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SUMMARY:Critical Archaeological Gaming Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop focuses on the design of archaeological games that entice users to engage with archaeological skills\, methods\, questions and results. What are possible goals of such games\, and how can these be reached through narratives\, interactive mechanics and visual\, aural and motive stimulants.Beyond providing exercises in archaeological approaches\, can emergent gameplay have a significant heuristic function? If so\, what are the requirements for availability and quality of data\, player choice and player skill development?View the workshop program for details on the talks and activities. Guests are invited to join in-person or remotely view and participate in the workshop on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/631730989Image credit: Screenshot from “Deadfall” https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/its-a-global-archeological-adventure-i…PROGRAMThursday\, January 2510.00-10.15 Willeke Wendrich — Welcome and purpose of the workshop10.15-11.00 Tara Copplestone — Rethinking Archaeology Through Game Design11.00-11.15 coffee break11.15-12.00 Erik Champion — The Sin of Completeness versus the Lure of Fantasy in Contested Possibility-Spaces12.00 – 1.00 Lunch Break1.00-1.45 Willeke Wendrich — Walking through Empty Buildings\, Everybody Wears the Same Shoes1.45-2.30 Hannah Scates Kettler — Jumping into the Animus: Revisiting old video games to create new ones2.30-3.15 David Fredrick — Secrets in the Garden: Modeling Vulnerability and Information Exchange in the House of Octavius Quartio3.15-3.30 Coffee break4.15-5.00 Rosa Tamborrino — The sense of Time in Videogames: Fragments and Lack of Dynamics in Historical Environment ReconstructionsFriday\, January 2610.00 – 12.00 Demonstrations in the Digital Archaeology Lab (Fowler A163)12.00 – 1.00 lunch break1.00- 3.00 Discussion: setting the agenda and follow up (Fowler A222)3.00 pm Friday Seminar: Panel Discussion on Critical Archaeological Gaming: Chris Johanson\, Demetri Terzopoulos\, Eddo Stern\, Lisa Snyder4.00 pm Reception5.00 pm Public Lecture by David Fredrick Data Games: Cognitive Mapping in Ancient Pompeii
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/critical-archaeological-gaming-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T130000
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Achaemenid Stone Towers and Recent Excavations at Pasargadae\, Iran"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Ali Mousavi\, Lecturer\, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, UCLAThe World Heritage site of Pasargadae\, in southern Iran\, is the first dynastic center of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century B.C. Pasargadae’s palaces\, gardens and the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great are outstanding examples of the first phase of royal Achaemenid art and architecture. The ruins of a solitary stone tower\, known by the local name of Zendan-e Suleiman (prison of Solomon)\, dominates the Palace area at Pasargadae. The function of this tower and its counterpart at Naqsh-e Rustam\, near Persepolis\, has been the object of various studies. The towers\, however\, defy any convincing interpretation. The results of recent excavations at Pasargadae seem to shed some light on the function of these towers.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-achaemenid-stone-towers-and-recent-excavations-at-pasargadae-iran/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: January 19\, 2018
DESCRIPTION:This will be a series of two 30-minute lectures”Perception in Palatial Architecture: The Example of the Tupkish Palace at Tell Mozan” by Dr. Federico BuccellatiSpace\, as an expression of the architectural volumes expressed in Mesopotamian palatial architecture\, can seem an abstract\, distant concept\, visible but not understood\, and lacking interaction. These volumes\, however\, carry a deeper meaning: they conditioned and were affected by the daily life of the individuals who used these spaces. The aim is to go beyond the factuality of the data\, important though that is\, and to recover\, through arguable and documentable procedures\, the human perception. This perceptual impact encompasses not only the sense of sight\, but also sound\, smell and touch. The archaeological record gives only partial evidence\, as is always the case\, but this is often enough to draw meaningful conclusions.”Architecture Between Bricks\, Images and Words” by Dr. Maria Gabriella MicaleThe centrality of architecture in the Mesopotamian worldview is reflected in both myth and reality. The presented research is a study of form and function of architectural representation and description. It analyzes the representation of Assyrian architecture by means of an innovative theoretical approach\, which identifies features and functions of the occurrence of architecture in both images and texts\, also in the light of the broader Mesopotamian culture. Contrary to the traditional scientific approach to images\, which considers them mere reproductions of the physical built space\, the project aims at defining the role of the textual description of architecture in the construction of visual imagery\, the relationship among the different traditions (architectural\, iconographic\, and textual)\, and the paths of their reciprocal influences.