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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T160000
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "About-Faces in the Anthropology of Material Culture: Implementing Mauss' Program At Last"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Pierre Lemmonier\, Centre National de Rechereche ScientifiqueTechnologie culturelle designates the strain in the anthropology of objects and techniques first developed in France in the early 1970s. This approach gives a prominent place to the physical actions of people making and doing things\, to the way things are made and physically used\, and to technological processes. This talk deals with contemporary methods and results in the field.After a series of trials\, errors\, and dead-ends – notably the difficulty of combining Leroi-Gourhan’s methodological propositions with Marxism and structuralism – technologues\, and later scholars in “material culture studies” have produced hundreds of useful and remarkable studies of the “effects” of objects and techniques on social life\, and analysis of the “style-related” inscriptions in objects (in materials\, form\, decoration) of identity\, power\, gender\, etc.For decades\, however\, when it came to materiality\, scholar had simply no idea of the kind of material item – materials\, gestures\, actions on matter\, mechanical principles\, physical characteristics\, etc. – that might “say” something about a social organization\, sets of cultural practices\, or representations. In other words\, Mauss’ program on techniques: Why and how this way of making\, producing\, physically using things\, here and now? The question of what people do with objects\, including “merely” building or reinforcing social relations through the use of artefacts\, was left aside.Recently\, a series of scholars showed that some objects\, their physical properties\, and their material implementation are wordless expressions of fundamental aspects of a way of living and thinking. Those objects and practices are even sometimes the only means of rendering visible pillars of social order that are otherwise blurred\, if not hidden. Mauss’ program is at last implemented. But those studies also deal with a very general issue in anthropology: that of understanding the specific ways in which the spheres of our social existence\, that we scholars arbitrarily compartmentalize\, interact.It has now been shown how particular objects\, in their very materiality and physical use\, help the members of a society perceive and share the life they live collectively; how they conceive their unique world of rules and unspoken social givens\, their unique system of ideas and ways of doing things\, their unique material world\, as well as how they conceive itsjustifications. Among other such objects\, the talk will focus on Ankave mortuary drums and ceremonies.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-about-faces-in-the-anthropology-of-material-culture-implementing-mauss-program-at-last/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Pizza Talk: "Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi in the San Diego Museum of Man: Some Technical Studies"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. David Scott\, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyDue to unforeseen circumstances\, this Pizza Talk has been cancelled. We will work to reschedule it in the new year.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cancelled-pizza-talk-egyptian-coffins-and-sarcophagi-in-the-san-diego-museum-of-man-some-technical-studies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T011930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011930Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "An Early Bronze Age Metallurgical Center at the Central Aegean Coast of Anatolia: New Results from Çukuriçi Höyük\, Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Barbara Horejs\, Director of the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology\, Austrian Academy of SciencesThe excavations of Çukuriçi Höyük at the Aegean coast of Turkey revealed intensive metallurgical activities dating to the Early Bronze Age I period in early 3rd millennium BC. Beyond a high number of metal artefacts\, the complete chaîne opératoire of metal production can also be reconstructed based on raw materials\, slags\, crucibles\, a variety of tools and half-finished products. These finds and metallurgical remains have been analysed by using various analytical methods to describe the “geochemical fingerprint” of the metals used\, mainly arsenical copper. The data will be discussed in relation to the known copper ore deposits in Turkey and the Aegean in order to identify the provenance of the metals. The second focus of this paper is set on the intensity of metal production at Çukuriçi Höyük and its further socio-cultural interpretation. The evidence of around 50 metal workshops embedded within several settlement districts give clear hints for the impact of this specialized production to the local community. Further archaeological indicators like faunal remains and textile technology will be discussed in relation to the potential division of labour\, specialization and off-site activities\, supported by aspects of spatial analyses of Çukuriçi Höyük settlements IV and III (2900–2750 calBC). Fig.: Visualization of the EBA 1 settlement at Çukuriçi Höyük based on excavation results and geophysical surveys (©ERC Prehistoric Anatolia/7 reasons). 