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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent archaeological discoveries have begun to challenge the prevailing view of the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-900 BCE) as an era of cultural devolution and ethnic strife, or a ‘Dark […]
Speaker: Deidre Whitmore, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyThe Digital Archaeology Lab (DAL) aims to support the technological needs of the Cotsen faculty, students and staff by providing facilities, advice, and training. […]