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SUMMARY:Soldier Burials\, Landscapes\, and Memory in Early Iron Age Greece
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URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/soldier-burials-landscapes-and-memory-in-early-iron-age-greece/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah 'Gigi' Brazeal":MAILTO:sbrazea@asu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251030T193000
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SUMMARY:Reading Matthew’s Gospel in the Cemeteries of Roman Syria and Judea
DESCRIPTION:Why does the Gospel of Matthew prefer a different word for burials\, taphoi\, than the other New Testament gospels? And why does Matthew consistently revise his sources to describe Jesus’s burial as costly? Matthew emphasizes that Jesus was anointed with expensive spices and buried in a rich patron’s new tomb\, which makes it appear as though he wanted to portray Jesus as receiving an elite burial. If\, however\, we read Matthew’s descriptions of burials in light of archaeological evidence of changing mortuary practices in provincial Syria and Judea\, where the gospel was composed sometime in the late first century\, his motives appear more complicated. Quick though he is to indicate that Jesus received a rich man’s burial\, Matthew is clear that this did not include any of the lavish displays of status that were increasingly common on elite tombs in Matthew’s context. Through a critical analysis of both text and funerary archaeology\, this presentation explores how the author of Matthew and his earliest audiences responded to and participated in cultural and socioeconomic changes induced by geopolitical shifts in the Roman East. \nBiography\nDr. Tony Keddie is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Fellow of the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin. An award-winning social historian\, Keddie’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections of religion and economics in the Roman East\, particularly among Jews and Christians in Judea and Asia Minor. He is the author of four books\, including Class and Power in Roman Palestine; co-editor of five books\, including Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East; and author of more than two dozen articles. \nRegistration required. Follow this link to register: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/wggxz9iBS2WOCEFg3nGIUA
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/reading-matthews-gospel-in-the-cemeteries-of-roman-syria-and-judea/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 4985 SW 74th Court\, Miami\, FL\, 33155\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Education,International Archaeology Day,Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah 'Gigi' Brazeal":MAILTO:sbrazea@asu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250925T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T090906
CREATED:20250923T164320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T152435Z
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SUMMARY:Play Again: Combining Archaeological and AI Methods to Study Ancient Games
DESCRIPTION:Play Again: Combining Archaeological and AI Methods to Study Ancient Games \nwith \nWalter Crist\, PhD\nLecturer\nFaculty of Humanities\nCentre for the Arts in Society\nNew Media & Digital Culture\nLeiden University \nThe archaeology of ancient play has recently undergone a renaissance\, as researchers have couched previous culture-historical research on ancient games in anthropological and archaeological theory\, demonstrating the importance of play in ancient life. Further advances in AI technology allow for new applications of this technology in the study of ancient games\, and the possibilities of such methods are only beginning to be explored. This research explores two case studies where AI-simulated play\, when combined with traditional archaeological methods\, provide new insights about ancient games. \nBiography\nWalter Crist is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University. His PhD dissertation (Arizona State University\, 2016) examined the archaeological context of Bronze Age game boards in Cyprus to explore the intersection between gaming activity and social complexity. He is the lead author on the book Ancient Egyptians at Play\, and has researched ancient games in Cyprus\, Egypt\, Azerbaijan\, Greece\, Turkey\, and the Netherlands. As a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC Digital Ludeme Project\, he constructed the Ludii Games Database\, which documents the knowledge of the rules for traditional board games globally over the past 5000 years. Recent explorations on the ways that AI can inform archaeological research on games continue through his position as Vice Chair of the COST Action GameTable: Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage. \nRegistration is required. Follow this link to register: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/KMQBlfk-TYCqAMr0j6l21w#/registration
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/play-again-combining-archaeological-and-ai-methods-to-study-ancient-games/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Education,Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah 'Gigi' Brazeal":MAILTO:sbrazea@asu.edu
LOCATION:https://www.archaeological.org/event/play-again-combining-archaeological-and-ai-methods-to-study-ancient-games/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241024T193000
