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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T120000
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SUMMARY:3D Scanning and Printing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will begin with a demonstration of two handheld 3D scanners\, the Artec Eva and Space Spider. Andy Greyson will walk through how to set up the environment\, capture the data\, and process the scans. He will also provide tips to efficiently utilize the variety of tools included in the software.The second half of the workshop will focus on 3D printing during an interactive Q&A with Doug Daniels. You will also see two 3D printers from the UCLA Library Lux Lab in actions: the MakerBot 5th Gen (a fused deposition modeling printer) and Form 2 (stereolithographic printer).Technologists from the Digital Research Consortium will also be available to discuss 3D modeling for research projects.RSVP at http://bit.ly/2nDpPd0 by Monday\, April 3\, 2017.Header image from the Smithsonian X 3D collection: Lidded ritual ewer (zun) in the form of an elephant with masks and dragonsWritten by Vince RossiChina\, possibly Hunan provinceShang dynasty\, ca. 1100-1050 BCEBronze\, 17.2 x 10.7 x 21.4 cmFreer Gallery of Art\, F1936.6a-b
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/3d-scanning-and-printing-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: The experimental reconstruction of a Stone Age house: a chaîne opératoire approach
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Annelou van Gijn\, Professor of Archaeological Material Culture and Artefact Studies\, Faculty of Archaeology\, Leiden University
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-experimental-reconstruction-of-a-stone-age-house-a-chaine-operatoire-approach/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011328Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Digital Gothic: Reverse Engineering the Lost Monuments of Medieval Paris"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Meredith Cohen\, UCLA Art History
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-digital-gothic-reverse-engineering-the-lost-monuments-of-medieval-paris/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170312T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011330Z
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SUMMARY:Friends of Archaeology Tour to Downtown LA Theater District Spring 2017
DESCRIPTION:On March 12\, 2017\, Anthony Caldwell\, manager of the Scholarly Innovation Lab at UCLA\, took an FoA group on a tour of architectural treasures in downtown Los Angeles\, focusing in particular on the old movie theaters that at one time studded the stretch of Broadway from Third Street to Ninth Street. As the heart of the entertainment capital of the world\, Broadway was home to over two dozen picture palaces in various architectural styles: Beaux Arts\, Art Deco\, Neoclassical\, Baroque and Spanish Renaissance­—and of course\, some that defy labeling. FoA members were treated to a fascinating discourse on the background of each building\, with plenty of history and a few colorful details.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friends-of-archaeology-tour-to-downtown-la-theater-district-spring-2017/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011458Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Tell el-Dab'a/Avaris\, the Capital of the Hyksos\, a Town of Different Ethnicities"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Manfred Bietak\, Professor Emeritus\, University of Vienna Institute of EgyptologyAvaris\, capital of the Hyksos\, was inhabited\, as we may presume\, mainly by a western Asiatic population\, which migrated to Egypt from the late Middle Kingdom onwards. We may call them for convenience sake Amorites as the little onomastic evidence we have\, shows that they had mainly Western-Semitic personal names. We don’t know yet\, if this population was homogenous. Most probably they were not\, as their osteological remains show a sexual dimorphism. This phenomenon is known when wives are taken from a different gen-pool than the men. This result was attested some time ago by the physical anthropologist Eike M. Winkler from the University of Vienna. Most probably\, immigrants from the Levant seem to have married local women who also did not match the Egyptian population type. Therefor they may have originated from an older substratum of immigration from different origin. We are lacking\, however\, the osteological material of the Egyptians who lived in the oldest settlements of the 12th Dynasty at Tell el-Dab‘a at ‘Ezbet Rushdi. These people were not buried within the town as the Canaanites\, but according to the Egyptian mortuary tradition in a separate but still undisclosed cemetery\, outside the town. We have various indications that they continued to live within Avaris untill the end of the Hyksos Period. Within the oldest part of the town of Avaris\, at the quarter where we have evidence of a planned settlement and a temple of the 12th Dynasty\, there are no intramural burials\, also not from the Second Intermediate Period. The same applies to a quarter directly south of this Middle Kingdom settlement\, where even during the Hyksos Period the usual burials in houses or courtyards – which are ethnical markers – are missing. What is missing in this district are finds of toggle-pins which held together the typical Western Asiatic garment at the left shoulder. Such finds were\, however\, collected within the immediately adjoining quarters\, where obviously the Amorites lived.Besides Egyptians and people from Western Asia from dierent periods of immigration\, Avaris proves more and more to have been a multi-ethnical town. Ceramic remains from dierent parts of Nubia can be taken as evidence that also various ethnicities of Nubians lived here. As their pottery has open forms\, not suitable as containers of imports\, and as the roughly produced cooking pots are not attractive as imports it is likely that Nubians lived in Avaris over a long period. Some of the cooking pots even seem to have been produced of local clays. This would speak indeed for the physical presence of Nubians.Besides the above mentioned ethnicities there is even some small evidence that Cypriots may have beenpresent in Avaris shortly before the Hyksos Period as Cypriot pottery was produced locally in Cypriot handmade technique.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-tell-el-daba-avaris-the-capital-of-the-hyksos-a-town-of-different-ethnicities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011500Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Booty to Baubles: The Material Impact of Rome's Conquest of Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Pearson\, Institut für Archäologie at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, GermanyIn the later first century BC\, Egyptian material sweeps into Roman houses on an unprecedented scale. Its connection to Octavian’s conquest of Egypt has been taken for granted; but what are the actual mechanisms by which a political event could affect material culture? Archaeological and textual evidence in fact sheds light on this process\, in part by allowing us to identify precise categories of Egyptian objects that Romans acquired. It also reveals the importance of considering context and artistic adaptations in understanding the variety of meanings for Egyptian material in Roman houses.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-booty-to-baubles-the-material-impact-of-romes-conquest-of-egypt/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011502Z
