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SUMMARY:Crafting and Trade: Stone Tool Production and Ancient Maya Economies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by Dr. Rachel Horowitz\, “Crafting and Trade: Stone Tool Production and Ancient Maya Economies “.\nAbstract: Today\, and in the past\, economic activities are important ways of making connections between people. In the Maya area\, modern-day Mexico and northern Central America\, economies are less studied than other aspects of past Maya lifeways. In this talk\, I use recently collected data about stone tool production to provide information about the Classic period Maya economy (600-900 CE). This lecture will use a case-study of stone tool producers western Belize to explore the lives of Classic period Maya stone tool producers\, and how stone tools circulated throughout the economy.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/crafting-and-trade-stone-tool-production-and-ancient-maya-economies/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Horace and Rodolfo construct the Esquiline: examining garbage and graves at Rome and beyond
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by Dr. Kevin Dicus\, University of Oregon at Eugene\, discussing investigations at Rome’s Esquiline Hill.   \nAbstract:\nArchaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani captivated the public with his account of excavations on Rome’s\nEsquiline Hill. No doubt influenced by Horace’s Satire 1.8 about the same region\, his portrayal\nof mass graves (puticuli) embedded within a vast field of municipal waste offered a thrilling\,\ndystopian vision that continues to resonate nearly 150 years later. Ancient Rome’s reputation has\nyet to recover\, as his report continues to shape perceptions of the metropolis as filthy and\nmismanaged.\nThis talk revises Lanciani’s portrayal of the Esquiline as a wasteland of rotting corpses and\ngarbage and offers a new interpretation of Horace’s Satire 1.8. I argue that Horace describes not\nmass graves on the hill but rather a modest cemetery where multiple graves shared the same plot\nof land that also received the city’s refuse. The misreading that these were instead puticuli\noriginated with his imperial scholiasts and persisted to directly influence Lanciani.\nArchaeological comparanda from across the Roman world demonstrate that individual\, modest\ngraves dug into suburban municipal dumps were a common and legitimate form of burial for the\nurban poor. This intersection between the city’s dumps and its dead provides new insight into\nRoman attitudes toward waste: although the disposal of refuse beyond the city walls transformed\nthe suburban landscape\, it did little to alter the cultural meaning of the extramural zone. People\ncontinued to use these areas much as they had before their appropriation for refuse\, including the\nsymbolically charged act of burying loved ones.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/romes-esquiline-hill/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T183000
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SUMMARY:Egyptian Blue\, humanity’s first inorganic pigment
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by Professor John McCloy\, Washington State University\, who will present results of an investigation into the materials science and processing parameters to fabricate Egyptian blue faience. \nRecently\, our group at Washington State University\, with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute\, recreated Egyptian blue to uncover the science behind its color\, ranging from gray or green to deep blue. We produced 12 versions of Egyptian blue and compared them with artifacts\, using advanced X-ray techniques\, spectroscopy\, and quantitative color measurements. We found Egyptian blue is a complex mixture of phases\, with hue controlled by particle size\, glass content\, and cuprorivaite–silica ratios. Even small changes in materials or heating could dramatically shift its color. \nThese findings reveal ancient craftspeople as skilled materials scientists. Beyond cultural insights and conservation\, Egyptian blue’s infrared glow continues to inspire modern technologies\, linking past creativity with future innovation.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/egyptian-blue-humanitys-first-inorganic-pigment/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260115T183000
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SUMMARY:Early Peoples in the Plateau:  Nimíipuu Knowledge and Landscape Adaptation in the Bitterroot Mountains
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by WSU grad Student Jordan Thompson on early Northwest culture.\nAbstract: Mountain environments and resources have played a significant role in Indigenous cultural and subsistence lifeways and knowledge systems yet remain underrepresented in landscape research. Recent archaeological evidence points to the Southern Columbia Plateau as an early entry point for the Peopling of the Americas. Understanding the landscape is essential to adaptation in new and changing environments\, and archaeological methods combined with Indigenous knowledge are uniquely positioned to investigate these human-environment relationships. Indigenous oral narratives\, correlated with geologic processes\, reveal a deep record of landscape knowledge that may offer insight into early migration\, environmental adaptation\, and landscape exploration. In this talk\, I will present on collaborative research which integrates geoarchaeology and ethnogeology to examine how land use\, mobility\, and placemaking shaped the establishment of seasonal subsistence cycle among the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce). Ethnogeology foregrounds Indigenous perspectives of place\, complementing archaeological investigation by contextualizing the cultural meanings of stone artifacts. This talk will focus on Nimíipuu subsistence in an understudied portion of the western Bitterroot Mountain uplands\, a segment of the Northern Rockies\, in the North Fork Clearwater River watershed of Idaho by examining toolstone sources\, their distribution across the landscape\, and how these features acquire meaning. By combining geoarchaeological and ethnogeological frameworks\, this talk explores how people come to know\, understand\, and connect to landscapes while developing a sense of place with reciprocal subsistence systems.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/early-peoples-in-the-plateau-nimiipuu-knowledge-and-landscape-adaptation-in-the-bitterroot-mountains/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
CREATED:20250721T164228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T002317Z
