The Preliminary Academic Program as it is presented here is tentative and subject to change. Sessions are held in the morning from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm and in the afternoon from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Paper order within a session may not reflect the time slots. Final schedule times will be reflected in the virtual meeting platform.
Please Note: The times listed for all events are in Central Standard Time.
ORGANIZERS: Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts–NYU and University of Milan, and Ortwin Dally, German Archaeological Institute in Rome
The Eastern Harbor of Selinus: New Evidence on the Infrastructure and Economic Topography of the Greek City (20 minutes)
Jon Albers, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
New Evidence for the Construction and Design of Temple C (20 minutes)
David Scahill, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Daniele Bursich, University of Salerno, and Kate Minniti, University of British Columbia
Between Sacred and Secular: Zooarchaeology of the Main Urban Sanctuary of Selinunte (20 minutes)
Roberto Miccichè, Università degli Studi di Palermo
Honoring the Forefathers: Religious Rites Performed at the Tombs of the Ancestors on the Agora of Selinus (20 minutes)
Ortwin Dally, German Archaeological Institute in Rome, and Sophie Helas, German Archaeological Institute in Rome
Temple R and the Invention of Tradition (20 minutes)
Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts–NYU, and Andrew Farinholt Ward, College of William & Mary
From Temple to Castle: The Changing History of a Building Complex on the Acropolis of Selinus (20 minutes)
Heike Bücherl, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, and Melanie Jonasch, German Archaeological Institute in Berlin
ORGANIZERS: Sine SS Saxkjaer, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University, Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Accademia di Danimarca, and Rubina Raja, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University
Session Introduction: The Caesar’s Forum Project (10 minutes)
Rubina Raja, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University, Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Accademia di Danimarca, and Claudio Parisi Presicce, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
New Results from the Excavations (20 minutes)
Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Accademia di Danimarca, Giovanni Murro, Accademia di Danimarca, and Rubina Raja, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University
Huts, Houses, and the Urbanization of Archaic Rome (20 minutes)
Nikoline Sauer, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University
Urban Ethnicities and Roman genealogies (20 minutes)
Sine Grove Saxkjær, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University
Caesar’s Forum in the Early Medieval Period (20 minutes)
Line Egelund, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University
Caesar, Rome, and the Danes (20 minutes)
Trine Arlund Hass, Aarhus University
SPONSOR: AIA Etruscan Interest Group
ORGANIZER: Bridget Sandhoff, University of Nebraska Omaha
Bejeweled Nudes in Etruscan Art (20 minutes)
Alexis Q. Castor, Franklin & Marshall College
Androgynous Bodies: The Costume of Etruscan Lasa (20 minutes)
Bridget Sandhoff, University of Nebraska Omaha
Boundaries and Bodies: The Bodily Costume of the Etruscan Daemon (20 minutes)
Jacqueline Ortoleva, University of Birmingham, UK
The Performative Dress in Archaic and Classical Etruria (20 minutes)
Audrey Gouy, University of Copenhagen
The Visual Language of Etruscan Textile Coverings (20 minutes)
Gretchen E. Meyers, Franklin & Marshall College
Not a Taboo: Maternal Undress in Late Classical Etruscan Mirror Iconography (20 minutes)
Alexandra Carpino, Northern Arizona University
This session has been cancelled.
New Protohistoric Art found in Abruzzo, Italy (20 minutes)
Andrea Vianello, University of South Florida
Landscape and Sacred Spaces between the Roman Conquest and Augustus in the Ancient Umbrian Valley (15 minutes)
Elisa Laschi, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
The Via Flaminia, the Campus Martius and the Agrimensores in Rome (20 minutes)
David Gilman Romano, University of Arizona
Herodes Atticus, Villas, and Farmhouses: The Plain of Marathon in the Roman Period (20 minutes)
Elise Poppen, SUNY University at Buffalo
Arboreal Imperialism in the Ancient Eastern Adriatic, ca. 600 B.C.E.-600 C.E. : New Paleoethnobotanical Investigations at Nadin-Gradina, Croatia (15 minutes)
James R. Countryman, University of Chicago
Diet and Mobility in Late Roman Christian Community: Isotopic Data from the Catacombs of Santa Lucia, Syracuse (Sicily) (20 minutes)
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida
Evidence of Local Resource Procurement for Early Ceramics in the Ilgin Region of Turkey (15 minutes)
Shannon Martino, Morton College
Consumerism in the Greek World: The Domestic Ceramic Assemblage at Halieis (15 minutes)
Alice J. Chapman, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Measuring Standardization in Late Roman Amphora Production: A View from the Early 7th-Century Yassıada Shipwreck (15 minutes)
Jenny Vo-Phamhi, Stanford University, James Gross, University of Pennsylvania, Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University, and Frederick van Doorninck, Jr, Institute of Nautical Archaeology
Agricultural Resilience and the Collapse of Bronze Age Citadels in Western Anatolia (20 minutes)
Tom Maltas, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Vasıf Şahoğlu, University of Ankara, Hayat Erkanal, University of Ankara, and Sevinç Günel, Hacettepe University
‘Traditional Environmental Knowledge’ and the Interpretation of Earthquakes in Mediterranean Archaeology: the case of Helike, Greece (20 minutes)
Amanda Gaggioli, Stanford University
ORGANIZER: Deborah Beck, University of Texas at Austin
Student Engagement: A Lesson in Mindfulness (15 minutes)
Arum Park, University of Arizona
My Mistake: Twenty- five Years a Captive (15 minutes)
Mary Ann Eaverly, University of Florida
Adjusting Assumptions and Reevaluating Opportunities for Students (15 minutes)
Ryan Fowler, Franklin and Marshall College
Yearning for Simplicity in a (Pedagogical) Complex World (- Select -)
Bret Mulligan, Haverford College
Adventures in Group Work in the Classics Classroom (15 minutes)
Theodora Kopestonsky, University of Tennessee Knoxville
How Dissertation Advising has made me a Better Teacher (- Select -)
Jennifer Trimble, Stanford University
ORGANIZERS: Christina G. Williamson, University of Groningen, and Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt
Dis(Placing) Imperialism: Urban Place-Making in the Hittite Empire (20 minutes)
Müge Durusu Tanrıöver, Bilkent University
Construction And Control: Managing Opposition In The Roman Forum (20 minutes)
Penelope J.E. Davies, University of Texas at Austin
Place-Making and Sacred Springs in Republican and Imperial Rome (20 minutes)
Alexandra Creola, University of Michigan
Place-Making at Pompeii: Graffiti Practices and Spatial Strategies in an Ancient City (20 minutes)
Peter Keegan, Macquarie University
Religious Place-making in Urban Contexts (20 minutes)
Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt
ORGANIZERS: Rubina Raja, Aarhus University, and Olympia Bobou, Aarhus University
New Directions in Archive Archaeology: Unleashing the Potential of the Ingholt Archives (Palmyra) (15 minutes)
Rubina Raja, Aarhus University, and Olympia Bobou, Aarhus University
Going Backward to Move Forward: Archive Archaeology and the House Of The Frescoes at Knossos (15 minutes)
Emilia Oddo, Tulane University
The Antiquities Provenance Research Project at the Getty: Structure and Strategies (15 minutes)
David Saunders, J. P. Getty Museum, Judith Barr, J. P. Getty Museum, and Nicole Budrovich, J. P. Getty Museum
Presenting Archival Material with Web-Based 3D Technologies (15 minutes)
Scott McAvoy, University of California, San Diego
Digital Treatment of Paul Collart’s Archives on Baalshamîn’s Temple: challenges and results (15 minutes)
Patrick Michel, Université de Lausanne
The Site of the Archive: Responsibility and Rhetoric in Archival Archaeology (15 minutes)
Jennifer Baird, Birkbek, University of London
SPONSOR: AIA Museums and Exhibitions Committee
ORGANIZER: Phoebe Segal, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Lisa Cakmak, The Art Institute of Chicago
PANELISTS: Sean Hemingway, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sara E. Cole, J. Paul Getty Museum, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Dumbarton Oaks, Katherine Larson, Corning Museum of Glass, Jen Thum, Harvard Art Museums, Laure Marest, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Seth Pevnick, Cleveland Museum of Art, Clare Fitzgerald , Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Frances Gallart Marques, Harvard Art Museums
Non-Canonical Portrait Types in Early Reign Provincial Coinage (15 minutes)
Fae Amiro, McMaster University
C. Julius Caesar, Oikistes of Corinth, and His Portrait (20 minutes)
Federico Figura, Scuola Normale Superiore
Entangled in the Ancient City: A Diachronic Study of the Societal Networks of Honorific Statues and Human Subjects, First to Sixth century C.E. (20 minutes)
Esen Ogus, Institute for Advanced Study
Fictilia simulacra from Porta Latina: Context and Function. (20 minutes)
Giulia Vannucci, Scuola Normale Superiore
Calling on Lucina: A Parturition Scene on a Roman Lamp (15 minutes)
Christie M. Vogler, University of Iowa
Eating Locally in Imperial Rome (15 minutes)
Alice C. Wolff, Cornell University
Lemnos between Anatolia and Greece: a reassessment of the Archaic ceramics (20 minutes)
Germano Sarcone, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Hellenistic Cretan Interactions: A Reexamination of Hadra Hydriae (15 minutes)
Adam Parison, University of California, Santa Barbara
Writers, Markers, and Merchants in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean (20 minutes)
Cassandra Donnelly, University of Texas at Austin
Knowledge Transfer and Shipbuilding in the Archaic Mediterranean (20 minutes)
Naomi Neufeld, University of Toronto
Obsidian Artifacts and Mediterranean Trade in Prehistoric Croatia (20 minutes)
Robert H. Tykot, University of South Florida
ORGANIZERS: Nathan T. Elkins, Baylor University, and Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College
Eleian Zeus: Political Change in the Fifth-Century Eleian Coinage (20 minutes)
Stefano Frullini, King’s College, Cambridge University
The Bid for Rome: From Galba’s Failure to Vespasian’s Success (20 minutes)
Sarah E. Cox, Independent Scholar
The Shadow of Commodus on Pertinax’s Coinage (20 minutes)
Nathaniel Katz, University of Texas
Carausius – A Usurper’s Coinage on the Edge of Empire (20 minutes)
Sam Moorhead, The British Museum
ORGANIZER: Nicholas Cahill, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Architecture, Urbanism, and Historical Context for the Julio-Claudian Imperial Cult Temple at Sardis (20 minutes)
Philip T Stinson, University of Kansas
Capital of Herakles and Sculpture of the Temple of the Roman Imperial Cult (20 minutes)
Bahadır Yıldırım, Harvard Art Museums
Reuse but Don’t Reduce: Excavating a Late Roman House at Sardis (20 minutes)
Frances Gallart Marques, Harvard Art Museums
The Decorative Field: Wall Painting in Field 55 at Sardis (20 minutes)
Vanessa Rousseau, University of St. Thomas
Chronology and Beyond: Coins from the Wadi B Temple and Field 55 (20 minutes)
Jane DeRose Evans, Temple University
Field 55 in the Seventh Century (20 minutes)
Marcus Rautman, University of Missouri
SPONSOR: AIA Etruscan Interest Group
ORGANIZERS: Jacqueline K. Ortoleva, University of Birmingham, UK, and Gregory Warden, Franklin University, Switzerland
Somatically Speaking: the Monument as Body and Corporeal Authority (20 minutes)
Gregory Warden, Franklin University Switzerland
How to Dress a Corpse: Funerary Dress and the Construction of the Funeral at Gabii and Osteria dell’Osa (20 minutes)
George Prew, University of Glasgow
Sensing Space: Cognitive Embodiment and the Etruscan Painted Tomb in Tarquinia and Orvieto (20 minutes)
Jacqueline K. Ortoleva, University of Birmingham, UK
Economic Balance and Seasonality: Landscape Perception as Embodied, Sensory Knowledge of Ancient Agricultural Practices and Plant Foraging in Etruria (20 minutes)
Meryl Shriver-Rice, Abess Center for Ecosystem & Science, University of Miami
ORGANIZER: Kathleen M. Coleman, Harvard University
PANELISTS: To be announced
Toward Diverse Proxy Phenomenology in Pompeii (20 minutes)
David Fredrick, University of Arkansas
Prestige & Patronage: Transformed Crossroads in Imperial Pompeii (20 minutes)
Matthew D. Selheimer, University of Leicester
A Spatial Network Analysis of Movement and Water Collection from Public Fountains in Pompeii (20 minutes)
Matthew F. Notarian, Hiram College
The ‘Being-Built’ Environment: The Impact of Construction on Lived Experience in the City of Rome (20 minutes)
Matt Naylor, University of British Columbia
The Brother-and-Sister Stele Sphinx Has a Vagina (20 minutes)
Tara Trahey, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Glamorous Goddesses: Dress, Ornament, and the Judgment of Paris in Athenian Vase-Painting (20 minutes)
Anthony F. Mangieri, Salve Regina University
Athena Parthenos and Horses at Ancient Corinth (20 minutes)
Aileen Ajootian, The University of Mississippi
It’s Not a Pomegranate! Re-identifying the Quince in Greek Sanctuaries (15 minutes)
Andrea Samz-Pustol, Bryn Mawr College
Entombed Abundance: Dionysiac Imagery on Chryselephantine Klinai from the Macedonian Court (15 minutes)
Ellen Archie, Emory University
Archetypical Physiognomies and Dress: New Comedy Terracotta Figurines (20 minutes)
Heather Bowyer, Arizona State University
Monuments as Paideia: The War Dead as Educators in Ancient Sparta and Modern America (15 minutes)
Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
Egyptian, Jewish, and Far Eastern Art and Architecture in Graeco-Roman Art-historical Writing (15 minutes)
Kristen Seaman, University of Oregon
Assyria In London: Displaying Archaeological Knowledge at the Nineveh Court at the Crystal Palace (20 minutes)
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, The Graduate Center, the City University of New York
“Quartered in the midst of the greatest collection in all Italy”: Lessons from the Museo Nazionale di Napoli in wartime. (20 minutes)
Nigel D. Pollard, Swansea University
Ephemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean Passage (15 minutes)
Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University, and Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University
The Complex Biographies of Ancient Political Sculptures and their Relevance Today (20 minutes)
Cynthia S. Colburn, Pepperdine University, and Ella Gonzalez, Johns Hopkins University
ORGANIZERS: Daniel W. Healey, Princeton University, and Hannah Smagh, Princeton University
DISCUSSANT: John Bodel, Brown University
Domesticating Demeter: Altars in the Sanctuaries and Homes of Hellenistic Sicily (20 minutes)
Andrew Tharler, Duke University
The Politics in Display: the Courtyard Altar and Social Identity in Classical Greece (20 minutes)
Hannah Smagh, Princeton University
Religion and Identity: Household Cults in Imperial Greece (20 minutes)
Heather F. Sharpe, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Domestic Material Culture and the Archaeology of Value: Beyond “Religion” vs. “Decoration” (20 minutes)
Caitlín E. Barrett, Cornell University
The Social Value of Religious Décor in Pompeian Gardens (20 minutes)
Daniel Healey, Princeton University
ORGANIZER: Alexander Meyer, The University of Western Ontario
Consuming ‘Big Data’: Recent Developments and Potential in the Study of Romano-British Food (20 minutes)
Julia Hurley, Brown University
What Lies Beneath: Using Digital Technologies to Represent and Understand the Urban Archaeological Record of Provincial Roman Settlements (20 minutes)
Paul Johnson, University of Nottingham
Digital Connectivity and Geographic Scales: The Mediterranean Connectivity Initiative in Macedonia (20 minutes)
Lindsey A. Mazurek, Indiana University, Bloomington
Advanced Imaging Techniques for the Recovery of Texts on Roman Stylus Tablets (20 minutes)
