re-emerge in the letters\, reports\, and memoirs of early European travellers to Egypt. \nThis lecture aims to summarize the history of the discovery of Wadi Tumilat and our understanding of its place in Egyptian archaeology. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Aleksandra Ksiezak is a field archaeologist\, Egyptologist\, and ceramicist specializing in macro-and microscopic analyses of Egyptian and Nubian pottery. She obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Toronto (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) where she focused on the analysis of the ceramic material from the Second Intermediate Period Hyksos settlement at Tell el-Maskhuta excavated by the Wadi Tumilat Project (WTP) during the late 1970s/early 80s. She is currently involved in research on the identification and study of the Middle Bronze Age trade routes involving Wadi Tumilat through the identification of imported objects and their local imitations identified at Tell el-Maskhuta and the neighbouring sites. Both her past and present research deal with the broader question of migration and mobility in Egypt\, the Sinai Peninsula\, and the Levant during the Bronze Age. She currently holds the position of W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence at California State University\, San Bernardino. \n——————- \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor 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.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/a-gateway-into-the-desert-history-exploration-and-cyclical-rediscovery-of-wadi-tumilat/
LOCATION:ARCE-NC Lectures\, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro\, Brown University: \n“Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt” \nSunday\, November 6\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nPlease note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThis lecture explores the cultural implications of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic sign\, known as N41\, used in an apparently random constellation of words related to women\, water\, and metals. Based on a re-examination of the sign’s contexts of appearance in The Pyramid Texts and other religious sources\, it is determined that an ancient Egyptian cosmovision contemplated the sky as an iron container of water\, pieces of which fell to the earth in the shape of meteors and were used to produce ritual objects. The fact that the N41 sign’s iconicity encapsulated such complex interconnectedness suggests that the relation between birth\, afterlife\, and iron existed even before the earliest religious texts in Egypt. The knowledge of the extraterrestrial provenance of iron was lost at some point in modern times when meteorites were classified along with fossils as “thunderstones” as late as the 18th century. However\, the Egyptian knowledge\, consistent with contemporary science\, was most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that also connected iron and sky in texts. We will examine some examples of non-Egyptian iron-sky cultural parallels\, particularly from the Ancient Near East\, which can be explained as common analysis of natural observations\, rather than knowledge transmission. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at Brown University in 2022. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and specializes in the use of language and hieroglyphs’ iconicity to understand oral knowledge and ideology in Old Kingdom Egypt. Since 2019 she is a member of the AERA archaeological project in Giza\, and assistant director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition since 2021. \n———— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/About \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor 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.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/iron-in-the-sky-words-and-conceptions-of-iron-and-meteorites-in-ancient-egypt/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures\, Room 126 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Painting Coffins at Akhmim in the First Millennium BCE
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THAT THE IN-PERSON MEETING\, FORMERLY SCHEDULED FOR UC BERKELEY\,\nHAD TO BE CHANGED TO A ZOOM MEETING.\nA 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 noon Saturday\, October 8. Registrations are limited to 100\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nCartonnage of Djedhor in the Detroit Institute of Art \nAbout the Lecture:\n \nAfter the New Kingdom\, wealthy Egyptians were sent to their afterlives in dazzling decorated and inscribed coffins which were nested like Russian dolls. Our understanding of these vessels for rebirth centers on the city of Thebes\, and focuses on dating the coffins through changes in their layout. Local traditions have long been neglected and assumed to be derivative of the Theban tradition; the work of artists and scribes outside of Thebes is often dismissed as “naive” or “provincial”–though\, in reality\, we know very little about the workshops that produced coffins\, or the training of the artists and scribes who worked in them. \nA large number of coffins are thought to come from the city of Akhmim\, two hundred kilometers north of Thebes\, and these present an excellent opportunity to characterize and evaluate a regional tradition. Unfortunately\, the cemeteries of Akhmim were thoroughly plundered in the late 19th century\, flooding the art market with coffins that had no find context and which can only be stylistically dated relative to similar Theban pieces. \nA careful study and comparison of the artistic and scribal hands that produced these coffins opens the door to a more detailed understanding of the development of a vibrant regional style over a period of nearly seven-hundred years between the end of the New Kingdom and the beginning of the Ptolemaic period. Driving this development were artists working in multi-generational workshops. Their work expresses not only the desires of their clientele\, the Akhmim elite\, but the methods\, training\, creativity\, and skill of the scribes and painters who decorated coffins at Akhmim. \n \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Kea M. Johnston graduated from the University of California\, Berkeley\, with a PhD in Egyptology in 2022. Her PhD thesis deals with workshops that produced coffins at the Egyptian site of Akhmim in the period between 1100 and 330 BCE. She is interested in both the content and materiality of textual inscription on coffins\, and Egyptian funerary art generally. She is also interested in using her skills as a software engineer to build tools that can be used for answering questions in the study of the Humanities. Kea is both a researcher and a technological lead on “The Book of the Dead in 3D” project (https://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/) and has done fieldwork at the site of el-Hibeh with the UC Berkeley Expedition. She has taught multiple courses\, including most recently an intensive summer course at Berkeley called “Digital Humanities and Archival Design” in which students learned how to build online archives while exploring the ethical issues and technical challenges surrounding digital cultural heritage. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, http://www.arce-nc.org/lectures.htm\, 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. \n 
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/painting-coffins-at-akhmim-in-the-first-millennium-bce/
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day,Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:glenn@glennmeyer.net
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SUMMARY:Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Marissa A. Stevens\, UCLA: \nFunerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead \nSunday\, September 11\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nPlease note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC Publicity Director \nAbout the Lecture: \nTwenty-first Dynasty funerary papyri – consisting of texts and images from the Book of the Dead\, the many Underworld Books\, and other cosmographic scenes – have always fascinated Egyptologists for what they reveal about Egyptian afterlife beliefs and their understanding and conceptualization of the underworld. But these documents are also social objects. The creation\, ownership\, and use of these papyri can shed much light about the deceased who reap the religious benefit of the texts and on the family of the deceased\, who also benefit from these objects in social and ideological ways. Studying these papyri as objects of social life\, we can learn about temple life\, titles and rank\, family structure\, inheritance\, and social status of the deceased and the families they left behind. Funerary papyri were therefore used as a form of social competition\, and reveal much about the mindset of the elite priests of 21st Dynasty Thebes. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Marissa Stevens is the Assistant Director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. Trained as an Egyptologist who studies the materiality\, social history\, and texts of the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period\, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Combining art historical and linguistic approaches\, her research interests focus on how objects can solidify\, maintain\, and perpetuate social identity\, especially in times of crisis when more traditional means of self-identification are absent. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor 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. \nParking for the event is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/funerary-papyri-as-social-reflections-of-the-living-and-the-dead/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria
DESCRIPTION: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. Thomas Landvatter\, University of Michigan: \nConsumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria \nSunday\, August 28\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom 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\, August 26. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture: \nMummification is\, of course\, the burial practice most associated with ancient Egypt. It may come as a surprise\, then\, that for a period of time cremation – the very antithesis of mummification – is attested in Egypt. During the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BCE)\, when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Graeco-Maedonian origin\, it is clear that mummification remained the burial treatment of choice for many elite classes across Egypt. However\, a significant minority of burials in the capital of Alexandria and elsewhere were in fact cremations. In this talk\, I explore the cremation burials of Ptolemaic Alexandria\, who used cremation and why\, and what cremation reveals about the cultural and social environment of that city. I argue that these cremation burials and their meaning can only be understood in relation to Egyptian mummification and other cultural practices\, as well as the unique social and cultural environment of early Alexandria. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Tom Landvatter (PhD\, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology\, University of Michigan)\, is Associate Professor of Greek\, Latin\, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College in Portland\, Oregon. His teaching and research interests center on the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE)\, in particular Cyprus and Ptolemaic Egypt. He has excavated in Egypt at both Mendes and\, especially\, Abydos\, which has been an ongoing focus of his research and publications. Currently he co-directs an excavation at the Hellenistic fortification of Vigla\, near Larnaca\, Cyprus. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor 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.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/consumed-in-raging-fire-cremation-burial-in-ptolemaic-alexandria/
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SUMMARY:ARCE-NC Lecture May 1 by Aidan Dodson: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
DESCRIPTION: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. Aidan Dodson\, University of Bristol: \nThe Resurrection of the First Pharaohs \nSunday\, May 1\, 2022\, 2 PM Pacific Time (note the earlier time) \nZoom 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 29. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture:\nEgypt was unified around 3000 BC\, beginning the history of pharaonic Egypt and setting the ground-rules for the nature and constitution of the state and kingship that would endure for three millennia. This afternoon we will explore the way in which the memories of the first pharaohs were maintained and used by their successors down to Roman times\, and how\, after millennia of oblivion\, they were rediscovered by modern scholarship. \nAbout the Speaker: \nProfessor Aidan Dodson\nhas taught at the University of Bristol since 1996\, where he has been honorary Professor of Egyptology since 2018. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities\, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003\, and was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for spring 2013. He is the author of some 400 articles and reviews\, and 25 books; his latest is The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives\, which was published by the American University in Cairo Press in October 2021.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/arce-nc-lecture-may-1-by-aidan-dodson-the-resurrection-of-the-first-pharaohs/
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SUMMARY:Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery
DESCRIPTION: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:\n“Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery”\nSunday\, April 10\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nZoom 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.\nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity\nAbout the Lecture:\nRitual 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.\nThe 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.\nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. 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.\nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor 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.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/making-millions-of-pots-how-the-cult-in-ancient-egypt-met-its-demand-for-pottery/
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SUMMARY:Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
DESCRIPTION: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:\n“Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae” \nSunday\, March 13\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom 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. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture:\nThe 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. \nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. 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.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/visions-of-ancient-egypt-in-athenaeus-deipnosophistae/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:glenn@glennmeyer.net
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SUMMARY:The Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos
DESCRIPTION: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. Roselyn A. Campbell\, Getty Research Institute: \nThe Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos \nWhen: Sunday\, February 6\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom 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. Attendance is limited\, so non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, February 4. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe subsidiary burials surrounding the royal funerary complexes of the First Dynasty rulers at Abydos have piqued scholarly and public interest for well over a century. These subsidiary burials\, sometimes numbering in the hundreds\, contained the remains of men and women who seem to have been associated with the royal court. The quality of the grave goods within some of these graves\, as well as statements by early excavators that most of the individuals interred were relatively young and seemed healthy\, have sparked debate among scholars. Were the individuals in these subsidiary graves killed in a sacrificial ritual to accompany their deceased ruler into the afterlife\, or were they simply interred around the royal burial as they died naturally over time? This talk will explore new data gathered from a study of the human remains that have been preserved from some of these subsidiary burials\, shedding new light on the lives and deaths of these individuals at the birth of the Egyptian state. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Roselyn A. Campbell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles\, California. She is a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist\, and has worked at archaeological sites throughout Egypt as well as in Peru\, Ethiopia\, Spain\, and the western United States. Her research focuses on evidence for violence and trauma in the past\, as well as the history of cancer in antiquity\, and how these topics are relevant to the modern world.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-human-remains-from-the-first-dynasty-subsidiary-burials-at-abydos/
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