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-january-19-2018/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Macroscale multimodal imaging and spectroscopy reveals raw material selection and production technology of Fayum Portraits"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli\, Professor\, Department of Materials Science and Engineering\, UCLAFayum portraits are paintings mainly on wooden support reflecting Greek painting traditions and Egyptian funerary practices. These paintings are naturalistic portraits of the deceased and provide a snapshot of Greek civic life and customs in Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman rule. Non-invasive and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of these portraits from the macro to the molecular length scale using combined imaging and spectroscopic techniques supported label-free fingerprint identification of pigments and binding media revealing raw materials selection\, production technology and the operational sequences (chaîne opératoire) of the processes associated with the making of the painting. Results from the analyses integrating hyperspectral cubes in reflectance luminescence and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and forensic imaging investigations combined with fiber-optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) and portable XRF\, indicated the use of a variety of natural and synthetic organic\, inorganic and composite pigments mixed with melted beeswax in ‘encaustic’ [εγκαυστική] painting technique. The significance of this research is twofold: 1) research has been conducted without the need to take any samples and 2) results from the analyses revealed key information on the fashion and practices in Egypt during the Greek and Roman period. For example\, the production of the green pigment\, a synthetic organic-inorganic complex\, giving the green color to the ‘gemstones’ of the necklaces in women’s portraits\, is similar to the processes in alchemical manuals of the third century AD\, describing a method how to color rock-crystals green\, in imitation of precious stones. Similarly\, the pigment madder lake used to paint the red-purple garments in the portraits replicates technology employed for the production of mordanted dyes to tint yarns for the textile ‘industry’. These results further illustrate the close affinities and interconnections between the various ‘chemical arts’\, such as mining\, metallurgy\, corrosion and dyeing\, to the art of painting and how the cultural and socio-political milieu in Egypt during the Greek and Roman period\, with philosophies driving experimentation\, influenced material choices and processes involved for the production and use of pigments in art.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-macroscale-multimodal-imaging-and-spectroscopy-reveals-raw-material-selection-and-production-technology-of-fayum-portraits/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180116T200000
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SUMMARY:Vertical Archaeology\, Horizontal Stratigraphy: A Century of LA Graffiti
DESCRIPTION:Willeke Wendrich\, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner and lecture on January 16\, 2018 with Susan Parker\, Academic Director\, Pitzer in Ontario Program Associate Professor of Environmental Analysis Pitzer College\, Claremont\, CA. The reception will begin at 6:00pm and be followed by dinner at 6:45pm. This event is restricted to Friends of Archaeology. For more information about becoming a Friend\, please visit our membership page.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/vertical-archaeology-horizontal-stratigraphy-a-century-of-la-graffiti/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010725Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Destroying the Archive: Sex\, Racism\, Image and Contemporary Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Doug Bailey\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, San Francisco State UniversityWhat happens when people attempt to discard and destroy a museum archive that contains many thousands of visual and material objects? In this workshop\, we discuss the politics\, potential\, and violence of archive objects (specifically a cache of over 1200\, 35-mm transparencies from the mid-late 20th century. What lives do they live? Are they passive and neutral objects resting peacefully in an institution’s collection? Are they active material things? If the latter\, then what affect do they have\, what energies and essences do they constitute\, what is their present and their future\, where should they go\, and what should they do?
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-destroying-the-archive-sex-racism-image-and-contemporary-archaeology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Snake Queens and Statecraft: Kaanul Women and their Political Legacies at Waka'"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Olivia Navarro-Farr\, College of WoosterRecent investigations in Waka’s primary civic-ceremonial structure discovered a royal tomb including the remains of Queen K’abel. These excavations also revealed the name of an earlier\, previously unknown Kaanul queen\, Ikoom Sak Wayis\, likely pertaining to the interment of a royal female excavated at the site’s palace complex in 2004. This discussion focuses on the wide-ranging evidence that underscores the place of these queens in the collective social memory of ancient Wakeños\, their diplomatic capabilities\, and their political importance. This examination also serves to initiate conversations about increasing theoretical considerations of how women acted deliberately and meaningfully as agents of ancient statecraft.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-snake-queens-and-statecraft-kaanul-women-and-their-political-legacies-at-waka/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171206T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Bioarchaeological investigations in China and Mongolia: Mongol soldiers\, Silk Road merchants\, Manichaean infants\, and bound feet women"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Christine Lee\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Cal State LAMy research focuses on ethnic identity and how it is expressed in the human skeleton and its burial context. The populations I study were seldom represented in contemporary historical texts. These people included nomadic pastoralists\, migrants and merchants\, and finally women and children. The first population sample represents the Uighur dynasty in Mongolia. This cemetery dates to the end of the dynasty which was plagued by epidemics and famine before its collapse. Bioarchaeological analysis of Manichaean temple burials show a high mortality rate among infants and periods of high stress among the surviving adults. A second rare archaeological sample dates to Ming-Qing dynasty China. This is the only archaeological site known to have women with bound feet. A complete analysis was done on the occurrence and prevalence of footbinding from the Song –Qing dynasty burials. Next\,four archaeological sites from the Western Regions (China and Mongolia) will be discussed regarding trauma patterns along the Silk Road. These are frontier sites from non-Asian Sogdian (Persian) and Pazyryk (Scythian) populations. Finally\, current field excavations of several sites which date to the Period of Disunion (Dark Ages)\, after the collapse of the Han and Xiongnu empires. Little is known about this time other than there was widespread unrest and migration in Mongolia and Northern China. Preliminary findings suggest a change in burial patterns and ethnic identities.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-bioarchaeological-investigations-in-china-and-mongolia-mongol-soldiers-silk-road-merchants-manichaean-infants-and-bound-feet-women/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010730Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Density\, Defense\, Agriculture and Access: Lessons from LiDAR in the Maya lowlands"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Thomas Garrison\, Ithaca CollegeIn 2016\, the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) acquired over 2100 square km of data over the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala\, representing the largest single LiDAR acquisition for archaeological research. Sponsored by PACUNAM\, a consortium of scholars representing different archaeological projects and nationalities have come together to analyze broad trends across the ten individual polygons covered by the data. Notable among the findings are patterns of settlement density and vacancy\, an uneven distribution of intensive agricultural systems\, and variations in regional connectivity and disconnectivity. A final aspect of the data\, seen prominently around the ancient Maya kingdom of El Zotz\, is the presence of elaborate systems of site defense. This talk will highlight some basic findings by members of the PACUNAM LiDAR Initiative (PLI) before focusing on what these data tell us about Maya warfare\, defense\, and politics. Particular attention will be paid to the discovery of a true Maya fortress\, dubbed La Cuernavilla\, and the implications this site has for understanding Maya politics in the aftermath of Teotihuacan’s entrada into the lowlands in the 4th century A.D.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-density-defense-agriculture-and-access-lessons-from-lidar-in-the-maya-lowlands/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Longshan Network and Political Landscape of Early Bronze Age China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tao Shi\, PhD Candidate\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLAThe rise of Erlitou not only declares the end of the Longshan Age\, but also open a new era of the Luoyang-centric social network. However\, how the political landscape was formed and what  the knowledge root of Erlitou was have not been discussed. In this paper\, I will discuss the Longshan Network as the process of knowledge preparation for the rise of Erlitou. Moreover\, I will introduce my survey in the Qinling Mountain Range\, and see the Dan River in the Qinling Mountain Range as an expressway of knowledge transmission for the Erlitou state. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-longshan-network-and-political-landscape-of-early-bronze-age-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010745Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Developing new digital tools for landscape archaeological research"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Marcos Llobera\, University of WashingtonThis talk centers on the on-going Landscape\, Encounters and Identity project (http://leiap.weebly.com/) and various initiatives by members of the DigAR lab (Digital Archaeology Research Lab -www.digarlab.uw.edu/) at the University of Washington surrounding this project. Broadly speaking\, the LEIA project is a landscape archaeology study that seeks to understand landscape and societal changes that played out from Pre-(Late Bronze Age) to medieval times in the Son Servera landscape (NE Mallorca\, Spain). In addition to representing the first intensive and systematic surface survey in the island of Mallorca\, the project has set out to meet several theoretical\, methodological and public goals. Amongst the methodological goals\, the project is developing new digital and computational tools for collecting\, describing and analyzing survey and landscape data.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-developing-new-digital-tools-for-landscape-archaeological-research/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010746Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Changing Configuration of Porcelain Production in Jingdezhen: Excavation of the Luomaqiao Kiln Site"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Yanjun Weng\, Assistant Professor\, Jingdezhen UniversityDr. Weng will speak about his current archaeological excavation project at the Luomaqiao Kiln site in Jingdezhen\, a city with more than 1\,000 years of continuous ceramic industry history. This lecture will explore the changing configuration of porcelain production along the long timeline as well as the corresponding distribution of products to royal needs\, government divisions\, and civilian markets of both domestic China and overseas.Yanjun Weng obtained his PhD in archaeology in 2017 from Peking University and has been active on field works of Chinese ceramic archaeology since 2010. Before that\, he received master’s and undergraduate’s degrees in economics and international trade.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-changing-configuration-of-porcelain-production-in-jingdezhen-excavation-of-the-luomaqiao-kiln-site/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T173000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010749Z
