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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Initial Conditions for Biocultural Evolution in China: Understanding the Relationship Between Genetic Selection and Archaeological Remains
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER:Dr. Ryan NicholsAssociate Professor Dept. of PhilosophyCal State FullertonABSTRACT:The purpose of this paper is to preliminarily explain the initial conditions and key forces from the Paleolithic\, Neolithic\, and pre-Imperial periods that contributed to distinctive features of subsequent Chinese culture\, and to do so in accordance with an explicit model of cultural transmission. The paper opens with discussion of a small suite of genes supporting neurotransmitter function\, genes that were selected in Continental East Asians. Second\, Paleolithic climate\, rainfall\, plant domesticates\, and physical ecological factors\, principally of the Yellow River and North China Plain area\, are reviewed with respect to their influence on early settlers and their social ecology. This focus fuels the third section too. In it I discuss the kinship structure\, political organization\, warfare\, and religion of these Neolithic settlers. Fourth\, the onset of cultural trends during the Shang and Zhou periods are discussed in terms of the initial conditions described above. By-products of this discussion include the identification of lacunae in a well-known model of cultural transmission\, and the provisioning of the cultural evolutionary research community with a template\, a draft template\, for analytical application of theory to a historical population that explicitly considers Paleolithic and Neolithic genetic selection.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-initial-conditions-for-biocultural-evolution-in-china-understanding-the-relationship-between-genetic-selection-and-archaeological-remains/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T170000
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SUMMARY:New Approaches to Tracing Cacao's Dispersal from the Amazon Basin
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sonia Zarrillo will be presenting on “New Approaches to Tracing Cacao’s Dispersal from the Amazon Basin” on January 23rd at 5pm in the Cotsen Seminar Room (A222). This event was sponsored by the Andean Working Group.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/new-approaches-to-tracing-cacaos-dispersal-from-the-amazon-basin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T120000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Contextualizing Roman Republican Sacrifice
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER:Dr. Claudia MoserAssociate ProfessorDept. of History of Art & ArchitectureUC Santa BarbaraABSTRACT:This talk explores what we can learn about Roman Republican sacrifice through the study of the material remains of sacrifice and the architectural settings in which the ritual occurs. I will argue that by examining the material record of sacrifice –the aniconic altars of the Republican period\, their relations to the natural and built landscape\, and the accompanying archaeological evidence of the ritual –we can form a comprehensive view of the procedure of sacrificial ritual\, detailing aspects of the practice that might be absent from or inconsistent with what is found in images or texts. In this talk\, I will integrate various types of evidence (topographic and architectural evidence\, zooarchaeological material\, and votive crafted goods) to reveal a sacrifice that is intricately linked to the sanctuary in which it is enacted\, a sacrifice that is local and site-specific.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-contextualizing-roman-republican-sacrifice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T180000
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Los Angeles—The Power of Online Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Fowler Curator of Archaeology Wendy Giddens Teeter will discuss the importance of the collaborative web-based project Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and her experiences working with the Tongva and indigenous communities to forefront the multiple historical layers of Los Angeles. She will also speak about national and international repatriation efforts as UCLA’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Coordinator\, which has helped Native American tribes regain their ancestors and cultural heritage as well as provide a platform to share their voices in online exhibitions\, such as Carrying our Ancestors Home.For more information\, please visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/lecture-by-wendy-teeter-mapping-indig…
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/indigenous-los-angeles-the-power-of-online-exhibitions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T120000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Historical Preservation & Caltrans Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER:George D. EversonAdjunct ProfessorDept. of AnthropologyMt. San Jacinto CollegeABSTRACT:Cultural Resource Management (CRM) has become a mainstay in our society for professional archaeologists and architectural historians. The California Department of Transportation (more commonly known as Caltrans) has their own staff of professionals to ensure that highway projects comply with applicable environmental laws. Specifically\, Caltrans has professionals on staff to ensure we meet the standards of Section 106 of the national Historic Preservation Act.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-historical-preservation-caltrans-archaeology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T190000
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SUMMARY:The Promise of "Virtual Unwrapping" - Reading the Invisible Library