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-an-early-bronze-age-metallurgical-center-at-the-central-aegean-coast-of-anatolia-new-results-from-cukurici-hoyuk-turkey/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T011932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T011932Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Bunking with the 24th Infantry: The Material Lives of Black Soldiers at Fort Davis\, Texas\, 1867-1878"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Laurie Wilkie\, UC BerkeleyWhile the black regulars (otherwise known as Buffalo Soldiers) have been a compelling subject in popular culture\, scholarly study into the lives of the African American men who chose to serve in the frontier military has been comparatively sporadic and unsustained. This is particularly true in the field of archaeology\, where the complexities of preservation and resource management\, and associations with US imperialistic policy\, have made this soldier demographic an under-explored part of African Diaspora Archaeology.  In this talk\, I will discuss the unique challenges of military site archaeology\, introduce archaeological research undertaken at Fort Davis\, Texas\, a post where each of the black infantry and cavalry units cycled through during the period of 1867-1885.  Focusing on materials associated with the 1869-1875 period of occupation\, I will talk about the ways that men of the post navigated a racially fraught landscape while creating a space for new constructions of black manhood in national discourses on citizenship rights\, manliness and manifest destiny.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-bunking-with-the-24th-infantry-the-material-lives-of-black-soldiers-at-fort-davis-texas-1867-1878/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012127Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "The Last Paintings of Antiquity: Panel Paintings from Roman Egypt at the Getty Villa"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Mary Louise Hart\, Getty MuseumThe last several years have seen extensive research and conservation of the Getty Villa’s collection of Romano-Egyptian panel paintings\, which contain a good collection of mummy portraits dating from around AD 50 to about AD 220\, the in situ portrait of a red-shroud mummy\, and a “group” of Isis and Serapis flanking a square portrait of a mortal man (above). Recently this group – cataloged as a triptych by the museum upon its acquisition in 1974 – underwent an analytical update [published in “A Portrait of a Bearded Man Flanked by Isis and Serapis” published in Icon\, Cult and Context (Cotsen\, 2016)\, 79-89]. Past analytical work focused on understanding the materials and authenticity of the panels but had not presented new information about their ancient context or function. More recent organic analysis has revealed a number of different components assuring the ancient integrity and commonality of the panels but has also uncovered evidence of modern restoration in need of clarification. The complex story of origin\, restoration\, conservation and display inspired the organization of an international exhibition of Romano-Egyptian mummy portraits\, shrouds\, and associated artifacts (including mummies) for the Getty Villa in the fall of 2019. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-last-paintings-of-antiquity-panel-paintings-from-roman-egypt-at-the-getty-villa/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012128Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "The Climatic Contexts of Trans-Himalayan Population Movements: 3000-1500 Years Ago"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Mark Aldenderfer\, UC MercedFrom where and when did people first move into and live permanently the High Himalayas? What role did climate change have in the early peopling of the High Himalayas and in subsequent population movements? These questions are explored in three regions of Nepal: Upper Mustang\, the Khumbu\, and the Rasuwa valley. Archaeological\, paleoclimatic\, ethnographic\, and historical data are combined to provide a comparative assessment of how the inhabitants of these regions coped with climate variability. Insights derived from this research have relevance to the challenges faced by these peoples today in a context of accelerated global warming.Mark Aldenderfer is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences\, Humanities\, and Arts at the University of California\, Merced. His research focuses the comparative analysis of high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective. He has worked on the three high elevation plateaus of the planet—Ethiopian\, Andean\, and Tibetan—over the course of his career and currently works in the High Himalayas of Nepal. He has edited or written more than 10 books\, including Montane Foragers (1998)\, and has published numerous articles and book chapters in journals including Science\,PNAS\, Journal of Archaeological Science\, Latin American Antiquity\, and others. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association. He is the editor ofCurrent Anthropology\, is an associate editor for anthropology of Science Advances\, co-edited Latin American Antiquity\, and serves on a number of editorial boards.Co-sponsored with:  Program on Central Asia\, Anthropology\, Geography\,
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-the-climatic-contexts-of-trans-himalayan-population-movements-3000-1500-years-ago/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012130Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "The Vatican Coffin Project: An International team Project"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alessia Amenta\, Vatican MuseumsThe Vatican Coffin Project gathers an international team of scholars who are divided into three groups with three different areas of expertise: Egyptology\, Diagnostic and Conservation. The project has three objectives: the study of the construction and painting techniques of coffins\, the identification of workshop patterns and the understanding of the ‘packaging’ of a coffin. Our work is also aimed at elaborating a protocol for the conservation of the artifacts. The last frontier is the study of paleography of the painted scenes and of the texts. Since new technologies applied to the study of ancient Egyptian coffins undergo constant improvement\, this talk will provide an overview of the latest developments.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-vatican-coffin-project-an-international-team-project/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161025T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012131Z
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SUMMARY:Chocolate Conquers the World
DESCRIPTION:Willeke Wendrich\, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on October 25\, 2016 with Professor Janine Gasco\, Cal. State Dominguez Hills. The reception will begin at 6:00pm and be followed by dinner at 6:45pm. Beginning with the earliest known evidence for cacao consumption almost 4000 years ago in Chiapas Mexico\, to the growing demand for chocolate in China\, India\, and elsewhere\, one trend has never changed: once you get a taste for chocolate you can never live without it. In this talk we follow the trail over 4000 years as ancient\, and more recently\, contemporary merchants peddle their chocolate\, and people from around the world discover its many virtues.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/chocolate-conquers-the-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161024T133000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012133Z
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SUMMARY:Agricultural Origins and the Rise of Complex Societies
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jared Diamond\, UCLA Department of GeographyPart of the Center for Behavior\, Evolution\, and Culture (BEC) Speaker Series
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/agricultural-origins-and-the-rise-of-complex-societies/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012328Z
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: "Urban Development in Gerasa (Jerash\, Jordan) from the Roman to Early Islamic Period: New Results from the Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project"
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this Friday Seminar has been CANCELLED.Speaker: Dr. Rubina Raja\, Aarhus University\, DenmarkSince 2011 a Danish-German team has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in ancient Gerasa\, Jerash in the Northwest Quarter. The site was one of the famous Decapolis cities mentioned by Pliny and has a rich archaeological record. The large scale excavations of the 1920s and 30s as well as the UNESCO funded international project\, Jerash Archaeological Project\, which was initiated in the 1980s\, are the two largest archaeological undertakings at the site. These projects all focussed on the monumental parts of the city centre. The Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project has taken another approach and has investigated the 4 highest laying hectares within the walled city situated west of the Artemision on a steep hill. This talk will present some of the results from these investigations and show how our understanding of the urban development at the site is improved by looking beyond the main street and its representative monuments.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cancelled-friday-seminar-urban-development-in-gerasa-jerash-jordan-from-the-roman-to-early-islamic-period-new-results-from-the-danish-german-northwest-quarter-project/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T123000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012330Z
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SUMMARY:Iron Age Archaeology in Thailand: A View from Recent Research in Central Thailand
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thanik Lertcharnrit\, Department of Archaeology\, Silpakorn UniversityAn event sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/iron-age-archaeology-in-thailand-a-view-from-recent-research-in-central-thailand/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012331Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Material Interactions: UCLA at the Museo Egizio\, Turin"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Willeke Wendrich\, Director of the Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyUCLA has started a close collaboration with the Museo Egizio in Turin\, which holds the most important collection of material culture from ancient Egypt after the museum in Cairo. This pizza talk will highlight the research that has been started in the summer of 2016.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-material-interactions-ucla-at-the-museo-egizio-turin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161014T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012333Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Fabrics of Power among the Classic Maya: The Politics of Commodities Networks"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Dorie Reents-Budet\, Boston Museum of Fine ArtsThis talk employs distributional patterns of pottery\, determined by archaeology\, ceramic typology\, artistic style and nuclear chemistry\, to discern Classic Period (250-850 CE) economic interaction spheres among the Maya. The research points to the crucial role played by cotton production in the political economy of the Maya and throughout ancient Mesoamerica\, the ceramic distributional patterns coinciding with configurations of alliance noted in other archaeological data.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-fabrics-of-power-among-the-classic-maya-the-politics-of-commodities-networks/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012335Z