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SUMMARY:How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Over the last hundred years or so\, a number of theories have been proposed to explain the origins of ancient Israel. All these have been informed to some degree by the biblical text and all have considered the role of New Kingdom Egypt and the collapse of empires throughout the Near East circa 1200-1100 BCE. The lecture will present a radical new proposal: that Egypt itself instigated “Israelite” settlement.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/how-ancient-israel-began-a-new-archaeological-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010752Z
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SUMMARY:The Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean: Paleoenvironmental\, Archaeological\, and Textual Evidence
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dafna LanggutCores obtained from the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee were used to reconstruct past climate conditions in the Levantine region during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The records were studied in high resolution for their lithological and palynological patterns. Their chronological framework is based on radiocarbon dating of short-lived organic material. The detailed paleoclimate reconstruction points to a dramatic dry event in the later phase of the Late Bronze Age\, around the middle of the 13th century BCE. This pronounced dry phase lasted about 120 to 150 years\, and was followed by much wetter climate conditions during the Iron Age I. The increasing humidity enabled the expanding of agricultural activities in the area (e.g.\, cereals\, olive). The Iron Age II was characterized by a slight decrease in humidity. This new high resolution paleoclimate reconstruction helps to better understand the so-called “Crisis Years” in the eastern Mediterranean\, as well as quick recovery in the Iron I\, including the emergence of new entities in the highlands regions of the Levant. It also shed light on the economic strategies of the region’s ancient settlers (e.g.\, agriculture\, grazing).
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-late-bronze-age-collapse-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-paleoenvironmental-archaeological-and-textual-evidence/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010810Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "In Search of the First Dynasty: Archaeological Landscapes and the Spatialization of History in Early China"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Li Min\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, UCLAIn this lecture Dr. Li Min will discuss the current trends of Chinese archaeology based on his observations of the conference “In Search of Early China through Archaeology: Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Chinese Archaeology at UCLA” co-sponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. This review of current state of research is followed by a re-visit to the highly contentious topic of the Xia (ca. 2100-1600 BCE)\, the first dynasty in Chinese historiography and the fountainhead of many important political institutions in Bronze Age China. Instead of debating on the historicity of this legendary regime and the stages of evolutionary typology\, Dr. Li Min will approach this topic from the perspective of political experimentation and social memory by asking these questions: What made the late third millennium BCE an important watershed in sociopolitical history of China as seen through the archeological lens? What were the contributions of the Longshan and Erlitou legacy of the early second millennium BCE to the emergence of the Shang civilization during the late second millennium BCE? How was the social memory of the pre-Shang legacy transmitted to the Zhou society at the end of the second millennium BCE? How did the Zhou narratives about the Xia civilization correlate to the archaeological landscape of the second millennium BCE? Against the backdrop of societal collapse in lowland Neolithic centers and intensified interactions with Eurasian exchange networks among the highland communities\, I argue that the emergence of major Longshan centers in highland basins during the late third millennium BCE and the subsequent rise of the first Bronze Age city at Erlitou in the Luoyang Basin during the early second millennium BCE had critical contribution to the formation of the Xia legacy in Zhou storytelling about the past. Far from a myth invented by the Zhou to justify its conquest of Shang\, the pre-Shang legacy served as major source of political knowledge for the Zhou state-building enterprise and the Xia corresponded to a culturally constructed constellation of political concepts\, institutions\, and social memories of different episodes of state building from the Longshan and Erlitou periods.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-in-search-of-the-first-dynasty-archaeological-landscapes-and-the-spatialization-of-history-in-early-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010812Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "TOPADA and the Land of Tuali: the age of experimentation in the aftermath of the Hittite Empire"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Lorenzo d’Alfonso\, New York UniversityDrawing upon textual and archaeological data\, one can reconstruct the formation of a post-Hittite political entity in Cappadocia\, the Land of Tuali\, during the late 12th century BCE. This entity grew larger and more structured by the late 10th and 9th centuries before being substantially reduced by the late 8th century expansion of the Assyrian empire toward the northwest. Expanding from this central Anatolian case study\, this talk will examine the historical processes that characterized the aftermath of the Hittite empire in Anatolia and the northern Levant and connect them to the fragility\, collapse\, and regeneration of early polities.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-topada-and-the-land-of-tuali-the-age-of-experimentation-in-the-aftermath-of-the-hittite-empire/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010814Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Alcohol and Drugs in Pre-Modern India"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor James McHugh\, Associate Professor\, School of Religion\, USCProfessor James McHugh explores the complex world of drinks and drinking in pre-modern India. From rice wine to palm toddy\, a huge variety of drinks were made. In the early centuries of the common era\, another drug—betel—joined the mix too\, though cannabis and opium appeared much later. How and where were these drinks and drugs consumed? Were they forbidden or permitted? How did medical scholars think they worked? And how are they related to religion and mythology?