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA/Getty Conservation Program presents “The man who can read the unreadable\,” computer scientist and professor W. Brent Seales\, the first speaker in the 50th Anniversary Lecture Series. Currently a Getty Conservation Institute Scholar\, Seales and his team have been key to revealing texts on papyri that are too fragile to unroll\, such as Homers “Iliad” and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The recipient of a $2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, Seales will discuss how technological progress over the past ten years has led to the promise of “virtual unwrapping” for reading the “invisible library” of scrolls found at Herculaneum; papyri that were buried and burned in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 70 CE.\nReservations requested. Click here to RSVP by January 8. For more information call 310-825-4004.\nFriends of the Cotsen Institute are invited to a private reception with Dr. Seales at 6pm. To learn more about the Friends visit their page or contact Michelle Jacobson at mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu. \nSeales is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. His research applies data science and computer vision to challenges in the digital restoration and visualization of antiquities. In 2012-13\, he was a Google Visiting Scientist in Paris\, where he continued work on the “virtual unwrapping” of the Herculaneum scrolls. In 2015\, Seales and his research team identified the oldest known Hebrew copy of the book of Leviticus (other than the Dead Sea Scrolls)\, carbon dated to the third century C.E. The reading of the text from within the damaged scroll has been hailed as one of the most significant discoveries in biblical archaeology of the past decade.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-promise-of-virtual-unwrapping-reading-the-invisible-library/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200108T120000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: The Impact of Lidar on Archaeological Research at the Ancient Maya City of Caracol\, Belize
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER:Dr. Arlen F. ChaseVisiting ProfessorDept. of AnthropologyPomona CollegeABSTRACT:Perceptions about the ancient Maya have changed significantly in the last decade with the advent of new technologies and as a result of continuous dedicated research that seeks to define their social and political organization. With its ability to penetrate dense tropical canopies\, LiDAR has revolutionized the field of Mesoamerican settlement archaeology. Because dense vegetation covers most ancient remains in the Maya area\, archaeological documentation of the spatial extent of sites using traditional means was both difficult and usually incomplete. LiDAR was initially applied to the site of Caracol\, Belize in April 2009 and yielded a 200 sqkm Digital Elevation Model that\, for the first time\, provided a complete view of how the archaeological remains from a single Maya site –its monumental architecture\, roads\, residential settlement\, and agricultural terraces –were distributed over the landscape. In May 2013\, an additional 1057 sqkm of LiDAR data were recorded in west-central Belize. For the site of Caracol\, these LiDAR data may be combined with 35 years of continuous archaeological research and excavation to formulate temporal parameters and guide social and political interpretations. The conjoined information derived from LiDAR and archaeological research is significantly changing our perceptions of ancient Maya civilization by demonstrating the anthropogenic changes made to landscapes\, the scale of Maya urban settlements\, and the socially complex situations that existed within and between Maya polities.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-impact-of-lidar-on-archaeological-research-at-the-ancient-maya-city-of-caracol-belize/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T160000
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SUMMARY:Cotsen Speaker Series w/ Guest Lecturer\, Professor Alison Wylie
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural event in the Cotsen Speaker Series\, this is a two-day program consisting of a talk and panel discussion\, that will allow scholars from both UCLA and the wider world to showcase a range of intellectual\, theoretical\, and research perspectives. Click Here to RSVP  December 5th\, 4pm -6pmWitnessing and Translating: The Indigenous/Science ProjectSpeaker: Alison WylieProfessor\, University of British ColumbiaAbstract:The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) calls on non-Indigenous Canadians to build  equitable\, respectful and transparent partnerships with Indigenous Peoples as the primary means for advancing reconciliation. In this spirit\, a UBC-based research cluster is building partnerships designed to embody a “practice of reconciliation\,” focused on projects that bring the tools of archaeological science to bear on Indigenous-led research questions in ways that serve the interests of Indigenous communities. The projects taking shape under the rubric of Indigenous/Science raise pointed questions about how researchers committed to collaborative practice can best to navigate differences in ethical/epistemic commitments and the asymmetries of power and hierarchies of expertise that underpin them: what is required of us when called upon to bear witness to the real-world conflicts and consequences of scientific inquiry?December 6th\, 4pm – 6pm(Reception to Follow)Panel on Equity in Archaeology and the Social SciencesAlison Wylie along with Stephen Acabado\, Kara Cooney\, and Marianna Nikolaidou will engage in a panel on equity in archaeology and the social sciences. This will be a forum for discussion of questions about who has a say in archaeological discourse\, and systemic problems of discrimination that still plague the study of the ancient world. Bio:Website: http://alisonwylie.net/Email: alison.wylie@ubc.ca Alison Wylie\, is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Her work is case-based\, chiefly concerned with archaeological practice and feminist research in the social sciences. She addresses such questions as: what counts as evidence?; how should we understand ideals of objectivity given the role of values and interests in inquiry?; and how do we make research accountable to the diverse communities it affects? Recent publications include Material Evidence (2015) and Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology (2016)\, co-edited and co-authored with archaeologist Bob Chapman; articles on “What Knowers Know Well” (Scientiae Studia\, 2017)\, “How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back” (STHV 2017)\, and her 2012 APA Presidential Address on feminist standpoint theory; and contributions to the Springer Handbook of Model-based Science (2017)\, Objectivity in Science (2015)\, How Well do ‘Facts’ Travel? (2010)\, Agnotology (2008)\, The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (2009) and Embedding Ethics (2005).
