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SUMMARY:There Is More To Egypt than Tut: Challenges for Egyptology and Egyptologists
DESCRIPTION:The Archaeological Institute of America\, Westchester Society\, and the New York chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt are pleased to present to present the following free online symposium “There Is More To Egypt than Tut: Challenges for Egyptology and Egyptologists.” \nDate: May 2\, 2026\nTime: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM ET. \nThe program is hosted by the Rye Free Reading Room. To register click here. \nThe purpose of the symposium is to do exactly what the title expresses. King Tutankhamun is the universal face of Egypt to the world. Egypt is blessed with an abundance of art\, architecture\, and writing. But there is more to the study of Egypt than material objects. \nThe speakers in this symposium will address issues in chronology based on the First Intermediate Period\, the Hyksos based on the Second Intermediate Period\, race and Nubia\, women and the relation of Egyptology to other “ologies.” \nThere will be a ten minute break between the third and fourth speakers. \nPeriodization and the creation of a new Egyptian History\nThomas Schneider\, Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies (on leave 2023-7)\,\nUniversity of British Columbia \nThe conventional periodization of ancient Egyptian history as a sequence of ‘kingdoms’ and ‘intermediate periods’ (and subperiods\, such as “the Ramesside period”\, dynasties) is a legacy of the 19th and early 20th c.\, partially informed by a chronological grid conveyed in Manetho’s Aigyptiaca. This conventional sequencing of history is perpetuated in all recent histories of ancient Egypt\, whose narratives and summary chronological tables make something appear historical that is mere practical convention. Despite the fact that Egyptological scholarship has fundamentally changed our understanding of Egyptian history over the past 100 years\, the field has never attempted any alternative historical periodization that assesses phenomena of historical (dis)continuity and cohesion based on current knowledge. This lecture will discuss the importance of periodization as a historiographical tool and chart a way forward towards a new periodization of Egyptian history. \nPrior to coming to University of British Columbia in 2007\, he taught at multiple institutions. From 2018-20\, he was Associate Vice President (International) at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen\, China. From 2016-7\, he served in a part-time role as Advisor to the President at Quest University Canada. From 2014-8\, he was a member of the UBC Senate and worked\, among other projects\, on a Responsible Conduct of Research Initiative by the Dean and Vice Provost\, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. From 2021-2022\, he was the founding Executive Director of the Pacific Alliance of Liberal Arts Colleges (PALAC). On January 1\, 2023\, he took up the position of Chief Executive of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (www.apru.org). \nHe is the founding editor of the “Journal of Egyptian History” (2008-2014) and was the editor of “Culture and History of the Ancient Near East” (Brill\, 2006-2013) and “Near Eastern Archaeology” (American Schools of Oriental Research\, 2012-2018). \nThere’s more to Egypt than Egyptians\nDani Candelora\, College of Holy Cross \nIn Egyptology\, the Hyksos are at best dismissed as an irrelevant blip in pharaonic power\, and at worst vilified as the invading barbarians of Manetho’s narrative. Ongoing research\, both reinvestigating well-known texts and uncovering new archaeological evidence\, has shown that neither are accurate. Instead\, the Hyksos were multicultural rulers with links to broader West Asian power networks\, and their reigns influenced Egyptian culture in arenas from warfare to religion\, technology to language. Despite being accepted as Egyptian kings by most Egyptians\, and even respected by later Egyptian dynasties\, the negative Theban political rhetoric has overwhelmingly colored the Hyksos’s treatment in the field. These kings are an important part of Egyptian history\, and should be recognized for the legacy they left behind. \nDanielle Candelora is the Assistant Professor of Classics and Egyptology at the College of Holy Cross. She received her B.A. from Brown University\, her M.A. from the University of Chicago\, Oriental Institute (now Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures)\, and her Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Chicago\, Oriental Institute (now Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures). Her dissertation was “Redefining the Hyksos: Immigration and Identity Negotiation in the Second Intermediate Period” and she has maintained that interest in her academic career. Her research and teaching interests are Immigration and Identity Negotiation\, Egyptian/Near Eastern/Mediterranean Art\, Architecture\, Material Culture\, and Archaeology\, Interdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Identity\, Border Construction and Maintenance\, Strategic Use of Art and Architecture in Self Representation and Politics\, Cross-Cultural Exchange of Artistic Motifs and Technological Transmission\, Ancient Art and Archaeology in Museum Collections\, Egyptian Intermediate Periods. She just published Immigration and Borders in Ancient Egypt. Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context\, (Cambridge University Press) and is working on The Hyksos and Immigrant Communities in the Second Millennium BCE: Foreign Identities and Their Impact on Egypt. \nTrue Colors: Racecraft in the Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan\nDr. Uroš Matić\, University of Graz\, Austria \nThis paper examines how ideas about “race” have shaped the study of ancient Egypt and Sudan from the nineteenth century to the present. Rather than treating race as a biological fact\, it uses the concept of “racecraft” of Karen Fields and Barbara J. Fields to show how race developed as a changing set of assumptions and interpretations. Drawing on theories from the history and sociology of knowledge\, especially the work of Ludwik Fleck\, the study explores how racial thinking continued to influence archaeology even after it was officially rejected. Finally\, the study reassesses changes in ancient Egyptian representations of Nubians. Earlier interpretations viewed the significant mid–Eighteenth Dynasty changes in Nubian iconography as artistic documentation of real physical features of newly encountered populations in Upper Nubia. In contrast\, this paper demonstrates that these visual changes primarily reflect shifts in ancient Egyptian political and ideological strategies.I am an archaeologist and Egyptologist specialized in violence\, ethnicity\, gender and settlement archaeology of ancient Egypt. \nHe obtained my PhD at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic studies of the University in Münster in 2017. His doctoral thesis deals with violent treatments of enemies and prisoners of war in New Kingdom Egypt. The thesis was marked with a double summa cum laude and rewarded with Philippika prize for 2018 of the German publishing house Harrassowitz. It was also awarded with the Best Publication Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2020. \nFrom 2018 to 2019 he conducted Post Doc research at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic studies of the University of Münster on cosmetic substances and utensils in Egyptian New Kingdom Nubia. During this research he was a guest scholar at the OREA-Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This research was conducted within the German DAAD PRIME Post Doctoral program for 2018-2019. \nHe was a lecturer at the University of Münster (2016-2021)\, University of Vienna (2022)\, University of Innsbruck (2024-2025) and University of Graz (2022-present). \nWomen of a Fractured State: First Intermediate Period Women’s Agency and Visual Literacy\nSue Kelly\, Czech Institute of Egyptology\, Charles University\, Prague. \nThe dissolution of Old Kingdom centralised authority catalysed a profound evolution in women’s visual literacy\, unique in Egyptian history. While Memphite tradition governed female figures through rigid\, passive constraints\, the fracturing of state control during the First Intermediate Period allowed women’s iconography to deviate from established canons\, reflecting a more expansive visual vocabulary. \nThis lecture examines the emergence of female agency through the deliberate manipulation of artistic codes. Rather than a byproduct of provincialism\, this transition reflects a systematic shift in women’s funerary representation. Six iconographic transitions: the adoption of male-coded striding postures; the inclusion of authoritative attributes like the staff and ankh; the renegotiation of spatial positioning on monuments; the representation of expanding social categories; the integration of active gestures; and rare chromatic anomalies\, such as using red skin to signify female vitality are examined. \nFurthermore\, these self-presentations provide textual records of women adopting both ‘ideal’ and ‘career’ biographies—the dual pillars of Egyptian self-thematisation. By adopting these new modes of representation\, women challenged Old Kingdom decorum and asserted a sophisticated\, distinct presence in the visual record. These are\, fundamentally\, ancient female voices articulating how they chose to be commemorated for eternity. \nSue Kelly is an Egyptologist and early-career researcher whose work sits at the intersection of social theory and the material record. Her research focuses on the ‘Social Power’ of ancient Egyptian women\, across the dynasties one through to eleven.\, employing a data-driven approach to reconstruct the agency\, influence\, and contributions of women within the complex hierarchy of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period. Her overarching aim is to continue the longitudinal study to map developments\, transitions\, and changes across the four different political environments: state formation\, maturation\, collapse\, and reunification. \nHer book\, Unveiling Female Social Power (c. 3080–2180 BCE)\, serves as a testament to this methodology. By conducting a statistical analysis of female titles\, Dr. Kelly challenges long-standing narratives that have historically marginalized women’s roles in Egyptian statehood. Her work demonstrates that female agency was not a peripheral phenomenon but a vital\, functioning component of the socio-political infrastructure\, measurable through the distribution of titles and the management of elite resources. \nDr. Kelly earned her PhD in 2021 and completed her initial post-doctoral fellowship in 2023 at Macquarie University\, Sydney. She is currently concluding a prestigious Marie Curie Actions Fellowship at the Czech Institute of Egyptology. \nThere’s nothing new about that! How Egyptology can offer fresh perspectives on contemporary scientific and societal challenges\nFrederik Rogner\, Vienna\, Austria \nAt the dawn of Egyptology’s third century\, Egyptologists have both successfully received and adapted approaches from other fields\, and themselves developed hypotheses and methods which can be fruitfully applied to the study of diverse cultural phenomena\, far beyond the boundaries of Egyptology and of ancient Egypt. At the same time\, Egyptological outreach that is deliberately aimed at the wider academic community and tries to actively contribute to ongoing interdisciplinary discourses\, remains rather low. \nThis paper addresses these issues\, with a particular view to the scientific and societal relevance and potential of humanities at large. I will conclude by addressing two areas where insights from Egyptology can offer perspectives