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Thomas Garrison, Assistant Professor, USC
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Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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Michael Frachetti, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
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Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
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John Papadopoulos, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Sarah Morris, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
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Speaker: Susanna McFadden, Assistant Professor, Fordham University; Getty Museum Scholar
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Speaker: Henry Colburn, Postdoctoral Fellow, Getty Museum; Curatorial Fellow, Harvard Art Museums
This 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 on a wider array of forms, some of which clearly referred to the Achaemenid royal court. The variation in these choices suggests that contrary to prevailing views there was not a clear divide between subjects and subjugators in Achaemenid Egypt. Rather, different people experienced Achaemenid rule in different ways. The identities examined in this talk attest to a social environment in Egypt in which multiple cultural traditions were valued and employed side by side. Indeed, this finding is consistent with the ecumenical character of Achaemenid ideology, as represented in the sculptural program at Persepolis.
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Speaker: Mauricio Hernandez, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
This 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 valley 2,000 years before the founding of the Silk Road trading networks. It is during this period that a climate cooling event began to drive Eurasian groups eastward to establish trade networks in order to obtain agricultural products and raw material for metalworking. Northern Chinese communities in turn benefited from Central Eurasian jade, introduction of new western cultigens, grazing animals, and cultural innovation with Inner Asian motifs. The goal is to investigate whether shifts in subsistence practices and perhaps kinship structure as a result of longterm cultural interaction with Eurasian peoples affected the livelihood and health of populations residing in the intermediate zone, covering the region of eastern Xinjiang, Gansu and eastern Qinghai – both as entire communities, as well as along gender lines.
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Speaker: John Dietler, Principal Investigator, SWCA Environmental Consultants
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Speaker: David Scott, Professor, Art History, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
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