UID:318-1488556800-1488564000@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Beyond All Edges in Central Arizona"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Sarah Herr\, President\, Desert Archaeology Inc.The cultural affiliation of the pre-contact residents of central Arizona defies easy categorization. These residents of small settlements construct their houses in array of styles\, form undecorated ceramic vessels\, specialize in projectile point production\, and trade other goods rarely but widely\, and are not easily encompassed into Hohokam or Puebloan histories. The State Route 260—Payson to Heber project\, a culturalresource management investigation conducted for the Arizona Department of Transportation in advance of highway realignment\, provided the opportunity to examine the lifeways of these people who live beyond many boundaries. Trying to understand their experiences provides a starting point for considering the larger issues of how Southwest archaeologists conduct research in areas outside demographic cores.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-beyond-all-edges-in-central-arizona/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011504Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of The Archaeologist: A Documentary by Kimon Tsakiris
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of the documentary film The Archaeologist by Kimon Tsakiris. The film will be preceded by a panel discussion with Professor John Papadopoulos (UCLA\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) and Professor Katerina Zacharia (Loyola Marymount University\, Classics) and followed by a reception.A synopsis of the film follows:In the final “battle” of her career\, a determined archaeologist–who has dedicated all her life to protecting the cultural and natural environment of the land–has two months to salvage as much as possible from an archaeological dig which is planned to be flooded during the construction process of a new dam by the Greek National Power Company.Parking available in UCLA Lot 4\, 221 Westwood Plaza at Sunset Blvd. Upon entering Lot 4\, turn left into the Pay-By-Space area.Parking is $3/hr\, max $12/day.Automated pay stations accept $1 or $5 bills and credit/debit cards.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-the-archaeologist-a-documentary-by-kimon-tsakiris/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "The Arts of Memory: Anthropology of a Mental Artifact"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Carlo Severi\, Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale\, EHESS\, ParisFor linguists\, anthropologists and archaeologists\, the emblematic image always and everywhere preceded the appearance of the sign. This myth of a figurative language composed by icons\, that form the opposite figure of writing\, has deeply influenced Western tradition. In my talk\, I show that the logic of Native American Indian mnemonics (pictographs\, khipus) cannot be understood from the ethnocentric question of the comparison with writing\, but requires a truly comparative anthropology. Rather than trying to know if Native American techniques of memory are true scripts or mere mnemonics\, we can explore the formal aspect both have in common\, compare the mental processes they call for. We can ask if both systems belong to the same conceptual universe\, to a mental language\, to use Giambattista Vico’s définition\, that would characterize the Native American arts of memory. In this perspective\, techniques of memory stop being hybrids or imprecise\, and we will better understand their nature and functions as mental artifacts.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-arts-of-memory-anthropology-of-a-mental-artifact/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011524Z
UID:321-1488364200-1488369600@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:LaTeX: Bibliographies and Citations
DESCRIPTION:LaTeX is a document preparation system that uses plain rather than formatted text\, which encourages users to focus on content rather than formatting. This system is increasingly used for preparation of articles and theses\, and has wide application across the sciences and humanities. This workshop will build on the first and focus on preparing bibliographies and citing references with LaTeX.Bring your computer with LaTeX installed for hands-on practice. If you were unable to attend the first workshop or did not get LaTeX installed on your computer please contact dal@ioa.ucla.edu prior to March 1st.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/latex-bibliographies-and-citations/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011526Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "A Discussion on Recent Political Transitions in the U.S. and Implications for Archaeology"
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Society for American Archaeology Executive CommitteeThis Friday the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology will host the members of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Executive Committee for an informal discussion on the implications of recent political transitions for archaeologists in the United States and around the world. The SAA Executive Committee is comprised of the SAA President\, President-elect\, Secretary\, Secretary-elect\, Treasurer\, Treasurer elect\, and the Executive Director. The committee is tasked with taking prompt action on issues that require an immediate response.The immediate concerns of archaeologists and stakeholders are vast. In academic institutions researchers face potential implications for funding opportunities and relationships with host countries. Both public and private sector cultural resource management institutions are grappling with likely attempts to weaken laws that protect archaeological sites and provide funding for mitigation projects including The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)\, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Antiquities Act.Please join us for this unique opportunity!