and strategies for better understanding (and\, as a result\, dealing with) seemingly ‘new’ challenges in contemporary society\, namely AI driven image production and expressions of political power. \nFrederik Rogner has obtained his BA in Ancient Civilizations and his MA in Egyptology and in Classical Archaeology from the University of Basel. In 2019 he completed his binational doctoral studies at the University of Basel and the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. His PhD thesis deals with issues of visual narrativity and pictorial storytelling and their application in the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom. He was a member of the Graduate school of Eikones\, the Center for the Theory and History of the Image in Basel. Rogner’s research interests include multimodal synergies of pictures and writing in ancient Egypt\, the semantics of form and layout in two- and three-dimensional space\, and the use of images as communicative tools throughout human history. He has conducted several research projects at the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Leiden) and at the University of Geneva. He currently holds a position in the Austrian federal administration. \nContact Information:\nDr. Peter Feinman\nPresident\nAIA Westchester Society \nVice President\nARCENY Society \nPresident\nInstitute of History\, Archaeology\, and Education\nfeinmanp@ihare.org
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SUMMARY:The Gunboat at Ground Zero: A Revolutionary War Mystery
DESCRIPTION:In 2010\, archaeologists monitoring excavation at the World Trade Center redevelopment site made an extraordinary discovery: the remains of an 18th-century wooden gunboat buried deep beneath Manhattan’s historic landfill. Likely built near Philadelphia in the early 1770s\, this Revolutionary War-era vessel once patrolled shallow waterways before being abandoned along the Hudson River. Preserved for over 200 years in oxygen-poor soil\, the ship measured about 50 feet long and featured a raised deck. \nMore than 600 pieces of timber and 2\,000 artifacts—including musket balls\, buttons\, and ceramic tankards—were recovered from the site. Evidence suggests the vessel was likely captured by the British and traveled south\, perhaps as far as the Caribbean\, before arriving in New York. How it ended up buried in New York City remains a fascinating mystery. \nStabilized and studied for over a decade under the direction of Dr. Peter Fix\, Associate Research Scientist of Archaeological Watercraft and Aircraft Conservation at Texas A&M University\, the ship returned to New York in the spring of 2025. It is now being reconstructed for permanent display at the New York State Museum by Dr. Fix and his team. \nAs one of the few documented American-built Revolutionary War vessels\, the gunboat offers a rare\, tangible link to the nation’s fight for independence and highlights New York’s enduring role in shaping American history. \nThe Gunboat at Ground Zero : A Revolutionary War Mystery exhibit is on display at the New York State Museum from May 14\, 2025 to January 31\, 2026. Details online at the New York State Museum website. \nIN-PERSON SPEAKERS \nMichael Lucas is Curator of Historical Archaeology at the New York State Museum where he oversees a collection of over 4 million objects including the World Trade Center ship remnant and associated artifacts. He received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland in 2008\, focusing on 17th century town development in Maryland. He broadly studies rural production\, labor\, and community formation during the 17th through 19th centuries. His current field research program focuses on the contributions and struggles of African American farmers in the Hudson River Valley from 1780 to 1880. His collections research includes comparative analysis of tobacco pipes\, and artifact assemblages associated with enslaved people and wage laborers. \nMichael T. Lucas\, Ph.D.\nCurator of Historical Archaeology\nNew York State Museum\nCEC Room 3049\nAlbany\, NY 12230 \nMichael Pappalardo is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and a Senior Technical Director at the environmental planning firm AKRF\, Inc. Pappalardo has more than 30 years of experience in cultural resource management\, working in the context of both national and state level historic preservation legislation\, and has directed numerous excavations across New York and other states dating from the early Precontact through the Historic Periods. Pappalardo led the multidisciplinary team of archaeologists\, ship experts\, conservationists\, and other specialists that discovered\, documented\, and excavated the Gun Boat at Ground Zero in 2010 and 2011. \nMichael Pappalardo RPA\nArchaeologist\nAKRF\n500 Summer Street\, Suite 400\, Stamford\, CT 06901\nwww.akrf.com \nVIRTUAL PARTICIPANT\nPeter Fix\nAssistant Research Scientist\nWatercraft Conservator \nDr. Fix grew up on the coast of southeastern Connecticut where he fell in love with watercraft of all types. An avid sailor from the age of six\, growing up he spent half the year sailing and racing sailboats on Fishers Island Sound\, and the rest of the year reading about history. In 1981 he began his career in the field of historic maritime preservation at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic\, CT working first for the Education Department and later for the Museum’s Henry B. du Pont Preservation Shipyard. It was this love of watercraft\, and the encouragement of several prominent marine archaeologists and preservationists\, that led him to enter the graduate program in Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University in September of 1996. \nIn January 1997\, he began working for the Conservation Research Lab where he has served in several capacities over the last two decades. He has directed field work and developed archaeological and conservation plans for sunken aircraft in Irian