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SUMMARY:Archaeology of the Oyo Empire (West Africa): Chivalry\, Colonies\, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:Between ca. 1650 and 2800\, the Oyo Empire was the largest political formation in West Africa\, south of the River Niger. Over the past twenty years\, Akin Ogundiran has conducted archaeological research in the capital\, colonies\, and provinces of the empire to understand the strategies of Oyo expansion and the everyday lives of different segments of its population. In this talk\, Ogundiran juxtaposes the materialities of military conquest\, colonization strategies\, and household politics to tell an intimate story of one of the most important imperial formations in Africa during the Early Modern Period. Here\, the regional and multi-sided scope and the residential contexts of the archaeological research allow for a fine-scale understanding of how domesticity\, gender\, class\, labor\, technology\, mobility\, and the landscape were manipulated to fashion the Oyo Empire. In the process\, ideas about personhood\, family\, and sexuality were also transformed. The archaeology of the Oyo Empire contributes to a truly global understanding of the Early Modern Period.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/archaeology-of-the-oyo-empire-west-africa-chivalry-colonies-and-household-politics-in-the-early-modern-period/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 4985 SW 74th Court\, Miami\, FL\, 33155\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,International Archaeology Day,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20241024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20241024T190000
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CREATED:20241016T141926Z
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SUMMARY:Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire (West Africa): Chivalry\, Colonies\, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships \n  \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/archaeology-of-the-oyo-empire-west-africa-chivalry-colonies-and-household-politics-in-the-early-modern-period-2/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah 'Gigi' Brazeal":MAILTO:sbrazea@asu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240328T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240328T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T090906
CREATED:20231220T142126Z
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SUMMARY:Socii & Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop with Dr. Rhodora Vennarucci
DESCRIPTION:Socii & Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop \nMatson Lecture \nRhodora Vennarucci\, PhD\nAssistant Professor of Classical Studies & Art History\nUniversity of Arkansas \nWork in Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) has underscored that shopping is meaningful behavior. It is still new\, however\, to ask how shopping behavior was meaningful for people in the Roman world in part because consumption studies in archaeology have overlooked consumer agency and the social act of consumption. This talk applies a CCT and phenomenological approach to The Felt Shop of Verecundus (IX.7.5-7) from Pompeii\, which sold fine footwear (e.g. socci\, soft-soled felted slippers) and high-status textile products (e.g. toga praetexta) to explore how ancient consumers self-fashioned through public acts of consumption in the shop. An interactive 3D model of the shop in VR\, reconstructed using the architectural remains and archival data from the shop’s excavation\, facilitated this investigation\, which contributes to the Virtual Roman Retail project. \nSocci were a luxury item worn indoors and at dinner parties that only the more affluent in society could afford. Shopping for slippers then on the via dell’Abondanza\, Pompeii’s most heavily trafficked thoroughfare\, was a social act that involved the public performance of (aspirational?) power and status displayed for a larger and more diverse street audience than a private triclinium\, where the slippers were ultimately meant to be worn\, could offer. This lecture discusses how shopping behavior\, traditionally viewed as a common.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/socii-sociability-shopping-for-status-in-a-roman-shop-with-dr-rhodora-vennarucci/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah 'Gigi' Brazeal":MAILTO:sbrazea@asu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240222T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T090906
CREATED:20231219T155712Z
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SUMMARY:Ancient Greek Magic with Dr. Jessica Lamont
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Greek Magic \nJessica L. Lamont\, PhD\nAssistant Professor of Classics & History\nYale University Department of Classics \nThis talk explores different types of archaeological and material evidence for the practice of magic in the ancient Greek world\, from binding spells to curse tablets to incantations. \nZoom Registrations Link: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcOyhpjIjHdKS0QhImhdu_R_d9QkeH7A7
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/ancient-greek-magic-with-dr-jessica-lamont/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah 'Gigi' Brazeal":MAILTO:sbrazea@asu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240125T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T090906
CREATED:20231220T142036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T142036Z
