Pizza Talk: “Towards an Archaeology of Extensive Pastoralism in the Great Artesian Basin in Australia”
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 […]
Friday Seminar: “The Quest of Ancient Carthage: Antiquarism, diplomacy, and politics in 19th century Tunisia”
Speaker: Dr. Ridha Moumni, Institut de Recherche sur le Magreb ContemporainIn Tunis, the first collections of antiquities were established in the 18th - 19th centuries. European Consuls, foreign scholars, and international […]
Pizza Talk: “Alcohol and Drugs in Pre-Modern India”
Speaker: Professor James McHugh, Associate Professor, School of Religion, USCProfessor James McHugh explores the complex world of drinks and drinking in pre-modern India. From rice wine to palm toddy, a huge […]
Friday Seminar: “TOPADA and the Land of Tuali: the age of experimentation in the aftermath of the Hittite Empire”
Speaker: Dr. Lorenzo d'Alfonso, New York UniversityDrawing upon textual and archaeological data, one can reconstruct the formation of a post-Hittite political entity in Cappadocia, the Land of Tuali, during the late 12th […]
Pizza Talk: “In Search of the First Dynasty: Archaeological Landscapes and the Spatialization of History in Early China”
Speaker: Dr. Li Min, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLAIn this lecture Dr. Li Min will discuss the current trends of Chinese archaeology based on his observations of the conference "In […]
The Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean: Paleoenvironmental, Archaeological, and Textual Evidence
Speaker: Dafna LanggutCores obtained from the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee were used to reconstruct past climate conditions in the Levantine region during the Bronze and Iron Ages. […]
How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective
Over the last hundred years or so, a number of theories have been proposed to explain the origins of ancient Israel. All these have been informed to some degree by […]
Pizza Talk: “Changing Configuration of Porcelain Production in Jingdezhen: Excavation of the Luomaqiao Kiln Site”
Speaker: Dr. Yanjun Weng, Assistant Professor, Jingdezhen UniversityDr. Weng will speak about his current archaeological excavation project at the Luomaqiao Kiln site in Jingdezhen, a city with more than 1,000 years […]
Friday Seminar: “Developing new digital tools for landscape archaeological research”
Speaker: Dr. Marcos Llobera, University of WashingtonThis talk centers on the on-going Landscape, Encounters and Identity project (http://leiap.weebly.com/) and various initiatives by members of the DigAR lab (Digital Archaeology Research […]