Jaya\, Indonesia and in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Dr. Fix was the principal conservator for the 17th-Century French ship La Belle and head of her reconstruction in the Texas State History Museum in Austin\, TX. He oversees the conservation for large artifacts\, including: two disarticulated 18th century ships from New York City and Alexandria\, VA; two dugout canoes from Louisiana; and the Gunboat Philadelphia. \nThe Nautical Archaeology Program (NAP) at Texas A&M University is the oldest academic degree-granting graduate program in the U.S. devoted to the study of boats and ships and the cultures that created and used them. NAP Faculty provide instruction in the history of seafaring and wooden ship construction; maritime commerce and cargoes; the skills needed to record\, excavate\, analyze\, and conserve the archaeological remains of these activities. \nTo see the video\, click here https://nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/gunboat-at-ground-zero \nTo register for the lecture click here
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SUMMARY:Creating an Archaeology Boot Camp at Your Site: The University of Pennsylvania Example
DESCRIPTION:Cultural and educational institutions are still learning how best to overcome the limitations placed on our activities by the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular\, archaeology has been drastically impacted by restrictions on international travel\, and has had to find new ways to bring researchers\, students\, objects\, and landscapes together in the study of the ancient world. Beyond the on-the-ground training that students receive by participating in international fieldwork\, they have also missed out on important co-curricular learning: traveling on their own\, working on a diverse team\, navigating novel cultural experiences\, and finding out if the ‘life’ of an archaeologist is for them. \nThe University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has a long history of both international fieldwork and excavation and student education. When confronted with another summer with no fieldwork opportunities\, a team of conservators\, faculty\, and museum administrators developed a rigorous\, on-site “Archaeological Bootcamp” that would provide Penn undergraduates with the skills that they would need in future ‘real’ fieldwork seasons. Using the collections\, laboratories\, and even the courtyard garden beds of the Penn Museum\, the Bootcamp simulated fieldwork training in archaeobotany\, field survey\, ceramic analysis\, digital archaeology\, and field conservation\, and brought in veteran archaeologists to talk about what it’s like to do fieldwork around the world. With aching backs\, new friendships\, and practical archaeological skills\, these students will be ready to move into the field when the world reopens. \nTiballi devised the Archaeology Bootcamp program in summer 2021. She will discuss the potentials and limitations of the program for college\, youth\, and adult audiences. What resources (material\, environmental\, and human) are needed to ensure the success of such a program? What kinds of needs does it address\, and will these needs change as we move into the 21st century? \nDr. Anne Tiballi is the Director of Academic Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. After completing her undergraduate degree in anthropology at Vassar College\, she began graduate study at Binghamton University and performed her dissertation research on the archaeological materials from the Cemetery of the Sacrificed Women\, Pachacamac\, Peru\, at the Penn Museum. Anne specializes in the analysis and interpretation of ancient textile materials\, with a particular interest in the social dimensions of technology. Her field course on the analysis\, reproduction\, and field conservation of textiles from the prehistoric Andes has been held in Arequipa\, Peru and at Bryn Mawr College. As Director of Academic Engagement\, Anne works collaboratively with museum staff and university faculty to devise novel and effective ways to incorporate the Museum’s collections into the curriculum. She oversees student research fellowships\, internships\, work study\, co-curricular programming\, professionalization\, and engagement initiatives. Anne is serving as Head of Collections\, Research and Teaching at the History of Science Museum at Oxford University in 2022.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/creating-an-archaeology-boot-camp-at-your-site-the-university-of-pennsylvania-example/
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SUMMARY:Redating the Iroquoian Histories through Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Chronologies fundamentally underpin all other aspects of archaeological thought. When our timeframes shift\, so to does the historical interpretive framework or scaffolding upon which we build our explanations for how past events unfolded. In this talk\, I will briefly summarize work completed to date by the Dating Iroquoia project. Our aim has been to construct a more refined regional chronologies for select Northern Iroquoian sites and community relocation sequences through radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modelling. Our focus is the ca. AD 1480-1610 period and the beginning of European contact. We use novel approaches for clarifying the calibration curve from the radiocarbon dates. The development of enhanced date estimates for specific sites in this period has allowed us to re-plot the date of events. The results have shifted our thinking about Northern Iroquois polity development and population movement. This includes rethinking the nature and timing of the historic enmity between the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee nations and processes of population movement between ancestral Huron-Wendat communities in south-central Ontario. \n  \nRegister for this event by clicking the button below.