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-alcohol-and-drugs-in-pre-modern-india/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010816Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "The Quest of Ancient Carthage: Antiquarism\, diplomacy\, and politics in 19th century Tunisia"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Ridha Moumni\, Institut de Recherche sur le Magreb ContemporainIn Tunis\, the first collections of antiquities were established in the 18th – 19th centuries. European Consuls\, foreign scholars\, and international traders acquired most of the archaeological remains then available from the ancient city of Carthage. Whether growing out of their personal taste\, commercial considerations\, or a desire for cultural distinction\, they enriched the collections of major European museums. This collecting practice was not limited to foreigners\, but also touched the local ruling class. Ministers and the Bey himself constituted rich collections\, the most famous of which belonged to the main Tunisian families of the 19th century. The result of ongoing sustained effort\, these collections had a notoriety exceeding the country\, guaranteeing the fame of their owners on a transnational level\, as when they were exhibited in World’s Fair of 1855 and 1873. The Tunisian ruling class quickly became aware of the stakes of their cultural heritage\, formerly ignored\, which became an important referent of national identity before the French colonization in 1881.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-the-quest-of-ancient-carthage-antiquarism-diplomacy-and-politics-in-19th-century-tunisia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010818Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Towards an Archaeology of Extensive Pastoralism in the Great Artesian Basin in Australia"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Timothy Murray\, Charles La Trobe Professor of Archaeology\, La Trobe UniversityIn this talk\, Dr. Murray will briefly outline the essence of a new interdisciplinary research project exploring the historical archaeology of extensive pastoralism in Australia\, with a particular focus on the Western Division of New South Wales. Core elements of the project span conventional ecological history (especially the impact of sheep and cattle grazing on the rangelands of the region)\, as well as the history of wool as a global commodity\, the impact of the dispossession of indigenous people by European settlers\, and the impact of new technologies such as fencing\, railways\, but particularly drilling for artesian water. The research project thus considers many elements of a more general inquiry into the ecological and economic impacts of the creation of both national and imperial entities (and identities) during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries around the globe.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-towards-an-archaeology-of-extensive-pastoralism-in-the-great-artesian-basin-in-australia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171021T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171021T173000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010827Z
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SUMMARY:In Search of Early China through Archaeology: Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Chinese Archaeology at UCLA
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URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/in-search-of-early-china-through-archaeology-celebrating-the-70th-anniversary-of-chinese-archaeology-at-ucla/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010829Z
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UID:282-1508515200-1508522400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Archaeology: Between the Time of Antiquity and the Antiquity of Time"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Christopher Witmore\, Texas Tech UniversityThis talk attempts to formulate a different theory of time. Whereas time is often honored with an astounding primacy by history and archaeology\, actual things cannot be reduced to the aftereffects of time. Rather\, the rapports\, exchanges\, and mergers between actual entities – Bronze-Age bridges and nineteenth-century cart roads\, stonemasons and ashlar masonry\, potters and ancient ceramic forms – are generative of time. In developing a different theory of time\, one that stands as an alternative and complement to history\, archaeology expands from sorting out the time of antiquity to working with the sorting that is the antiquity of time.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-archaeology-between-the-time-of-antiquity-and-the-antiquity-of-time/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010831Z
UID:283-1508346000-1508356800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Soldiers and Kings: Violence\, Representation and Photoethnographic Practice in the Context of Human Smuggling Across Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Since 2015 Jason De León has been involved in an analog photoethnographic project focused on documenting the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting undocumented migrants across Mexico. In this talk\, he will discuss the relationship between transnational gangs and the human smuggling industry and outline the complicated role that photography plays as a field method and data source in this violent and ethically challenging ethnographic context. Jason De LeónAssociate Professor of Anthropology\,University of MichiganDirector\, Undocumented Migration Project California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)Wednesday\, October 18\, 20175:00 p.m.Reception to followPlease RSVP to this event here.  This Public Lecture is co-sponsored by:Professor and Director Willeke Wendrich\, UCLA Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyThe Mellon Foundation’s Urban Humanities Initiative at UCLAProfessor and Chair Jason Throop\, UCLA Department of AnthropologyProfessor Richard Lesure\, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett Endowed Chair in Mesoamerican Archaeology
