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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Please see the flyer below for the upcoming UCLA Archaeology & Anthropology Film Festival. This will take place on Tuesday, March 13 from 4:00—7:30pm in the UCLA CNSI Auditorium.Please RSVP here no […]

Speaker: Michael Moore, PhD Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLAVirtually all studies of Hittite festivals have focused on philological issues and the cultural and religious background of […]

Himalayan Wonders Unearthed30 Years of Discoveries in India and TibetFor thirty years, Peter van Ham has been researching regions in the Himalayas that had been closed for research for over […]