Pizza Talk: “A Huge Beehive of Industry: Native American Work and Life at Mission San Gabriel, California”
Speaker: John Dietler, Principal Investigator, SWCA Environmental Consultants
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Pizza Talk: “Ecology, Subsistence, and Cultural Admixture: A Bioarchaeological Perspective of Community Health Along Northwest China’s Prehistoric Trade Networks”
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 […]
Pizza Talk: “Interrogating Identities in Achaemenid Egypt”
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 […]
Friday Seminar: “Why Land Here? Second-Millennium AD Ports and Harbors in Southeast Tanzania”
Speaker: Dr. Edward Pollard, British Institute in East Africa
Friday Seminar: “Power and Exotica: Pre-Columbian Exchange and Social Transformation in Chaco Canyon”
Speaker: Dr. Adam Watson, American Museum of Natural History
The 2nd Hampartzoum and Ovsanna Chitjian Conference in Armenian Studies
Featured Speakers: Dr. Marco Brambilla, Prof. Touraj Daryaee, Ms. Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Prof. Bert Vaux
Pizza Talk: “A Study in Plaster: Archaeology, Conservation, and Late Roman Visual Culture in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis”
Speaker: Susanna McFadden, Assistant Professor, Fordham University; Getty Museum Scholar
Friday Seminar: “Historical Counterfactuals in Archaeological Reasoning”
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 […]
Pizza Talk: “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project: The First Two Years”
Speakers: John Papadopoulos, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLASarah Morris, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Indo-European Origins Revisited: New Data, New Problems
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 […]
