Pizza Talk: “Tunneling with Technology: Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Site of El Zotz, Guatemala”
Speaker:Thomas Garrison, Assistant Professor, USC
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Keynote Address, 6th Annual UCLA Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Conference
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 […]
Pizza Talk: “Bone Weary: Labor in the South American Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100) from a Bioarchaeological Perspective”
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 […]
Pizza Talk: “Transport Amphoras, Symposia, and Early Iron Age Economies”
Speaker: Mark Lawall, University of Manitoba
Friday Seminar: “Long-distance Networks in Neolithic Europe”
Speaker:Dr. Caroline von Nicolai, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Pizza Talk: “Excavations at the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Boeotian Onchestos (Greece): Report on the First Two Campaigns”
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 […]
Friday Seminar: “Epistemological Issues Raised by Theories of Entanglement”
Speaker:Dr. Ian Hodder, Stanford University
Pizza Talk: “Modeling Strategies of Risk-Reduction in the Kuril Islands”
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 […]
[CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: TBA
Speaker: Ian Morris, Stanford UniversityNote: this Friday Seminar has been cancelled.
[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.