Alexander Meyer, University of Western Ontario
ORGANIZER: Georgios Makris, University of British Columbia
Byzantine Theory Matters: Cooking Up New Ideas in Archaeology (20 minutes)
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Brandeis University
Medieval Archaeology and Landscape Studies: An Update (20 minutes)
Effie Athanassopoulos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Beyond the Church: Listening to the Buzz of the Byzantine City and Its Countryside (20 minutes)
Amy Papalexandrou, University of Texas at Austin
The Compression of Time and Space in Rural Byzantine Archaeology (20 minutes)
Marica Cassis, University of Calgary
New Directions in the Archaeology of Byzantine Island Landscapes (20 minutes)
Günder Varinlioğlu, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Exploring World-Systems Connections in Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece and Cyprus (20 minutes)
P. Nick Kardulias, College of Wooster
SPONSOR: AIA Cultural Heritage Committee
ORGANIZER: Brian I. Daniels, University of Pennsylvania Museum
PANELISTS: Tiffany Cain, Princeton University, Elizabeth Greene, Brock University, Patricia Eunji Kim, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, Greg Werkheiser, Cultural Heritage Partners, LLC, and Tuğba Tanyeri Erdemir, University of Pittsburgh
Excavations at Podere Cannicci. Revealing a Republican Vicus and Sanctuary (20 minutes)
Alessandro Sebastiani, University At Buffalo (Suny)
Pompeian Residential Architecture: Environmental, Digital, Interdisciplinary Archive (PRAEDIA). The 2019-2020 fieldwork campaigns (20 minutes)
Riccardo Olivito, IMT School for Advanced Studies, and Anna Anguissola, University of Pisa
The Evidence and Potential Functions of Anepigraphic Brick Stamps at Cosa’s Bathhouse (20 minutes)
Christina Cha, Florida State University and Allison Smith, Florida State University
Geraki in Laconia: the Middle Helladic Period (20 minutes)
Stuart E. M. Thorne, Netherlands Institute at Athens and Mieke Prent, University of Amsterdam
“Well off” Animal Abundance and Context-Based Analysis of Depositional Histories at Petsas House, Mycenae (15 minutes)
Jacqueline Meier, University of North Florida, Gypsy Price, SEARCH Archaeological Service and Kim Shelton, University of California Berkeley
A Spatial Analysis of Mycenaean Settlement Architecture (20 minutes)
Sarah Hilker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ORGANIZERS: Mark D. Stansbury-O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas, and David Saunders, Getty Museum, and Jennifer Tafe, Boston University
Oltos a “Roving” Painter in the Last Quarter of the Sixth Century B.C.E. (20 minutes)
Cristiana Zaccagnino, Queen’s University
The Sosias-Kleophrades Workshop (15 minutes)
An Jiang, Central Michigan University
The Aesthetic Function of Relief-Line in Athenian Red-Figure: Linearity, Tactility, or Light Effects? (20 minutes)
Guy Hedreen, Williams College
Who was the Inscriptions Painter? Notes on the origins of Chalcidian Black Figure (15 minutes)
Jasper Gaunt, Independent Scholar
Faliscan Red-Figure Pottery: Analysis of the Production (20 minutes)
Angela Pola, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Red-Figure Pottery Production in Metapontum in the Second Half of the Fourth Century B.C.E. (20 minutes)
Francesca Silvestrelli, University of Salento, Lecce (Italy)
ORGANIZER: Martin Beckmann, McMaster University
Graffiti on Roman Gold Coins. Spectrum of Meaning and Communication Strategies (20 minutes)
Friederike Stahlke, University of Heidelberg
Slashing, Soldering, and Simulating: Adaptations to Roman coins in ancient India (20 minutes)
Jeremy Simmons, Columbia University
Voiceless coins? Imitative issues in the Hellenistic Far East (20 minutes)
Gunnar R. Dumke, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Lost or Intentionally Deposited? The Coin Finds from Didyma (20 minutes)
Aylin Tanrıöver, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Coins in the Mortar: the Social Aspects of Coins in Architecture (20 minutes)
Melissa Ludke, Florida State University
ORGANIZERS: Sandra Blakely, Emory University, and Megan Daniels, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
DISCUSSANT: Caitlin Barrett, Cornell University
The Religion of Small Objects in the Temple of Isis at Pompeii: Establishing Credentials (15 minutes)
Frederick Brenk, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome
Loom Weights in Greek Sanctuaries: Problems and Possibilities (15 minutes)
Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University Chicago
Their Gold Materials: The Social Lives of the Orphic-Bacchic Gold Tablets (15 minutes)
Colleen Kron, The Ohio State University
‘Lovely Ephesian Letters’: Late Classical Amulets and the Aesthetics of Little Things (15 minutes)
Mark McClay, University of Miami
A Mandaean Amulet: Dating Its Origins (using conductivity analysis) and Deciphering Its Incantation (15 minutes)
Tom McCollough, Coastal Carolina University
ORGANIZER: Amanda Long, The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII)
Lamia Gailani, Observations on a Life (15 minutes)
McGuire Gibson, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute
Lamia Al-Gailani’s Legacy at the National Museum of Iraq (15 minutes)
Abdulameer Al-Hamdani, Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities
The Nimrud Rescue Project (15 minutes)
Katharyn Hanson, Smithsonian Institution, Zaid Ghazi Saadullah, Mosul Cultural Museum, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Jessica S. Johnson, Smithsonian Institution, and Brian Michael Lione, Smithsonian Institution
The Iconography of Goddesses and Queens on Seals from the Royal Tombs at Nimrud (15 minutes)
Amy R. Gansell, St. John’s University
ORGANIZERS: John J. Dobbins, University of Virginia and David Parrish, Purdue University
Katherine M.D. Dunbabin: the First Two Generations of Mosaic Scholarship, and the Development of Mosaics as a Field of Research in Classical Archaeology (15 minutes)
Guy P. R. Métraux, York University
The International Association for the Study of Ancient Mosaics (AIEMA) and the North American Branch of AIEMA (10 minutes)
David Parrish, Purdue University, and Ruth Kolarik, Colorado College
The Display and Interpretation of Mosaics in North American Museums (10 minutes)
Peter Schertz, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Circus Scene in the ‘House of the Hippodrome’ in Akaki, Cyprus (10 minutes)
Fryni Hadjichristophi, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus
The Recent Mosaic Discoveries from the New Phase of Antioch Excavations (10 minutes)
Hatice Pamir, Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya
New Discoveries at Zeugma: The House of the Muses Mosaic (10 minutes)
Kutalmiş Görkay, Ankara University
New Directions in Mosaic Studies: A North American Perspective (10 minutes)
Nicole Berlin, Wellesley College, Davis Museum
From the Ground Up: New Evidence for the Treatment of Roman Pavements at Oplontis (Villa A) (10 minutes)
Lea Cline, Illinois State University
The Mosaics of the House of the Boat of Psyches: Reexamining Identity in Antioch (10 minutes)
Elizabeth Molacek, University of Texas at Dallas, and Dylan K. Rogers, University of Virginia
ORGANIZER: Rubina Raja, Aarhus University Olympia Bobou, Aarhus University
PANELISTS: Iza Romanowska, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Julia Steding, Aarhus University, Nathalia B. Kristensen, Nate Andrade, Binghampton University, and Olympia Bobou, Aarhus University
Egypt in the Eye of the Consumer: A Study of Aegyptiaca in Pompeiian Commercial Spaces (15 minutes)
Kelsey A. Myers, University of Arkansas
Amphora Potters’ Workshops During the Mid-Roman Imperial Period: Morphology-Related Identities in Coastal Tunisia (15 minutes)
Karl Racine, Trent University
A ‘Living’ Blacksmith’s Workshop at Marzuolo: Results of the 2017-2019 Excavation Seasons (15 minutes)
Rhodora G. Vennarucci, University of Arkansas
Osteoarchaeological Approaches to Inequality in Roman Britain (15 minutes)
Robert Stephan, University of Arizona
Colonization and Indigeneity: Etruscans and Native Americans (15 minutes)
Lisa C. Pieraccini, University of California, Berkeley
