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SUMMARY:“Freedom and Family at Boyd Cabin (Buncombe County\, North Carolina)” -- Dr. Scotti Norman
DESCRIPTION:“Freedom and Family at Boyd Cabin (Buncombe County\, North Carolina)”\nLecture by\nDr. Scotti M. Norman\, Assistant Professor of Material Culture and Archaeology at Warren Wilson College \nMarch 18\, 2025\n7:30 p.m. ET\nDavidson College\nBelk Visual Arts Center 117\nDavidson\, NC \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nAbout the lecture: \nThis talk will discuss the collaborative efforts of work at Boyd Cabin\, one of the first nineteenth and twentieth-century freedman homesteads in North Carolina. Through the integration of documentary research\, archaeological excavation\, and oral histories from the Boyd family\, this project attempts to forge new ties between archaeologists and descendant communities in the region. Preliminary excavation results indicate that the 14-person Boyd family maintained a thriving agricultural farm and built a communal space for family during a radically challenging post-emancipation\, post-bellum period in Appalachia. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr. Scotti M. Norman\, Assistant Professor of Material Culture and Archaeology at Warren Wilson College\, has investigated colonialism and the repercussions of intersectional and structural inequality in Chile\, Ecuador\, Peru\, and the United States. Her current research focuses on the forging of familial and communal ties in historically Black sites in North Carolina. More broadly\, she focuses on ethical archaeological practice through collaboration with local communities. \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nPlease support out AIA Central Carolinas Society 333 with your membership in AIA.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/freedom-and-family-at-boyd-cabin-buncombe-county-north-carolina-dr-scotti-norman/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emily Egan\, “20\,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea”
DESCRIPTION:“20\,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea”\nDr. Emily C. Egan\, Assistant Professor of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology\, Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland \nFebruary 18\, 2025\n7:30 p.m. ET\nDavidson College\nBelk Visual Arts Center 117\nDavidson\, NC \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nAbout the lecture:\nThis lecture takes a deep “dive” into depictions of marine life in the art of Late Bronze Age Greece (ca. 1600–1100 BCE). Amid a survey of sea creatures including octopods\, dolphins\, and fish\, special attention is given to the enigmatic argonaut motif and its appearance in the wall paintings of the Mycenaean ‘Palace of Nestor’ at Pylos. At the time of their discovery\, painted argonauts – pelagic cephalopods that grow their own shells – were classed among the site’s purely decorative designs on account of their fanciful coloration and stiff presentation in single-file lines like elements in a modern wallpaper border. New research at the Palace of Nestor\, however\, suggests that argonauts were not simple ornaments but powerful royal symbols\, on par with more fearsome Aegean “totems” like lions and griffins. This lecture presents this new theory and the evidence that underpins it\, and also demonstrates how the painted forms of the creatures\, when viewed closely\, offer rare insight into the thought processes and working methods of Greek Bronze Age artists. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr. Emily C. Egan (Assistant Professor of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology\, Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland) is an Aegean prehistorian and field archaeologist. She holds a dual B.A. in Classics and Old World Archaeology and Art from Brown University\, an M.Phil. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on artistic practice in the Bronze Age Aegean\, and particularly on the production\, consumption\, and iconography of Mycenaean painted surface decoration. She has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in Italy\, Turkey\, Jordan\, Armenia\, Cyprus\, and most recently in Greece\, where she is currently studying wall and floor painting assemblages from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos\, and the Petsas House\, Mycenae.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/emily-egan-20000-leagues-under-the-wine-dark-sea/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T193000
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SUMMARY:Beyond the stone giants: an isotopic perspective on life and death of the people buried at Mont’e Prama