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/soldiers-and-kings-violence-representation-and-photoethnographic-practice-in-the-context-of-human-smuggling-across-mexico/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010832Z
UID:284-1508328000-1508331600@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Interlaced Scrolls and Feathered Banners: Markers of Culture in Teotihuacan (or\, Whose Marcador is it\, Anyway?)"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Matthew Robb\, Chief Curator\, Fowler Museum\, UCLAIn 1963\, the chance discovery at the Teotihuacan compound known today as La Ventilla of a four-part composite sculpture marked with interlaced-scrolls more typically associated with sites like El Tajín firmly established connections between ancient Teotihuacan and its contemporaries on the Gulf Coast. The discovery of a smaller\, intact object of similar form in 1987 in Tikal’s Mundo Perdido provided new evidence for Teotihuacan’s involvement with Tikal and the Maya. Other studies focused on similar objects appearing in the visual culture of Classic period Veracruz have identified them as stone versions of feathered banners\, and drawn connections with the appearance at Teotihuacan of interlaced-scrolls on murals at other buildings at La Ventilla and early structures at the Edificios Superpuestos. This lecture will document the chronological and cultural discrepancies between framing an object as a marker of Teotihuacan influence at 4th century Tikal\, but as a marker of 6th century Gulf Coast connections at Teotihuacan. It will explore the archaeological\, aesthetic\, and social contexts of these objects and suggest new avenues for their interpretation based on recent discoveries at the site.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-interlaced-scrolls-and-feathered-banners-markers-of-culture-in-teotihuacan-or-whose-marcador-is-it-anyway/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171016T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010834Z
UID:285-1508144400-1508259600@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Software Carpentry: R Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools\, including program design\, version control\, data management\, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.For more information on what we teach and why\, please see our paper “Best Practices for Scientific Computing”.Software Carpentry: R WorkshopWho: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.Where: Young Research Library. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.When: Oct 16-17\, 2017. Add to your Google Calendar.Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac\, Linux\, or Windows operating system (not a tablet\, Chromebook\, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (see here). They are also required to abide by Software Carpentry’s Code of Conduct.Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organisers have checked that:The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.Accessible restrooms are available.Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters\, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.Contact: Please email lib_archivehelp@em.ucla.edu for more information.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/software-carpentry-r-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010858Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "New Perspectives on Ancient Trade"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Norman Yoffee\, University of MichiganOld Assyrian texts from Mesopotamia\, ca. 1950-1750 BCE\, shed light on merchants and markets in Mesopotamia and the relationship between merchants and the Old Assyrian state. In this lecture\, I review recent research on Old Assyrian trade and the implications for understanding trade in other times and places in the Ancient Near East and elsewhere. I also consider why there is a recent explosion of studies on trade by archaeologists and provide brief examples.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-new-perspectives-on-ancient-trade/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010900Z
UID:287-1507723200-1507726800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Digital Buddhism: 3D Modeling and Photogrammetry in the Study of Chinese Buddhist Architecture"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Di Luo\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Center for Global Asia\, New York University ShanghaiBuddhist architecture in China since the 11th century has often featured miniature pagodas and pavilions in the interior. These downsized “buildings\,” appearing in ceiling domes and murals and sometimes functioning as altars\, bookcases\, and reliquaries\, assumed the role of the “holy of holies” of the space. My study of these miniatures focuses on the scaling principles they adhered to\, the woodworking tradition they epitomized\, and the religious significance of the phenomenon of miniature-making. The downscaling procedure\, I argue\, was not a purely technological problem\, but deeply rooted in the Buddhist view of the composition and formation of our world. This Buddhist ideal was best demonstrated by a hierarchical set of numerals found in miniature architecture. With the assistance of digital tools\, we are able to expose and scrutinize the fascinating numerical relationships existed in Buddhist architecture.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-digital-buddhism-3d-modeling-and-photogrammetry-in-the-study-of-chinese-buddhist-architecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010902Z
