Pizza Talk: “Q&A with Lord and Lady Renfrew”
Speaker: Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
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Friday Seminar: “Plant-based Subsistence Strategies and Development of Complex Societies in Neolithic Northeast China: Evidence from Grinding Stones”
Speaker:Li Liu, Stanford UniversityIn China, grinding stones first appeared during the Upper Paleolithic period, and were one of the dominant tool types in many early Neolithic sites. Grinding stones were primarily used for processing plant foods and other materials. They gradually disappear in the archaeological record after 5000 BC in the Yellow River region at […]
Pizza Talk: “Uncovering a Lost City of the Qarakhanid Empire: Alpine Urbanism in Medieval Uzbekistan”
Speaker:Michael Frachetti, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Pizza Talk: “In the Eye of the Storm: The Resilience of the Urkesh Project in the midst of the Syrian War”
Speaker:Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Friday Seminar: “Comanche Visual Culture and the Theater of War”
Speaker:Severin Fowles, Barnard College, ColumbiaThe colonial history of the American Southwest looks quite a bit dierent today than it did only a decade ago. We used to know who the empires were: the Spanish imperial project began in the sixteenth century, held back the advance of the French imperial project for the better part of a century, before […]
Pizza Talk: “Tunneling with Technology: Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Site of El Zotz, Guatemala”
Speaker:Thomas Garrison, Assistant Professor, USC
Keynote Address, 6th Annual UCLA Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Conference
Speaker:Michelle Hegmon, Arizona State UniversityThe Archaeology of the Human Experience (AHE) is a new initiative concerned with understanding what it was actually like to live in the past that archaeologists study (Hegmon 2013, 2016). I will begin the talk by explaining the origins and goals of AHE. Then, I will describe, in some depth, several examples of AHEresearch. One […]
Pizza Talk: “Bone Weary: Labor in the South American Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100) from a Bioarchaeological Perspective”
Speaker: Sara Becker, Assistant Professor, UC RiversideThere are a number of approaches in understanding how human civilizations evolved into complex, state-level societies. Labor organization as part of resource management is one way to distinguish these changes and bioarchaeology provides a unique opportunity to study the remains of the actual people who worked within these communities. This research addresses labor organization and distribution within Tiwanaku (AD 500-1100), one […]
Pizza Talk: “Transport Amphoras, Symposia, and Early Iron Age Economies”
Speaker: Mark Lawall, University of Manitoba
Friday Seminar: “Long-distance Networks in Neolithic Europe”
Speaker:Dr. Caroline von Nicolai, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