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SUMMARY:Cotsen Prize Ceremony and Reception
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dr. Jane Buikstra\, Dr. Gordon RakitaDr. Gordon Rakita will be delivering a lecture titled “Vignettes of a Mentor: A Bioarchaeological Lineage”Dr. Jane Buikstra will then deliver a lecture titled “Ancient Tuberculosis in the Americas: A Career-Long Quest”
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-prize-ceremony-and-reception/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012351Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Food for the Dead: Organic Material from Ancient Egyptian Funerary Contexts"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Caroline Cartwright\, Department of Scientific Research\, The British MuseumDr Caroline Cartwright is the Senior Scientist and Wood Anatomist in the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum. Her primary areas of scientific expertise cover the identification and interpretation of organics such as wood\, charcoal\, fibres\, macro plant remains\, shell\, ivory and bone from all areas and time periods in the British Museum’s collections\, including for CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species).  She has led many teams of archaeobotanists\, archaeozoologists and human osteologists on archaeological projects in various parts of the world including the Middle East\, Africa\, the Caribbean and Europe. Reconstructing past environments\, charting vegetation and climate changes\, and investigating bioarchaeological evidence from sites and data\, all form an important part of her research. Prior to joining the British Museum\, Caroline was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology\, University College London.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-food-for-the-dead-organic-material-from-ancient-egyptian-funerary-contexts/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161007T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012353Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Using Non-Invasive Chemical Analysis with Mobile Instruments to Understand Artists' Motivation in Antiquity"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Philippe Walter\, Sorbonne Universités\, Université Pierre et Marie CurieThe precious character of the Cultural Heritage artifacts and their uniqueness imply particular cautions and require instruments\, which may give the maximum of information directly on the objects\, in-situ in the museums or in the archaeological sites. The implementation of new analytical tools\, including mobile instruments\, allows a deep insight on the archaeological and artistic materials. We will show the performances of different new mobile instruments (X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction) we built recently in the laboratory to allow in situ characterization of materials\, for instance on prehistoric rock art paintings in France or marble sculptures from Greece (Delphi) and Tunisia (Bardo National Museum)\, alteration products and modes of preparation of different pigments. XRF imaging – in which the surface of an object is scanned with a focussed X-ray beam to obtain elemental distribution images – and hyperspectral imaging can reveal significant new information on the antique polychromy.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-using-non-invasive-chemical-analysis-with-mobile-instruments-to-understand-artists-motivation-in-antiquity/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161005T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012355Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Hubei Road Trip: A Tour of Sites and Museums in Central China"
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Richard Ehrich\, PhD Candidate\, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyDr. Hans Barnard\, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyIn June 2016\, Cotsen affiliates Hans Barnard and Richard Ehrich briefly visited a number of archaeological sites and museums in Wuhan\, Jingzhou\, Xiangyang and Suizhou in the Hubei Province in Central China. Richard is a graduate student who lived in Wuhan to conduct research for his dissertation. He will provide some background information on the sites and collections that they were able to see. He will also give a bit of insight into how it was like doing research in this region. Hans is an archaeologist who has worked in different regions of the world\, but this was his first trip to China. He will discuss his first impressions of archaeological practices in China as an informed outsider.