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SUMMARY:“The shipwreck in a diamond mine”: Identifying Elephant Herds from the ivory cargo in the 16th century
DESCRIPTION:Whilst mining for diamonds in 2008\, mine workers in Oranjemund\, Namibia found over 40 tons of cargo from a shipwreck buried under the sand for centuries. The ship is likely the Portuguese vessel Bom Jesus\, which wrecked off the coast of Namibia in 1533 AD\, and the artefacts found reveal aspects of European trade and contact with the western African coast in the early 16th century. The wreck was excavated as a rescue operation\, and diamond mining continues along this stretch of the Namibian coastline. Among gold and silver coins\, copper ingots\, and navigational equipment\, 100 complete tusks of elephant ivory were excavated and are currently being curated in the mine. \nIn order to build a research and heritage project on the wreck\, together with colleagues from the USA\, South Africa\, and Namibia\, we started a program of biomolecular analyses on the 100 elephant tusks. We used a combination of ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) to source the ivory to African habitats. Our results show that the shipwreck ivory comes from 17 different elephant herds of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) which lived in mixed savanna habitats in inland western Africa. Our study shows that a combination of techniques can be employed to determine the provenance of shipwreck cargo\, to compare the genetic characteristics of ancient and modern wildlife populations\, and to highlight the connectivity of African exchange networks with maritime trade routes. We hope that these data will aid in the exhibition of the shipwreck and artefacts in the National Museum of Namibia\, as well as showcase the outstanding potential of research on these materials. \nAshley Coutu is a Research Fellow and Deputy Head of Research at the Pitt Rivers Museum. She is an archaeologist with interests and training across fields such as historical and medieval archaeology\, African archaeology\, isotope ecology\, zooarchaeology and historical ecology. Over the last decade\, she has researched African exchange networks from the last 2\,000 years\, focusing on ivory as a material. She is also interested in the use of scientific techniques to understand how past people utilised ivory\, and to explore its trade\, use\, and value over time in different cultures. \nShe received a BA from Boston College\, USA in 2005\, then moved to the UK to complete an MPhil in World Archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 2007. From 2007-2011\, she completed her PhD as a Marie Curie Early Career Researcher on the EU-funded Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes project at the University of York. Her PhD used a combination of archival\, archaeological\, and biomolecular data to understand the impacts of the 19th century ivory trade on elephants\, humans\, and landscapes along caravan routes in East Africa. In 2012\, she moved to Denmark as a postdoctoral researcher on the Entrepôt project and from 2013-2017 was based at the University of Cape Town\, South Africa\, holding a Claude Leon fellowship and then a Marie Curie International fellowship. The two fellowships centred on a project to map African ivory trade networks from the last 2\,000 years by analysing ivory working materials\, ivory objects\, and other small finds from archaeological sites across southern Africa. After moving back to the UK in 2017\, Ashley spent time as a Visiting Research fellow at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia and then took up a post as a Lecturer in Archaeology at Newcastle University before landing in Oxford in 2019.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211024T140000
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SUMMARY:Montaukett Indian Archaeology: The Fowler House in East Hampton\, NY
DESCRIPTION:The Fowler House provides an extraordinary glimpse into the lives of Montaukett Indians on Long Island over a century ago. This storied house is a powerful reminder that Native American history is an integral part of American heritage locally\, regionally\, and nationally. The small vernacular saltbox house was once owned by George Fowler\, a Montaukett Indian who was born at Indian Fields in Montauk\, and whose family was among the last residents of the Indian Fields settlement at the time of their dispossession from the land in the 1870s. The Fowlers and other Montaukett families were pressured by Arthur W. Benson\, a real estate developer who purchased Indian Fields at auction\, to relocate to Freetown\, north of East Hampton Village. The Fowler House now stands on one of these Freetown plots. To learn more about Montaukett history and culture in East Hampton\, including the historical communities of Freetown and Indian Fields\, see “Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island“\, the Ph.D. dissertation of the