Speaker: Dr. James Snead, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cal State University, NorthridgeIn 1913 Elizabeth Deuel, a student of archaeology and resident of Los Angeles, wrote a letter to a […]
Speaker: Dr. Mohamed Ali, American Sudanese Archaeological Research CenterThe Meroitic kingdom is an ancient kingdom in Nubia, located and flourished at the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and […]
The Annual Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House will take place onMay 12, 2018 from 12:00 to 4:00pm with the theme Celebrations.Join us at 12:00 pm in the Fowler Museum for […]
Speaker: Dr. Chin-hsin Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cal State University, NorthridgeA specialized craft industry in prehistory is often studied from perspectives such as social organization, labor and product […]
Speaker: Dr. Alan Farahani, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLAThis talk is a summary of the research conducted by the research participants of the Ancient Agriculture and Paleoethnobotany Laboratory […]
Speaker: Dr. Jana Skrgulja, Visiting Scholar, UCLAThe aim of the lecture is twofold: on the one hand, to survey main archaeological sites in the area between the eastern Adriatic and […]
Speaker: Dr. John Baines, University of OxfordStudies of ancient Egyptian landscapes tend to focus on Upper Egypt, where the Nile valley is generally narrow and the low desert and the […]
In conjunction with the opening of the Fowler Museum exhibit Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, Dr. Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College will present a lecture at the Cotsen […]
Speaker: Dr. Brian Alofaituli, Visiting Scholar, Asian American Studies Department, UCLAThe syncretism of Sāmoa’s past and new religion blended different ideas that defined the way these Polynesians understood Christianity. The […]
Speaker: Dr. Travis Stanton, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside