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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T160000
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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
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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
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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:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010834Z
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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:20260420T222247
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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:20260420T222247
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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:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010902Z
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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:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010905Z
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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:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010907Z
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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:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010921Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010922Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Keepers of Tradition\, Harbingers of Change: Tracing Communities of Practice in Greco-Roman Karanis\, Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Sonali Gupta-Agarwal\, UCLA Traditions are transmitted through teaching and learning. The manner in which knowledge relating to craft production gets transmitted can help us in understanding the causes behind cultural continuity and change. By using an anthropological approach to find teaching and learning patterns\, I investigate the role of potters inmodern day pottery workshops of Egypt and India in the transmission of knowledge relating to pottery production. Employing video footage using a video annotation research tool\, I discern subtle gestures and postures of potters engaged in the process of pottery production and statistically examine these to reveal patterns specific to each workshop. I transpose the method and understanding gained from the study of modern potters to the archaeological context in Karanis\, Egypt. Teaching and learning of pottery making leaves recognizable markers on the vessel that can be traced metrically. My research suggests that one can trace ancient communities of practice\, knowledge transfer and interpret continuity or change in material culture as part of an ongoing learning tradition.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-keepers-of-tradition-harbingers-of-change-tracing-communities-of-practice-in-greco-roman-karanis-egypt/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T130000
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CREATED:20230314T010924Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "The Shimmer of Bodies: Aztec Luxury in Context"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Patrick Hajovsky\, Associate Professor\, Art History\, Southwestern UniversityTaking a critical perspective\, I argue that Aztec “luxury” objects worn or held on the body linked valor and value to tonalli\, the heat-life energy that manifests personality and fate\, and yollotl\, the heart\, source of blood and center of human life. The Aztecs explored the equivalences and differences between luxury materials–lapidary\, gold\, feather–through synesthetic metaphors that tied visual art to Nahuatl poetry. Forms made of these materials further emphasize these essential connections between person and object\, which allowed the object to become a surrogate of the owner’s agency. This is important to consider in the Aztec economy of sacrifice and the logic of state of control.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-shimmer-of-bodies-aztec-luxury-in-context/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170530T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170530T183000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010926Z
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SUMMARY:The Inka Khipu: Communicating with Strings\, Knots and Colors in Ancient Peru
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URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-inka-khipu-communicating-with-strings-knots-and-colors-in-ancient-peru/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170530T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170530T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T010928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T010928Z
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SUMMARY:Homes and Habitat: A Mini-Symposium on Greco-Roman Architecture
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URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/homes-and-habitat-a-mini-symposium-on-greco-roman-architecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: "Blood Weddings: the Inkas\, the Habsburgs\, and Royal Incest"