speaker. It offers a rigorous in-depth study of oral traditions\, archaeological research and architectural surveys\, close analyses of historical records\, and long-term ethnographic work with Long Island’s contemporary Montaukett community. Also\, take look at “Created Communities: Segregation and the History of Plural Sites on Eastern Long Island\, New York“\, a recent academic journal article by Dr. McGovern and Dr. Christopher Matthews\, which explores the complexities of identity and heritage in communities like Freetown. \nDr. Allison McGovern is an anthropological archaeologist in the greater New York City area whose work integrates archaeology with historical research methods\, public engagement\, planning\, and historic preservation advocacy. She earned her MA in Anthropology from Syracuse University\, and MPhil and PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her doctoral dissertation\, entitled Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island critically addresses the way Native history is told through archaeology\, material culture\, and museum exhibition (to be published with University Press of Florida). \nShe is a professional archaeologist with Richard Grubb and Associates\, a cultural resource management firm. Dr. McGovern is also active in archaeological service and outreach as a member of the Professional Archaeologists of New York City\, an elected Board member of the New York Archaeological Council\, a member of the Suffolk County Parks Historic Trust Committee\, and a cultural partner with various local preservation and historical societies. \nDr. McGovern’s research in the Long Island area highlights the experiences of historically marginalized and underrepresented groups through archaeology\, oral history\, and ethnographic mapping. As a Public Archaeologist\, she is interested in making her research available to general audiences\, as well as other academic researchers. In 2018\, she was awarded a Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award (Third Place) from the Society of Historical Archaeology for her ongoing work with the Mapping Memories of Freetown project. She is also an inaugural recipient of the Robert D. L. Gardiner “Writing the History of Greater New York” Fellowship at the Gotham Center for New York City History for her forthcoming book Long Island Dirt. In addition to support from the Gardiner Foundation\, her work has been supported by the CUNY Graduate Center\, Farmingdale State College\, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies\, the Philips Fund for Native American research\, the Mystic Seaport\, and the National Endowment of the Humanities.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/montaukett-indian-archaeology-the-fowler-house-in-east-hampton-ny/
LOCATION:Rye Free Reading Room\, 1061 Boston Post Road\, Rye\, New York\, 10580\, United States
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210926T140000
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SUMMARY:Egyptology and Race
DESCRIPTION:Egyptologists make decisions about how to define the discipline. They make decisions involving time\, space\, and values. These actions are perfectly normal in that there is a limit as to how much data one mind can absorb. One also has the opportunity to stand back and view these decisions in aggregate. This especially applies to the ones made at the beginning of Egyptology before everything was settled and these decisions had not yet become paradigms\, standards\, or ruts.\nThis talk will examine some of these decisions about how Egyptologists defined Egyptology. It will look at what has been included and what has not. One should note that the general public has been part of this decision-making process. Egyptologists do not operate in a vacuum. Next year will be the centennial of the discovery of the tomb of King Tut (ankhamun). The opening words to the 1952 number one hit in both England and the United States to the romantic ballad “You Belong to Me” are “See the pyramids along the Nile” express the dominance of those structures in the public mind.\nThe focus here will be on how did it come to be that the Egyptian civilization emerged capable of building those pyramids. What happened to transform a people who had lived a certain way for millennia to one that became known as “Pharaonic Egypt”? The answers Egyptologists developed included such concepts as the Dynastic Race which will be included in this talk and the Hamite Hypothesis which requires a separate talk. These concepts live on until today even if different terms are used. \nIn-person and virtual. To register go to http://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/xp_newpopevent.cfm?zeeOrg=RFRR&EventID=6725193&sw=1366
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/egyptology-and-race/
LOCATION:Rye Free Reading Room\, 1061 Boston Post Road\, Rye\, New York\, 10580\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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