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 […]
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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 […]
Pizza Talk: “Longshan Network and Political Landscape of Early Bronze Age China
Speaker: Tao Shi, PhD Candidate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLAThe rise of Erlitou not only declares the end of the Longshan Age, but also open a new era of the […]
Friday Seminar: “Density, Defense, Agriculture and Access: Lessons from LiDAR in the Maya lowlands”
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Garrison, Ithaca CollegeIn 2016, the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) acquired over 2100 square km of data over the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala, representing […]
Pizza Talk: “Bioarchaeological investigations in China and Mongolia: Mongol soldiers, Silk Road merchants, Manichaean infants, and bound feet women”
Speaker: Dr. Christine Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cal State LAMy research focuses on ethnic identity and how it is expressed in the human skeleton and its burial context. The […]
Friday Seminar: “Snake Queens and Statecraft: Kaanul Women and their Political Legacies at Waka'”
Speaker: Dr. Olivia Navarro-Farr, College of WoosterRecent investigations in Waka’s primary civic-ceremonial structure discovered a royal tomb including the remains of Queen K’abel. These excavations also revealed the name of an earlier, previously unknown Kaanul […]
Friday Seminar: “Destroying the Archive: Sex, Racism, Image and Contemporary Archaeology
Speaker: Dr. Doug Bailey, Professor, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State UniversityWhat happens when people attempt to discard and destroy a museum archive that contains many thousands of visual and […]
Vertical Archaeology, Horizontal Stratigraphy: A Century of LA Graffiti
Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner and lecture on January 16, 2018 with Susan Parker, […]
Pizza Talk: “Macroscale multimodal imaging and spectroscopy reveals raw material selection and production technology of Fayum Portraits”
Speaker: Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLAFayum portraits are paintings mainly on wooden support reflecting Greek painting traditions and Egyptian funerary practices. These paintings are […]