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-speaker-series-w-guest-lecturer-professor-alison-wylie/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T120000
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk:Household Archaeology at Middle Preclassic La Blanca\, Guatemala
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Dr. Michael W. LoveProfessorDepartment of AnthropologyCSU NorthridgeAbstract:The Preclassic Period on the Pacific coast of Guatemala and Chiapas was a dynamic time\, beginning with the establishment of the first sedentary villages and ending with the large city-states of the Late Preclassic.  Although royal tombs and stelae with portraits of rulers capture the headlines\, household archaeology offers the best route to understand changes in social relationships and the basis of political power.  Excavations at La Blanca\, as one of the largest settlements of Middle Preclassic Mesoamerica\, have recovered one of the largest samples of Preclassic domestic remains.  These data document social differentiation\, along with the economic and ritual activities of a cross-section of households dating from 1000-700 BCE.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talkhousehold-archaeology-at-middle-preclassic-la-blanca-guatemala/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T170000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Archaeology Forum II: Musical Iconography and Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Presenters 報告者:1:00-1:30 Kirie Stromberg 益田雾繪 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校): Beyond Form:Preliminary Thoughts on Music and Visual Abstraction in Early China 早期中國的音樂與視覺抽象化表达1:40-2:20 Gao Jiangtao 高江涛 (CASS 中國社會科學院考古研究所):Comprehensive Analysisof Musical relics Unearthed from Taosi Site 鼍鼓逢逢：陶寺遗址出土乐器综析2:30-3:00 Zhang Wenjie 張聞捷 (Xiamen University 厦门大學) New Thinking on the ChimeBells of Wangsun Gao 對王孫誥編鐘的一些新思考3:10-3:40 Li Guangming 李光明 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校) The Tonal Structure of theYajiang Chimes: On the Missing Shang Note in Western Zhou Music and Guanzi Tonal Theory从亚弜编铙音列结构看周乐戒商及管子生律法之由来3:50-4:20 Zhu Guowei 朱國偉 (China University of Mining and Technology 中國礦業大學）A review on experimental music archaeology and its prospect in China 實驗音樂考古研究綜述及其在中國的研究展望4:30-5:00 Lee Mei-Yen 李美燕 (National Pingtung University 國立屏東大學) WesternCultural Origin of Musical Instruments Found on the Musical Icons in Yungang Grottoes 雲岡石窟音樂圖像中的西方源流Discussants 點評者:Lothar Von Falkenhausen 罗泰 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校藝術史系)Helen Rees 李海倫 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校民族音樂學系)Sponsored by 资助机构：Henry Luce Foundation 路思基金會UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 加州大學洛杉磯分校蔻岑考古研究所UCLA Center for Chinese Studies加州大學洛杉磯分校中國研究中心UCLA East Asian Library 加州大學洛杉磯分校東亞圖書館
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/chinese-archaeology-forum-ii-musical-iconography-and-archaeology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T120000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Living on the edge at Zincirli\, Turkey: excavations at the crossroads of Syria and Anatolia in the 17th century BCE
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Kathryn R. Morgan\, Ph.D.Oriental Institute Postdoctoral ScholarAssistant Director of the Chicago-Tübingen Expedition to ZincirliUniversity of ChicagoAbstract:Recent excavations at the edge of the upper mound of Zincirli Höyük in Gaziantep province\, southeastern Turkey\, have discovered important remains of the Middle Bronze II period\, destroyed in a conflagration. Zincirli is best known from its Iron Age heyday\, nearly a millennium later\, when it was one of several ethnolinguistically diverse\, iconographically rich Syro-Hittite cities located in what is still today a border region between Syria and Turkey. Work at the site since 2015 has revealed that this multicultural character has even deeper roots: along with evidence for food\, and possibly wine\, production and storage\, textile production\, and local administration\, the well-preserved assemblage includes vessel and cylinder seal types that attest to long-distance trade and cultural connections. It appears that Zincirli was part of an exchange network linking the Euphrates\, North Syria\, and Central Anatolia in the 17th c. BC—at least until relationships soured: according to the Annals of Hattušili I\, the first military targets of the rising Hittite kingdom were in this very region. In this talk\, I present recent discoveries at the site with a view toward illuminating this little-known network\, which the Hittites apparently hoped to disrupt or co-opt.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-living-on-the-edge-at-zincirli-turkey-excavations-at-the-crossroads-of-syria-and-anatolia-in-the-17th-century-bce/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T110000
