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SUMMARY:Wednesday Talks: Evaluating the Role of Maize During Socio-Political Transformations at Formative Tres Zapotes
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Tres Zapotes is an important site in the broader discussion of Olmec cultural continuity and formative period political economy with an archaeological record that spans the two millennia between 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1000. It is a key site for understanding the emergence of Classic period civilization from ancient Olmec roots in Mexico’s southern Gulf Coast lowlands. The occupational history and archaeological record at Tres Zapotes challenges the previous notion that Olmec culture and traditions “collapsed” with the decline of La Venta around 400 B.C. and recent work has argued that a shift from a centralized political structure to a more decentralized/collective one can be attributed to the fluorescence of Tres Zapotes when other polities fell. To expand upon this work\, I utilize paleoethnobotanical data from Tres Zapotes to examine what patterns in foodways (practices surrounding food production\, consumption\, storage and disposal) can reveal regarding sociopolitical transformations over Tres Zapotes’ long culture sequence. Comparative analyses across elite and non-elite contexts through time reveals changes in provisioning and processing strategies providing insight into the role of food\, especially maize\, throughout Tres Zapotes’ continuous occupation and the changes in political-strategies therein.Bio: Victoria Newhall is a third year archaeology graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Her research explores emergent social inequality and the development of socio-political complexity in Formative Mesoamerica through the lens of foodways utilizing paleoethnobotanical methods. She is also interested in social identity and issues of equity and diversity as they relate to the discipline of archeology. Victoria is a non-traditional student who transferred from Santa Barbara City College to UCSB for her undergraduate degree. She is dedicated to mentoring students who are navigating similar pathways in higher education.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/wednesday-talks-evaluating-the-role-of-maize-during-socio-political-transformations-at-formative-tres-zapotes/
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Talks: Migration and burial in Classical Athens
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Migrants are thought to have facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas around the Mediterranean throughout Greek history\, yet the lived experiences of these individuals\, families\, and communities remain relatively under-studied. The cultural identities of migrants are often fixed to their place of origin\, perceived by scholars as “others” in the new societies in which they lived. Archaeological approaches to the burials of migrants assume that this “otherness” will be reflected in material culture\, with imported grave goods and practices used as the basis for the identification of the grave of a migrant. This talk will challenge these assumptions through the analysis of the burial of a man from Chios in late 5th century BC Athens\, not only by comparing the burial practices of Chios and Athens to identify which practices were maintained\, abandoned\, or altered\, but also by contextualizing the burial through the deceased’s age\, gender\, status\, occupation\, and possible reasons for leaving home.BIO: Camille Reiko Acosta is a PhD candidate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. She received her BA from the University of Edinburgh and her MA from the University of Oxford. Her dissertation project focuses on the burial practices of migrants in Classical Athens\, and additionally\, she is a member of the British Museum’s Naukratis Project (Egypt) and UCLA’s Ancient Methone Archaeological Project (Greece)\, studying the Archaic and Classical Greek ceramic assemblages.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/wednesday-talks-migration-and-burial-in-classical-athens/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T180000
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SUMMARY:Urkesh Beyond Urkesh: The Relevance of a Third Millennium BCE Hurrian City
DESCRIPTION:A conversation withGiorgio BuccellatiMarilyn Kelly-BuccellatiMaryanne Wolf February 16\, 20236:00 PM PTRemote via Zoom Join us in unearthing the secrets of a 5\,000-year-old civilization when cities first began to take shape. In northeastern Syria\, the Hurrian city of Urkesh had been excavated and studied for twenty-five years before the work was halted by war. Learn how the study of Urkesh has been impacted by plundering and defacing but continues to engage the local community and provide impactful records even beyond archaeology. Archaeologists Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati will be joined by neuropsychologist Maryanne Wolf for a conversation where cognitive psychology meets archaeology. Registration Required               Register Here Giorgio Buccellati is professor emeritus of the departments of History and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the founding director of the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA (now the Cotsen Institute). He is also the Director of the Mesopotamian Laboratory. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati is professor emerita of archaeology and art history\, California State University–Los Angeles. Both are researchers affiliated with the Cotsen Institute. Maryanne Wolf is a scholar\, a teacher\, and an advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the newly created Center for Dyslexia\, Diverse Learners\, and Social Justice at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/urkesh-beyond-urkesh-the-relevance-of-a-third-millennium-bce-hurrian-city/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T120000
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Talks: The Dignity of the Fragment Web Based Excavation Reports Between Database and Narrative
DESCRIPTION: ABSTRACT:  Archaeological publishing rests on two basic pillars: printed reports and digital databases. We propose to use the website as an epistemic system that allows for a better integration of the two.  We will first present a concrete implementation of the system as it applies to the excavations at Tell Mozan\, ancient Urkesh. The digital record consists of a cluster of websites where narrative and databases are tightly interlaced\, allowing for a smooth interconnection between grammar and hermeneutics: the dignity of the fragment rests on the dual aspect of its retaining its individuality while at the same time being seen as part of a meaningful whole. We will then discuss the notion of digital discourse as a theoretical model\, according to which multiple planes are structurally interlaced and integrated\, having been so conceived\, concurrently\, by the author(s) so as to be so.BIO: Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati are a husband and wife team who have worked together for many years in the Near East\, especially in Syria\, Iraq and Turkey. They directed excavations at Terqa\, Tell Qraya and Tell Ziyada in Syria\, and they served on the staff of the excavations at Nippur in Iraq and Korucu Tepe in Turkey. Until 2020\, they served as codirectors of the archaeological expedition to Tell Mozan/Urkesh in North-Eastern Syria\, and they work closely together both in the field and on the publication reports from their excavations\, of which several volumes\, plus four audio-visual presentations\, have appeared so far.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/wednesday-talks-the-dignity-of-the-fragment-web-based-excavation-reports-between-database-and-narrative/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T120000
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SUMMARY:Seeing Through the Trees: Lidar\, Archaeological Visualization\, and the Conservation Crisis at Kuelap
DESCRIPTION:Parker VanValkenburghAssociate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Brown UniversityFriday\, March 3rd 12pm PTRegister at https://tinyurl.com/AWGKuelapOrganized by the Andean Working Group and cosponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the UCLA Latin American Institute
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/seeing-through-the-trees-lidar-archaeological-visualization-and-the-conservation-crisis-at-kuelap/
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