Cotsen Institute of Archaeolgy at UCLA and Archaeological Institute of AmericaPresent:Dr. Andrea RicciGerman Archaeological Institute – Eurasia Dept.2015 AIA-DAI Fellow at the Cotsen Institute (UCLA) “Early settlement of the Southern Caucasus: recent discoveries of the German-Azerbaijani investigations in the Mil Plain (Southern Azerbaijan)”The talk will address the latest results of the interdisciplinary project “Kura in Motion”, […]
CIoA Press Back-to-School Book SaleUp to 50% off!The CIoA Press is celebrating the start of the new school year with a book sale. New books on the last days of the Inca, an important site in Mesopotamia, and many more!New titles will be 20% offSlightly damaged books are 50% offBargain Bags! Buy a tote for […]
Speaker: James Potter, PaleoWest Archaeology, INC.This presentation will discuss the formation, development, and dissolution of an early prehispanic community in Southwestern Colorado. At its height the Ridges Basin community, dating from A.D. 750-825, comprised approximately 75 households organized in pithouse clusters. Households in these clusters were diverse in their backgrounds and social identities, regularly exercised violence against one another, […]
Speaker: Karl Taube, Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology, UC RiversideArchaeological fieldwork performed by the Proyecto Chichen Itza under the direction of Peter Schmidt during 1999 to 2002 uncovered a remarkable series of bas-relief friezes from the upper portions of palace and temple structures. The focus of this study will be buildings featuring avian and floral imagery, including abundant […]
Speaker: David Scott, Professor, Art History, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Speaker: John Dietler, Principal Investigator, SWCA Environmental Consultants
Speaker: Mauricio Hernandez, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLAThis presentation shows the results of the preliminary analysis of long-term patterns of nutrition and activity as a result of climatic shift, subsistence changes and increased inter-cultural contact along a prehistoric exchange route across arid mountain passes and oasis towns, linking the Central Eurasian Plains with the Yellow River […]
Speaker: Henry Colburn, Postdoctoral Fellow, Getty Museum; Curatorial Fellow, Harvard Art MuseumsThis study uses identity to examine the experience of Achaemenid Persian rule in Egypt (c. 526-404 BCE). Individuals in Egypt chose the material culture that they believed best suited their identities in the context of votive statues and seals. Some chose traditional Egyptian types, while others drew […]
Speaker: Dr. Edward Pollard, British Institute in East Africa
Speaker: Dr. Adam Watson, American Museum of Natural History