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Pizza Talk: “Conflict and Treachery in the Sacred Ridge Community, Southwest Colorado”

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, […]

Pizza Talk: “The Birth of Ehecatl and the Origins of Cacao: The Initial Series Group at Chichen Itza, Mexico”

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 […]

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 […]