DESCRIPTION:November 19\, 2024\n7:30 p.m. ET\nDavidson College\nBelk Visual Arts Center 117\nFree and open to the public \nLuca Lai\, “Beyond the stone giants: an isotopic perspective on life and death of the people buried at Mont’e Prama” \nAbout the lecture:\nThe accidental 1974 discovery of tens of fragmentary statues at Mont’e Prama\, in central-western Sardinia\, led to one of the most unexpected discoveries in recent Mediterranean archaeology: A unique necropolis with thousands of fragments of stone warriors and athletes representing one of the earliest examples of life-sized 3D figures west of the Aegean.\nAfter a brief summary of the monumental aspects and the main interpretations of the site’s meaning\, the talk will explore the less-publicized insights into the chronology\, burial ritual\, health\, diet\, and mobility as they begin to take shape from mortuary archaeology\, osteology\, and especially the isotopic analyses of their bones. This will also provide an opportunity to discuss the site’s role in today’s public debates surrounding the archaeology of the Nuragic culture and its special place in shaping modern Sardinian identity. \nAbout the speaker:\nLuca Lai\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte\, specializes in stable isotopes\, Western Mediterranean prehistory and particularly Sardinia\, and human-environment interactions. He has conducted research on paleodiet and paleoclimate in prehistoric Sardinia from the fifth through the first millennium BCE\, focusing on long-term continuity and change\, and on differential access to resources based on social status and gender. He grew up in Sardinia and has also lived in Ireland\, the US\, England\, and Lesotho. He has worked on favoring the dissemination of archaeology\, culture and current events awareness with special attention to the perspectives of minorities.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/beyond-the-stone-giants-an-isotopic-perspective-on-life-and-death-of-the-people-buried-at-monte-prama/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
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SUMMARY:Forgotten Past? Bridging Beaver Dam’s Past to the Present (and into the Future)
DESCRIPTION:October 16\, 2024\n7:30 p.m. ET\nDavidson College\nBelk Visual Arts Center 117\nFree and open to the public \nMartha Gimson\, “Forgotten Past? Bridging Beaver Dam’s Past to the Present (and into the Future)” \nAbout the lecture: \nJoin Davidson College’s Historic Sites Program Manager\, Martha Gimson\, for a talk about the former plantation site Beaver Dam and its place in the past\, present\, and future. Beaver Dam\, located in Davidson\, NC\, was built for William Lee Davidson II in 1829. Davidson College was named for his father\, Revolutionary War General William Lee Davidson\, who was killed at the Battle of Cowan’s Ford in 1781. Davidson College has recently reclaimed management of the site from the Town of Davidson. \nDuring this talk\, we will explore the site’s history and what is known about who lived there freely as well as those held in bondage. The talk will also include a discussion on the direction Davidson College is taking to move the site forward as a place of learning and enrichment with emphasis on how to best use the interior space\, grounds\, and surrounding forested area. Plans for future archaeological research are part of the evolving strategic plan to bridge the past with the present and will help shape the direction of Beaver Dam for the future. \nAbout the speaker: \nA member of AIA Society 333\, Martha Gimson is a historical archaeologist and lifelong educator with a foundation in biological archaeology and geography. She focuses on the promotion of marginalized groups and the preservation of historical culture\, primarily in the southeast region of the US. Research and fieldwork include locating unmarked burial grounds of the enslaved and formerly enslaved\, cemetery mapping and remote sensing analysis of unmarked burials\, skeletal analysis of marginalized populations for corporeal evidence of structural and systemic violence\, and historical archaeology of homestead and plantation sites to further define the roles of African and African Americans in the history of the settlement of the Piedmont of North Carolina. She has worked with several local organizations as a Cultural Resource Consultant\, providing guidance and insight on preservation\, salvage\, history\, and advocacy.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/forgotten-past-bridging-beaver-dams-past-to-the-present-and-into-the-future/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day
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SUMMARY:The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world
DESCRIPTION:The Ann Santen Endowed Lecture \nOkasha El Daly\, “The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world”\nTuesday\, September 17\n7:30 – 9:00 PM\nDavidson College\nVisual Arts Center VAC-117 Semans Lecture Hall \nThese lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America\, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee and the departments of Art\, Classics\, Educational Studies\, and History. \nAbout the lecture: \nContrary to the prevailing view that the conversion of Egyptians first to Christianity and then Islam ended interest in their own heritage\, they continued to study their own past with great pride. Many medieval Arab scholars visited Egypt to study its heritage and ancient scripts. This interest in ancient Egyptian scripts led to many scholarly attempts to decipher them. Here is a brief study of the motivations behind their interest and the degrees of their success in the decipherment and understanding of ancient Egypt. Nearly all the writers interested in Egyptian hieroglyphs were alchemists; many were also called Sufis or Mystics (for example\, Jabir\, Dhu Al-Nun\, and Ibn Waḥshiyah). The fame of Egypt as the land of science\, wisdom\, and mysticism created a welcoming environment for the reception of ancient Egyptian thought and arts among medieval Muslim scholars and the general public. This medieval Muslim reception fills a gap of about a thousand years in the history of Egyptology. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr. Okasha El Daly specializes in the history\, art\, religion\, and languages of Egypt from the birth of its civilization to its contemporary history and current affairs. He has served as Inspector of Antiquities in the Giza Pyramids Area\, worked as a guide and lecturer in Egypt\, and lectured on the AIA’s national lecture circuit. He has directed several international projects\, including the Foundation for Science\, Technology\, and Civilisation in the UK and the recent Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project. His book\, Egyptology: The Missing Millennium (2005)\, shows that medieval scholars in Egypt and beyond were as keen as we are to explore ancient Egyptian sciences and arts. \nThese lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America\, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee and the departments of Art\, Classics\, Educational Studies\, and History. \nIndividuals can support us by joining the Archaeological Institute of America for $55 (students $30)\, which includes a subscription to Archaeology magazine. Be sure to join Society 333! \nIf you would like to make a cash contribution to our local society\, please contact the treasurer. \nSociety 333 Board Members \nPresident:\nSusan Walker\, susan.walker.books@gmail.com\nVice President\nJoey Noto\, joey_mets@yahoo.com\nSecretary:\nGypsy Price\, gypsycpriceufl@gmail.com\nTreasurer:\nAnnie Truetzel\, antruetzel@davidson.edu\nProgram Coordinator:\nPeter Krentz\, pekrentz@davidson.edu\nBoard Member At-Large:\nJanet Levy\, jelevy@charlotte.edu
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-reception-of-ancient-egypt-in-the-medieval-muslim-world/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Kelly Goldberg\, “Connecting the Diaspora: Archaeology\, Memory\, and Transnationalism in the 19th Century Transatlantic World”
DESCRIPTION:Kelly Goldberg\, University of South Carolina\n“Connecting the Diaspora: Archaeology\, Memory\, and Transnationalism in the 19th Century Transatlantic World” \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nJanuary 23\, 2023\n7:30 p.m. ET\nBelk Visual Arts Center 117\nDavidson College\nDavidson\, NC \nAbout the lecture:\nThe nineteenth century transatlantic slave trade had significant social\, political\, and economic ramifications for coastal West African environments\, and caused reverberations throughout the Atlantic world. As Britain pressured European and American imperial powers to join in anti-slave trading endeavors in the early portion of the nineteenth century\, the slave trade was directed to more secluded areas such as the Rio Pongo in coastal Guinea\, where imperial and national powers were scarce\, and both legal and contraband trade could continue to succeed. In these situations\, a newly established class of transnational trading families\, with ties to global connections on both sides of the Atlantic\, directed the evolution of local social and political landscapes. This talk engages interdisciplinary research to investigate 19th and 20th century sites throughout the Atlantic world\, looking at the ways in which material culture\, architectural remains\, documentary records\, and oral historical accounts are used to interpret the complex social dynamics and multiregional origins of a globally oriented African Diaspora. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr. Goldberg\, an Instructor for the Honors College at the University of South Carolina\, is a historical archaeologist with research specialties in the African Diaspora in both West\nAfrica and the eastern US\, public archaeology and stakeholder relations\, and museum studies and management. She has worked on James Island and in Guinea\, where she excavated slave trading ports in rural villages of coastal Guinea tried in order to understand how the newly emerging transnational network of nineteenth century trading families manipulated perceptions of identity to maintain power and status during evolution of the abolition of the slave trade\, and such manipulations of identity affect contemporary notions of memorialization and heritage. https://goldberg.uofsccreate.org/\nThis event is FREE and open to the public. Please also support the Archaeological Institute of America\, Central Carolinas Society 333\, by joining us as a member. https://www.archaeological.org/join/ Thank you for your interest and involvement! See less\nDavidson\, North Carolina
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/kelly-goldberg-connecting-the-diaspora-archaeology-memory-and-transnationalism-in-the-19th-century-transatlantic-world/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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SUMMARY:The Bioarchaeology of the Distinctive Burials of the Phaleron Cemetery\, Archaic Greece
DESCRIPTION:Aviva Cormier\, “The Bioarchaeology of the Distinctive Burials of the Phaleron Cemetery\, Archaic Greece” \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. If you’re interested in archaeology\, please join us! \nAbout the lecture:\nThe world’s attention has been captured by the 7th century BCE finds that emerged from the coastal sands of Faliro\, the ancient Port of Athens. Most often discussed are the seventy-nine young men who had been violently executed and interred in three trenches. They lived and died during the political upheavals that culminated in the foundational democracy of Classical Athens. These\, however\, are but a fraction (<10%) of those excavated between 2012 and 2017 at the site of Phaleron. Most of the 1000+ individuals buried nearby fall within an expected range of burial forms\, including pits\, cists\, and jars. In this talk\, I focus on those that fall outside of that range\, individuals with mortuary contexts that suggest distinctive experiences in life and death. These distinctive burials include those who were interred collectively in mass graves or buried prone or tightly flexed in single graves\, with some bound at the wrists and/or ankles. I present osteobiographies of these individuals- contextualized life histories from their skeletal remains- and emphasize how their potentially violent life and death experiences may have impacted their identity construction\, physical wellbeing\, and resulting mortuary treatment. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr. Aviva Cormier\, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Davidson College\, is a bioarchaeologist who studies human culture\, behavior\, and society through human skeletal remains and their archaeological or historical contexts. She focuses on potentially marginalized individuals\, those whose bodies or mortuary contexts fall outside of what is expected. She studies individuals with physical differences—those whose bodies do not conform to notions of a normal body or to the normal of the society being studied. She pays particular attention to the lived experiences of these individuals\, how they might have navigated their physical and social environments\, and how they might have self-identified or been identified by their community. Currently\, she is a bioarchaeologist with the Phaleron Bioarchaeology Project.\nOur lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America\, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee\, the Dean Rusk Program\, and the departments of Africana Studies\, Anthropology\, Art\, Classics\, Educational Studies\, History\, and Latin American Studies. \nPlease support us by joining the Archaeological Institute of America for $50 (students $25)\, which includes a subscription to Archaeology magazine. Be sure to join Society 333\, Central Carolinas! \nJoin – Become a Society Member
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-bioarchaeology-of-the-distinctive-burials-of-the-phaleron-cemetery-archaic-greece/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Sara Galletti\, “Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean” \nTHIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. If you’re interested in archaeology\, please join us! \nAbout the lecture:\nThis talk will explore the history of a stone vaulting technique called stereotomy from a transnational\, longue durée perspective across the Mediterranean from the third century BCE—when the oldest of known stereotomic vaults was built in the Sanctuary of Delphi—through the sixteenth and seventeenth century\, when pioneering theoretical works such as those by Philibert de L’Orme (1514–70) and Alonso de Vandelvira (1544–1626) crossed the boundaries of the building trades and stereotomy became the focus of a broader intellectual debate about solid geometry. The complex\, fascinating history of stereotomy offers a privileged perspective on the cultural and material exchanges that have taken place\, across spatial\, linguistic\, and chronological boundaries\, in the long history of the Mediterranean and its peoples. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr. Sara Galletti\, Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University\, researches early modern architectural theory and practice\, with a focus on Europe and the Mediterranean. She has published on secular and religious French architecture\, on Philibert de L’Orme\, on the urban history of Paris\, on the relations between space and social structures\, as well as on the history of stereotomy. Currently\, she works on an NEH-funded book project tentatively titled History of Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean: Practices\, Theories\, and Patterns of Knowledge Transfer. \nOur lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America\, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee\, the Dean Rusk Program\, and the departments of Africana Studies\, Anthropology\, Art\, Classics\, Educational Studies\, History\, and Latin American Studies.\nPlease support us by joining the Archaeological Institute of America for $50 (students $25)\, which includes a subscription to Archaeology magazine. Be sure to join Society 333\, Central Carolinas!\nhttps://www.archaeological.org/join/
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/stone-vaulting-in-the-pre-modern-mediterranean/
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Student Reports from the Field
DESCRIPTION:To kick off our AIA Central Carolinas Society 333 archaeology lecture series this year\, students from Davidson College\, UNC–Charlotte\, and Winthrop University will report on their experiences working in the field. One or more worked in Cyprus\, Israel\, Sicily\, the Blue Ridge mountains\, Guatemala\, and Ecuador. Come and learn about these aspiring archaeologists’ dig adventures! \nTHIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. If you’re interested in archaeology\, please join us. \nOur lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America\, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee\, the Dean Rusk Program\, and the departments of Africana Studies\, Anthropology\, Art\, Classics\, Educational Studies\, History\, and Latin American Studies.\nPlease support us by joining the Archaeological Institute of America for $50 (students $25)\, which includes a subscription to Archaeology magazine. Be sure to join Society 333\, Central Carolinas!\nhttps://www.archaeological.org/join/
