Pizza Talk: “Transport Amphoras, Symposia, and Early Iron Age Economies”
Speaker: Mark Lawall, University of Manitoba
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Friday Seminar: “Long-distance Networks in Neolithic Europe”
Speaker:Dr. Caroline von Nicolai, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Pizza Talk: “Excavations at the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Boeotian Onchestos (Greece): Report on the First Two Campaigns”
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 […]
Friday Seminar: “Epistemological Issues Raised by Theories of Entanglement”
Speaker:Dr. Ian Hodder, Stanford University
Pizza Talk: “Modeling Strategies of Risk-Reduction in the Kuril Islands”
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 […]
[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: TBA
Speaker: Ian Morris, Stanford UniversityNote: this Friday Seminar has been cancelled.
[CANCELLED] Pizza Talk: “Settlement Patterns and LiDAR in Central Yucatan: Evaluating the Potential of Remote Sensing in Conditions of Comples Canopy”
Speaker:Travis Stanton, Associate Professor, UC RiversideNote: this Pizza Talk has been cancelled.
Friday Seminar: “Stories from the Skeleton: Masculinity, Old Age, & Disability in Ancient Bahrain”
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 […]
Berekian Family Manuscripts Donation to the Armenian Archives at UCLA
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.
Pizza Talk: “The Ancient Site of Zita in Southern Tunisia”
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 […]