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SUMMARY:Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series: Archaeology and the Kingdom of David and Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture SeriesSpeaker:Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University)Moderated by:Dr. Aaron Burke (NELC)Sponsored by:Kershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean StudiesCo-Sponsored by:Department of Near Eastern Languages and CulturesCotsen Institute of ArchaeologyAlan D. Leve Center for Jewish StudiesThe United Monarchy –  the famed kingdom of David and Solomon – is at the center of a heated debate. While until 25 years ago there was a consensus that David and Solomon were historical figures who ruled over fairly large territories\, it is now questioned by many who believe either that these kings were either petty chiefs controlling a limited territory around Jerusalem or that they did not even exist. Given these doubts\, the archaeological evidence has come to the center of discussion stage. A broad examination of the nature of the Iron I-II transition\, however\, reveals major changes in practically every aspect of life\, from settlement patterns to various aspects of material culture\, including pottery form and decoration\, and architectural developments. While each change could\, in theory\, be a result of a number of causes\, a broad analysis of all the processes and transformations\, and especially their sequencing in time and space\, greatly narrows down the possible options. It is therefore the aim of the present lecture to briefly present the sweeping changes that accompanied the Iron I-II transition\, to reconstruct (temporally and spatially) the processes of growing social complexity that they reflect\, and subsequently to examine the implications of this analysis on the debate over the historicity of the so-called United
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/archaeology-of-ancient-israel-lecture-series-archaeology-and-the-kingdom-of-david-and-solomon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T120000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: From W’aka to Plaza: Ritual Landscapes in Huarochiri (Lima\, Peru)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Carla Hernández GaravitoChancellor’s Postdoctoral FellowDepartment of Anthropology\, UC RiversideAbstract:The Inka expansion on the Central Andes brought into the Empire several polities with different histories\, traditions\, and identities. The increasing pressure to manage diversity and territorial expansion led the Inka to build upon familiarity with their subjects whenever possible. In this presentation\, I explore once such familiar space: ritual spaces. Inka plazas are well known to archaeological research as places for feasting\, displays of Inka power\, and affirmation of social solidarities. However\, in many cases\, Inka plazas were attached to other sacred built and natural places that rather than affirmed imperial control\, embodied the identities of the subjects. I will discuss the history of such a sacred place or w’aka in Huarochirí before and after the Inka. I contend that the plazas fully adapted to the embodiment of community identity already at play in the w’aka. Consequently\, the closeness between this w’aka and Inka plazas reinforced the notion of local communities appropriating and retelling their history of subjugation by the Inka as one of alliance and broadening of community ties. Finally\, I look at how the experience of this local community with Inka imperialism informed how they engaged with Spanish colonialism and evangelization. Overall\, my work aims to recognize the importance of experience and reinvention among Andean communities in the face of political imposition
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-from-waka-to-plaza-ritual-landscapes-in-huarochiri-lima-peru/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T130000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: The ASArt-DATA Project in the frame of the Saharan rock art studies
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Marina GallinaroCotsen visiting scholarAbstract:Rock art is one of the most fascinating cultural manifestations of humankind. The integration of rock art studies within the archaeological and anthropological domain faces crucial challenges. The complexity of documentation and publication and lack of reliable dating have hampered its immense potential as an archaeological source. This is particularly true for the Sahara\, where outstanding paintings and engravings are now inaccessible for security reasons and at risk of destruction due to social and political turmoil.This talk will present aims\, first results\, and future perspectives of the project entitled Ancient Saharan Art – Decoding Art through Theoretically-sounded Archive (ASArt-DATA). This project focuses on Saharan rock art\, proposing a new theoretical and methodological approach aimed at an integrated reading of the artworks\, combining Archaeology\, Anthropology\, Visual Studies\, and Digital Humanities. This work aspires to strengthen the connection between archaeological and anthropological studies\, and between academy and society\, thanks to the deployment of the underdeveloped potential of Rock Art.The ASArt-DATA Project – funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 795744 – is carried out by the Sapienza University of Rome and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.Bio:Marina Gallinaro is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at the Department of Ancient World Studies\, Sapienza University of Rome\, Italy and Visiting Researcher at The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.She received her PhD in African Studies at the University of Naples\, L’Orientale\, with a project on the settlement patterns in mid-Holocene sites in the Egyptian Western Desert. Since then she has carried out projects in the Sahara region\, both in Egypt and Libya and in East Africa\, Central Sudan\, southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.Her research focuses on the interplay between human and environment in arid zones\, and to the strategies that humans adopted to cope with the climatic changes. In particular\, her interest addresses: the emergence of pastoralism in Africa\, through the analysis of the archaeological landscape and the connections between geomorphological features and different sets of archaeological data; ii. African rock art study characterized by a landscape and contextual approach; and iii. Cultural Heritage Management and sustainable development projects\, with a specific focus on cultural landscapes and rock art sites in Sahara and East Africa.