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-a-discussion-on-recent-political-transitions-in-the-u-s-and-implications-for-archaeology/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011528Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Production\, Distribution\, and Use of the First Pottery from the Tropics of Panama"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Fumie Iizuka\, University of ArizonaMonagrillo (ca. 4500-3200 14C BP) is the earliest ceramic of Central America. It is found in Central Panama in shell-bearing middens of the Pacific coast\, rockshelters of the Pacific plains\, foothills\, and the cordilleras\, and the Caribbean slopes. People had been farming for thousands of years when they adopted pottery. Population was significantly increasing. However\, it had not been clear whether 1) they farmed in the inland during wet seasons and engaged in coastal subsistence activities during dry seasons or 2) they were sedentary by the time pottery emerged\, engaging in exchange of local resources.Typological studies of this pottery had been conducted in the past; however\, understanding of its production zones\, circulation patterns\, and possible use had been limited. In my research\, I examined this pottery from different environmental zones\, adopting visual\, petrographic\, geochemical\, and microstructural analytical methods. I sourced and inferred production and circulation patterns\, and assessed manufacturing techniques and firing temperatures. I inferred from the results that sedentary inhabitants of the Pacific foothills and the coast of central Panama produced pottery during the dry season and it circulated to the Pacific plains\, the intermediate area\, where people engaged in reciprocal social exchange. Pacific foothills vessels\, but not coastal wares\, were weathering and impact resistant\, which suggested intended use in the rugged terrain and for transportation to the perennially wet Caribbean slopes. Pottery was generally made to be suitable for cooking; population pressure may have affected producers and consumers to adopt new cooking techniques.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-production-distribution-and-use-of-the-first-pottery-from-the-tropics-of-panama/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170219T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011530Z
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SUMMARY:The Ancient Athenian Naval Bases in the Piraeus – the Backbone of the World’s First Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bjorn LovenThe Zea Harbor Project\, digging on land and underwater from 2002 to 2012\, uncovered extensivearchaeological remains of the Athenian naval facilities. The lecture will show how the archaeologicalfinds inform us about developments from the dawn of Athenian power in the late 6th and early 5thcenturies BC\, to the young democracy at the time of the Persian Wars\, to the age of empire whenAthens ruled the eastern Mediterranean\, and to the waning years of the 4th century BC\, when Athensstood in the shadow of Macedonia.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-ancient-athenian-naval-bases-in-the-piraeus-the-backbone-of-the-worlds-first-democracy/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Attack of the Ruderals: Economic and Theoretical Consequences of Fire Farming in the Prehistoric American Southwest"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Alan Sullivan\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, University of CincinnatiArchaeological investigations of the effects of anthropogenic fire on the livelihoods of small-scale societies\, particularly those of the prehispanic northern Southwest\, are embryonic in scope and disciplinary impact. When burning is mentioned in the literature\, the emphasis is on its effectiveness in clearing or deforesting areas for corn farming. In this presentation\, I introduce an alternative model that focuses on how woodland-dwelling agricultural populations could be supported by systematic\, lowintensity\, understory burning that promoted the growth of ruderals — nutritious plants such as amaranth and chenopodium — that colonize and thrive in anthropogenic fireniches. With paleoeconomic and settlement data from the Upper Basin (northern Arizona)\, I propose that considerable numbers of people can be supported by firebased ruderal agriculture in areas that are environmentally hostile to corn farming. Consequently\, as archaeologists shift their agro-ecological paradigms from obligate to facultative\, they will come to appreciate that ruderals\, whose remains dominate archaeobotanical and pollen assemblages recovered from a variety of archaeological and sedimentary contexts in the Western Anasazi region\, can no longer be considered inadvertent byproducts of corn farming (“weeds”) but were actively cultivated plants. With these understandings\, I suggest that the production of ruderals in anthropogenic pyro-landscapes was a sustainable and ecologically-sound practice that both increased food-supply security and insulated economically-autonomous populations from longterm climatic variability and short-term environmental unpredictability.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-attack-of-the-ruderals-economic-and-theoretical-consequences-of-fire-farming-in-the-prehistoric-american-southwest/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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SUMMARY:Art and Science: Bringing Egypt’s Magic to the Museum
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Christian Greco\, Director\, Egyptian Museum in Turin\, ItalyThe Museo Egizio in Turin\, Italy has the second largest collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the world (after the museum in Cairo). In this lecture Dr. Christian Greco highlights connections between its artifacts\, through the history of their discovery\, the reunification of burial assemblages\, and investigating the common characteristics of historical groupings. In his talk\, Dr. Christian Greco\, Director of the Museo Egizio\, discusses how a collaboration of Egyptologists and scientists enables the recreation of archaeological and historical contexts of the stunning objects housed in the collection.Co-presented with the Fowler Museum
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/art-and-science-bringing-egypts-magic-to-the-museum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011700Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Archaeology\, Island of the Blue Dolphins\, and the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. René Vellanoweth\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Anthropology\, California State University\, Los AngelesIn 1835\, as part of broader efforts to missionize California Indians\, the native people of San Nicolas Island were removed and sent to live on the mainland. This essentially marked the end of a 10\,000-year history of native occupation and sealed the fate of all Nicoleño on the island except for one person who lived alone for 18 years. Known as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island\, baptized and named Juana Maria upon her death\, and made famous as the young heroine\, Karana\, in Scott O’Dell’s (1960) classic children’s novel\, “Island of the Blue Dolphins\,” her story has captured the imaginations of people the world over. But who was Juana Maria? What happen to her family members on the fateful day in 1835? What did she do for 18 years alone on the island? How did she survive physically as well as psychologically? In this presentation I will attempt to answer some of these questions by placing the Lone Woman’s story within its archaeological and historical contexts. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-archaeology-island-of-the-blue-dolphins-and-the-lone-woman-of-san-nicolas-island/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011701Z
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SUMMARY:LaTeX: A Document Preparation System Workshop
DESCRIPTION:LaTeX is a document preparation system that uses plain rather than formatted text\, which encourages users to focus on content rather than formatting. This system is increasingly used for preparation of articles and theses\, and has wide application across the sciences and humanities. This workshop will focus on the strengths of the LaTeX system in a) figure and caption creation and adjustment\, b) bibliographic entry and formatting\, c) support for scientific notation\, mathematical symbols\, and non-Latin characters as well as non-English accents and symbols\, and d) easy management of large documents.This workshop will be limited to 20 participants. Please email dal@ioa.ucla.edu to RSVP by Sunday\, February 12th.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/latex-a-document-preparation-system-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011703Z
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SUMMARY:UNESCO and the 1960's Nubian Campaign: Initial Phase of a 3D Model of the Nubian Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Rosa Tamborrino and Paolo Piumatti\, Politecnico di TorinoOur visiting scholars from the Politecnico di Torino\, will outline the first steps in a new UCLA-Polito collaboration.The first International large scale UNESCO campaign for preserving world cultural heritage was provoked by a looming catastrophe: the loss of the Nubian Temples under the Nile flood due to the High Aswan Dam. Although the monuments were rescued\, the context of the cultural heritage was lost. Nubian temples were moved to higher grounds\, other regions and abroad\, meanwhile the Nile landscape was changing forever.This lecture will introduce the ongoing joint research project developed by POLITO and UCLA with the aim to recreate the historical landscape before the change in the Sixties through the research of sources and the use of digital tools and digital humanities methods. The focus of the visualization project is the change to the landscape and the temples\, by highlighting the transfer and the relocation\, the dismantling and the re-assembly\, and finally the new context of these monuments.The speakers will introduce research themes and purposes\, and will show some outcomes of a class on this subject taught to POLITO master students in the past semester.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/unesco-and-the-1960s-nubian-campaign-initial-phase-of-a-3d-model-of-the-nubian-landscape/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011704Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Herders\, Farmers\, and Wildlife: Exploring Impacts of Early Food Production in Kenya"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Anneke Janzen\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologySpecialized pastoralism emerged in Kenya around 3000 years ago and has adapted with changes in the social and ecological landscape to this day. My dissertation work used stable isotope analysis to explore the mobility and herd management strategies of early pastoralists in south-central Kenya 3000 to 1200 years ago\, before the appearance of agriculture in the region.Another facet of my work on early herding involves examining the anthropogenic effects on wildlife populations. The emergence and spread of pastoralism in East Africa undoubtedly impacted indigenous species\, particularly wildebeest\, which are found in archaeological sites far outside their current range today. Pastoral extirpation of wildebeest populations from prime grazing areas is one likely cause of their shifting biogeography over time. Through stable isotope analysis of wildebeest teeth from archaeological sites\, a history of their annual migration cycle are elucidated\, illuminating patterns of local extinction in the context of pastoral expansion in Kenya.