Past Events 2019–2020
Lectures and Brown Bags
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April 10, 2020
Virtual UMMAA Brown Bag: Henry T. Wright, Seen One Bottle, Seen’em All: Emerging Uruk State Networks of the Late IVth Millenium BCE
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March 13, 2020
UMMAA Brown Bag: Krysta Ryzewski, An Inconvenient Past: Detroit vs. Slow Archaeology
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March 13, 2020
Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, Mastering the Music of Nature in the Ptolemaic Empire
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March 10, 2020
Margaret M. Bruchac, Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections
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February 28, 2020
Nicola Terrenato, Multifocality and State Fragility in Iron Age Central Italy
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February 27, 2020
Andrea Augenti, What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Early Medieval Cities?
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February 21, 2020
Giulia Saltini Semerari, Culture Contact Dynamics in the Iron Age Central Mediterranean: New Approaches and New Data
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February 20, 2020
CJS Noon Lecture: Morgan Pitelka, Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan
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February 20, 2020
FAST Lecture: Laurel Fricker, Nadhira Hill, Peter Knoop, Lisa Nevett, and David Stone, The Olynthos Project: Dirt on an Ancient Greek City
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February 20, 2020
MAS Lecture: William Lovis, Bill Monaghan's Squash Seed
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February 18, 2020
Daniel Herwitz, Cultural Property and the Question of Repatriation
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February 14, 2020
Kurt Rademaker, By Land or by Sea? Investigating Early Routes and Inter-zonal Connections During the Settlement of South America
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February 7, 2020
Lauren Pratt, Stone in the Age of Clay: Lithic Use-Wear from Prehistoric Ceramic Period Sites in Chachapoyas, Peru
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February 7, 2020
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Sarah McClure, Historical and Environmental Impacts of Pastoralism: Examining the Timing, Tempo, and Character of Animal Herding among Europe’s First Farmers
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February 3, 2020
Yannis Hamilakis, Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration: Border Assemblages, Global Apartheid, and the Decolonial Potential
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January 30, 2020
CJS Noon Lecture Series: Michelle Damian, Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
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January 30, 2020
FAST Lecture: Natalie Abell, Assessing Mechanisms of Mobility and Exchange in the Prehistoric Cyclades
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January 24, 2020
LACS Event: Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003: A Conversation with Jeffrey Parsons
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January 16, 2020
Brown Bag Lecture: Frits Henrich and Annette M. Hansen, Interdisciplinary Advances in Palaeoethnobotanical Research in Egypt and Sudan. New perspectives on diet, nutrition and agricultural strategies
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January 16, 2020
MAS Lecture: John Speth, Rotted Meat, Scurvy, and Neanderthal Foodways
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January 15, 2020
Brown Bag Lecture: Frits Henrich, Rethinking Roman Nutrition
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January 14, 2020
Diana Ng, The Roman-period Theater as Cognitive Microecology: Setting, Seating, and Costume
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December 12, 2019
FAST Lecture: Jesse Millek, Reconsidering the Role of Destruction at the End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean
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December 6, 2019
The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, Foragers in a World of Farmers
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December 4, 2019
2019 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture: Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Recycling, Taphonomy, and the Fossil Record: A Unifying Concept for Paleobiology
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November 21, 2019
Linda Gosner, Colonial Interaction and Resource Exploitation in the Sinis Peninsula
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November 21, 2019
MAS Lecture: John O'Shea, Prehistoric Archaeology at 120: Exploring Lake Huron’s Alpena-Amberley Ridge
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November 20, 2019
Luis Gómez Memorial Lecture: Reiko Ohnuma, Why Are Buddha Statues So Big? Space, Time, and Unusual Human Bodies in Buddhism
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November 19, 2019
Peter Pavuk, New Discoveries in Late Bronze Age Western Anatolia
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November 15, 2019
The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, The Mysterious Middle Holocene
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November 15, 2019
CSEAS Lecture: Anthony Lovenheim Irwin, Crafting Theravada Buddhism: Touch and Material in the lives of Thai Buddhists
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November 14, 2019
FAST Lecture: Geoff Emberling, Urbanism in the Empire of Kush: New Archaeological Research around Jebel Barkal, Northern Sudan
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November 8, 2019
Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, New Face to an Old Name: Recent Fossil Discoveries from Woranso-Mille, Afar Region, Ethiopia
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November 7, 2019
2019 Parsons Lecture: Junko Habu, Current Issues in Jomon Archaeology
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November 1, 2019
Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Jennifer Birch, Dating Iroquoia: Refined Time Frames for Coalescence, Conflict, and Early European Influences in Northeastern North America
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October 24, 2019
Charlotte Marie Cable, Digging In: Continuing research at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat (Sultanate of Oman)
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October 24, 2019
AIA Lecture: Eric Poehler, The Via Pumpaiiana: a Biography
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October 17, 2019
Ruth Ann Armitage, Archaeological Chemistry at EMU: Combining Chemical Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating
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October 17, 2019
MAS Lecture: Dan Wymer, The Agate Basin Late Paleo/Early Archaic Component at the Wooster Site and the Role of the MAS Dency Terrill Memorial Dig in Locating the Primary Occupation Area
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October 11, 2019
The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, Explorers of an Empty Landscape
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October 10, 2019
Jo Osborn, The Chincha-Inca Mortuary Traditions at Jahuay, Quebrada de Topará
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October 9, 2019
Julie Stauder-Porchet, Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in 3rd Millennium BCE Egypt
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October 9, 2019
ASP Lecture: Anoush Tamar Suni, Palimpsests of Ruins: Between Armenian and Kurdish Histories in Anatolia
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September 26, 2019
Maryl Gensheimer, Imperial Allusion for the Masses: Awash in Innuendo at the Baths of Caracalla
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September 19, 2019
Lauren Pratt, Caves of Chachapoyas, Peru:Modern Human Activities and Potential Prehistoric Analogies
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September 19, 2019
Julian E. Schultz, Shells and Shell-Rings: The Woodland Period Use of Mollusks at Mound Field
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September 13, 2019
The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, Patagonian Giants
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September 12, 2019
FAST Lecture: Leah Bernardo-Ciddio, Amelia Eichengreen, and Craig Harvey, IPCAA in the Field
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September 5, 2019
Exhibition Opening Lecture: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis, Graffiti as Devotion Along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan
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