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-asart-data-project-in-the-frame-of-the-saharan-rock-art-studies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T130000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Materiaizing Memory: Contemporary Landscape Archaeology of a 19th Century Bahamian Plantation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elena SesmaUC Berkeley\, Postdoctoral FellowBio:Elena Sesma received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019 and is currently a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Elena specializes in historical archaeology\, community based methods and engaged anthropology\, Black Feminist Theory\, and memory studies. Her most recent research focused on an early 19th century cotton plantation site in Eleuthera\, Bahamas and the descendant community who has lived on the property for the past 150 years\, drawing connections between land\, memory\, and political action. Her current research examines the shared histories of late 18th-century Loyalist migration and slavery in the Bahamas and Atlantic Canada. She has been involved in archaeological projects in Massachusetts\, Maryland\, Nevis\, the Bahamas\, and northern Israel.Abstract:This talk addresses a community-based archaeology project focused on the history of a 19th century Bahamian cotton plantation and the present-day communities who live on and around the former plantation acreage. The Millars Plantation on Eleuthera\, Bahamas was established in 1803 as a cotton plantation and remained in operation through the 1830s. The last plantation owner left the 2000-acre property to the descendants of her former slaves and servants at the time of her death in 1871. Many local residents today trace their lineage to the families named in the Millar will\, and continue to uphold their rights to the land in the face of a series of legal challenges by Bahamian and foreign investors who would seek to develop new tourism-based economies in the area. In the process of documenting the historical landscape of the Millars plantation estate through oral histories and landscape survey\, the research revealed ways that residents today have materialized memory – piecing together object\, story\, and space – on a living landscape that has more often been framed as empty or relegated to the past. This research demonstrates how these contemporary Bahamian communities mobilize historical objects and memory as tools for community-building and activism\, illustrating the transformative power of a contemporary archaeology of historic spaces.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-materiaizing-memory-contemporary-landscape-archaeology-of-a-19th-century-bahamian-plantation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T150000
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SUMMARY:Beyond the facades: Exploring the Dead at Petra\, Jordan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Megan PerryEast Carolina UniversityAssociate Professor of Biological AnthropologyAbstract:The mysterious Nabataeans\, builders of the magnificent city of Petra\, have long fascinated scholars and the public. Scant archaeological research and minimal textual sources have not clarified the shift from a primarily nomadic encampment in the late 4th century BC into a major capital city by the 1st century BC. Our understanding of Petra’s urban life recently has been transformed with the excavation of tombs within the ancient city. The human skeletal remains from these tombs have illuminated the origins of the city’s residents\, their disease profiles\, and what foods they relied on in this desert environment. This lecture demonstrates how Petra’s dead can inform what life was like in this ancient city. Contact Aaron A. Burke (aaburke@ucla.edu) for more information.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/beyond-the-facades-exploring-the-dead-at-petra-jordan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T130000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Glassmaking in New Spain: A Study on Technology Transfer and Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Karime CastilloUCLA Archaeology Ph.D. StudentBio:Karime Castillo is originally from Mexico City. She received her B.A. in Archaeology from Universidad de las Américas Puebla and her M.A. in Artefact Studies from the Institute of Archaeology\, University College London. She is primarily interested in Mexican historical archaeology and colonial material culture. Her master’s thesis proposes a typology of pharmaceutical glass from London. As a historical archaeologist\, she has done research on Colonial Mexican majolica and the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla\, Puebla\, Mexico. She has worked for archaeological projects in different parts of Mexico\, including Sonora\, Mexico City\, and Puebla\, and has collaborated with the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City and London Archaeological Archive and Resource Center in London. At University of California Los Angeles she will study glass production in Colonial Mexico.Abstract:difficulties as they established their crafts in the New World. Glassmakers in particular\, struggled finding the resources they needed in an unfamiliar land where glass had not been artificially made before. Nevertheless\, colonial glassmakers found ways to adapt to the local resources and the industryflourished in New Spain\, predominantly in Mexico City and Puebla. By bringing together archaeology\, history\, ethnography\, and materials science principles and methods\, it is possible to explore the processes of technological transfer\, adaptation and development of glass production technology in Colonial Mexico. This talk presents some results of the analysis of glass from the two main glass production centers in New Spain. The chemical composition of archaeological glass from Mexico City and Puebla reveals the various ways in which colonial artisans adapted the technology to the resources available in a different and. Historical documents bring to the fore the social aspects of the technology and help to contextualize colonial glass production within the broader scope of Spanish colonialism.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-glassmaking-in-new-spain-a-study-on-technology-transfer-and-adaptation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T130000
