This two day symposium (preceded by an opening ceremony and meal on the evening of July 20th) will gather Native and non-Native museum professionals, tribal members, and contemporary Native carvers to discuss the challenges of preserving and exhibiting historic monumental wood carvings from both a Native and Non-Native view point. It will also serve to […]

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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 […]

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”, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Speaker: David Scott, Professor, Art History, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA