3D Scanning and Printing Workshop
This workshop will begin with a demonstration of two handheld 3D scanners, the Artec Eva and Space Spider. Andy Greyson will walk through how to set up the environment, capture […]
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Pizza Talk: “Community Archaeology–1984”
Speakers: Dr. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Visiting Professor, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA"These forty years now I've been speaking in prose without knowing […]
Friday Seminar: “Mines, Fields, Hillforts: Challenging the Marginality of the Jawa Hinterland (NE-Jordan) in the 4th Millennium”
Speaker: Dr. Bernd Mueller-Neuhof, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Pizza Talk: “The Temple of Dendur in Context: Nubia, the Met, and Virtual Reality”
Speakers: Noemi Mafrici and Michela Mezzano, Ph.D. Candidates, Architecture and Landscape Heritage, Politecnico di TorinoThis talk will present the first outcomes of the ongoing joint research project between POLITO and […]
Friends of Archaeology Dinner: Academic Excellence
Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on April 25, 2017 where three excellent students will […]
Pizza Talk: “Building Futures, Saving Pasts: An Examination of the Approach of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative”
Speaker: Dr. Paul Burtenshaw, Director, Projects, Sustainable Preservation InitiativeThe Sustainable Preservation Initiative (SPI) attempts to "Build Futures and Save Pasts"-simultaneously protecting tangible cultural heritage and enhancing the lives of the […]
Friday Seminar: “Partnering with Pots: The Work of Objects in the Imperial Inca Project”
Speaker: Dr. Tamara L. Bray, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State UniversityNew understandings of matter and materiality are being driven by recent theoretical developments in the realm of science, particularly physics […]
Pizza Talk: “How Many People Do You Really Need to Understand a Maya Pot? The Maya Vase Research Project at LACMA”
Speakers: Dr. Megan O'Neil, Associate Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, LACMA; Laura Maccarelli, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Conservation Science, LACMA"This presentation features the Maya Vase Research Project, a […]
Friday Seminar: “Cremation Practices and Personhood among the Pre-Hispanic Hohokam of Southern Arizona”
Speaker: Dr. Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Cal Poly PomonaChanging perspectives on concepts of personhood are explored by deconstructing cremation mortuary customs among the Prehispanic […]