Greek Myths on Etruscan Sarcophagi: An Introduction to the Corpus and Current Problems of Interpretation (15 minutes)
Valeria Riedemann, University of Washington
Contextualizing the Consumer: Globalization, Glocalization, and the Etruscans (15 minutes)
Jennifer M. Weigel, Florida State University
Reworking an Etruscan Workshop: A Reinvestigation of the Orientalizing Workshop at Poggio Civitate (15 minutes)
Nora Donoghue, Florida State University
ORGANIZERS: Duncan MacRae, University of California, Berkeley, Anna Bonnell Freidin, University of Michigan, and Astrid Van Oyen, Cornell University
Roman Futures between Farmer and Empire (20 minutes)
Astrid Van Oyen, Cornell University
The Farmer and the Faenerator: Anticipation and Affect in Horace Epode 2 (20 minutes)
Duncan MacRae, University of California, Berkeley
Storing Goods, Keeping Time (20 minutes)
Caroline Cheung, Princeton University
Anticipation and Analogy in Soranus’ Gynecology (20 minutes)
Anna Bonnell Freidin, University of Michigan
ORGANIZERS: Alex Walthall, University of Texas at Austin, and Leigh Anne Lieberman, The Claremont Colleges
Fixer Upper: Interpreting Renovation and Domestic Activity in a Hellenistic Home (15 minutes)
Elizabeth Wueste, American University of Rome, and Andrew Tharler, Duke University
Oh, Well! Managing Water Resources in the House of the Two Mills (15 minutes)
Andrea Samz-Pustol, Bryn Mawr College, and R. Benjamin Gorham, Case Western Reserve University
Blurring the Lines: Horizontal Specialization and Domestic Production in the House of the Two Mills (15 minutes)
Jared Benton, Old Dominion University
Business Near and Far: Evidence for Local and Long-Distance Commerce in Hellenistic Morgantina (15 minutes)
Christy Q. Schirmer, University of Texas at Austin
Loom Weight Stamps at Hellenistic Morgantina: Between Household Industry and Identity (15 minutes)
Max Peers, Brown University, and Kevin Ennis, Stanford University
Coding on the Shoulders of Giants: Research Methodologies & Digital Data Architecture at the Contrada Agnese Project (15 minutes)
Leigh A. Lieberman, The Claremont Colleges
ORGANIZERS: Catherine M Kearns, University of Chicago, and James Osborne, University of Chicago
DISCUSSANTS: John Novembre, University of Chicago and Peter van Dommelen, Brown University
Between Critique and Constructive Efforts: Perspectives on Potentials of Archaeogenetics (20 minutes)
Philipp W. Stockhammer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Max Planck Institute
Mining and Migration in Southeast Spain: Narratives from aDNA, Archaeology, and Roman History (20 minutes)
Linda R. Gosner, Texas Tech University
Exploring Mobility in the Mediterranean through a Genetic History of Rome (20 minutes)
Hannah M. Moots, Stanford University, Margaret L. Antonio, Stanford University, Ziyue Gao, University of Pennsylvania, Alfredo Coppa, Sapienza Università di Roma, Ron Pinhasi, University of Vienna, and Jonathan K. Pritchard, Stanford University
Paleogenomic Investigation of the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition at Alişar Höyük, Turkey (20 minutes)
Maanasa Raghavan, University of Chicago, Constanza De La Fuente, University of Chicago, Suzanne Freilich, University of Chicago, and James Osborne, University of Chicago
ORGANIZER: Evi Gorogianni, The University of Akron and Katerina Psimogiannou, University of Illinois at Chicago
PANELISTS: Kostis S. Christakis, Knossos Research Centre, British School at Athens, Evi Gorogianni, The University of Akron, Julie Hruby, Dartmouth College, Despina Margomenou, University of Michigan, Katerina Psimogiannou, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Maria Roumpou, Harokopeio University of Athens
The Apsidal Plan in Pre-Archaic Greek Architecture. Technical Rationale (20 minutes)
Alessandro Pierattini, University of Notre Dame
Space, Stone & Sculptors on Archaic Naxos: a New Study of the Abandoned Colossal Kouroi (20 minutes)
Rebecca Levitan, University of California, Berkeley, and Evan Levine, Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Saronic Poseidon: Sanctuary Landscapes and Cult Practices in a Maritime Neighborhood (20 minutes)
Shannon Dunn, Bryn Mawr
“The Sacred Earth, That Shakes:” The Cultural Influence of the Delphic Narrative of Geology-Cult Interaction at Hierapolis (20 minutes)
Phoebe J. Thompson, University of Cambridge
Architecture and Monuments in the Ilissos Valley: On An Archaizing Ionic Capital (15 minutes)
Giuseppe Rignanese, Scuola Normale Superiore
The Population of Pella: Ancient Macedonia’s Cosmopolitan Hub (20 minutes)
Martin Gallagher, University of North Texas
Paintings from the Early Episcopal Basilica at Stobi (20 minutes)
Caroline J. Downing, State University of New York Potsdam
Aiano – Torraccia di Chiusi (San Gimignano, Siena): The Multiple Lives of a Roman Villa in Central Italy, between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. The Archaeological Excavations 2017-2019 (20 minutes)
Sara Lenzi, Université catholique de Louvain
The Digital Afterlife of a Prehistoric Cemetery: Phases of Reuse at Cozzo del Pantano (Siracusa, Italy) (15 minutes)
Stephan N. Hassam, University of South Florida
Planning and Site Selection of a Byzantine Village (15 minutes)
Mark Pawlowski, University of California, Santa Cruz
Rural Production and Power: Negotiating the Medieval City State of Lucca (15 minutes)
Taylor Zaneri, University of Amsterdam
The Baths at Kom el-Dikka in Alexandria as a Foundation of Constantine the Great? A Reconsideration of Evidences in Light of Stonemarks with the name of Flavius Antonius Theodorus, Prefect of Egypt? (20 minutes)
Anna U. Kordas, University of Warsaw
ORGANIZER: Vanessa Davies, Bryn Mawr College
PANELISTS: Kevin Burrell, Burman University, Vanessa Davies, Bryn Mawr College, Debora Heard, University of Chicago, Shomarka Keita, Smithsonian Institution, and Stuart Tyson Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara
ORGANIZER: Laetitia La Follette, AIA President, University of Massachusetts Amherst
What Lies Beneath: Reconstructing Settlement Organization Using Remote Sensing Techniques (20 minutes)
Danielle J. Riebe, University of Georgia
Ordinary Maya Farmers and Sustainability (20 minutes)
Cynthia Robin, Northwestern University
Iron and the Second City: Technological interaction, smelting communities and religion in the expansions of Angkor, Cambodia (9th to 13th centuries C.E.) (20 minutes)
Mitch Hendrickson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Film and the Archaeological Eye (20 minutes)
Shannon L. Dawdy, University of Chicago
Three case studies of close collaboration between archaeologists and geneticists (20 minutes)
David Reich, Harvard University
ORGANIZERS: Stephen A. Collins-Elliott, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Brien Garnand, Howard University
Stratigraphic Evidence from the Kelsey Excavations (University of Michigan, 1925) and Stager Excavations (ASOR Punic Project, 1976-79) at the Carthage tophet (20 minutes)
Brien Garnand, Howard University
Recent Excavations at the Precinct of Baal Hammon in Carthage (20 minutes)
Imed Ben Jerbania, Institut National du Patrimoine – Tunis
Overview of New Epigraphic Discoveries from the Tophet of Carthage (20 minutes)
Ahmed Ferjaoui, Institut National du Patrimoine – Tunis
The Tophet-Sanctuary of Sulci (Sardinia): Archaeological Research and Epigraphic Evidence (20 minutes)
Valentina Melchiorri, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Paola Xella, University of Pisa
Technologies of Sacrificial Substitution in Roman Tophets: Reconsidering the N’Gaous Stelae (20 minutes)
Matthew M. McCarty, University of British Columbia
ORGANIZER: Charles Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania
New Excavations and Conservation at Gordion: 2016–2019 (15 minutes)
Charles Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania
‘Drinking beer in a blissful mood’? Commensal Politics at Early Phrygian Gordion (15 minutes)
Kathryn R. Morgan, Duke University
Imported Greek Pottery at Gordion (15 minutes)
Kathleen Lynch, University of Cincinnati
Renewed Research on Gordion’s Architectural Terracottas (15 minutes)
