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

Featured Speakers: Dr. Marco Brambilla, Prof. Touraj Daryaee, Ms. Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Prof. Bert Vaux

Speaker: Susanna McFadden, Assistant Professor, Fordham University; Getty Museum Scholar

Speaker: Dr. Derek Turner, Connecticut CollegeOver the last fifteen years or so, philosophers of science have made a lot of progress toward understanding how researchers in fields such as paleontology, geology, and archaeology re-construct the past. One neglected issue, however, is counter-factual reasoning. An historical counterfactual claim has the form: “If condition C had been […]

Speakers: John Papadopoulos, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLASarah Morris, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA

Professor Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge  The image of mounted nomad warriors from the steppe lands of Russia bringing the Proto-Indo-European language to Europe has been displaced in recent years by new models;  the early spread of farming from Anatolia became a preferred explanation for language replacement. Recent work […]

Speaker: Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research