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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T160000
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: TBA
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ian Morris\, Stanford UniversityNote: this Friday Seminar has been cancelled. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cancelled-friday-seminar-tba/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T130000
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Modeling Strategies of Risk-Reduction in the Kuril Islands"
DESCRIPTION: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 be an important mechanism for mitigating the effects of environmental unpredictability and that populations tend to become more technologically conservative in unpredictable landscapes. These findings help to highlight some of the misconceptions surrounding the concept of risk and support the future analysis of risk-reducing adaptations using material culture.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-modeling-strategies-of-risk-reduction-in-the-kuril-islands/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T180000
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UID:389-1456502400-1456509600@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Epistemological Issues Raised by Theories of Entanglement"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Dr. Ian Hodder\, Stanford University
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-epistemological-issues-raised-by-theories-of-entanglement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Excavations at the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Boeotian Onchestos (Greece): Report on the First Two Campaigns"
DESCRIPTION: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 geomagnetic survey also provided much information on subsurface architectural remains. The excavation has already yielded a rich array of finds: vases and vase-fragments (several bearing graffiti)\, numerous bronze objects (including several strigils)\, bronze and silver coins\, weapons (among them a fully preserved sword)\, objects associated with horse- and chariot races\, and many architectural elements (including several architectural terracotas bearing floral and abstract decoration in black\, white\, and red color on a beige background).
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-excavations-at-the-sanctuary-of-poseidon-in-boeotian-onchestos-greece-report-on-the-first-two-campaigns/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
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UID:391-1455897600-1455904800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Long-distance Networks in Neolithic Europe"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Dr. Caroline von Nicolai\, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-long-distance-networks-in-neolithic-europe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160217T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012637Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Transport Amphoras\, Symposia\, and Early Iron Age Economies"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Lawall\, University of Manitoba
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-transport-amphoras-symposia-and-early-iron-age-economies/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T130000
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CREATED:20230314T012640Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Bone Weary: Labor in the South American Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100) from a Bioarchaeological Perspective"
DESCRIPTION: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 of the earliest Andean states in South America. This study examines the impact that state formation had on patterns of human labor observable on the bones of people who lived during the Tiwanaku state. State structure and social organization were evaluated through temporal and spatial labor changes associated with the activity of individuals\, in order to provide a comparative framework of specic skeletal evidence to the extant archaeological record. Also\, by examining the age and sex of these laborers\, peoples’ gender roles or status dierences within this emerging state can be discussed. This investigation answers questions about what tasks people were doing within Tiwanaku\, how the state was organized\, as well as highlights the importance of reciprocal communal labor networks in order for a complex Andean society to function successfully.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-bone-weary-labor-in-the-south-american-tiwanaku-state-ad-500-1100-from-a-bioarchaeological-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T160000
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SUMMARY:Keynote Address\, 6th Annual UCLA Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Conference
DESCRIPTION: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 explores how people in the ancient US Southwest were able recreate their society\, moving from difficult and violent times to a more prosperous and peaceful way of life. Another considers how people’s labor changed as they became incorporated into the Inka Empire. And a third draws on studies of Nazi labor camps to ask whether and how we can know the suffering of others. The talk concludes with future directions of AHE\, including ideas for experiential archaeology and historical/comparative perspectives.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/keynote-address-6th-annual-ucla-interdisciplinary-archaeology-research-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160203T130000
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CREATED:20230314T012644Z
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UID:395-1454500800-1454504400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Tunneling with Technology: Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Site of El Zotz\, Guatemala"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Thomas Garrison\, Assistant Professor\, USC
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-tunneling-with-technology-recent-investigations-at-the-classic-maya-site-of-el-zotz-guatemala/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012650Z
UID:396-1454083200-1454090400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Comanche Visual Culture and the Theater of War"
DESCRIPTION: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 both succumbed to the American imperial project. We used to know who the barbarians were as well: as the Germanic hordes were to Rome\, so the bellicose equestrian tribes of the Plains were to European and Euro-American civilizations. But now these story lines come undone. Now we are told that\, for much of the colonial era\, some of the most ambitious imperial actors were Native American—and that the Comanche in particular were involved in a strange form of reversed colonialism\, startling the European colonizers by beginning to colonize them in return. Are there archaeological remains that speak to the new\, more complicated colonial dynamics recently identied by revisionist historians?