Brigitte Keslinke, University of Pennsylvania
Cremation and Inhumation Tumulus Burials at Gordion, 650-525 B.C.E. (15 minutes)
Elspeth Dusinberre, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Gareth Darbyshire, University of Pennsylvania
Excavation Report on Tumulus 52 at Gordion (15 minutes)
Braden Cordivari, University of Pennsylvania, and Mustafa Metin, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara
Expressions of Phrygian Urbanism at Kerkenes (15 minutes)
Scott Branting, University of Central Florida, Dominique Langis-Barsetti , University of Toronto, Joseph W. Lehner, University of Sydney , Sevil Baltalı Tırpan, Istanbul Technical University, Tuna Kalaycı, Leiden University, and Sarah R. Graff, Arizona State University
SPONSOR: Ancient Painting and Decorative Media Interest Group
ORGANIZER: Vanessa Rousseau, University of St. Thomas, Nicole Berlin, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Elizabeth Molacek, University of Texas at Dallas, and Shana O’Connell, Howard University
PANELISTS: Sarah Lepinski, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vanessa Rousseau, University of St. Thomas, Katherine Raff, The Art Institute of Chicago, Jessica Plant, Cornell University, and Susanna McFadden, University of Hong Kong
The Public in the Private: False Doors, Bedrooms, and Entertaining Complexes in Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples (20 minutes)
Alexandria H. Yen, Boston University
Divinity, Ambiguity, and Spatiality: Locational Vulnerability and Perceptions of Divine Imagery at the Casa dei Dioscuri [VI.9.6] (15 minutes)
Amanda K. Chen, University of Maryland, College Park
Pushing Boundaries: Reading the Female Painter from the House of the Surgeon in Context (20 minutes)
Irene Anastazievsky, Tulane University
Race, Representation, and Provenance in Roman Art: A Relief of an “African” Charioteer “from Herculaneum” (20 minutes)
Sinclair W. Bell, Northern Illinois University
The materials of light: obsidian ‘mirrors’ in the houses of Pompeii (15 minutes)
Anna Anguissola, University of Pisa
To Stand in Playful Gardens: The Statues of Roman Garden Paintings and Foucault’s Heterotopia (15 minutes)
Emily Lime, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Environmentalism, Climate Change, and Methods Towards a Sustainable Archaeology (20 minutes)
Kaja J. Tally-Schumacher, Cornell University
Ode to a Backyard: Bronzeville’s Vibrant Community amidst Red-Lined Realities (15 minutes)
Michael Gregory, Independent Scholar
No Design Left Behind: Building the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Crete (20 minutes)
Aimee M. Genova, Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) at Harvard University
Peopling the Past: An Educational Podcast about the Inhabitants of the Ancient Mediterranean (20 minutes)
Carolyn M. Laferriere, University of Southern California and Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Acadia University
Poverty and the Poor in Ancient Egyptian Tomb Painting (20 minutes)
Barbara Mendoza, Santa Monica College
Model or Module: A Predynastic Figurine of Late Naqada II (15 minutes)
Paul Dambowic, Pratt Institute
Blurred Boundaries: Zoomorphic Masking Rituals and the Human-Animal Relationship in Iron Age Cyprus (20 minutes)
Erin Averett, Creighton University
Topics to be announced.
ORGANIZERS: Bonna D. Wescoat, Emory University, and Maggie L. Popkin, Case Western Reserve University
Bridging the Divide: the Altar Court and Central Torrent (15 minutes)
Andrew Farinholt Ward, College of William and Mary, and Jessica Paga, College of William and Mary
Recovering the Theater in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace (15 minutes)
Bonna D. Wescoat, Emory University, and Andrew Farinholt Ward, College of William and Mary
Advancing Research on the Nike of Samothrace and its Precinct (20 minutes)
Madeleine Glennon, Institute of Fine Arts-NYU, Vincent Baillet, Université Bourdeaux-Montaigne, Ludovic Laugier, Musée du Louvre, and Bonna D. Wescoat, Emory University
Let the Sherds Speak: The Ceramic Evidence from the Nike Precinct on Samothrace (15 minutes)
Alexandros Laftsidis, Xavier University
(Re)Constructing the Stoa of Samothrace: A Local Dedication with International Ambition (20 minutes)
Samuel Holzman, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Amy Sowder Koch, Towson University, and Claire Seidler, Emory University
Competition and Display: Monumental Dedications on the Stoa Terrace at Samothrace (15 minutes)
Susan Ludi Blevins, Independent Scholar, and Maggie L. Popkin, Case Western Reserve University
ORGANIZERS: Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario, and Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, IUPUI
Stepping into the Next Frontier: 3D Scanning and Modelling of Roman footwear (20 minutes)
Derek Miller, IUPUI, and Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, IUPUI
Revealing form and function: Micro-CT analysis of leather shoes (15 minutes)
Andrew Nelson, University of Western Ontario, and Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario
Bioarchaeological Methods and Shoe Ownership at Vindolanda (20 minutes)
Trudi Buck, Durham University
Podiatric Interventions on Footwear from the Roman Period (20 minutes)
Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario
Putting Your Best Foot Forward: the Construction of Military Identity through Footwear in Rome and the Provinces (20 minutes)
Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, IUPUI
Raising Women: Platform Footwear and Femininity from Antiquity to Early Modern Italy (20 minutes)
Elizabeth Semmelhack, Bata Shoe Museum
SPONSOR: AIA Etruscan Interest Group
ORGANIZER: Daniele Federico Maras, Soprintendenza ABAP per l’area metropolitana di Roma, la provincia di Viterbo e l’Etruria Meridionale
Degradation, Conservation and Maintenance: the Contribution of the Friends of the Painted Tombs of Tarquinia (20 minutes)
Adele Cecchini, Amici delle Tombe Dipinte di Tarquinia (Italy), Chiara Scioscia Santoro, Amici delle Tombe Dipinte di Tarquinia (Italy), Germana Barone, Università di Catania (Italy), Paolo Mazzoleni, Università di Catania (Italy), and Daniele Federico Federico Maras, Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’area metropolitana di Roma, la provincia di Viterbo e l’Etruria Meridionale (Italy)
Microbial Calcium Carbonate Crystals in the Etruscan Tombs of Tarquinia (15 minutes)
Teresa Rinaldi, Sapienza University of Rome, Adele Cecchini, Amici delle Tombe Dipinte di Tarquinia (Italy), Angela Cirigliano, Sapienza University of Rome, Francesco Mura, Sapienza University of Rome, and Maria Cristina Tomassetti, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy
Evaluation of the Vegetation Cover’s Effect on the Conservation of Hypogeal Tombs in the Etruscan Necropolis of Monterozzi (15 minutes)
Giulia Caneva, University of Roma Tre, Italy, S. Langone, University of Roma Tre, Italy, F. Bartoli, University of Roma Tre, Italy, E. Cicinelli, University of Roma Tre, Italy, Adele Cecchini, Amici delle Tombe Dipinte di Tarquinia, Italy, E. Giani, ISCR
Weathering Mechanisms and Slope Instability Processes Affecting the Etruscan Necropolises of Tarquinia and Southern Etruria (15 minutes)
Daniele Spizzichino, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) (Italy), and Daniela Boldini, University of Bologna (Italy)
Rediscovered Landscapes. Recovering Iconography through Multispectral Imaging in Etruscan Painting (15 minutes)
Gloria Adinolfi, Pegaso Srl, Rome (Italy), Rodolfo Carmagnola, Pegaso Srl, Rome (Italy), Luciano Marras, Art-Test, Pisa (Italy), Vincenzo Palleschi, CNR, Institute for the Chemistry of OrganoMetallic, and Alfonsina Russo, Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, Rome (Italy), Compounds, Pisa (Italy)
Multispectral UAVs and Tarquiniascapes (15 minutes)
Maurizio Forte, Duke University
SPONSOR: AIA Student Affairs Interest Group
ORGANIZER: Rachel Dewan, University of Toronto, Amanda K. Chen, University of Maryland, and Katelin McCullough, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PANELISTS: Megan Daniels, University of British Columbia, Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia, Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Kathryn McBride, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Nicholas Blackwell, Indiana University Bloomington, and Sanchita Balachandran, Johns Hopkins University
