Speaker: Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Associate Professor, Columbia UniversitySince 2014, Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology has conducted excavations and geophysical survey at the sanctuary of Poseidon in Onchestos, the seat of the Boeotian Confederacy and a major sacred site of Central Greece, under the auspices of the Athens Archaeological Society. Excavation focuses on two large areas between Thebes and Haliartos, where […]

Speaker:Dr. Ian Hodder, Stanford University

Speaker:Erik Gjesfjeld, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLAHuman populations in the past and present have shown a remarkable ability to inhabit diverse and unpredictable environments. This research explores how archaeological remains can examine the use of risk-reducing strategies, such as social networking and technological innovation, in the remote Kuril Islands of Northeast Asia. Results from this research suggest that social safety nets may […]

Speaker: Ian Morris, Stanford UniversityNote: this Friday Seminar has been cancelled. 

Speaker:Travis Stanton, Associate Professor, UC RiversideNote: this Pizza Talk has been cancelled. 

Speaker:Alexis Boutin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sonoma State UniversitySince 2008, the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project has been studying and publishing the materials from Peter B. Cornwall’s 1940-41 expedition to Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia, which now reside in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. This multi-disciplinary team is adding to anthropologists’ understanding of how […]

Join us on Friday, March 11 at 7PM, as we celebrate the donation of the Berekian Family archive to the Chitjian Research Archives and the Armenian Research Program in Archaeology and Ethnography at UCLA.See the flyer below for details.Reception to follow.Please RSVP at kristineolsh@ucla.edu by March 9th, 2016. 

Speaker: Dr. Ali Drine, Archaeological Researcher and Director of Archaeological Mapping, Institut National du Patrimoine in TunisiaThe site of Zita was a political and economic hub situated on the Zarzis Peninsula in the region of Tripolitania, southern Tunisia. Historical sources make reference to the site, including the Itinerarium Antonini and the Tabula Peutingeriana. A Carthaginian […]

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and the Institute of Field Research present a public lecture:Medieval Ireland: An Overview of 1,000 Years from the Archaeological and Historical RecordDr. Stephen MandelVice Chairperson of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for ArchaeologyThe Medieval Period in Ireland is often defined in terms of specific events, from St Patrick […]

Speaker: Dr. Emily Lindsey, University of California, BerkeleyFor decades a debate has raged over the relative contributions of human activities and environmental change in driving the extinction of most of earth’s large mammals near the end of the last ice age. Recent research by our group in South America draws on archaeological, paleontological, paleoclimatological, quantitative modeling, and geochemical studies in order to […]