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Interested in Cotsen events? Sign up for our mailing list.Speaker: Dr. Willeke Wendrich
UCLA’s Shire Archaeological Project works in the north of Ethiopia, in an area where perhaps Ethiopia’s most ancient town once stood. The site is badly destroyed because of modern gold diggers who pan the soil for tiny flecks of gold. In November and December 2016 our archaeological research went hand-in-hand with community outreach to explain why the ancient remains are important, which resulted in many new friends and a new catchy chant.
Contact Sonali Gupta-Agarwal
Email sonaliga@ioa.ucla.edu
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Speakers: Dr. Jane Buikstra, Dr. Gordon Rakita
Dr. Gordon Rakita will be delivering a lecture titled "Vignettes of a Mentor: A Bioarchaeological Lineage"
Dr. Jane Buikstra will then deliver a lecture titled "Ancient Tuberculosis in the Americas: A Career-Long Quest"
Contact Sonali Gupta-Agarwal
Email sonaliga@ioa.ucla.edu
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The ancient world is characterized by technological innovations and the creation of beautiful objects of art and daily life. On this public lecture day UCLA graduate and undergraduate students will explore who the people were that made these, what techniques they used, and how we can learn about their social circumstances.
This event is free and open to the public.
Schedule:
10.00-10.20 Carrie Arbuckle Wood
10.20-10.40 Adam Dibattista Bone
10.40-11.00 Cara Lam Slaughtering as a Religious Act
11.00-11.20 Salah Halim Bread
11.20-11.30 questions
11.30-11.40 coffee break
11.40-12.00 Vera Rondano Faience
12.20-12.40 Chelsi Dimm Pottery
12.40-1.00 Sam Gonzalez Pottery
1.00-1.10 questions
1.10-2.15 Break
2.20-2.40 Timberlyn Woolf Mud brick
2.40-3.00 Ceanna Van Eaton Quarrying
3.00-3.20 Idi Okilo Stelae
3.20-3.30 questions
3.30-3.40 tea break
3.40-4.00 Nadia Ben-Marzouk Metal
4.00-4.20 Dani Candelora Hyksos
4.20-4.40 Heidi Hilliker Textile
4.40-5.00 Luke Breinig Time
5.00-5.10 questions
Contact Willeke Wendrich
Email wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone 1-310-206-1496
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Fowler OutSpoken Talk
Tua Pittman on Traditional Sea Voyaging and Navigation
Saturday, April 30, 1:30 pm
Internationally recognized as a traditional voyaging seafarer, Tua Pitman has navigated canoes for over thirty years without the use of modern instruments. He uses a traditional navigation system based on observations of the stars, sun, moon, the ocean swells, the flight patterns of birds and other natural signs.
Contact Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Email ioaadmin@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-206-8934
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and the Institute of Field Research present a public lecture:
Medieval Ireland: An Overview of 1,000 Years from the Archaeological and Historical Record
Dr. Stephen Mandel
Vice Chairperson of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Archaeology
The Medieval Period in Ireland is often defined in terms of specific events, from St Patrick lighting the Pascal fire to bring Christianity in 432 AD to the first Viking Raids on Lambay Island in 795 AD to the Anglo-Norman invasion led by Strongbow in 1169 AD. However, whilst these dates dominate the discourse, in isolation they are a simplistic classification and can take focus from a far more complex story. This presentation will give an overview of the medieval history of Ireland through the archaeological and historical record, demonstrating that this small island nation has always held significance far greater than its size.
Contact Helle Girey
Email hgirey@ucla.edu
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Join us on Friday, March 11 at 7PM, as we celebrate the donation of the Berekian Family archive to the Chitjian Research Archives and the Armenian Research Program in Archaeology and Ethnography at UCLA.
See the flyer below for details.
Reception to follow.
Please RSVP at kristineolsh@ucla.edu by March 9th, 2016.
Contact Kristine Olshansky
Email kristineolsh@ucla.edu
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Professor Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge
The image of mounted nomad warriors from the steppe lands of Russia bringing the Proto-Indo-European language to Europe has been displaced in recent years by new models; the early spread of farming from Anatolia became a preferred explanation for language replacement. Recent work on ancient DNA has, however, brought the steppe theory back into prominence. The Indo-European question remains controversial and will be reviewed - but perhaps not resolved!
The lecture is free to the public. Parking at Lot #4 (Sunset and Westwood) is $12 for 24 hours, hourly parking available.
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Featured Speakers: Dr. Marco Brambilla, Prof. Touraj Daryaee, Ms. Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Prof. Bert Vaux
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeolgy at UCLA and Archaeological Institute of America
Present:
Dr. Andrea Ricci
German Archaeological Institute – Eurasia Dept.
2015 AIA-DAI Fellow at the Cotsen Institute (UCLA)
“Early settlement of the Southern Caucasus: recent discoveries of the German-Azerbaijani investigations in the Mil Plain (Southern Azerbaijan)”
The talk will address the latest results of the interdisciplinary project “Kura in Motion”, which has been investigating early sedentism along the Kura Valley since 2010. Focus will be on the landscape of survival of the Mil Plain of Southern Azerbaijan, where a series of late Neolithic (6th Mill. BCE) sites have been investigated with intensive survey and excavation.
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