Identities in Flux: Funerary Spaces in Central Italy Fourth Century B.C.E. – First Century C.E. (15 minutes)
Alessandra Bravi, Università della Tuscia
Pour One out for Me: Libations and Funerary Offerings in Roman Italy (20 minutes)
Liana Brent, Kenyon College
Queer Eye for the Dead Guy: Gender Performance and Queerness in the Roman Funeral (15 minutes)
Jessica Tilley, Florida State University
Reconstructing the Funerary Landscape of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain): The Value of Epigraphic Evidence (20 minutes)
Jonathan Edmondson, York University
The Offspring of Kephissos: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Settlements in the Northeastern Kopaic Basin in Regional Context (20 minutes)
Michael F. Lane, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Ritual and Mortuary Practices at Mitrou During the Late Bronze Age (20 minutes)
Aleydis Van de Moortel, University of Tennessee
Gourimadi, Karystos: The Results of the Third Season of Excavations at the Earliest Known Settlement in Southern Euboea, Greece (15 minutes)
Zarko Tankosic, University of Bergen, Norwegian Institute at Athens
SPONSOR: The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication
ORGANIZERS: Aaron Hershkowitz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Natalie M. Susmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rachel Starry, University of California Riverside
PANELISTS: Matthew Brennan, Indiana University, Nicholas Plank, Indiana University, David Massey, Indiana University; Andrea Samz-Pustol; Bryn Mawr College, Molly Kuchler; Bryn Mawr College, Savannah Bishop; Brandeis University, Natalie DiMattia Augusta Holyfield, College of the Holy Cross, Anne-Catherine Schaaf, College of the Holy Cross, Ivo van der Graaff, University of New Hampshire, Otto Luna, University of New Hampshire, Angela Commito, Union College, Sean Tennant, Union College, Garth Henning; Independent Scholar, and Giuseppe Carlo Castellano, University of Texas at Austin
ORGANIZERS: Rhiannon Pare, Princeton University and Crystal Rosenthal, University of Texas, Austin
Beware of Envy: A Reconstructive Study of the Mosaics in the Roman Villa of Skalla (20 minutes)
Nicole Vellidis, Columbia University
Bring Me A Shrubbery! Exploration of Space and Imagery in Roman Garden Rooms (20 minutes)
Rhiannon Pare, Princeton University
Pastoralism and Imperial Identity in Roman Sacro-Idyllic Landscapes (20 minutes)
Crystal Rosenthal, University of Texas, Austin
Aesthetics of Excess: Challenging the Theory of Elite Imitation in Trimalchio’s Home (20 minutes)
Katy Knortz, Princeton University
SPONSOR: AIA Women in Archaeology Interest Group
ORGANIZER: Maryl B. Gensheimer, University of Maryland, Amanda K. Chen, University of Maryland, and Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario
PANELISTS: Jorge Bravo, University of Maryland, Caroline Cheung, Princeton University, Kathryn McBride, Independent Scholar, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, and Lisa Pieraccini, University of California, Berkeley
Transcultural Engagements and Cultic Practice on Roman Egypt’s Frontier: Sacrifice in the Great Temple at Berenike (15 minutes)
Nicholas S. Bartos, Stanford University
The Temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum 20/20 – A Report on the Restoration and New Insights into the Architectural Form and History (20 minutes)
Wladek Fuchs, University of Detroit Mercy, Federica Rinaldi, Funzionario archeologo, Parco archeologico del Colosseo, Giulia Giovanetti, Funzionario archeologo, Parco archeologico del Colosseo, and Angelica Pujia, Funzionario restauratore, Parco archeologico del Colosseo
Using Cosa’s “Capitolium” as a Tool to Reevaluate the Scholarly Narrative of the Colony (15 minutes)
Ann Glennie, Florida State University
New Findings on the Temple of Vespasian in the Roman Forum (15 minutes)
Krupali Krusche, University of Notre Dame
Queen Stratonike and the Temple of Artemis at Sardis (20 minutes)
Fikret Yegül, University of California, Santa Barbara
Zooming in on the Invisible: A Geoarchaeological Study of Domestic Space in Classical Olynthos, Greece (20 minutes)
Mara L. Schumacher, Newcastle University
The Sanctuary of Apollo at Despotiko: Twenty Years of Research (20 minutes)
Yannos Kourayos, Excavations in Despotiko
The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2020: The Islets of Antiparos and the Bay of Naousa (15 minutes)
Alex R. Knodell, Carleton College, Demetrios Athanasoulis, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades, and Zarko Tankosic, University of Bergen, Norwegian Institute at Athens
A Sacred Space between Oenotrians and Greeks: the Archaic Sanctuary at Incoronata “greca” (Italy) (15 minutes)
Sveva Savelli, Saint Mary’s University
New Excavations at Akragas in the so-called Sanctuary of the Underworld Deities (20 minutes)
Laurence Cavalier, Institut Ausonius, University of Bordeaux, Montaigne, and William Aylward, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Epinomia, Stable Isotopes, and Shepherding Politics in Hellenistic Thessaly, Greece (15 minutes)
Katherine G. Bishop, University of Alberta
(In)Visible Children: Diachronic Analyses of Thessalian Child Burials (15 minutes)
Kristen Millions, University of Oxford
Cities in their Own Right: Punic Urban Planning in the Central Mediterranean (20 minutes)
Max Huemer, SUNY University at Buffalo
Beneath the Classical Authors. Archaeology of the Second Punic War in Iberia (15 minutes)
Víctor Martínez Hahnmüller, Ghent University
Bayesian Chronological Modelling in Classical Archaeology: the Case Study of Monte Bernorio (Spain) (15 minutes)
Ricardo Fernandes, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jesús Torres-Martínez, Center for Materials Elaboration and Structural Studies – French National Centre for Scientific Research, Philippe Sciau, IMBEAC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Christian Hamann, Leibniz-Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Isotope Research, Kiel University, and Manuel Fernández-Götz, University of Edinburgh
Ciavieja Project. First Archaeological Results on the Roman city of Murgi (Almería, Spain) (15 minutes)
Carmen Ana Pardo Barrionuevo, University of Almería
Opening Pandora’s Box: A Reconstruction of the Birth of Pandora on the Base of Athena Parthenos
Maria Sellers, Vanderbilt University
Site Preservation and Rescue Archaeology at Deir el-Ballas
Peter Lacovara, The Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund
Ancient Activity Areas? Using pXRF in Residential Contexts in Cambodia
Alison K. Carter, University of Oregon
Tokens and Local Religious Identities in Rome under the Theodosians
Cristian Mondello, University of Warwick, UK
Ancient History Course Maps Transformed by Advances in Cartography
Lindsay Holman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The City of Ioannina during the Ottoman Period: a 3D Digital Approach
Athina Chroni, National Technical University of Athens, and Georgopoulos Andreas, National Technical University of Athens
Archaeobotanical Remains from the Late Antique Episcopal Complex of Byllis (Albania)
Olivier Cloutier, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Teaching the Ancient World with Replicas: Integrating 3D Printed Objects to Facilitate Authentic Active Learning and Foster Classroom Inclusivity
Christine L. Johnston, Western Washington University, Alan Wheeler, Western Washington University, Alexis Nunn, Western Washington University, and Erin Escobar, Western Washington University
Recent Excavations in the Late Roman Fortress of Zaladpa, Bulgaria
Nicolas Beaudry, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Dominic Moreau, Université de Lille, Georgi Atanasov, Regionalen istoricheski muzey – Silistra, Bulgaria, Brahim M’Barek, Eveha, France, and Philip J. E. Mills, University of Leicester
Some Considerations on the Sacred Landscape of Attica in the Early Imperial Period (First century B.C.E. – First century C.E.)
