Pizza Talk: “The Manufacture and Use of Metallurgical Ceramics at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico”
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Meanwell, Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MITCopper and copper alloy artifacts were valued commodities at the Postclassic period (AD 1150-1500) Maya capital of Mayapán, and […]
Friday Seminar: “The Past, Present, and Future of Space Archaeology”
Speaker: Dr. Justin Walsh, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Chapman UniversityThe archaeology of human activity in space has been conceptualized since the 1990’s. Early work included definition […]
Pizza Talk: “Burning Rings of Fire: Prehispanic Maya Lime Production and Environmental Resource Management”
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Seligson, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, USCBurnt lime was one of the most significant materials in the daily lives of the Prehispanic Maya, and yet archaeologists have uncovered […]
Pizza Talk: “Worked Animal Objects in Iron Age Greece”
Speaker: Adam DiBattista, PhD Candidate, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLAThe early Iron Age was a time of profound social change in Greece in which new ideas about materials like […]
Friday Seminar: “Khok Thlok, Cosmology, and Angkor as a Hydraulic City”
Speaker: Dr. Miriam Stark, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'iThe Mekong Basin that Angkorian Khmers inhabited was a watery world. Annual monsoon rains dictated their farming and shaped their […]
Pizza Talk: “Moving Agriculture onto the Roof of the World”
Speaker: Dr. Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC San DiegoResearch on agriculture's spread in East Asia has followed an underlying assumption: that farming produced equally reliable returns […]
Pizza Talk: “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project: 2014-2017”
Speaker: Dr. John Papadopoulos, Professor, Department of Classics, UCLAThe final season of fieldwork on the Ancient Methone Archaeological Project—a collaboration of Greek Ministry of Culture and UCLA under the auspices […]
Friday Seminar: “Island Kingdoms of Ancient Hawai’i”
Speaker: Dr. Mark McCoy, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist UniversityThe archaic form of state society evolved independently at least six times in prehistory – in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, […]