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Exploring an Unsuspected Subterranean Realm at Chichen Itza
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Dr. James BradyProfessorDept. of AnthropologyCal State Los AngelesBio:Dr. James Brady is best known for pioneering the archaeological investigation of Maya caves.  Between 1981 and 1989 he directed excavations at Naj Tunich (National Geographic\, August 1981\, Archaeology Nov/Dec 1986) and from 1990 to 1993 he directed the Petexbatun Regional Cave Survey (National Geographic\, February 1993).  Moving to Honduras\, Brady headed a three year archaeological investigation of the Talgua region (Cave of the Glowing Skulls\, Archaeology May/June 1995).  Since 2001\, he has led a Cal State L.A. field school to Peten\, Guatemala.  More recently\, he has co-directed a project studying Ulama\, a modern survival of the ancient Aztec ballgame Ullamaliztli (Archaeology Sept/Oct 2003; Smithsonian Magazine\, April 2006).  From 2008-2010 he directed the investigation of Midnight Terror Cave in Belize and currently he is working with the Programme for Belize.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-exploring-an-unsuspected-subterranean-realm-at-chichen-itza/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
CREATED:20230314T004638Z
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SUMMARY:Egypt in LA
DESCRIPTION:Hear eight of the world’s leading Egyptologists\, who will appear together for the first time to share their expertise on life in Ancient Egypt. These experts are all editors of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)\, a prestigious resource of in-depth articles on Ancient Egypt that has been a decade in the making. Accessible by the public\, these articles cover language\, religion\, history\, art\, and a wide variety of other important topics on this critical civilization.Please join us for this special event which will emphasize the role of women and how they helped shape Ancient Egypt as we know it. Reserve tickets now or view the full program here.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/egypt-in-la/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T163000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
CREATED:20230314T004647Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Chinese Archaeology Forum: Resources\, Exchange\, and Society
DESCRIPTION:Resources\, Exchange\, and SocietyUCLA Chinese Archaeology Forum (2019)第一届洛杉矶中国考古论坛：资源、贸易与社会9:30-4:30 Friday Aug 23 UCLA Young Research Library Presentation RoomOpening Remarks: 9:30-9:40First Panel: Resources and Exchanges in Early China (Chair Li Min\, UCLA)第一组：早期中国的资源与交换 (主持人：李旻 加州大学洛杉矶分校)9:40-10:10 Wu Hao (Shandong University): Settlement and Social Structure on the Jianxin Site during the Middle and the Late Dawenkou Period武昊（山东大学历史文化学院）：枣庄建新遗址大汶口中晚期聚落与社会结构10:10-10:40 Gao Jiangtao (CASS): Resources\, Trade Routes\, and Settlements in theEmergence of Early Civilization in China: Perspective from the Jinnan Basin高江涛(中国社会科学院考古研究所)：中国早期文明之路视野下的晋南资源聚落10:40-11:10 Pang Xiaoxia (CASS): The Xiawanggang Site during the Erlitou Period: A Transportation Hub in Cultural Interaction庞小霞（中国社会科学院考古研究所）：文化互动中的枢纽—-二里头时期的淅川下王岗11:10-11:20 10 minutes break11:20-11:50 Li Min (UCLA) The Minshan Pathway in the Prehistoric Interaction of Early China李旻（加州大学洛杉矶分校）：史前中国互动圈中的岷山通道Second Panel: Ritual and Society (Chair Zhang Meimei\, Occidental College)第二组：仪式与社会 (主持人：张楣楣 西方学院)11:50-12:20 Kirie Stromberg (UCLA): Music and State Formation in Early China益田雾绘(加州大学洛杉矶分校)：早期国家形成视域中的音乐12:20-1:00 pm Lunch1:00-1:30 Tian Zhaoyuan (East China Normal University)Pledge of Allegiance: Reflection on the Early State of System田兆元（华东师范大学社会发展学院）：盟誓：关于早期国家制度的思考1:30-2:00 Li Wanmeng (UCLA): Investigation of Daoist Temple in Grotto-HeavenLandscape Based on the Case Study of Dongxiao Temple Site李皖蒙(加州大学洛杉矶分校)： 洞天福地中道教宫观考古调查——以临安洞霄宫遗址为例Third Panel: Maritime Resources and Networks (Chair Liu Miao\, Xiamen Univ.)第三组：海洋资源与网络 (主持人：刘淼 厦门大学)2-2:30 Cao Yang (Shandong University): Salt Archaeology Survey at the West Coast of the Bohai Gulf: Results from the 2018 Season曹洋（山东大学文化遗产研究院）：2018 年渤海湾西岸地区盐业考古调查及研究2:30-3:00 Liu Miao (Xiamen University): Production and Export of Fujian Ceramics: Survey of Anxi Kiln Sites刘淼（厦门大学人文学院）：福建古陶瓷生产及外销—-安溪县古窑址调查3-3:30 Zhou Jun (East China Normal University): Genglubu Navigation Manualsfrom the Perspective of the Maritime Communities周俊（华东师范大学社会发展学院）：海洋命运共同体视野下的《更路簿》Special Presentation: Chinese Archaeology through Camera Lens特别报告：考古镜像3:30-4 Du Lin (UCLA) A Modern Man’s Way of Viewing the Past: ArchaeologicalPhotography in the Northwestern Provinces of China杜琳(加州大学洛杉矶分校):摄影之眼的“怀古”与“求真”西北文物考察照片4-4:30 Commentary 总结评议：Prof. Lothar Von Falkenhausen 罗泰 教授 (加州大学洛杉矶分校艺术史系)Sponsored by:                                     资助机构：Henry Luce Foundation                         露丝基金会UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology  加州大学洛杉矶分校蔻岑考古研究所UCLA Center for Chinese Studies         加州大学洛杉矶分校中国研究中心UCLA East Asian Library                       加州大学洛杉矶分校东亚图书馆