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-hubei-road-trip-a-tour-of-sites-and-museums-in-central-china/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160928T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012357Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Reclaiming Heritage: Community and Indigenous Archaeology in Ifugao\, Philippines"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Stephen Acabado\, Cotsen Institute of ArchaeologyRecent trends in the practice of archaeology have seen the emergence of the active involvement of descendant communities in the research process. This is an important development since the relationship of archaeologists and communities that they work with has been tenuous\, particularly\, when archaeological findings have the potential to contest ethnic identities. As a case in point\, the findings of the Ifugao Archaeological Project (IAP) (Ifugao\, Philippines) force the rethinking of history and question the bases of Ifugao identity\, particularly on how they have been presented in Philippine historical narratives. Ifugao identity is based on wet-rice production and the historical narrative that the Spanish never conquered them. Previously\, the dating of the inception of the Ifugao rice terraces was placed at 2\,000-3\,000 years ago. The findings of the IAP however\, suggest a later inception of the terraces\, which coincided with the arrival of the Spanish in the northern Philippines. Initially\, this finding did not sit well the larger Ifugao descendant communities\, but as experience exemplifies\, the pursuit to actively involve the communities and stakeholders in the research process resolved this issue. We further argue that the inclusion of the voices of different stakeholders in the interpretation of the past is inadequate since it denotes that indigenous stakeholders are simply contributors to\, and not codevelopers or co-investigators of\, research projects. Doing so empowers indigenous stakeholders to take control of their heritage.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-reclaiming-heritage-community-and-indigenous-archaeology-in-ifugao-philippines/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160603T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160603T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012359Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Soto: 2\,300 Years of Evolving Ritual Architecture and Practice at a Monumental Paracas Huaca"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ben Nigra\, PhD Candidate\, UCLA’Paracas’ refers to a polychromatic fine-ware tradition\, a canon of architectural elements\, a set of specific mortuary practices\, and a rich textile tradition associated with Peru’s southern coast during the first millennium BCE. Despite decades of research dedicated to Paracas ‘art’\, craft goods and iconography\, south coast archaeologists struggle to understand the basic sociopolitical character of Paracas and the social and material conditions that drove its development through time. Excavations at Huaca Soto (2014-2015) re-calibrate this narrative by examining the evolution of monumental ceremonial architecture in the Chincha Valley. Our investigation further suggests that Paracas platform mounds became widely recognized as huacas\, or sacred spaces\, that garnered attention from later Wari\, Chincha and Inca groups. Huaca Soto thus provides a case study on the appearance and evolution of coastal monuments in the long-term – spanning the first millennium BCE to today.  
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-soto-2300-years-of-evolving-ritual-architecture-and-practice-at-a-monumental-paracas-huaca/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012518Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: " 'Mycenae\, Rich in Silver': Silver\, Gold\, and Maritime Trade in the Early Mycenaean World"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Jorrit Kelder\, University of OxfordThis presentation aims to provide an overview of the earliest contacts between the Greek (Mycenaean) world and Egypt\, between ca. 1600 BC and 1100 BC. By highlighting a number of objects that have been found in Egypt and the Aegean\, this paper proposes that the earliest contacts between these two regions may have started in the context of long-distance trade in precious metals (with silver coming from the Aegean\, and gold exported from Egypt). From the 14th century BC onwards\, these early trading encounters developed into a much closer\, ‘special relationship’\, which involved the exchange of goods\, plants\, and possibly mercenaries.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-mycenae-rich-in-silver-silver-gold-and-maritime-trade-in-the-early-mycenaean-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012528Z
UID:362-1464177600-1464181200@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Ceramics from Mai Adrasha\, Ethiopia: A First Look at the Western Highlands"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rachel Moy\, PhD Candidate\, UCLAThis talk will summarize the preliminary results of the first season of excavation and research of the UCLA Shire Project at the site of Mai Adrasha in the northwestern Ethiopian highlands. I will discuss how Mai Adrasha fits into what we know of a larger pre-Aksumite to Early Aksumite cultural and political context. Due to how few excavated sites date to these periods\, research needs to start with basic descriptions before we can make any firm broader conclusions. My dissertation will focus on the ceramic data from Mai Adrasha. I plan to start with the raw data to create four typologies each with a different method. I will then compare the four typologies taking into account the strengths and weakness of each. From these results\, I will develop a more robust method to describe the ceramic data\, and from this base\, we can begin to describe more broadly the site of Mai Adrasha\, its surroundings\, and its broader cultural and political context.      
