Cotsen Prize Ceremony and Reception
Speakers: Dr. Jane Buikstra, Dr. Gordon RakitaDr. Gordon Rakita will be delivering a lecture titled "Vignettes of a Mentor: A Bioarchaeological Lineage"Dr. Jane Buikstra will then deliver a lecture titled […]
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Friday Seminar: “Fabrics of Power among the Classic Maya: The Politics of Commodities Networks”
Speaker: Dr. Dorie Reents-Budet, Boston Museum of Fine ArtsThis talk employs distributional patterns of pottery, determined by archaeology, ceramic typology, artistic style and nuclear chemistry, to discern Classic Period (250-850 CE) economic […]
Pizza Talk: “Material Interactions: UCLA at the Museo Egizio, Turin”
Speaker: Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyUCLA has started a close collaboration with the Museo Egizio in Turin, which holds the most important collection of material culture […]
Iron Age Archaeology in Thailand: A View from Recent Research in Central Thailand
Speaker: Thanik Lertcharnrit, Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn UniversityAn event sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: “Urban Development in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) from the Roman to Early Islamic Period: New Results from the Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project”
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this Friday Seminar has been CANCELLED.Speaker: Dr. Rubina Raja, Aarhus University, DenmarkSince 2011 a Danish-German team has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in ancient Gerasa, Jerash in the […]
Agricultural Origins and the Rise of Complex Societies
Speaker: Jared Diamond, UCLA Department of GeographyPart of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture (BEC) Speaker Series
Chocolate Conquers the World
Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on October 25, 2016 with Professor Janine Gasco, Cal. […]
Pizza Talk: “The Vatican Coffin Project: An International team Project”
Speaker: Alessia Amenta, Vatican MuseumsThe Vatican Coffin Project gathers an international team of scholars who are divided into three groups with three different areas of expertise: Egyptology, Diagnostic and Conservation. […]
Friday Seminar: “The Climatic Contexts of Trans-Himalayan Population Movements: 3000-1500 Years Ago”
Speaker: Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, UC MercedFrom where and when did people first move into and live permanently the High Himalayas? What role did climate change have in the early peopling […]
Pizza Talk: “The Last Paintings of Antiquity: Panel Paintings from Roman Egypt at the Getty Villa”
Speaker: Dr. Mary Louise Hart, Getty MuseumThe last several years have seen extensive research and conservation of the Getty Villa’s collection of Romano-Egyptian panel paintings, which contain a good collection […]