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-herders-farmers-and-wildlife-exploring-impacts-of-early-food-production-in-kenya/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "New Answers from Old Seeds: Two Years of Research into Ancient Agriculture at the Cotsen Institute"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Alan Farahani\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyThis talk is a summary of the research conducted by Postdoctoral Scholar Alan Farahani at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology over the past two years. His research has been focused on the long-term social and environmental consequences of agricultural production throughout the world using the method of paleoethnobotany\, which is the study of archaeological plant remains to understand past human cultures. The talk highlights recent fieldwork and preliminary results from Dhiban\, Jordan\, from Ifugao\, the Philippines\, and Iraqi Kurdistan\, the combination of all of these projects investigating the effects of empire\, colonialism\, and urbanization on agriculture spanning over six millennia of agricultural practice.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-new-answers-from-old-seeds-two-years-of-research-into-ancient-agriculture-at-the-cotsen-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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SUMMARY:Photogrammetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Photogrammetry\, or Structure-from-Motion\, is a technique for constructing three dimensional models from a series of photographs. This technique can be utilized by archaeologists to record objects\, features\, and sites both quickly and relatively inexpensively. In this workshop\, you’ll learn how to systematically photograph objects and the steps to processing these photographs into a 3D model with Agisoft’s PhotoScan.The workshop will be led by Anthony Caldwell\, the Scholarly Innovation Lab Manager. Anthony has collaborated with Cotsen faculty on projects digitally reconstructing architectural features and their built environments including a pair of Yoruba house posts and the historic theatres in Downtown Los Angeles.This workshop is open to Cotsen affiliates and their colleagues.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/photogrammetry-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170131T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170131T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
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SUMMARY:Recycling the Materiality of Death
DESCRIPTION:Willeke Wendrich\, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on January 31\, 2017 with Professor Kara Cooney\, Egyptian Art and Architecture\, UCLA. The reception will begin at 6:00pm and be followed by dinner at 6:45pm. For millennia\, wealthy ancient Egyptians relied on materialist productions like coffins to encapsulate their funerary beliefs in the transformation of the dead. But how did Egyptians determined to equip themselves materially for the transformation into the afterlife respond and adapt in a brutal time of political\, economic\, and social collapse? This lecture will examine the evidence for coffin reuse within the context of the 20th and 21st Dynasties. 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/recycling-the-materiality-of-death/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011731Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "After the Dodo\, Archaeology in Colonial Mauritius: Problems and Prospects"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Summers\, Research Associate\, University of Chicago Oriental InstituteMauritius\, a small island nation in the Western Indian Ocean\, was uninhabited until the arrival of the Dutch in the 16th century. After the Dutch left it was ruled first by the French and then by the British until independence in 1968. The ethnically and culturally diverse population is descended from slaves\, indentured labourers\, traders and colonial planters. Archaeology and anthropology are relatively new disciplines. This talk presents an overview of potentials\, prospects\, and new results of archaeological research in the Key and the Star of the Indian Ocean. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-after-the-dodo-archaeology-in-colonial-mauritius-problems-and-prospects/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182615
CREATED:20230314T011733Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi in the San Diego Museum of Man: Some Technical Studies"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Scott\, Professor\, UCLA Department of Art History and UCLA/Getty Conservation ProgramThe San Diego Museum of Man has a collection of Saite and Ptolemaic coffins and mummies which were the subject of a technical study from 2007-2009.  Pigments\, binding media\, grounds\, wood and degradation products were characterized by x-ray diffraction analyses\, x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy\, polarized light microscopy\, wood anatomy\, gas chromatography mass spectrome try and Elisa\, a synopsis of the results of the study will be presented with examples of specific coffins illustrated.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-egyptian-coffins-and-sarcophagi-in-the-san-diego-museum-of-man-some-technical-studies/
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