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SUMMARY:The Past in the Past: The Power of Monuments in Ruin presented by Dr. Art Joyce
DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines two ruined monumental architectural complexes in prehispanic Oaxaca\, Mexico: The Main Plaza of the mountaintop city of Monte Albán in the Valley of Oaxaca and the acropolis of Río Viejo on the coastal floodplain of the Lower Río Verde. Both complexes were built during the Formative period and became the ceremonial centers of important cities and foci of politico-religious life for larger regions. The two complexes\, however\, had vastly different histories from their initial construction through their time as ceremonial centers and their afterlives as decaying ruins. Although both fell to ruin during the prehispanic era\, they continued to be places of intensive affect that were central to the constitution and transformation of broader communities in their respective regions. Drawing on new materialist approaches as well as on Native American ontological perspectives in Oaxaca and elsewhere in Mesoamerica\, I argue that even as ruins\, both complexes were powerful animate beings linked to agricultural fertility\, sacrifice\, ancestors\, and cycles of creation. The presentation considers how the material vibrancy of these ruins differed in ways that both brought together and destabilized community and hierarchy. After the abandonment of Monte Albán\, its Main Plaza\, viewed from afar by the people in the valley below\, continued to assemble substances important to human well-being including rain\, earth\, mountain\, sky\, ancestors\, and divinities. People from communities in the valley periodically journeyed to the plaza to make sacrificial offerings thereby constituting a broader identity and community\, although one that was much changed relative to the time when Monte Albán was a city. In contrast\, the earthen architecture of the acropolis\, located in the center of Río Viejo\, rapidly eroded and decayed in the tropical lowland climate. The Late Classic period reemergence of hierarchy in the lower Río Verde Valley activated material memories of rupture held in the ruins that threatened and resisted new forms of community and political authority. As a result\, nobles were drawn back to the architectural complex to appropriate that power though the emplacement of a complex offering that may have healed and reanimated the building. The processes of ruination at the two monumental complexes discussed here therefore actualized different capacities contributing to the gathering of a new kind of community in one case\, and its resistance and eventual dissolution in the other. This presentation makes the broader point that even ruined buildings can be powerful in ways that threaten\, resist\, empower\, or transform human projects.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-past-in-the-past-the-power-of-monuments-in-ruin-presented-by-dr-art-joyce/
LOCATION:Eaton Humanities Room 250\, Pleasant Street 1610\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Normalizing Loot: A Case Study of a Plundered Imperial Shrine
DESCRIPTION:Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/normalizing-loot-a-case-study-of-a-plundered-imperial-shrine-by-dr-elizabeth-marlowe/
LOCATION:Eaton Humanities Room 250\, Pleasant Street 1610\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250219T190000
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SUMMARY:Stress\, Sex\, and Death: Health and Survival in the Context of Medieval Famine and Plague presented by Dr. Sharon DeWitte
DESCRIPTION:In the 14th-century\, Afro-Eurasia was struck by a devastating pandemic of bubonic plague\, now often called the Black Death\, that killed an estimated 30-60% of some affected populations. Dr. DeWitte will discuss her bioarchaeological research\, focusing on the skeletal remains of people who died before\, during\, and after the Black Death in London\, England. This work aims to clarify the biosocial factors that shaped vulnerability to historical plague mortality and deepen the temporal scope of understanding of the syndemic interactions that shape epidemic disease experiences and outcomes. Analysis of demographic trends before and after the Black Death in London has revealed evidence of declines in life expectancies and\, by inference\, health for people before the Black Death\, but improvements in health afterwards. Examination of patterns of skeletal indicators of stress reveal differences between males and females\, which might reflect variation in sensitivity to stressors or differences in dietary resources in the aftermath of the Black Death. Dr. DeWitte will highlight future directions in medieval plague bioarchaeology\, including analyses of the potential effects of migration on population-level patterns of health in the context of famine and plague.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/stress-sex-and-death-health-and-survival-in-the-context-of-medieval-famine-and-plague-presented-by-dr-sharon-dewitte/
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SUMMARY:A Late Bronze Age “Naval Station” at Kalamianos (Saronic Gulf)\, Greece? presented by Dr. Daniel Pullen
DESCRIPTION:The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project has documented the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th cent. BCE) harbor town at Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf coast of the Corinthia\, Greece. We suggest this site might be the Homeric town of “Eïones” which later Strabo identified as a “naval station.” The implications of this identification of Kalamianos as a naval station are evaluated in light of our current understanding of the archaeology of maritime culture\, both commercial and military\, of the Mycenaeans and other Late Bronze Age peoples of the Aegean. The lack of identifiable maritime infrastructure – let alone that for specialized military activity – outside of Crete\, including at Kalamianos\, suggests that such installations were not essential for LBA maritime activities elsewhere in the Aegean.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/a-late-bronze-age-naval-station-at-kalamianos-saronic-gulf-greece-presented-by-dr-daniel-pullen/
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SUMMARY:Building a 13th and 14th Century Multi-Ethnic Community at 25BD1 in Northeastern Nebraska presented by Dr. Doug Bamforth
DESCRIPTION:Thousands of Plains farmers settled along Ponca creek in northeastern Nebraska during the latter decades of the 13th century\, in the midst of a wave of social change and dislocation across the mid-continent as Cahokia collapsed and drought spread widely over much of North America. In contrast to the small homesteads on the central Plains prior to this time\, the Ponca creek sites range up to 200 acres\, suggesting a community bigger than anything that had existed in the region before. Potters at the site made classic Plains vessels and classic midwestern Oneota vessels in households that were nearly side-by-side and mixed these styles together on other pots. This lecture addresses the social changes at work in the mid-continent at this time along with the history of work on Ponca creek from the 1930s to the present\, including geophysical prospecting and excavation in the last few years. Viewed in the context of the Plains as a whole\, the changes there represent a sea-change in social formations and likely mark the appearance of the modern Pawnee and Arikara nations.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/building-a-13th-and-14th-century-multi-ethnic-community-at-25bd1-in-northeastern-nebraska-presented-by-dr-doug-bamforth/
LOCATION:Eaton Humanities Room 250\, Pleasant Street 1610\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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