Pizza Talk: “How Many People Do You Really Need to Understand a Maya Pot? The Maya Vase Research Project at LACMA”
Speakers: Dr. Megan O'Neil, Associate Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, LACMA; Laura Maccarelli, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Conservation Science, LACMA"This presentation features the Maya Vase Research Project, a […]
Friday Seminar: “Cremation Practices and Personhood among the Pre-Hispanic Hohokam of Southern Arizona”
Speaker: Dr. Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Cal Poly PomonaChanging perspectives on concepts of personhood are explored by deconstructing cremation mortuary customs among the Prehispanic […]
Pizza Talk: “Trying to Do the Right Things to Protect the World’s Archaeological Heritage: A Committee Member’s Tale”
Speaker: Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Art History, UCLAThe Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee is charged with implementing the 1970 UNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow […]
Friday Seminar: “The Synthesis of Archaeology and World Systems Analysis and its Application to the Region of Southern Caucasia”
Speaker: Dr. Pavel Avetisyan, Director, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of ArmeniaThis talk is dedicated to the investigation of the main concepts in World-system analysis such […]
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House
ConnectionsArchaeology is a collaborative field and archaeological teams always consist of specialists from many disciplines. This interconnectedness is an integral part of a holistic understanding of our past. Join us […]
Pizza Talk: “An American Icon in Plastic: The Technical Analysis, Study, and Treatment of a First Edition 1959 Barbie”
Speakers: Morgan Burgess and Marci Burton, M.A. Students, Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials, UCLAThis study focuses on a privately owned, autographed, first edition (c. 1959) BarbieTM doll made from […]
Friday Seminar: “Taboo topics: Exploring absences in the faunal remains from Çatalhöyük, Turkey”
Speaker: Dr. Nerissa Russell, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell UniversityEthnography shows us that every society has some form of food taboos, often focused on the meat of particular animals. While the […]
Pizza Talk: “3-D Digital Model of the Egyptian Fortress at Jaffa”
Speaker: Jeremy Williams, Ph.D. Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLAThe practice of digitally modelling archaeological sites has grown more and more common in recent years. Well-known ancient sites such […]
[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: “Blood Weddings: the Inkas, the Habsburgs, and Royal Incest”
NOTE: This Friday Seminar has been cancelled. Speaker: Dr. Jeremy Mumford, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brown UniversityIn 1558, in Spanish Peru, the Inka princess Cusi Huarcay married her brother, Sayri Thupa, […]
