Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner and lecture on October 3, 2017 with Alan Farahani, Post […]
Speaker: Debby Sneed, PhD Candidate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLAIn this talk, Debby will use literary and archaeological evidence to argue that ancient Greeks notonly tolerated the birth of deformed […]
Speaker: Dr. Di Luo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Asia, New York University ShanghaiBuddhist architecture in China since the 11th century has often featured miniature pagodas and pavilions in the interior. […]
Speaker: Dr. Norman Yoffee, University of MichiganOld Assyrian texts from Mesopotamia, ca. 1950-1750 BCE, shed light on merchants and markets in Mesopotamia and the relationship between merchants and the Old […]
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts […]
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Robb, Chief Curator, Fowler Museum, UCLAIn 1963, the chance discovery at the Teotihuacan compound known today as La Ventilla of a four-part composite sculpture marked with interlaced-scrolls more […]
Since 2015 Jason De León has been involved in an analog photoethnographic project focused on documenting the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting undocumented migrants across Mexico. In this […]
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Witmore, Texas Tech UniversityThis talk attempts to formulate a different theory of time. Whereas time is often honored with an astounding primacy by history and archaeology, actual […]
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Murray, Charles La Trobe Professor of Archaeology, La Trobe UniversityIn this talk, Dr. Murray will briefly outline the essence of a new interdisciplinary research project exploring the historical […]