Other Event

“Israel and the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion during the Early Iron Age?”

Dr. Yuval Gadot, Director of the Institute of Archaeology

Tel Aviv University

Tuesday, November 13 at 2 PM

Kaplan (formerly Humanities) A51

Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series

Co-sponsored by the UCLA NELC Department, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

The Annual AIA Los Angeles County Society Fall Garden Party will be in the amphiteater
at the Fowler Museum on the UCLA campus on Sunday, October 7th from 2-4pm. After
refreshments and conversation we will move into Fowler A222 to hear reports from our two 2018
Field School Scholarship awardees: Alexander Lin and Samantha Stott both of USC. Aaron Burke
and I will both present updates on our excavations as well. Please RSVP to Kristina Reed
(kristina.s.reed@gmail.com) to reserve your place.

Ahmanson lecturer, Professor Filomena Limão of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, will give her talk, “The Late Roman Villa of Santiago da Guarda (Ansião,Portugal): Architecture and Mosaics in a living palimpsest”,  Sunday April 28th 2019, at 2PM in the Fowler Museum, Room A222 at UCLA.

An Ahmanson lecture, co-sponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and in recognition of International Archaeology Day, will be on Saturday, October 20th at 2PM at the Fowler Museum Room A222 at UCLA. David Lee, an independent scholar, will present “Pictures of the Past: Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America”

In conjunction with the opening of the Fowler Museum exhibit Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, Dr. Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College will present a lecture at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology on Monday, June 4.

Please RSVP here.

Speaker: Dr. Ashraf Sobhy, Fayoum Inspectorate

Speaker: Professor Duan Qingbo, Northwest University School of Cultural Heritage, Xi'an.

Followed by a concert of Chinese and Persian music by UCLA faculty, Li Qi and Amir Pourjavady.

Terra-cotta warriors, bronze chariots and horses are among the iconic artifacts associated with China's first imperial dynasty, the Qin (221-206 BCE). Chinese archaeologist Duan Qinbo shares new evidence that suggests the material culture and social governance of the Qin may not be solely indigenous Chinese, but may also have come to China along Central Asian trade routes. 

Please see the flyer below for the upcoming UCLA Archaeology & Anthropology Film Festival. This will take place on Tuesday, March 13 from 4:00—7:30pm in the UCLA CNSI Auditorium.

Please RSVP here no later thanTuesday, March 6 at 12pm.

Over the last hundred years or so, a number of theories have been proposed to explain the origins of ancient Israel. All these have been informed to some degree by the biblical text and all have considered the role of New Kingdom Egypt and the collapse of empires throughout the Near East circa 1200-1100 BCE. The lecture will present a radical new proposal: that Egypt itself instigated “Israelite” settlement.