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/student-reports-from-the-field/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Krentz":MAILTO:pekrentz@davidson.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T210000
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SUMMARY:“The Archaeology of an Underwater Battlefield: The WWII Battle for Saipan”
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer McKinnon Flyer 2About the lecture:\nFrom shipwrecks to aircraft wrecks to amphibious vehicles\, Saipan’s waters in the Mariana Islands contain sunken sites that together tell the story of a critical battle in the WWII Pacific War between US and Japanese forces in June and July of 1944. This lecture will provide a brief overview of the WWII battle for Saipan and highlights of over a decade of archaeological research\, much of which has involved working with the community members and medically retired Special Forces operators. \nAbout the speaker:\nJennifer McKinnon\, chair and associate professor of history at East Carolina University\, has a background in historical and maritime archaeology and cultural heritage management. She has worked in the US\, Australia\, the Pacific\, and Europe on sites ranging from the colonial period to WWII. Her research areas include Spanish colonial archaeology\, archaeology and history of the U.S. Life-Saving Service\, conflict archaeology of WWII in the Pacific; landscape and seascape archaeology; in situ conservation and preservation\, and Community Archaeology. Jennifer has published a number of book chapters and journal articles and co-edited (with Dr. Toni L. Carrell) a book with Springer Press entitled Underwater Archaeology of a Pacific Battlefield: The WWII Battle of Saipan (2016). McKinnon is a Research Associate of Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research\, Inc.\, a non-profit organization with which she has partnered to conduct WWII-related research in the Pacific.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/jennifer-mckinnon-the-archaeology-of-an-underwater-battlefield-the-wwii-battle-for-saipan/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T104752
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SUMMARY:"Operation Amythyst: How the Ancient Egyptions Got Their Bling 4000 Years Ago"
DESCRIPTION:About the lecture:\nSome of the most stunning jewelry from Ancient Egypt is made of amethyst. Its craftsmanship\, opulence\, and design epitomize quality in the ancient world. Yet the skill in making this jewelry started long before the cutting and buffing of the raw stone. Procuring amethyst in the Eastern Desert is fraught with many more perils and problems than Nile Valley craftsmen experienced. As the director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert\, Liszka leads a team that has studied the remains of these ancient desert expeditions and a team who has firsthand experience of many of the perils that the ancient explorers would have fought as well. This talk examines the extremes and dangers that thousands of Ancient Egyptians went to in order to acquire these beautiful purple stones for the Pharaoh’s jewels. By investigating the archaeology\, art\, and inscriptions from Wadi el-Hudi in the Egyptian Eastern Desert\, we navigate through the whole process of amethyst acquisition: from finding\, to mining\, and surviving in the dangers of the desert. \nWe will gather to watch this recorded lecture (4:49-43:36) together\, followed by Q and A with Dr. Liszka via Zoom. The recording has captions and also includes an ASL interpreter. \nAbout the speaker:\nKate Liszka is associate professor of history at California State University\, San Bernardino\, and director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt. Her research focuses on ancient Nubians interacting with Egyptians and the Egyptian government. She specifically examines these issues as part of two projects. She is currently finishing a monograph on the Medjay\, a group of pastoral Nubians who may become an important group of soldiers in Egypt’s Middle and New Kingdoms (c. 2300-1000 BCE). Kate also directs the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert. This archaeological and epigraphic project looks at ancient Egyptian mining activities\, their organization\, and individuals who participated in them\, especially in light of ancient ethnicities.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/operation-amythyst-how-the-ancient-egyptions-got-their-bling-4000-years-ago/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T104752
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SUMMARY:Anna Agbe-Davies\, “The Mis-Education of Pauli Murray”
