Archaeology at Michigan

Past Events 2016–2017

Lectures and Brown Bags

June 8, 2017 Brendan Haug, Politics, Partage, and the Papyri
April 20, 2017 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Jeff Parsons, The Archaeological Implications of Modern Saltmaking at Nexquipayac, Mexico
April 14, 2017 FAST/CAW Lectures: Jordan Dalton, The Tricky Thing About Tapia: Understanding Changes to the Settlement Pattern of the Chincha Valley During the Late Horizon (AD 1470-1532); Martin Menz, Domestic Craft Production and Exchange in the Woodland Period Deep South
April 13, 2017 Gyorgyi Parditka, Winds of Change – Funerary Practices at the Dawn of Late Bronze Age in Southeast Hungary
April 6, 2017 Tiffany C. Cain, Collaborative Approaches to the Archaeology of Political Violence: Rethinking the Caste War of Yucatan (1847-1901)
March 30, 2017 Wladek Fuchs, Radical Modifications of the Stage Design Archetype in the First Century B.C.E. Roman Theater in Volterra
March 30, 2017 William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture: Kerstin Barndt, Object Lessons: Museums and Collections at the University of Michigan in the Nineteenth Century
March 29, 2017 Ester B. Van Deman Collegiate Professorship in Roman Studies, Inaugural Lecture: Nicola Terrenato, 150 Years in Rome: A Tradition of U-M Archaeology
March 24, 2017 GDS Colloquium Series: Suzanne Marchand, Winckelmann and the Roman Art Market
March 23, 2017 Lacey Carpenter, Residential Variability and Change Through Time at San Martin Tilcajete
March 23, 2017 FAST Lecture: Daniel Diffendale, The Roman Middle Republic at Sant'Omobono: Drawing Conclusions, Drafting New Questions
March 16, 2017 Christopher Ratté, Regional Survey and the Study of Social Complexity in 1st Millennium B.C. Colchis (Republic of Georgia)
March 16, 2017 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Daniel Harrison, "Let It Be Well Done:" A Curduroy Remnant of Hull's Trace in Brownstown, Michigan
March 13, 2017 Archaeological Institute of America Lecture: Mark Lawall, Big Amphoras, Little Loom Weights: Archaeological Approaches to Economic Change
February 24, 2017 Paleontology Seminar: Bill Sanders, Proboscideans from Late Eocene-early Oligocene African Sites and Their Utility for Relative Dating of Anthropoids in Libya and Egypt
February 23, 2017 Erica Marie Dziedzic, Reading Between the Lines: A Symmetry Analysis of Late Intermediate Period Chiribaya Mortuary Ceramics
February 16, 2017 FAST Lecture: David Stone, Arthur Verhoogt, Alexandra Creola, Elizabeth Nabney, and Mollie Fox, A Karanis Collaboratory
February 16, 2017 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: James Harrell, In Search of Ancient Egyptian Gemstones
February 16, 2017 2017 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture: Steven M. Holland, The Stratigraphy of Mass Extinction
February 10, 2017 4 Field Colloquium Series: Jay Stock, Skeletal Variation, Behaviour, and Ecology: Interpreting Human Adaptability in the Past
February 10, 2017 Exhibition Opening Lecture: Pablo Alvarez, The Art and Science of Healing from Antiquity to the Renaissance
February 7, 2017 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Neil Schmid, The Authentic Deeds of the Buddha: Visual Narratives and Canonical Scripture in Mogao Cave 61
February 6, 2017 4 Field Colloquium Series: Matthew Sanger, Anarchic Pasts: Shifting Power Structures, Purposeful Simplicity, and the Deep History of Resistance in the American Southeast
February 2, 2017 John M. Chenoweth, Technology and Historical Archaeology: Asking Questions with GIS, Remote Sensing, and Materials Science
January 26, 2017 FAST Lecture: Carrie Roberts, Multispectral Imaging: Shedding Light on Ancient Paint Surfaces
January 19, 2017 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Sherry Fox, Philistine Cemetery: The Bioarchaeology of the Human Skeletal Remains from the Philistine Cemetery at Ashkelon
