Past Events 2016–2017
Lectures and Brown Bags
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June 8, 2017
Brendan Haug,
Politics, Partage, and the Papyri
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April 20, 2017
Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture:
Jeff Parsons,
The Archaeological Implications of Modern Saltmaking at Nexquipayac, Mexico
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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
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April 13, 2017
Gyorgyi Parditka,
Winds of Change – Funerary Practices at the Dawn of Late Bronze Age in Southeast Hungary
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April 6, 2017
Tiffany C. Cain,
Collaborative Approaches to the Archaeology of Political Violence: Rethinking the Caste War of Yucatan (1847-1901)
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March 30, 2017
Wladek Fuchs,
Radical Modifications of the Stage Design Archetype in the First Century B.C.E. Roman Theater in Volterra
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March 30, 2017
William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture:
Kerstin Barndt,
Object Lessons: Museums and Collections at the University of Michigan in the Nineteenth Century
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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
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March 24, 2017
GDS Colloquium Series:
Suzanne Marchand,
Winckelmann and the Roman Art Market
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March 23, 2017
Lacey Carpenter,
Residential Variability and Change Through Time at San Martin Tilcajete
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March 23, 2017
FAST Lecture:
Daniel Diffendale,
The Roman Middle Republic at Sant'Omobono: Drawing Conclusions, Drafting New Questions
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March 16, 2017
Christopher Ratté,
Regional Survey and the Study of Social Complexity in 1st Millennium B.C. Colchis (Republic of Georgia)
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March 16, 2017
Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture:
Daniel Harrison,
"Let It Be Well Done:" A Curduroy Remnant of Hull's Trace in Brownstown, Michigan
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March 13, 2017
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture:
Mark Lawall,
Big Amphoras, Little Loom Weights: Archaeological Approaches to Economic Change
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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
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February 23, 2017
Erica Marie Dziedzic,
Reading Between the Lines: A Symmetry Analysis of Late Intermediate Period Chiribaya Mortuary Ceramics
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February 16, 2017
FAST Lecture:
David Stone, Arthur Verhoogt, Alexandra Creola, Elizabeth Nabney, and Mollie Fox,
A Karanis Collaboratory
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February 16, 2017
Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture:
James Harrell,
In Search of Ancient Egyptian Gemstones
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February 16, 2017
2017 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture:
Steven M. Holland,
The Stratigraphy of Mass Extinction
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February 10, 2017
4 Field Colloquium Series:
Jay Stock,
Skeletal Variation, Behaviour, and Ecology: Interpreting Human Adaptability in the Past
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February 10, 2017
Exhibition Opening Lecture:
Pablo Alvarez,
The Art and Science of Healing from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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February 7, 2017
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series:
Neil Schmid,
The Authentic Deeds of the Buddha: Visual Narratives and Canonical Scripture in Mogao Cave 61
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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
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February 2, 2017
John M. Chenoweth,
Technology and Historical Archaeology: Asking Questions with GIS, Remote Sensing, and Materials Science
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January 26, 2017
FAST Lecture:
Carrie Roberts,
Multispectral Imaging: Shedding Light on Ancient Paint Surfaces
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January 19, 2017
Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture:
Sherry Fox,
Philistine Cemetery: The Bioarchaeology of the Human Skeletal Remains from the Philistine Cemetery at Ashkelon
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December 9, 2016
Daniel Miller,
Specimen Backlogs in the Age of Digitization: Strategies for Shedding Light on "Dark Data" Before They Become Black Holes
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December 8, 2016
John Molenda,
Historical Archaeologies of Overseas Chinese Laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad
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December 1, 2016
Meghan Howey,
Advancing Understandings of Past Cultural Landscapes with Geospatial Technologies
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November 17, 2016
Jordan Dalton,
Moving Beyond Indirect Rule: Inca-Chincha Joint Rule at Las Huacas, Chincha Valley
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November 17, 2016
FAST Lecture:
Elaine K. Gazda,
Women Slaves and the Bacchic Murals in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii
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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
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November 10, 2016
John O'Shea,
The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Center in the Maros Valley of Southeastern Europe
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November 4, 2016
Daniel C. Fisher,
The Bristle Mammoth
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November 3, 2016
AIA Lecture:
Kathleen M. Lynch,
The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic Athenian House
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November 1, 2016
John Ma,
Whatever Happened to Athens? "The Great Convergence and its Aftermath"
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October 28, 2016
FAST Lecture:
Kristina Killgrove,
Diet and Health in Imperial Rome: The View from Skeletons and Isotopes
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October 27, 2016
Bree Doering,
Alaska, Binford, and Landscape Modeling: Approximating the Shift to Logistical Mobility During Alaskan Prehistory
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October 26, 2016
Lecture at Michigan State University:
Donna Yates,
Culture Crime: Investigating Global Antiquities Trafficking
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October 20, 2016
Center for Japanese Studies Noon Lecture Series:
Tadahito Tsutsui,
Japan's Policy for Protecting Cultural Properties:History, Current State and Challenges
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October 20, 2016
P. Nick Kardulias,
Dynamic Peripheries in World-Systems: The Archaeology of the Malloura Valley
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October 20, 2016
Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture:
Sebastián Encina,
What Happens after It is Uncovered?
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October 13, 2016
Ephraim Lytle,
Archaic Ambracia, Epirote Ethnicity and an Early Elegiac Lament (SEG 41.540A)
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October 13, 2016
Henry Wright,
Indian Ocean Archaeology 2016: Year of Crises
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October 6, 2016
Liz Arkush,
Transformations of Warfare in the Pre-Columbian Andes: Warrior Kings, Hillfort Communities, and Conquest Empires
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September 29, 2016
FAST Lecture:
IPCAA Summer Fieldwork Reports
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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
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September 22, 2016
Douglas Kennett,
Climate Change and Sociopolitical Cycling in the Maya Region
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September 22, 2016
Nicola Denzey Lewis,
East-West, No Bible is Best
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September 21, 2016
Carla Sinopoli,
Less Than Perfect: Exhibition Opening Lecture
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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
U-M Fieldwork Opportunities
Competitions
Conferences and Workshops
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March 9-10, 2017
The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
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February 16-17, 2017
Endangered Heritage
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January 16, 2017
MLK Symposium:
Teach-In on Racist Appropriations of the Classical World: Past and Present
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December 15–16, 2016
Digital History in a Digital Age? Day one, Day two
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December 8, 2016
Beyond the Book: Rethinking Biblical Religion
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November 11, 2016
Digital Data in Archaeology: Recording, Analysis, Publication, and Preservation
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October 20, 2016
Carlos Norena,
The Fragments Workshop: Romanization in the Middle of Nowhere
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June 8, 2016
New Docent Orientation, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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May 7, 2016
Archaeology and the Hellenistic Near East
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