DESCRIPTION: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\, with the blessing of the Catholic bishop of Cuzco\, carrying the Inka tradition of sibling marriage into the colonial era. In 1570\, King Philip V of Spain married his niece Anna of Austria\, the daughter of his cousin and his sister. Each marriage reflected a royal practice of close-kin marriage forbidden to ordinary people\, in Peru just as in Europe. Scholars have never seen them as comparable: on the one hand\, the apparent magical thinking of the Inkas\, who believed kings were descended from the Sun and should not pollute their blood with outsiders; on the other the apparent pragmatism of European monarchs\, for whom endogamy was a tool in geopolitical strategy. In fact\, there was pragmatism behind the magic and magic behind the pragmatism. In both kingdoms\, close-kin marriage was a way that kings and queens sacralized themselves through breaking the most intimate and dangerous of laws. This research project\, juxtaposing these two traditions of power and sexuality\, opens a window into how entangled states create a shared political culture under colonialism.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cancelled-friday-seminar-blood-weddings-the-inkas-the-habsburgs-and-royal-incest/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011059Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "3-D Digital Model of the Egyptian Fortress at Jaffa"
DESCRIPTION: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 as the Temple of Karnak\, Khirbet Qumran\, and the Roman Forum have benefited from such models.The recent digital model of the Late Bronze Egyptian fortress at Jaffa has provided various insights that deepen our understanding of the function and design of this site.This presentation will demonstrate the process of modelling the fortress\, focusing on important aspects of the reconstruction and the modelling itself . It will also include some brief demonstrations of the software used to create the digital model in order to show the accessibility and benefits of such models.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-3-d-digital-model-of-the-egyptian-fortress-at-jaffa/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011101Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Taboo topics: Exploring absences in the faunal remains from Çatalhöyük\, Turkey"
DESCRIPTION: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 pig taboo\, in particular\, has received considerable archaeological attention in the eastern Mediterranean\, there is little discussion of taboo in prehistory. The obvious reason is that\, lacking textual or direct ethnohistorical evidence\, it is difficult to study absence. However\, taboos are likely to have affected the composition of most zooarchaeological assemblages\, so we cannot afford to ignore them. While specific beliefs cannot be applied from ethnography to deep prehistory\, some of the structuring principles seen in ethnoarchaeological and ethnohistoric studies can help us to identify prehistoric animal taboos. I argue that the patterning of the animal bone assemblage from Neolithic Çatalhöyük has been shaped by taboo practices. These taboos involve multiple taxa and take several forms.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-taboo-topics-exploring-absences-in-the-faunal-remains-from-catalhoyuk-turkey/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011103Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "An American Icon in Plastic: The Technical Analysis\, Study\, and Treatment of a First Edition 1959 Barbie"
DESCRIPTION: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 poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) plastic. Contrary to “sticky-leg syndrome”\, where plasticizer migrates from the PVC and deposits to the surface as a tacky liquid\, this doll exhibits a bloom of a fugitive\, waxy\, white solid on the legs from the mid-thighs to the ankles. In addition\, the doll was autographed by Ruth Handler\, the designer of BarbieTM and a cofounder of the Mattel corporation. Her signature and the date are now barely legible as the once sharp lines of ink have migrated within the PVC plastic.Multi-spectral imaging and x-radiography were performed on the doll in order to non-invasively\, non-destructively examine the plastic and gain an understanding of the manufacturing procedures. In addition\, with collaboration from the Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) of the Smithsonian\, computed tomography\, Fourier transform Infrared spectroscopy\, and Raman spectroscopy data were collected on the plastic components of the BarbieTM doll. The results collected from the analysis provided insight into the process of manufacture\, material composition and structural integrity of the doll\, as well as determined the agents of degradation and identified the waxy bloom compound observed locally on both PVC plastic legs\, but absent on other plastic components of the doll. After the removal of the waxy bloom\, the (c.1959) BarbieTM\,  along with her clothing\, accessories and case\, was housed with archival materials and kept in a monitored environment to slow the degradation process and prevent another waxy bloom outbreak on the PVC plastic.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-an-american-icon-in-plastic-the-technical-analysis-study-and-treatment-of-a-first-edition-1959-barbie/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170513T160000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011105Z
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SUMMARY:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House
DESCRIPTION: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 for an open house that illuminates the relationship between the Fowler Museum and archaeological research\, beginning with two gallery talks in the Fowler Museum. These talks will be followed by a lecture\, Connections Ancient and Modern: Reflections on Fieldwork in India by Dr. Monica L. Smith and will include a panel discussion with the audience. After the discussion the archaeological labs will be open to the public\, giving visitors the chance to explore how archaeologists work together on many different levels to contribute to our appreciation of cultural heritage through interdisciplinary\, cutting edge research.For information call 310-209-8934. No reservation required. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-institute-of-archaeology-open-house-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "The Synthesis of Archaeology and World Systems Analysis and its Application to the Region of Southern Caucasia"