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/ucla-chinese-archaeology-forum-resources-exchange-and-society/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T173000
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SUMMARY:The Art and Archaeology of Ritual and Economy in East Asia: Workshop and Symposium in Honor of Lothar von Falkenhausen
DESCRIPTION:The Art and Archaeology of Ritual and Economy in East Asia: Workshop and Symposium in Honor of Lothar von Falkenhausen東亞古代禮制和經濟的藝術與考古研究：羅泰教授還曆慶賀學術研討會 June 5-6\, 2019\, YRL Main Conference Room\, UCLA
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-art-and-archaeology-of-ritual-and-economy-in-east-asia-workshop-and-symposium-in-honor-of-lothar-von-falkenhausen/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190602T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190602T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
CREATED:20230314T004650Z
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SUMMARY:Wep-Waut in Westwood - 2019 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Egypt in AfricaProfessional presentations by UCLA undergraduate students
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/wep-waut-in-westwood-2019-edition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
CREATED:20230314T004652Z
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SUMMARY:FRIDAY SEMINAR:Department of Human and Evolutionary Biology
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Dr. Linda ReynardResearch Associate Department of Human and Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard UniversityAbstract:Over the last 20-30 years\, the analysis of stable isotope ratios from bones and teeth has contributed tremendously to the understanding of paleodiets\, paleoenvironments\, and migration. However\, hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in collagen are understudied compared to the well-known use of carbon\, nitrogen\, and strontium isotope ratios. Given that hydrogen and oxygen show geospatial patterns of isotopic variation as tracers of the global hydrological cycle\, further investigation of the utility of these tracers for archaeological studies is warranted. I will outline results of our study using the Mediterranean basin as a test case\, involving Late Bronze and Iron Age humans and fauna from five sites spanning 3500 km east-west across the Mediterranean basin. This rich data set shows highly variable faunal isotope ratios; in contrast\, humans have tight population mean isotopic ratios. Diet type\, digestive physiology\, and human manipulations of foodstuffs likely play a role in causing these patterns. In addition\,environmental variability between the sites is noted in the collagen isotope ratios. These results demonstrate that hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in bone are valuable tracers\, but equally that much further work is needed to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the patterns seen.Bio:Dr. Reynard is a research associate and lecturer at the Department of Human and Evolutionary Biology\,Harvard University. Her research includes the application of state of the art of Hydrogen and Oxygenisotope geochemistry for paleodiet and paleoenvironment research in archaeology. Dr. Reynard finished her D.Phil\, and her M.Sc. in archaeological science at University of Oxford.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminardepartment-of-human-and-evolutionary-biology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Approaches to the Spatial Organizations of Ancient Cemeteries GIS Recording and Analyzing of the Three-Kingdom Period Burials in Korea
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Dr. Sungjoo LeeKyungpook National University
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-approaches-to-the-spatial-organizations-of-ancient-cemeteries-gis-recording-and-analyzing-of-the-three-kingdom-period-burials-in-korea/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
CREATED:20230314T004704Z
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SUMMARY:FRIDAY SEMINAR: A Historical Ecology of Slavery in the Danish West Indies
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Dr. Justin DunnavantUC President’s Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of California\, Santa CruzBio:Dr. Justin Dunnavant is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowat the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He holds a BA inHistory and Anthropology from Howard University and anMA and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. While hisformer research interrogated the history and representation of minority groups in southern Ethiopia\, his current work in the US Virgin Islands investigates the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the former Danish West Indies.Justin has conducted archaeological research in US VirginIslands\, Belize\, Jamaica\, Ethiopia\, Tanzania\, Mozambique\, andThe Gambia. Abstract:The transatlantic slave trade era – marked by chattel slavery\, racial capitalism\, and exploitative plantation economies – radically transformed societies and environments in the Americas. In this talk\, I attempt to craft a historical ecology of the African Diaspora through an analysis of slavery in the Danish West Indies. Drawing from an array of archaeological\, historical and environmental data\, I argue that the development of plantation slavery elicited lasting ecological changes as colonial planters developed exploitative monocrop agricultural systems and enslaved Africans made a life in the Caribbean. Theoretically\, I use a Black Geographic lens to interrogate the relationship between African diasporic communities and their Atlantic environments. Finally\, I posit the need to engage questions of sustainability as a form of redress in contemporary archaeological praxis.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-a-historical-ecology-of-slavery-in-the-danish-west-indies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
