Chocolate Conquers the World
Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on October 25, 2016 with Professor Janine Gasco, Cal. […]
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Pizza Talk: “The Vatican Coffin Project: An International team Project”
Speaker: Alessia Amenta, Vatican MuseumsThe Vatican Coffin Project gathers an international team of scholars who are divided into three groups with three different areas of expertise: Egyptology, Diagnostic and Conservation. […]
Friday Seminar: “The Climatic Contexts of Trans-Himalayan Population Movements: 3000-1500 Years Ago”
Speaker: Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, UC MercedFrom where and when did people first move into and live permanently the High Himalayas? What role did climate change have in the early peopling […]
Pizza Talk: “The Last Paintings of Antiquity: Panel Paintings from Roman Egypt at the Getty Villa”
Speaker: Dr. Mary Louise Hart, Getty MuseumThe last several years have seen extensive research and conservation of the Getty Villa’s collection of Romano-Egyptian panel paintings, which contain a good collection […]
Friday Seminar: “Bunking with the 24th Infantry: The Material Lives of Black Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1867-1878”
Speaker: Dr. Laurie Wilkie, UC BerkeleyWhile the black regulars (otherwise known as Buffalo Soldiers) have been a compelling subject in popular culture, scholarly study into the lives of the African […]
Pizza Talk: “An Early Bronze Age Metallurgical Center at the Central Aegean Coast of Anatolia: New Results from Çukuriçi Höyük, Turkey
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Horejs, Director of the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of SciencesThe excavations of Çukuriçi Höyük at the Aegean coast of Turkey revealed intensive metallurgical […]
[CANCELLED] Pizza Talk: “Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi in the San Diego Museum of Man: Some Technical Studies”
Speaker: Dr. David Scott, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyDue to unforeseen circumstances, this Pizza Talk has been cancelled. We will work to reschedule it in the new year.
Friday Seminar: “About-Faces in the Anthropology of Material Culture: Implementing Mauss’ Program At Last”
Speaker: Dr. Pierre Lemmonier, Centre National de Rechereche ScientifiqueTechnologie culturelle designates the strain in the anthropology of objects and techniques first developed in France in the early 1970s. This approach […]
Pizza Talk: “Early Farming Expansions in Mesoamerica and beyond: Macroregional Analysis and Continental Synthesis”
Speaker: Dr. Richard Lesure, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyLesure will report on the work of a team of archaeologists from the UCLA Anthropology Department and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology who are trying […]
Pizza Talk: “Roads of Social Responsibility: The Stone Paths of Yap, Micronesia”
Speakers: Dr. James Snead, California State University, Northridge; Austin Ringelstein, National Park ServiceArchaeologists working within they landscape paradigm have increasingly begun directing attention toward the subject of movement. Recent work […]
