[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: TBA
Speaker: Ian Morris, Stanford UniversityNote: this Friday Seminar has been cancelled.
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[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 […]
Medieval Ireland: An Overview of 1,000 Years from the Archaeological and Historical Record
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 […]
Friday Seminar: “Human-environment Synergies in Driving Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinctions in South America”
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 […]
Pizza Talk: ” 19th Century Archaeology Meets Sacred Landscape: A Second Look at Quen Santo”
Speaker: James Brady, Cal State University, Los AngelesDuring the last decade of the 19th century, four cave studies of exceptional quality were produced. The best was Eduard Seler’s report on Quen Santo in Huehuetenango, Guatemala because of the exceptional finds still associated with the cave at that time. As a grad student at UCLA, Brady […]
Pizza Talk: “The Centrality of the Outer Fertile Crescent: A View from Aradetis Orgora”
Speaker: Marilyn Kelly Buccellati, UCLA2010 was our last excavating season in the ancient city of Urkesh in the northeastern corner of Syria although we went to the site in December 2011 to meet with the local staff to assure continuing their work on conservation and site presentation. With the impossibility of excavating at Urkesh during […]
Friday Seminar: “Motivations and Mechanisms in Technological Change: Examples from the Talc-Faience Complexes of the Indus Valley Tradition”
Speaker: Dr. Heather Miller, University of TorontoArchaeological interest in technological change focuses on both invention and production by craftspeople, and on social issues related to adoption of new technologies. We recognize that technological change involves both motivations and mechanisms for change, with respect to both the invention and innovation/adoption ends of the spectrum. The possible motivations and mechanisms for […]