DESCRIPTION: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 as border\, border-line\, frontier\, and contact zone. Taking in to account the privileges of World-system analysis in archaeological investigations\, this contribution\, through demonstration of concrete cases\, argues the idea of formation of “Near Eastern World-system” during the mid phase of Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNB) as a result of Agricultural Revolution. This oldest World-system was disintegrated during the first half of the 7th millennium BC with the establishment of new historical systems of regional significance: the result of these developments was the appearance in historical arena of Bronze Age World-systems. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-the-synthesis-of-archaeology-and-world-systems-analysis-and-its-application-to-the-region-of-southern-caucasia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011123Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Trying to Do the Right Things to Protect the World's Archaeological Heritage: A Committee Member's Tale"
DESCRIPTION: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 of cultural property into the United States.  Lothar von Falkenhausen has served on this Committee since 2012.  He will report on the legal framework under which the Committee does its work\, as well as on his experiences so far.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-trying-to-do-the-right-things-to-protect-the-worlds-archaeological-heritage-a-committee-members-tale/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011125Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Cremation Practices and Personhood among the Pre-Hispanic Hohokam of Southern Arizona"
DESCRIPTION: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 Hohokam of the Tucson Basin\, southern Arizona\, from the Preclassic to Classic periods (AD 475-1450/1500). The approach used analyzes how people were represented in mortuary rituals through three main bodies of data: (1) biological profile of human skeletal remains\, (2) posthumous treatment of the body\, and (3) archaeological context. The biological profile of human skeletal remains relates to physical aspects of an individual’s life. Examining posthumous treatment of the body and the archaeological context allow for reconstruction of relationships between the living and dead that are displayed through mortuary ritual. The combination of biology and culture reveals clues to how people were remembered at death by their families\, peers\, and community\, as well as an individual’s position(s) within multiple social networks. Results indicate that certain aspects of personhood did not change across time and space. However\, by analyzing changes through time in cremation rituals it was possible to infer that some aspects of personhood did change. These changes in cremation practices parallel broader sociopolitical changes of increased social differentiation and complexity among the Classic Period Hohokam.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-cremation-practices-and-personhood-among-the-pre-hispanic-hohokam-of-southern-arizona/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011128Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "How Many People Do You Really Need to Understand a Maya Pot? The Maya Vase Research Project at LACMA"
DESCRIPTION: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 collaboration of LACMA’s (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Conservation Center and the Art of the Ancient Americas Program\, which is studying Classic-period Maya ceramics in the LACMA collection . Using new technical imaging and a variety of analytical tools\, this multidisciplinary research project is examining Maya vessels in new ways\, studying materials and manufacturing techniques in relation to art historical\, epigraphic\, and archaeological analyses.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-how-many-people-do-you-really-need-to-understand-a-maya-pot-the-maya-vase-research-project-at-lacma/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011129Z
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SUMMARY:The Indian Roots of Global Buddhism
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URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-indian-roots-of-global-buddhism/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011258Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Partnering with Pots: The Work of Objects in the Imperial Inca Project"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Tamara L. Bray\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Wayne State UniversityNew understandings of matter and materiality are being driven by recent theoretical developments in the realm of science\, particularly physics and ecology. These evolving orientations are\, in turn\, contributing to new philosophical thinking on the nature of being and reality. The trickle-down effects of these developments are\, in part\, responsible for what has been termed “the ontological turn\,” a trend clearly visible in recent archaeological discourse. In combination with new relational and symmetrical approaches guiding investigations into constitution of “the social\,” the door has been opened to imagining logics and ontologies different from our own in our studies of past peoples. In this paper\, I work from the basis of the imperial Inca ceramic assemblage to consider how these distinctive objects were deployed in the task ofempire-building and what insights they provide into native Andean and Inca ontology during the late pre-Columbian period. I develop the argument that imperial pots were construed as animate bodies and agents of the State based on an analysis of vessel morphology and iconography. The study brings to the fore the mutually constituted nature of the imperial Inca project\, which I contend involved armies of both people and things working collectively in the construction of a new social order
