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 […]
Speaker: Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
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 […]
Speaker:Michael Frachetti, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Speaker:Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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 […]
Speaker:Thomas Garrison, Assistant Professor, USC
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 […]
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 […]
Speaker: Mark Lawall, University of Manitoba