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-comanche-visual-culture-and-the-theater-of-war/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012652Z
UID:397-1453896000-1453899600@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "In the Eye of the Storm: The Resilience of the Urkesh Project in the midst of the Syrian War"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Giorgio Buccellati\, Professor Emeritus\, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-in-the-eye-of-the-storm-the-resilience-of-the-urkesh-project-in-the-midst-of-the-syrian-war/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160120T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012654Z
UID:398-1453291200-1453294800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Uncovering a Lost City of the Qarakhanid Empire: Alpine Urbanism in Medieval Uzbekistan"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Michael Frachetti\, Associate Professor\, Washington University in St. Louis
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-uncovering-a-lost-city-of-the-qarakhanid-empire-alpine-urbanism-in-medieval-uzbekistan/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012655Z
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UID:399-1452873600-1452880800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Plant-based Subsistence Strategies and Development of Complex Societies in Neolithic Northeast China: Evidence from Grinding Stones"
DESCRIPTION: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 the time when millet-based agriculture may have intensified. However\, grinding stones were continuously used by people throughout the entire Neolithic period in the Liao River region of Northeast China. The different trajectories in food processing methods (with or without grinding stones) in the two regions are likely related to diverse types of plants exploited; and we need to understand what plants were involved. By employing residue (starch and phytoliths) and usewear analyses\, this study investigates the functions of grinding stones recovered at several sites in the Liao River region\, dating to ca. 5800-3000 BC. The results suggest that the people utilized a broad-spectrum subsistence strategy throughout the entire Neolithic\, using various wild\, cultivated\, and domesticated plants\, including tubers/roots\, cereals\, beans\, and nuts. The earliest domesticates in the Xinglongwa period include millets and Job’s tears. Rice may have been introduced to the region for the first time during the Hongshan period\, coinciding with the rise of regional elite and intensified interactions with other Neolithic cultures in the south. This study sheds new light on the plant-use strategies of the grinding-stone users who developed complex societies in the Neolithic Liao River region.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-plant-based-subsistence-strategies-and-development-of-complex-societies-in-neolithic-northeast-china-evidence-from-grinding-stones/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160113T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012657Z
UID:400-1452686400-1452690000@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Q&A with Lord and Lady Renfrew"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Colin Renfrew\, Senior Fellow\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-qa-with-lord-and-lady-renfrew/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012705Z
UID:401-1452538800-1452546000@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Indo-European Origins Revisited: New Data\, New Problems
DESCRIPTION: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 on ancient DNA has\, however\, brought the steppe theory back into prominence. The Indo-European question remains controversial and will be reviewed – but perhaps not resolved! The lecture is free to the public. Parking at Lot #4 (Sunset and Westwood) is $12 for 24 hours\, hourly parking available. 
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/indo-european-origins-revisited-new-data-new-problems/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151202T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012707Z
UID:402-1449057600-1449061200@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project: The First Two Years"
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: John Papadopoulos\, Professor\, Department of Classics\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLASarah Morris\, Professor\, Department of Classics\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLA
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-ancient-methone-archaeological-project-the-first-two-years/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012709Z
UID:403-1448035200-1448042400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Historical Counterfactuals in Archaeological Reasoning"
DESCRIPTION: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 different at some time in the past\, then the downstream outcome O would have been differ-ent.” Counterfactual claims are closely related to the idea that history is contingent—an idea that Stephen Jay Gould made popular in paleontology with his famous thought experiment of replaying the tape of history. However\, counterfactual rea-soning remains controversial among historians\, some of whom see no value in speculating (for example) about how things would be different if Al Gore had won the presidential election in 2000. One major challenge is explaining what would count as evidence for or against counterfactuals. In this talk\, the speaker will (1) provide an overview of some of the relevant philosophical work on the epistemology of historical counter-factuals\, and (2) argue that counterfactual reasoning does have a legitimate\, if limited role to play in archaeologists’ efforts to reconstruct the past.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-historical-counterfactuals-in-archaeological-reasoning/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012711Z
UID:404-1447848000-1447851600@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "A Study in Plaster: Archaeology\, Conservation\, and Late Roman Visual Culture in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Susanna McFadden\, Assistant Professor\, Fordham University; Getty Museum Scholar
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-a-study-in-plaster-archaeology-conservation-and-late-roman-visual-culture-in-egypts-dakhleh-oasis/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151114T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151114T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012713Z
UID:405-1447498800-1447520400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The 2nd Hampartzoum and Ovsanna Chitjian Conference in Armenian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Featured Speakers: Dr. Marco Brambilla\, Prof. Touraj Daryaee\, Ms. Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky\, Prof. Bert Vaux
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-2nd-hampartzoum-and-ovsanna-chitjian-conference-in-armenian-studies/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012720Z
UID:406-1447430400-1447437600@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Power and Exotica: Pre-Columbian Exchange and Social Transformation in Chaco Canyon"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Adam Watson\, American Museum of Natural History
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-power-and-exotica-pre-columbian-exchange-and-social-transformation-in-chaco-canyon/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012722Z
UID:407-1446825600-1446832800@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friday Seminar: "Why Land Here? Second-Millennium AD Ports and Harbors in Southeast Tanzania"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Edward Pollard\, British Institute in East Africa
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/friday-seminar-why-land-here-second-millennium-ad-ports-and-harbors-in-southeast-tanzania/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012724Z
UID:408-1446638400-1446642000@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Interrogating Identities in Achaemenid Egypt"
DESCRIPTION: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 on a wider array of forms\, some of which clearly referred to the Achaemenid royal court. The variation in these choices suggests that contrary to prevailing views there was not a clear divide between subjects and subjugators in Achaemenid Egypt. Rather\, different people experienced Achaemenid rule in different ways. The identities examined in this talk attest to a social environment in Egypt in which multiple cultural traditions were valued and employed side by side. Indeed\, this finding is consistent with the ecumenical character of Achaemenid ideology\, as represented in the sculptural program at Persepolis.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-interrogating-identities-in-achaemenid-egypt/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012729Z
UID:410-1446033600-1446037200@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Ecology\, Subsistence\, and Cultural Admixture: A Bioarchaeological Perspective of Community Health Along Northwest China's Prehistoric Trade Networks"
DESCRIPTION: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 valley 2\,000 years before the founding of the Silk Road trading networks. It is during this period that a climate cooling event began to drive Eurasian groups eastward to establish trade networks in order to obtain agricultural products and raw material for metalworking. Northern Chinese communities in turn benefited from Central Eurasian jade\, introduction of new western cultigens\, grazing animals\, and cultural innovation with Inner Asian motifs. The goal is to investigate whether shifts in subsistence practices and perhaps kinship structure as a result of longterm cultural interaction with Eurasian peoples affected the livelihood and health of populations residing in the intermediate zone\, covering the region of eastern Xinjiang\, Gansu and eastern Qinghai – both as entire communities\, as well as along gender lines.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-ecology-subsistence-and-cultural-admixture-a-bioarchaeological-perspective-of-community-health-along-northwest-chinas-prehistoric-trade-networks/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012735Z
UID:411-1445428800-1445432400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "A Huge Beehive of Industry: Native American Work and Life at Mission San Gabriel\, California"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Dietler\, Principal Investigator\, SWCA Environmental Consultants
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-a-huge-beehive-of-industry-native-american-work-and-life-at-mission-san-gabriel-california/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151014T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012737Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Art Restoration and its Contextualization"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Scott\, Professor\, Art History\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLA
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-art-restoration-and-its-contextualization/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151007T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012739Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "The Birth of Ehecatl and the Origins of Cacao: The Initial Series Group at Chichen Itza\, Mexico"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Karl Taube\, Professor and Department Chair\, Anthropology\, UC RiversideArchaeological fieldwork performed by the Proyecto Chichen Itza under the direction of Peter Schmidt during 1999 to 2002 uncovered a remarkable series of bas-relief friezes from the upper portions of palace and temple structures. The focus of this study will be buildings featuring avian and floral imagery\, including abundant representations of cacao. Many of the friezes contain scenes portraying an avian-headed figure playing music surrounded by floating elements pertaining to music and dance. The relation of music to precious birds is well known for Late Postclassic Central Mexico\, however it is becoming increasingly clear that a very similar complex existed among the more ancient Classic Maya\, including the wind deity — god of music and closely related to flowers as well as the embodiment of the breath soul. In this study\, I argue that the avian figure in the Initial Series at Chichen Itza constitutes an Early Postclassic form of the wind god and as such\, can be considered as an ancestral form of Ehecatl. Moreover\, the Initial Series Group has the most developed monumental program dedicated to the production of cacao in ancient Mesoamerica\, with the immediate topography strongly indicating why.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-the-birth-of-ehecatl-and-the-origins-of-cacao-the-initial-series-group-at-chichen-itza-mexico/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150930T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012741Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Talk: "Conflict and Treachery in the Sacred Ridge Community\, Southwest Colorado"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Potter\, PaleoWest Archaeology\, INC.This presentation will discuss the formation\, development\, and dissolution of an early prehispanic community in Southwestern Colorado. At its height the Ridges Basin community\, dating from A.D. 750-825\, comprised approximately 75 households organized in pithouse clusters. Households in these clusters were diverse in their backgrounds and social identities\, regularly exercised violence against one another\, and were variably connected to other communities and the larger outside world. The result was a community that developed and changed rapidly\, exhibited fluid boundaries and volatile social relations among households\, and came to a quick and violent end. Various models will be explored to explain the final massacre at the Sacred Ridge site.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/pizza-talk-conflict-and-treachery-in-the-sacred-ridge-community-southwest-colorado/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150922T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151030T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012726Z
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SUMMARY:2015 Back-to-School Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:CIoA Press Back-to-School Book SaleUp to 50% off!The CIoA Press is celebrating the start of the new school year with a book sale. New books on the last days of the Inca\, an important site in Mesopotamia\, and many more!New titles will be 20% offSlightly damaged books are 50% offBargain Bags! Buy a tote for $10 and fill with all of the bargain books you can fit!And starting this year\, the chance to win prizes including free books\, water bottles\, and individual electronic chapters!CIoA water bottles\, t-shirts\, postcards\, and hats will also be available.A list of available titles with the sale prices can be downloaded here: bts_title_list.pdf
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/2015-back-to-school-book-sale/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150618T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150618T151500
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012743Z
UID:415-1434636900-1434640500@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cotsen Public Lecture 2015
DESCRIPTION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeolgy at UCLA  and Archaeological Institute of AmericaPresent:Dr. Andrea RicciGerman Archaeological Institute – Eurasia Dept.2015 AIA-DAI Fellow at the Cotsen Institute (UCLA) “Early settlement of the Southern Caucasus: recent discoveries of the German-Azerbaijani investigations in the Mil Plain (Southern Azerbaijan)”The talk will address the latest results of the interdisciplinary project “Kura in Motion”\, which has been investigating early sedentism along the Kura Valley since 2010. Focus will be on the landscape of survival of the Mil Plain of Southern Azerbaijan\, where a series of late Neolithic (6th Mill. BCE) sites have been investigated with intensive survey and excavation.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-public-lecture-2015/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140550
CREATED:20230314T012750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T012750Z
UID:416-1430571600-1430582400@ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House 2015
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is holding its annual Open House this Saturday\, May 2nd\, from 1-4. Stop by and find out what current research the faculty is undertaking and visit the different labs housed at the Institute. Make sure to stop by room A410 to visit our lab and learn about the different methods we use to examine archaeological objects.
URL:https://ioa.pre2.ss.ucla.edu/event/ucla-cotsen-institute-of-archaeology-open-house-2015/
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