MicaelaCanopoli, University of Warwick
What the HUC: Spatial-Temporal Settlement Change across the Quinn River Hydrographic Sub-Basins of Northwest Nevada
Mark E. Hall, Black Rock Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, and Tanner Whetstone, Black Rock Field Office, Bureau of Land Management
Research into Contrast Hydrotherapy and its Implications for Changes in Roman Bathing Ritual during the Imperial Period
Daniel Moore, Indiana State University
Misleading Mummies? Unwrapping the Reasoning Behind the Making of Fake Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt
Kimberley Babicz, University of Chicago
Roman Imperial Funeral: The Emperor’s Final Triumph
Karissa Hurzeler, San Francisco State University
ArchaeoSource (*)-Vulci 3000: a 3D Repository for Etruscan and Roman Artifacts
Marizio Forte, Duke University
UNDERGRADUATE POSTERS
Phytochemical Basis of Ancient Perspectives on Bioactive Plants
Andrew Rogers, Wesleyan University, Kate Birney, Wesleyan University, and Andrea Roberts, Wesleyan University
Investigating a Medieval Seal Impression from Armenia
Pui Yee Sung, The University of Hong Kong
More than Nails: Examining the Social Contexts of Medieval Iron Objects from Armenia
Sydney Baker, University of Pennsylvania
SPONSOR: American Academy in Rome
ORGANIZERS: T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University, and Lynne C. Lancaster, American Academy in Rome
DISCUSSANT: J. Marilyn Evans, Kalamazoo College
Memories of the King: Political Power, Placehood, and Performativity in Early Rome and Etruria (20 minutes)
Hilary W. Becker, Binghamton University , and Jeffrey A. Becker, Binghamton University
The Etruscan Spectacle of Fasces In Regal Rome: Some Unnoticed Implications (15 minutes)
T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University
Feeding the Nascent City: Archaeobotanical and Zooarchaeological Evidence from Early Rome (20 minutes)
Victoria Carley Moses, University of Arizona, Laura Motta, University of Michigan, and Katherine Beydler, University of Iowa
‘Romulus’ Tomb’ and the Archaic City of Rome (20 minutes)
Parrish Wright, University of South Carolina
Building Diversity in Early Rome (20 minutes)
John N. Hopkins, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
SPONSOR: AIA Archaeomusicology Interest Group
ORGANIZERS: Erica Angliker, Institute of Classical Studies -London, and Angela Bellia, Institute of Heritage Science. National Research Council (Italy)
Name by Name: Performance and Performers of the Delphic Paian(s) in Delphi, 127 B.C.E. (20 minutes)
Krzysztof Bielawski, Institute of Classical Philology. Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Poland)
Music, Memory and Landscape at the Sanctuary of Delos (20 minutes)
Erica Angliker, Institute of Classical Studies -London
The Sounds of Aulos and Salpinx in the Sacred Landscape of Olympia (20 minutes)
Fábio Vergara Cerqueira, Institute for Humanities Federal. University of Pelotas (Brazil)
Sounding the Mountain: Analyzing the Soundscape of Mount Lykaion’s Sanctuary to Zeus (20 minutes)
Pamela Jordan, Amsterdam Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, University of Amsterdam
Soundscape and Landscape in the Sacred Spaces of the Past: The Case of the Heraia in Magna Graecia (20 minutes)
Angela Bellia, Institute of Heritage Science. National Research Council (Italy)
SPONSORS: AIA Etruscan Interest Group and AIA Ancient Painting and Decorative Media Interest Group
ORGANIZERS: Hilary Becker, Binghamton University, SUNY, and Daniele Federico Maras, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’area metropolitana di Roma, la provincia di Viterbo e l’Etruria Meridionale, Italy
The Etruscan Artist’s Palette: Pigments, Provenance, and Chronological Variation (10 minutes)
Hilary Becker, Binghamton University (SUNY)
An Archaeometric Approach to the Pigments of the Etruscan Tombs at Tarquinia (10 minutes)
Adele Cecchini, Associazione Amici delle Tombe Dipinte di Tarquinia (Italy), Germana Barone, University of Catania, Italy, Maura Fugazzotto, University of Catania, Italy, Paolo Mazzoleni, University of Catania, Italy, and Alfonsina Russo, Parco Archeologico del Colosse
Painting Techniques in the Etruscan Tombs of Tarquinia: Preparatory Layers and Drawing (10 minutes)
Adele Cecchini, Associazione Amici delle Tombe Dipinte di Tarquinia (Italy)
The Use of Modular Templates to Draw Human Figures in Tomba degli Scudi, Tarquinia (10 minutes)
Maria Cristina Tomassetti, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy, and Chiara Arrighi, Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Frosinone, Latina e Rieti, Italy
The Campana Tomb in Veii: spectral mapping of the ancient pigments (10 minutes)
Rodolfo Carmagnola, Pegaso Srl, Rome, Italy, Gloria Adinolfi, Pegaso Srl, Rome, Italy, Astrid Capoferro, Svenska Institutet i Rom, Sweden, Rodolfo Carmagnola, Pegaso Srl, Rome, Italy, Luciano Marras, Art-Test, Pisa, Italy, and Vincenzo Palleschi, CNR, Institute for the Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Co
Painting on Walls, Painting on Wood, Painting on Terracotta: New Data from the Caeretan Plaques (10 minutes)
Daniele Federico Federico Maras, Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’area metropolitana di Roma, la provincia di Viterbo e l’Etruria Meridionale (Italy)
ORGANIZER: Rabun Taylor, University of Texas at Austin, Kelly McClinton, Indiana University, and R. Benjamin Gorham, Case Western Reserve University
PANELISTS: Kelly McClinton, Indiana University, R. Benjamin Gorham, Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Philip Sapirstein, University of Toronto, Mary Kate Kelly, Tulane University, Olivia Navarro-Farr, College of Wooster, Nicoló Dell’Unto, Lund University, and Gabriele Guidi, Politecnico Milano
Re-canonizing Theater Design in Augustan Gaul (20 minutes)
John H. Sigmier, University of Pennsylvania
(In)visible waters: an updated assessment of the hydraulic systems of Roman Volubilis (Morocco) (20 minutes)
Mark Locicero, AIA Member at Large
The Madradag Pipeline at Pergamon: Examining Infrastructure as Sculptural Benefaction (20 minutes)
Jonathan M Kerr, University of Oregon
Town Planning through the Ages: Millennial-scale Continuity and Discontinuity at the Nadin-Gradina Archaeological Site in Northern Dalmatia, Croatia (15 minutes)
Gregory Zaro, University of Maine
Adapting to Ancient Climate Change. Animal Husbandry in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece (15 minutes)
Flint Dibble, Dartmouth College; American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Disaster and Technologies of Resilience: Small World Interaction after the Theran Eruption (15 minutes)
Katherine Jarriel, Purdue University
Minoans at Aghios Nikolaos: Preliminary Results of the Khavania Topographic and Architectural Mapping Project, Summer 2019 (15 minutes)
D. Matthew Buell, Trent University, and Rodney D. Fitzsimons, Trent University
Family Dinners: Constructing and Maintaining Cooking Micro-Traditions within an East Cretan Late Minoan IIIC settlement (15 minutes)
Andrew Cabaniss, University of Michigan
The Late Bronze Age Goblet on Crete and the Mainland: An Index of Similarity or Variation? (20 minutes)
Charles J. Sturge, University of Cincinnati
ORGANIZER: Matthew Harpster, Koç University and Mantha Zarmakoupi, University of Pennsylvania
DISCUSSANT: Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University
The Maritime Infrastructure and Network of the Delian Emporium (20 minutes)
Mantha Zarmakoupi, University of Pennsylvania, Jean-Charles Moretti, Centre national de la recherche, scientifique, Institut de recherche sur l’architecture antique, Lyon, and Magdalini Athanasoula, Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities
The Southern Harbour (portus ante urbem) of Teos in the light of Underwater Surveys (20 minutes)
Musa Kadıoğlu, University of Ankara, and Emrah Köşgeroğlu, Independent Restoration Specialist, FEK Architects
The Archaic and Classical Harbors of Lesbos. Innovation, Techniques, and Development through the Centuries and their Role in the Ancient World (20 minutes)
Yannis Kourtzellis, Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesbos, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Ancient Olous Project. Penetrating Air, Water and Earth to Investigate the Relics of a Submerged Ancient Cretan City and its Relations (20 minutes)
Theotokis Theodoulou, Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Department of Crete
Liman Tepe: A Coastal Site in Western Anatolia where Land Routes meet the Maritime World (20 minutes)
Vasıf Şahoğlu, Ankara University
The Levitha Underwater Survey. Results of the Campaigns, 2019-2020. (20 minutes)
George Koutsouflakis, Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquites, and Mantha Zarmakoupi, University of Pennsylvania
Ancient and Medieval Shipwrecks in the Fournoi Archipelago (20 minutes)
Peter Campbell, British School in Rome, and George Koutsouflakis, Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities
ORGANIZERS: Maura K. Heyn, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Rubina Raja, Aarhus University, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Denmark
The Phrygian Cap in Palmyrene Art (15 minutes)
Fred C. Albertson, University of Memphis
Birds of Prey (20 minutes)
Olympia Bobou, Aarhus University
Portrait Representations on Attributes in the Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture (15 minutes)
Rubina Raja, Aarhus University, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Denmark
The Significance of Playing Games in the Palmyrene Tomb (15 minutes)
Maura K. Heyn, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Anomalies in Funerary Representation Encountered in the Course of the WPAIP’s Research (20 minutes)
Jeremy M. Hutton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Palmyrene Relief of Nemesis from Dura-Europos (15 minutes)
Lisa R. Brody, Yale University Art Gallery
ORGANIZERS: Beatrice Pestarino, University College London, Karolina Frank, University College London, and Mohammad Arghandehpour, University College London
Kyros II’s Conquest of Ionia and the Portrayal of the Greek Sanctuaries of Asia Minor in Classical Historiography (20 minutes)
Mohammad Arghandehpour, University College London
The Socio-Economic Role of Cypriot Sanctuaries in the Administration of the City-States’ Territories during the Classical Period (20 minutes)
Beatrice Pestarino, University College London
Sailing and trading with Zeus’ blessing: The oracle of Dodona and travel in the Classical and Hellenistic periods (20 minutes)
Karolina Frank, UCL
ORGANIZER: Matthew Schueller, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Marlee Miller, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Rebecca Bowles, Texas A&M University
PANELISTS: Marlee Miller, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Matthew Schueller, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Rebecca Bowles, Texas A&M University, Mali Skotheim, The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Jon Weiland, Independent Scholar, Elizabeth Murphy, Florida State University, and John Hanson, University of Reading
Competing Coinage: Caesar, Vercingetorix, Alexander, and the Battle for Gaul (15 minutes)
Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Advances in the Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Uncovering the Dark Side of the Empire (15 minutes)
Manuel Fernandez-Gotz, University of Edinburgh, Dominik Maschek, University of Oxford, UK, and Nico Roymans, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Terracotta Pediments in Late-Republican Italy: Local Traditions and Roman Interventions (20 minutes)
Alexander Ekserdjian, Columbia University
To Close a Census: the Pax Augusta and the Ara Pacis Procession (15 minutes)
Diliana N. Angelova, University of California, Berkeley
Legacy Data of Hall P at the Theatre of Thorikos (SE Attika) (15 minutes)
Roald F. Docter, Ghent University – Thorikos Archaeological Research Project
Landscape Interconnections and Disconnections: A Report on Initial Fieldwork in the Southeast Ararat Plain of Armenia (15 minutes)
Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong
The Perachora Peninsula Archaeological Project 2020: Legacy Data and Intensive Survey in the Upper Plain Above the Sanctuary of Hera (20 minutes)
Susan Lupack, Macquarie University, Sydney, Panagiota Kasimi, Ephorate of the Antiquities of the Corinthia, Shawn Ross, Macquarie University, Adela Sobotkova, Aarhus University, and Petra Hermankova, Aarhus University
New Results of the Akurgal-Budde Excavations at Sinop (1951-1953) (20 minutes)
Ulrike Krotscheck, The Evergreen State College
As the Creek Flows: Spatial and Chronological Distribution of Indigenous Artifacts along Seneca Creek, Caledonia, Ontario. (15 minutes)
Robb Bhardwaj, AIA member at large
“The Peculiar Hellenic Alloy”: Carl Blegen’s Narrative of Greek Racial Development (20 minutes)
Anne Duray, Stanford University
The Dorians Keep Invading: Confronting the Perpetuation of Migration Narratives in Cretan Archaeology (20 minutes)
Catharine Judson, Université Libre de Bruxelles
A Tale of Two Sikels: The Persistence of Cretan Themes in Sicilian Cultural Discourses (15 minutes)
Emma Buckingham, University of Missouri at Columbia
Decolonizing Transcultural Heritage: Towards a more Inclusive Archaeology of Abbasid Coinage in Medieval Eurasia (20 minutes)
Sara Ann (SA) Knutson, University of California, Berkeley
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