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-ceramics-from-mai-adrasha-ethiopia-a-first-look-at-the-western-highlands/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012522Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: " 'What is the Past But a Once Material Existence Now Silenced?' Understanding the Archaeology and History of Egypt's First Intermediate Period"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Thomas Schneider\, University of British ColumbiaThe First Intermediate Period has presented archaeology and historiography with significant epistemological problems. Gaps in the evidence available to us and the uncertainty about how to interpret a variety of material and textual sources\, have as much led to widely different views as modern paradigmatic shifts\, depicting theFIP either as a time of crisis or to the contrary\, a time of regional innovation. This paper will look at the methodological problems with which archaeologists and historians of the FIP are faced today. What can we know today and what are possible avenues of future research?
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-what-is-the-past-but-a-once-material-existence-now-silenced-understanding-the-archaeology-and-history-of-egypts-first-intermediate-period/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012529Z
UID:364-1463572800-1463576400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Pars pro toto: Prehistoric Pottery Fragments and Archaeological Narratives at Ancient Methone\, Northern Greece"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Marriana Nikolaidou\, UCLAMarianna Nikolaidou holds a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece\, and is a research associate at the Cotsen Institute since 1994. Her research and fieldwork focus on the Neolithic and Bronze Ages of the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. She has published extensively on gender issues\, symbolism and ritual\, ceramic iconography and technology\, adornment\, and the history of archaeology. Projects with the  Cotsen include: the publication of  ornaments and ceramics from Sitagroi\, study of ceramic technology  at Tell Mozan in Syria\, and currently the analysis and study of prehistoric pottery at the excavations at Ancient Methone. The pottery from Methone is the topic of her talk. Dating to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age\, the material illuminates three millennia of prehistoric occupation at this key site  on the Northern Aegean coast\, and provides insights to the prehistory of the region.”
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-pars-pro-toto-prehistoric-pottery-fragments-and-archaeological-narratives-at-ancient-methone-northern-greece/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160515T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160515T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012526Z
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SUMMARY:Wep Wa-ut in Westwood: Ancient Technology
DESCRIPTION:The ancient world is characterized by technological innovations and the creation of beautiful objects of art and daily life. On this public lecture day UCLA graduate and undergraduate students will explore who the people were that made these\, what techniques they used\, and how we can learn about their social circumstances.This event is free and open to the public. Schedule:10.00-10.20         Carrie Arbuckle                Wood10.20-10.40         Adam Dibattista                Bone10.40-11.00         Cara Lam                          Slaughtering as a Religious Act11.00-11.20         Salah Halim                       Bread11.20-11.30         questions11.30-11.40         coffee break11.40-12.00         Vera Rondano                   Faience12.20-12.40         Chelsi Dimm                     Pottery12.40-1.00           Sam Gonzalez                  Pottery1.00-1.10             questions1.10-2.15             Break2.20-2.40             Timberlyn Woolf               Mud brick2.40-3.00             Ceanna Van Eaton           Quarrying3.00-3.20             Idi Okilo                            Stelae3.20-3.30             questions3.30-3.40             tea break3.40-4.00             Nadia Ben-Marzouk         Metal4.00-4.20             Dani Candelora                Hyksos4.20-4.40             Heidi Hilliker                     Textile4.40-5.00             Luke Breinig                     Time5.00-5.10             questions
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/wep-wa-ut-in-westwood-ancient-technology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012535Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Black Lives Matter: Reflecting on the Development of African American and African Diaspora Archaeology"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Merrick Posnansky\, UCLA Professor EmeritusBlack Lives Matter has been a contentious political and Social concern in recent years but most of the heat has concerned the present situation of Police violence on Black youth in the USA. My own concern is with the general decrease of interest in the lives of poorly documented Blacks before the 1960’s. Archaeology has been the key for understanding much of the nature of the transplantation and acculturation of Africans in the New World. This presentation seeks to review the history of and growth of African American archaeology from the 1940’s when it was realized that much of African culture and behavior survived the Atlantic Slave Trade. UCLA doctoral research has been in the forefront of American research and has covered plantation societies in the Caribbean and Louisiana\, the nature of free maroon societies in remote parts of the Caribbean and South America\, the nature of free African life in both the Caribbean and the United States and the excavation of landmark sites such as the Harriet Tubman house. Though reference will be made to current research\,  including biogenetic studies and the extension of Diasporan archaeology to both maroon (runaway slaves) societies in the New World and to the West African points of departure\, the talk seeks to emphasize that more work urgently needs to be done in Africa American Archaeology. It is vital that African American  archaeology\, as well as the archaeology of other American minorities\, be integrated into University courses both in Anthropology and History courses dealing with the early histories of peoples in North America.