CREATED:20230314T004705Z
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Novel Imaging Spectroscopy Applications for the Study of Ancient Cypriot Monumental Paintings
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Roxanne RadpourPh.D. candidate\, UCLA
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-novel-imaging-spectroscopy-applications-for-the-study-of-ancient-cypriot-monumental-paintings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
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SUMMARY:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House will take place onMay 18\, 2019 from 11:30 to 4:00pm with the theme Technology: Ancient and ModernExplore the breadth of ancient technologies through a mosaic of talks by Drs. John K. Papadopoulos\, Gregson Schachner\, Monica L. Smith\, and Willeke Wendrich. Then visit the labs within the Cotsen to learn more and see these technologies up close!
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-institute-of-archaeology-open-house-2019/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
CREATED:20230314T004709Z
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SUMMARY:FRIDAY SEMINAR:Intimate plants: Constructing past identities through people’s relationships with their food
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Christine A. HastorfUniversity of California\, BerkeleyAbstract:Plants have been the most common non-human set of species that people have engaged with over human existence.  While most people speak of domesticating plants\, they too have domesticated us.  They have formed intimate relations with us\, having convinced our ancestors to settle down and care for them.  At times they have become kin\, moving in with us and sustaining us\, like a good grandmother. How can we see these intimate relationships with plants in the past\, given that they are often scarce in archaeological sites? By thinking about plants in more social ways we can begin to get closer to people’s choices\, values and engagements with plants as we accept that this has been an intimate relationship since the before the palaeolithic times.Bio:Christine Hastorf is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. She is a leading scholar in the field of paleoethnobotany. She is currently the director of the McCown UC Berkeley archaeobotany laboratory and the Archaeology Research Facility at UC. Berkeley. As archaeologist\, she led archaeological work in the Andean region of South America since 1980 with focus on plantpeople relationship. Her published books include Agriculture and the Onset of political inequality before the Inka; Empire and domestic economy; Heads of State: Icons\, Power\, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes. Her most recent book is the Social Archaeology of Food:Thinking of food in Prehistory.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminarintimate-plants-constructing-past-identities-through-peoples-relationships-with-their-food/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
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SUMMARY:PIZZA TALK: Temporalities of Reuse Monumental\, Social\, and Somatic Time in Adapted Buildings
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Ann Marie YasinAssociate Professor of Art History and Classics USC
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-temporalities-of-reuse-monumental-social-and-somatic-time-in-adapted-buildings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190510T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190510T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T170343
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SUMMARY:FRIDAY SEMINAR: The Plant-People Relationship in Ancient Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker and Bio: Elizabeth Brite is a clinical assistant professor in the Honors College\, Purdue University. She is also co-director of the Khorezm Ancient Agriculture Project in Karakalpakstan\, Uzbekistan. Dr. Brite received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA in 2011.Abstract:This talk explores the recent proliferation of studies on the plant-people relationship in ancient Central Asia. Over the last 25 years\, signifi cant data sets of ancient plant remains and other dietary indicators have emerged from major and minor archaeological sites across the region. Many of the studies that have produced these data pursue a wide-ranging picture of the transmission of domesticated plants across cultures and emphasize the role of the Silk Road in shaping food globalization in prehistory. Contrasting these are other studies that examine the local\, embedded\, and indigenous facets of ancient plant usage and domestication within Central Asia itself. Both perspectives capture fascinating aspects of ancient human-environment dynamics in Central Asia using novel approaches. They also mirror contemporary discourse about globalization and its implications for human societies. This talk will explore these bodies of emerging scholarship and present information on new research in Central Asia aimed at addressing some of the recent trends.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-the-plant-people-relationship-in-ancient-central-asia/
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