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SUMMARY:Everything but a Bath?: The Small Bath at Antiochia ad Cragum with Dr. Leticia R. Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Everything but a Bath?: The Small Bath at Antiochia ad Cragum \nLeticia R. Rodriguez\, PhD\nVisiting Scholar\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley\nCenter for Middle Eastern Studies \nExcavations at the Small Bath at Antiochia ad Cragum began in 2018. With now five seasons completed\, our efforts have not only provided insight into the general structure and use of this particular bath type (a Hall Bath); we have also uncovered a wealth of information about the complex after it was retired as a bath. More precisely\, each season has presented us with a series of questions with regard to the ways in which the various rooms of the bath were adapted to meet industrial needs\, if and how the installations and finds from distinct rooms relate to each other\, and their respective chronologies. This lecture will present findings to date\, current and evolving hypotheses about the function(s) of the complex in its post-bath phases\, and also consider the discovery of several sets of human remains in non-burial contexts.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/everything-but-a-bath-the-small-bath-at-antiochia-ad-cragum-with-dr-leticia-r-rodriguez/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah 'Gigi' Brazeal":MAILTO:sbrazea@asu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231130T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T090906
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SUMMARY:Bones\, Stones & Genes – Seven Million Years of Human Evolution with Geoffrey Clark\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Bones\, Stones\, & Genes: Seven Million Years of Human Evolution\nGeoffrey A. Clark\, Ph.D.\nRegents’ Emeritus Professor\nArizona State University School of Human Evolution & Social Change\nInstitute of Human Origins \nPerhaps the greatest story ever told is how we became the last and sole surviving member of our lineage\, the hominins – modern humans\, extinct human species\, and all our immediate ancestors. The human career is a long one\, extending back at least 6 million years and marked by a number of major transitions\, including the shift to life on the ground\, habitual bipedality\, increases in brain size and social complexity\, the first technologies\, and the emergence of language. Untangling the complicated relationships amongst these transitions is the principal task of paleoanthropology\, and over the past 25 years\, there have been many new and exciting discoveries\, and the picture changes – is changing now – with every one of them. Prof. Clark will discuss the human paleontology and archaeology of our lineage in ‘deep time’ – the past 4 million years. He will present the broad outlines of these transitions\, but it should be kept in mind that full consensus is – so far – beyond our reach. How we became the highly intelligent\, technologically sophisticated\, socially complex animals we are today will probably never be known with certainty\, but with every new discovery\, the picture changes a little\, or a lot\, and hopefully becomes a little clearer.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/bones-stones-genes-seven-million-years-of-human-evolution-with-geoffrey-clark-phd/
LOCATION:Arizona State University Tempe\, Design North Buidling\, Room CDN 60\, 810 NS Forest Mall\, Tempe\, AZ\, 85281\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230928T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230928T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T090906
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SUMMARY:Making Stone Tools Across the Millennia: Results from the Bandafassi Regional Archaeological Project survey in southeastern Senegal
DESCRIPTION:Matthew V. Kroot\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nArizona State University\nSchool of Human Evolution & Social Change \nStone tools in Africa are the earliest evidence we have of human material culture. Their shifting roles in societies over millions of years provide us with unparalleled insights into long-term human histories. As a part of a broader program of archaeological survey and excavation\, the Bandafassi Regional Archaeological Project collected chipped stone artifacts from over 100 sites in southeastern Senegal. In this talk\, I will present our analysis of these stone tools. Results show dramatic changes through time in raw material use\, production methods\, and the roles of stone tool economies in society. Additionally\, our work highlights the essential role of chipped stone technology well after the introduction of iron smelting and access global trade markets during the Atlantic Period. This research demonstrates that large-scale regional studies of stone tool economies and a focused interest on chipped stone after the Stone Age can provide significant insights into the structures and practices of local communities embedded in regional and global social networks.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/making-stone-tools-across-the-millennia-results-from-the-bandafassi-regional-archaeological-project-survey-in-southeastern-senegal/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 4985 SW 74th Court\, Miami\, FL\, 33155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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