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-black-lives-matter-reflecting-on-the-development-of-african-american-and-african-diaspora-archaeology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012536Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Pottery as Information Technology on the North Coast of Andean South America"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Cathy Costin\, California State University\, NorthridgeAlthough some have suggested that North Coast ceramics are characterized by a stable technological style over thousands of  years\, evidence indicates that several aesthetic and technological styles “coexisted” with one another; they waxed and waned in popularity depending in large measure on the social and political environments in which ceramics were made and used. In this presentation\, I consider how choices made in the production of decorated ceramics on the North Coast of Peru influenced and were influenced by the use of these vessels as information technology. Choices about forming\, decorating\, and firing processes conditioned how pottery looked and felt and affected the efficacy and efficiency of wares used to convey information about individual identity\, social group affiliation\, and important ideological concepts. I discuss those technological and aesthetic choices that relate specifically to appearance within their broader sociopolitical contexts\, focusing on how pottery was used to encode symbolic messages and visually transmit significant messages. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-pottery-as-information-technology-on-the-north-coast-of-andean-south-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012537Z
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SUMMARY:Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in Palau\, Micronesia
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URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/stones-of-the-butterfly-archaeological-investigation-of-yapese-stone-money-quarries-in-palau-micronesia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012539Z
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UID:374-1462363200-1462366800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Currents and Commodities: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott Fitzpatrick\, University of OregonFor many island societies worldwide\, the acquisition and exchange of prized resources was fundamental to developing and maintaining social\, political\, and economic relationships. The patchiness of resources like stone\, clay\, tempering agents\, shell\, and animals often led to differential access which then helped to fuel the rise of social complexity. This presentation considers questions of resource acquisition as mediated by oceanographic and wind conditions\, comparing results from archaeological projects in the Pacific and the Caribbean.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-currents-and-commodities-how-oceanographic-effects-influenced-the-prehistoric-colonization-of-islands/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160430T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012540Z
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SUMMARY:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House
DESCRIPTION:Fowler OutSpoken TalkTua Pittman on Traditional Sea Voyaging and NavigationSaturday\, April 30\, 1:30 pm Internationally recognized as a traditional voyaging seafarer\, Tua Pitman has navigated canoes for over thirty years without the use of modern instruments. He uses a traditional navigation system based on observations of the stars\, sun\, moon\, the ocean swells\, the flight patterns of birds and other natural signs. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-institute-of-archaeology-open-house-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T073816
CREATED:20230314T012544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012544Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Archaeological Expedition to Sinop\, Turkey: Exploring the Origins of Trade at the Nexus of Eurasian Civilizations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Owen Doonan\, California State University\, NorthridgeAncient Sinop was the crossroads of the ancient Black Sea\, which has been itself described by the distinguished historian Georges Bratianu as the “Turntable of Eurasia.”Owen Doonan has led an interdisciplinary archaeological expedition to the Sinop region since the mid-1990s and through that research program has established a basic sequence of settlement\, economic and cultural history in the region. The research has significant implications for the understanding of: (1) the entanglement of colonial and indigenous communities (ca. 630-200 BC); (2) the establishment of Roman infrastructure (1st – 3rd centuries AD) in a remote region of Asia Minor (the Roman term for modern Turkey); (3) the impact of the establishment of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) as the seat of a world empire\, ca. 330-600 AD; and (4) the mysterious collapse of the flourishing Byzantine rural system ca. 650 AD.Starting in the summer of 2015 Dr. Doonan’s team has initiated a long-term program of excavations at Sinop kale\, the heart of the ancient port and colony. He will speak on the new excavations in the context of the systematic survey and broader cultural and economic trends in the region.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-archaeological-expedition-to-sinop-turkey-exploring-the-origins-of-trade-at-the-nexus-of-eurasian-civilizations/
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