AIA Societies

Los Angeles County

Society Contact
Kenneth Seligson
losangeles.archaeology@gmail.com

Chartered in 1904

Best Society Website Award winner – 2026, 2023
Society Outreach Grant recipient – 2012, 2011, 2009
Outstanding Local Society Prize winner – 1997

Website: https://aia-la.org/

Past Society Events:

Western Horizons: Phoenician Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean

April 19 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

The (Beautiful) Men and Women of Jaina Figurines

January 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Cantilevered Walkways—A Remarkable feat of Ancient Chinese Engineering

November 2, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros

May 4, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

“Barbarians” and Bronzes: The Origins of Civilization in Ancient Vietnam

March 23, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

2025 Mesoamerican Symposium

March 22, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm

Uncovering Easter Island

November 3, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Lasers without Lost Cities: LiDAR Mapping and Conservation Challenges in the Cloud Forests of Peru

May 23, 2024 @ 5:00 pm

Drought-Induced Conflict Among the Ancient Maya

March 3, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

King Midas of the Golden Touch in Context: Death, Belief, Behavior, and Society in Ancient Phrygia

February 4, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

The Coffin of Thutmose III: A Case Study of Evidence of Reuse of a Royal Coffin in the DeB 320 Royal Cache

October 22, 2023 @ 2:00 pm

Goddesses, Whores, Vampyres and Archaeologists: uncovering ancient Mytilene

March 5, 2023 @ 2:00 pm

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