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 22\, 2022\n7:30 p.m. ET \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://davidson.zoom.us/j/99143304841 \nMeeting ID: 991 4330 4841 \nAnna Agbe-Davies\,  “The Mis-Education of Pauli Murray” \nAbout the lecture:\nThis presentation considers education\, womanhood\, and signs as refracted through the life of human rights pioneer Pauli Murray\, prompted by the archaeological investigation of her childhood home in Durham\, North Carolina.  It is part of a work-in-progress that investigates the place material culture and the routines of daily life in African American women’s struggles for equality. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr. Anna Agbe-Davies\, associate professor of anthropology at UNC–Chapel Hill\, is a historical archaeologist with research interests in the plantation societies of the colonial southeastern US and Caribbean\, as well as towns and cities of the 19th and 20th century Midwest\, with a particular focus on the African diaspora. She has worked on sites in and around Jamestown (VA)\, Colonial Williamsburg\, New Philadelphia (IL)\, and the Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls on the south side of Chicago.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/anna-agbe-davies-archaeology-and-race-gender-and-space-situating-the-phyllis-wheatley-home-for-girls-and-the-pauli-murray-family-home-amid-infrastructural-racisms/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Krentz":MAILTO:pekrentz@davidson.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T104752
CREATED:20211029T155442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T155442Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today
DESCRIPTION:Christy and Jim Pritchard\, “Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today” \nTHIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE VACCINATED PUBLIC\nMASKS ARE REQUIRED FOR ALL ATTENDEES \nAbout the lecture:\nChristy and Jim Pritchard have been leading cultural resources efforts across the US over the past 25+ years. They will discuss the legislative and operational framework for CRM today. The presentation will highlight collaborations between academic and consultant archaeologists and will discuss the many beneficial preservation impacts\, both educational and social\, of consulting archaeology in the US. Christy and Jim will present important projects and provide insights from the front line of American historic preservation. \nAbout the speakers:\nChristy Pritchard\, RPA\, is Operations Manager / Cultural Heritage Project Manager at Environmental Research Group\, LLC. She earned her M.A.Sc.in Cultural Heritage Management with emphasis in Archaeology and Heritage Interpretation from the University of Canberra\, Australia. She led the business and field operations for both federal and state contracts of the Kentucky offices for a southeastern cultural resources firm. When she joined Environmental Research Group\, LLC\, in 2015\, she co-developed the cultural resources practice of ERG and now manages both cultural and environmental compliance services and training to agencies including Department of Defense (DoD)\, Multiple Districts of the United States Corps of Engineers (USACE)\, Veterans Affairs (VA)\, Army National Guard\, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. \nJim Pritchard\, RPA\, is Operations Manager at Environmental Research Group\, LLC. He earned his M.A.Sc. in Cultural Heritage Management with an emphasis in Archaeology from the University of Canberra\, Australia. In 2007\, he became a Vice President with one of the larger cultural resources firms in the Southeast and opened its Kentucky offices. Jim undertook strategic marketing for the firm and expanded its geographic and workload coverage across the Upland South\, Ohio Valley\, and Great Lakes region. Jim focused on the ongoing archaeological research and Section 106 compliance at Fort Knox\, Kentucky\, where he oversaw the investigation of tens of thousands of acres and the recording of hundreds of archaeological sites. Jim came to ERG in 2015 to build the cultural resources program nationwide.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/cultural-resource-management-crm-today/
LOCATION:Davidson College\, 315 North Main Street\, Semans Auditorium\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Krentz":MAILTO:pekrentz@davidson.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T104752
CREATED:20210915T191822Z
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SUMMARY:Thirty Years at Athienou:  Celebrating Michael K. Toumazou  and His Impact on Cypriot Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Thirty Years at Athienou:\nCelebrating Michael K. Toumazou\nand His Impact on Cypriot Archaeology \nSaturday\, 16 October 2021 \nDavidson College\nC. Shaw Smith 900 Room\, Alvarez College Union\n207 Faculty Drive\, Davidson\, NC 28036\nZoom link to join the webinar: https://go.davidson.edu/toumazou \n(For more information about the speakers and their talks\, please click the links below.) \n8:30-9:00 Coffee\n9:00-9:15 Welcome\n9:15-10:15 Derek Counts\, “From EU 1 to 100: Thirty Years of AAP under MKT”\n10:15-10:45 Morning Break\n10:45-11:30 Erin Walcek Averett\, “A Big Golden Smile that Seems Eager: This is Athienou”\n11:30-12:15 Jody Gordon\, “30 Years of Burial Archaeology: The Ancient Necropolis at Athienou-Mağara-Tepeşi\, Cyprus”\n12:30-1:30 Lunch\n1:30-2:15 Clay Cofer\, “The Epiphany of Pan at Athienou-Malloura”\n2:15-3:00 Mackenzie Heglar\, “Fragmentary Illumination: Oil Lamps at Athienou-Malloura”\n3:00-3:30 Afternoon Break\n3:30-4:15 Nicholas Blackwell\, “The Implications of Metal Agricultural Implements from Bronze Age Cyprus and the Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck”\n4:15-5:00 P. Nick Kardulias\, “Exploring the Ancient World Piece by Piece: Michael Toumazou’s Career in Archaeology”
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/thirty-years-at-athienou-celebrating-michael-k-toumazou-and-his-impact-on-cypriot-archaeology/
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day
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ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Krentz":MAILTO:pekrentz@davidson.edu
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