December 9, 2016 Daniel Miller, Specimen Backlogs in the Age of Digitization: Strategies for Shedding Light on "Dark Data" Before They Become Black Holes
December 8, 2016 John Molenda, Historical Archaeologies of Overseas Chinese Laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad
December 1, 2016 Meghan Howey, Advancing Understandings of Past Cultural Landscapes with Geospatial Technologies
November 17, 2016 Jordan Dalton, Moving Beyond Indirect Rule: Inca-Chincha Joint Rule at Las Huacas, Chincha Valley
November 17, 2016 FAST Lecture: Elaine K. Gazda, Women Slaves and the Bacchic Murals in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii
November 17, 2016 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Megan Moore, Michigan Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Complications of Interpreting Antemortem and Perimortem Trauma Versus Postmortem Taphonomy
November 10, 2016 John O'Shea, The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Center in the Maros Valley of Southeastern Europe
November 4, 2016 Daniel C. Fisher, The Bristle Mammoth
November 3, 2016 AIA Lecture: Kathleen M. Lynch, The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic Athenian House
November 1, 2016 John Ma, Whatever Happened to Athens? "The Great Convergence and its Aftermath"
October 28, 2016 FAST Lecture: Kristina Killgrove, Diet and Health in Imperial Rome: The View from Skeletons and Isotopes
October 27, 2016 Bree Doering, Alaska, Binford, and Landscape Modeling: Approximating the Shift to Logistical Mobility During Alaskan Prehistory
October 26, 2016 Lecture at Michigan State University: Donna Yates, Culture Crime: Investigating Global Antiquities Trafficking
October 20, 2016 Center for Japanese Studies Noon Lecture Series: Tadahito Tsutsui, Japan's Policy for Protecting Cultural Properties:History, Current State and Challenges
October 20, 2016 P. Nick Kardulias, Dynamic Peripheries in World-Systems: The Archaeology of the Malloura Valley
October 20, 2016 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Sebastián Encina, What Happens after It is Uncovered?
October 13, 2016 Ephraim Lytle, Archaic Ambracia, Epirote Ethnicity and an Early Elegiac Lament (SEG 41.540A)
October 13, 2016 Henry Wright, Indian Ocean Archaeology 2016: Year of Crises
October 6, 2016 Liz Arkush, Transformations of Warfare in the Pre-Columbian Andes: Warrior Kings, Hillfort Communities, and Conquest Empires
September 29, 2016 FAST Lecture: IPCAA Summer Fieldwork Reports
September 26, 2016 4 Field Colloquium Series: Kevin Vaughn, Prehispanic Pilgrimage on the South Coast of Peru: Testing a Costly Signaling Model in Nasca and Ica, Peru
September 22, 2016 Douglas Kennett, Climate Change and Sociopolitical Cycling in the Maya Region
September 22, 2016 Nicola Denzey Lewis, East-West, No Bible is Best
September 21, 2016 Carla Sinopoli, Less Than Perfect: Exhibition Opening Lecture
September 15, 2016 Martin Menz, Like Blood from a Stone: Teasing out Social Difference from Lithic Production Debris at Kolomoki

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Exhibitions

February 10–April 30, 2017 The Art and Science of Healing from Antiquity to the Renaissance
December 2016–March 31, 2017 Women of Etruria
November 26, 2016–April 2, 2017 Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection
August 26, 2016–January 8, 2017 Less Than Perfect
February 19–May 15, 2016 Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii
January 18–May 4, 2016 From Christianity to Islam: Egypt between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
January 11–April 27, 2016 Parsons Papyrology Exhibit Case: Epistles of St. Paul: Romans XVI:4 – XVI:23

Past Events 2016–2017

Lectures and Brown Bags

Exhibitions

U-M Fieldwork Opportunities

Competitions

Conferences and Workshops