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-partnering-with-pots-the-work-of-objects-in-the-imperial-inca-project/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011300Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Building Futures\, Saving Pasts: An Examination of the Approach of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Paul Burtenshaw\, Director\, Projects\, Sustainable Preservation InitiativeThe Sustainable Preservation  Initiative (SPI) attempts to “Build Futures and Save Pasts”-simultaneously protecting tangible cultural heritage and enhancing the lives of the people who live around it. To do this\, we develop sustainable local businesses\, which are connected to archaeology and provide real and long­ term incomes to communities .Through this\, we hope to create new economic opportunities and allow people to leverage historic sites responsibly .This talk will explore the rationale behind SPI’s approach to heritage preservation and sustainable development and reviews our successes\, failures\, and lessons from our projects in Peru\, Guatemala\, and Jordan.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-building-futures-saving-pasts-an-examination-of-the-approach-of-the-sustainable-preservation-initiative/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011302Z
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SUMMARY:Friends of Archaeology Dinner: Academic Excellence
DESCRIPTION:Willeke Wendrich\, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on April 25\, 2017 where three excellent students will present their research. The reception will begin at 6:00pm and be followed by dinner at 6:45pm. Ellen HsiehArchaeology of the Boxer Codex: Spanish\, Chinese\, and Indigenous reactions in the Colonial PhilippinesKarime CastilloGlass Production in New Spain: Some Results of a Study in Technology Transfer and AdaptationAdam diBattistaHippo Tooth and Hog Tusk: Worked Animal Material at Ancient MethoneRSVP by April 18\, 2017Yes\, I will attend No\, I will not attend 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/friends-of-archaeology-dinner-academic-excellence/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011303Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "The Temple of Dendur in Context: Nubia\, the Met\, and Virtual Reality"
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Noemi Mafrici and Michela Mezzano\, Ph.D. Candidates\, Architecture and Landscape Heritage\, Politecnico di TorinoThis talk will present the first outcomes of the ongoing joint research project between POLITO and UCLA. The project “Cultural Heritage in context: digital technologies for the humanities” concerns the UNESCO campaign of the 1960s for the rescue of the Nubian temples that risked being flooded .The aim of the project is to reconstruct the lost context of the Nubia heritage and to visualize the relocation of the temples involved in the salvage campaign .The case of the temple of Dendur will be presented through its three contexts: the lost original Nubian landscape\, the relocated space at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and  the Virtual Reality reconstruction context.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-temple-of-dendur-in-context-nubia-the-met-and-virtual-reality/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011305Z
UID:310-1492185600-1492192800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Mines\, Fields\, Hillforts: Challenging the Marginality of the Jawa Hinterland (NE-Jordan) in the 4th Millennium"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Bernd Mueller-Neuhof\, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-mines-fields-hillforts-challenging-the-marginality-of-the-jawa-hinterland-ne-jordan-in-the-4th-millennium/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T222247
CREATED:20230314T011323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011323Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Community Archaeology--1984"
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dr. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati\, Visiting Professor\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; Giorgio Buccellati\, Professor Emeritus\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, UCLA”These forty years now I’ve been speaking in prose without knowing it!” Unlike Moliere ‘s Monsieur Jourdain\, we knew we were “speaking prose” … Our “prose” was community archaeology\, which we undertook to implement since the beginning of our excavation projects in Syria. Having embarked on an effort that relied on a common sense type of approach\, very much down to earth as it befits an archaeological endeavor\, we have come to reflect more and more on its theoretical implications. And the current war in Syria has put to a severe test our presuppositions . We will first review the main aspects of our specific case of “community archaeology” at Tell Mozan\, ancient Urkesh\, and we will then share our reflections on its theoretical import. This is particularly meaningful now\, at a moment when the concept is beginning to gain traction on the one hand\, while on the other we find ourselves physically separated from our “community.”
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-community-archaeology-1984/
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