UID:288-1507118400-1507122000@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Disability and Age in Ancient Greece: A Case Study"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Debby Sneed\, PhD Candidate\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLAIn this talk\, Debby will use literary and archaeological evidence to argue that ancient Greeks notonly tolerated the birth of deformed and disabled infants\, but also expressed optimism about their futures and actively attempted to accommodate their needs. Modern studies tend to resolve this issue quickly\, relying heavily on references by Plutarch\, Aristotle\, and Plato. These authors’ statements about the fate of deformed infants\, however\, bear no easy or straightforward relationship with the reality of the ancient world. If we situate these authors and their works within their appropriate contexts\, we recognize that their presentations of infant exposure and infanticide are prescriptive\, not descriptive. By expanding our analysis to the Hippocratic physicians\, as well as to other works within the Aristotelian corpus\, we find a wide range of evaluations of infants born with congenital deformities. What is more\, the production of feeding bottles from the Late Bronze Age through the Roman period also demonstrates active efforts to accommodate infants (and sometimes children and adults) who were premature\, weak\, ill\, or presented severe orofacial deformities such as cleft palate. Finally\, an argument from absence: bioarchaeologists have produced no positive proof for the killing of deformed infants from any population in Greece. Taken together\, the evidence demonstrates that the exposure of deformed and disabled infants was far from the rule in ancient Greece
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-disability-and-age-in-ancient-greece-a-case-study/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171003T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010905Z
UID:289-1507053600-1507060800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cuisine and cooking at the crossroads of civilization: new discoveries from Iraqi Kurdistan
DESCRIPTION:Willeke Wendrich\, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner and lecture on October 3\, 2017 with Alan Farahani\, Post Doctoral Scholar\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLA. The reception will begin at 6:00pm and be followed by dinner at 6:45pm. This event is restricted to Friends of Archaeology. For more information about becoming a Friend\, please visit our membership page.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cuisine-and-cooking-at-the-crossroads-of-civilization-new-discoveries-from-iraqi-kurdistan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170620T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170701T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010907Z
UID:290-1497960000-1498910400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Hidden Jewels\, Forbidden Paths: Secrets of Rome and Turin
DESCRIPTION:June 20 – July 1\, 2017On this trip\, Director’s Council members saw behind the scenes of the Museo Egizio in Turin\, Itlay—the second largest collection of Egyptian antiquities (after Cairo)—and explored Rome with the experts!Download the brochure here.   
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/hidden-jewels-forbidden-paths-secrets-of-rome-and-turin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T170857
CREATED:20230314T010921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010921Z
UID:291-1496836800-1496840400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Rediscovering Masis Blur: A Neolithic Settlement in the Ararat Plain\, Armenia"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLAThis talk is a summary of field research conducted by Cotsen/UCLA doctoral student Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky at Masis Blur\, Armenia\, over the course of three seasons from 2012-2014. Excavations at Masis Blur have unearthed Neolithic habitation layers (ca. 6200 – 5400 cal.BC) belonging to the Shulaveri-Shomutepe culture\, with a rich material culture and several important new discoveries. Many questions have been raised concerning the origins and sudden appearance in the Southern Caucasus of sedentary communities having fully domesticated plants and animals. The abrupt abandonment of their settlements at the end of the Neolithic period is also still just as obscure. Certain cultural elements and fragments of imported pottery within otherwise Aceramic settlements attest to relations with societies in northern Mesopotamian area. This talk highlights findings from recent fieldwork at Masis Blur and discusses the new data within the framework of Neolithization processes in the Southern Caucasus. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-rediscovering-masis-blur-a-neolithic-settlement-in-the-ararat-plain-armenia/
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