Recycling the Materiality of Death
Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on January 31, 2017 with Professor Kara Cooney, Egyptian […]
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Photogrammetry Workshop
Photogrammetry, or Structure-from-Motion, is a technique for constructing three dimensional models from a series of photographs. This technique can be utilized by archaeologists to record objects, features, and sites both […]
Pizza Talk: “New Answers from Old Seeds: Two Years of Research into Ancient Agriculture at the Cotsen Institute”
Speaker: Dr. Alan Farahani, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyThis talk is a summary of the research conducted by Postdoctoral Scholar Alan Farahani at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology […]
Pizza Talk: “Herders, Farmers, and Wildlife: Exploring Impacts of Early Food Production in Kenya”
Speaker: Dr. Anneke Janzen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologySpecialized pastoralism emerged in Kenya around 3000 years ago and has adapted with changes in the social and ecological landscape to […]
UNESCO and the 1960’s Nubian Campaign: Initial Phase of a 3D Model of the Nubian Landscape
Speakers: Rosa Tamborrino and Paolo Piumatti, Politecnico di TorinoOur visiting scholars from the Politecnico di Torino, will outline the first steps in a new UCLA-Polito collaboration.The first International large scale […]
LaTeX: A Document Preparation System Workshop
LaTeX is a document preparation system that uses plain rather than formatted text, which encourages users to focus on content rather than formatting. This system is increasingly used for preparation […]
Pizza Talk: “Archaeology, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island”
Speaker: Dr. René Vellanoweth, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los AngelesIn 1835, as part of broader efforts to missionize California Indians, the native people of San […]
Art and Science: Bringing Egypt’s Magic to the Museum
Speaker: Dr. Christian Greco, Director, Egyptian Museum in Turin, ItalyThe Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy has the second largest collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the world (after the museum in […]
Friday Seminar: “Attack of the Ruderals: Economic and Theoretical Consequences of Fire Farming in the Prehistoric American Southwest”
Speaker: Dr. Alan Sullivan, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of CincinnatiArchaeological investigations of the effects of anthropogenic fire on the livelihoods of small-scale societies, particularly those of the prehispanic northern Southwest, […]
The Ancient Athenian Naval Bases in the Piraeus – the Backbone of the World’s First Democracy
Speaker: Bjorn LovenThe Zea Harbor Project, digging on land and underwater from 2002 to 2012, uncovered extensivearchaeological remains of the Athenian naval facilities. The lecture will show how the archaeologicalfinds […]