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SUMMARY:Poggio Civitate’s Etruscan Workshop: A Cross-Craft Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nora Donoghue\, Gonzaga University visiting professor\, will present her research into Etruscan workshop crafting interrelationships at Poggio Civitate. \nAbstract:\nCraft production in the ancient world is frequently analyzed by specialists who concentrate on a specific material or class of artifact. This approach overlooks the strong probability that ancient production processes were interrelated through shared resources\, technological knowledge\, or common workspaces. In this talk\, Dr. Donoghue considers these cross-craft relations within a 7th-century BCE Etruscan workshop at the site of Poggio Civitate. This structure preserves a wide variety of evidence\, including artifacts related to glass\, ceramic\, and metal production\, alongside animal butchering\, bone carving\, and the assembly of composite objects like furniture. Focusing on production occurring within and around this structure\, the talk will demonstrate that labor within this workshop was highly specialized and was ultimately carried out by craftspeople who worked in multiple media or maintained collaborative relationships with craftspeople of other related crafts.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/poggio-civitates-etruscan-workshop-a-cross-craft-perspective/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
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SUMMARY:Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory: Settlements\, Figurines\, and the Absence of Men
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sabina Cveček \nWere communities in prehistoric Greece matriarchal\, matrilineal\, or simply centered around women? This question has fascinated archaeologists for decades. Early on\, figurines of women were often seen as “Mother Goddesses\,” meaning female deities often representing motherhood\, fertility\, and creation\, but feminist scholars later cautioned against such broad interpretations. Still\, the idea that ancient societies may have been organized around maternal kinship and matrilineal descent—where family ties pass through the mother—has resurfaced in recent years. In this talk\, Sabina Cveček revisits the debate\, exploring what different types of evidence—from how settlements were laid out to how figurines were used—can tell us about gender and family life in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Aegean. She draws on ethnographic examples to show that matrilineal kinship does not automatically mean women ruled\, a key distinction for better understanding how these early societies were structured. This lecture is sponsored by the National AIA organization.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/matrilineal-kinship-in-aegean-prehistory-settlements-figurines-and-the-absence-of-men/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,International Archaeology Day
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Sabina.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250923T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250923T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
CREATED:20250721T165024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250818T000258Z
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SUMMARY:A Deep Dive into Deep Time: Archaeology\, Underwater
DESCRIPTION:The phrase “underwater archaeology” conjures up notions of shipwrecks\, ships lost at sea\, and the dramatic catastrophes that sank them; however\, archaeology underwater can also reveal details about ancient landscapes that contain a record of past human occupations. Many of these sites are on the earth’s continental shelves where vast stretches of shallow\, coastal land were exposed at the end of the last Ice Age. These once dry landscapes supported life for plants\, animals and humans for thousands of years.  Learn about these ancient submerged sites\, the role they play in the global archaeological record and what unique data they have about the past. The talk will provide a general overview and then focus on 9\,000-year-old submerged sites in the North American Great Lakes.   \nThis lecture is graciously supported by an R.J. Webster Lectureship grant.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/a-deep-dive-into-deep-time-archaeology-underwater/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
GEO:47.6568784;-117.446951
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
CREATED:20241203T153523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250406T225707Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Eleanor Breen\, "Buried Beneath the Waterfront: The Ships That Built Alexandria"
DESCRIPTION:Dr Eleanor Breen\, Alexandria Archaeology  \nFounded in 1749\, Alexandria\, Virginia\, is a vibrant city just seven miles south of Washington\, D.C. In recent years\, the City of Alexandria has embarked on a major revitalization of its historic waterfront\, integrating new development with park and infrastructure improvements. With a nearly 50-year-old Alexandria Archaeology program and a pioneering Archaeological Protection Code\, the city remains deeply committed to preserving its buried history. The code ensures that archaeological review and excavation are factored into the development process. \nAs plans to transform the waterfront took shape\, archaeologists launched an intensive exploration of some of the most historically significant sites within the National Register Historic District. Over the past decade\, excavations have uncovered the remnants of wharves\, warehouses\, industries\, houselots\, privies\, and four ship hull remnants—preserved in the waterlogged soil along the Potomac River’s edge. This talk will trace the remarkable journeys of these four ships: from their time at sea to their reuse as landfill\, their rediscovery centuries later\, and the efforts to preserve them for future generations.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/dr-eleanor-breen-alexandria-archaeology/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250320T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250320T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
CREATED:20241203T153319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T010205Z
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SUMMARY:Remembered Places\, Significant Spaces: Room Closure Practices in the Pueblo Southwest
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Samantha Fladd\, Washington State University.\, is an anthropological archaeologist who focuses on the Southwest United States\, specifically the Ancestral Pueblos of the Four Corners region.   \nArchitectural spaces create and are created by the social practices of and relationships among the people who occupy and interact within them. Just as spaces become places\, people become communities through the accumulation of these actions. Because of this intimate relationship\, modifications to spaces make physically manifest negotiations of identities and memories that occur within their walls. In this talk\, I examine two ways modifications to space can be seen in the archaeological record of the Pueblo Southwest: architectural alterations and material deposition. Drawing largely on examples from Chaco Canyon and the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster\, I utilize detailed excavation records from the Chaco Research Archive and Homol’ovi Research Program to identify patterns of room modifications. By combining traditional architectural analyses with depositional\, the full trajectory of a space\, from foundation and occupation through closure\, can be analyzed as it relates to constructions of identity and memory. I argue that the accumulation of practices of spatial preparation\, modification\, and closure speak to the identities of groups in the past and continue to manifest tangible connections with descendent communities today.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/dr-samantha-fladd-washington-state-university/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
CREATED:20241209T212220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T213038Z
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SUMMARY:“Roman Libarna\, an early colonial city of Rome”\, with Dr Katherine Huntley\, Boise State University
DESCRIPTION:TBD
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/roman-libarna-an-early-colonial-city-of-rome-with-dr-katherine-huntley-boise-state-university/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250116T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
CREATED:20241125T173210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T221033Z
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SUMMARY:“Training on Archaeological Practice: How we find archaeology\, and why we do so” with Dr Brian Buchanan\, Eastern Washington University
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Buchanan will share current methods relating to practical archaeological fieldwork.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/dr-brian-buchanan-eastern-washington-university-training-on-archaeological-practice-how-we-find-archaeology-and-why-we-do-so/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
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SUMMARY:Cultural Continuity and Persistence in Upland Environments: Insights from an Archaeology Field School in the Homeland of the Okanogan
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tiffany Fulkerson will discuss her work on PNW studies. Home to the sʔukʷnaʔqín (Okanogan) people\, the Okanogan Highlands of northern Washington is a region characterized by mountainous terrain with diverse habitats ranging from forests to desert shrub-steppe. While oral traditions and archaeological and ethnographic data speak to a long history of cultural use of diverse ecologies by Okanogan people\, archaeological evidence of human habitation in upland areas here and elsewhere on the Plateau remain poorly documented\, in part due to historical sampling biases that have tended to favor river and lake environments. This talk describes ongoing research as part of an archaeology field school in the Mt. Hull-Whistler Canyon area of the Okanogan Highlands that was designed to explore the continuity of culture and place and connections between community\, landscapes\, and ancestral foods in upland environments through time. The field school was developed in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation\, Spokane Bureau of Land Management\, and academic institutions and provides a unique opportunity to train early career professionals in collaborative heritage management practices in ways that reflect the expressed interests and goals of the communities who maintain longstanding connections to federally managed lands. This talk will present the results of archaeological excavations of a cultural depression on Mt. Hull in the field school project area that revealed an unusually wide diversity of artifact assemblages\, along with preliminary results of ongoing specialized analyses including aerial Light Detection and Ranging (lidar)\, portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF)\, paleoethnobotany\, zooarchaeology\, and ancient DNA (aDNA) data.  This lecture is sponsored by the AIA’s Frieda Florence Renner Lecture grant.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/dr-tiffany-fulkerson/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123704
CREATED:20240922T134314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240922T140407Z
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SUMMARY:GORDION AFTER KING MIDAS: ROMAN SOLDIERS\, EASTERN WARS AND A GOTHIC INVASION
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andrew Goldman\, Gonzaga University\, will present Gordion After King Midas. \nCities of the ancient world are often occupied for thousands of years\, and the passing of the millennia can bring dramatic changes to their character and function. Ancient Gordion\, located in central Turkey\, is one such settlement. It is best known as the Iron Age capital of the Phrygian kingdom\, where King Midas ruled in the 8th century BCE and Alexander the Great stopped by to cut the Gordion Knot in 333 BCE. In Roman imperial times\, we are told by our surviving literary source (Strabo Geography 12.5.3) that Gordion had been reduced to a mere village alongside the Sakarya river. Yet recent excavations campaigns atop the Citadel Mound (1950-73\, 1993-2005) and subsequent analysis of the finds have revealed a story that is much more complicated and deeply interesting. It is now recognized that Gordion served as a minor auxiliary base between ca. 50 – 125 CE\, with two subsequent\, final reoccupation phases between the late 3rd to 6th centuries. \nThis talk will explore and try to solve three major mysteries which have arisen in the investigation of Roman Gordion. First\, there is the arrival of Roman soldiers in the mid-1st century CE\, ostensibly at a time of peace in central Turkey. Who were these auxiliaries\, where did they come from and what were they doing at this deserted\, isolated site? Second\, the base at Gordion was dramatically expanded in the early 2nd century CE\, with new troops pouring in. What led to these changes\, and could they be linked to the Parthian War (113-117 CE) of Emperor Trajan\, the largest expedition in Rome’s history? And finally\, new evidence has arisen of a late Roman (4th-6th century CE) occupation on the mound\, with new houses and ceramic styles coming to the site. Who were these latecomers\, and might they be linked to the invasions of the Goths in the late 4th century CE? By using our excavated evidence to address and attempt to answer these questions\, this lecture will demonstrate how Gordion played a previously unknown\, yet quite significant role in the events of Roman times\, long after the days of Midas and Alexander.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/gordion-after-king-midas-roman-soldiers-eastern-wars-and-a-gothic-invasion/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
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