The Andean Working Group presents "Materiality of Wak'as: Between History and Archaeology at Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco" by Peter Kaulicke, Professor in the Humanities Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Registration is required. Register here.

This event was co-sponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the UCLA Latin American Institute

The conference is co-organized by Stella Nair (University of California, Los Angeles) and Paul Niell (Florida State University), who are joined by Dr. Shannon Speed (University of California, Los Angeles) for the organization of the workshops. This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Latin American Institute.

To register for in-person conference attendance at the Clark Library (Friday and Saturday morning), please, email c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu Additionally, the conference talks will be livestreamed on the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies YouTube channel.
Register here to attend the workshop that will take place in person only in the afternoon of Saturday, April 15 at the Chumash Museum in Los Angeles.

Register here: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtf-iqrjMiE9GbpWrFQZUs-gaEOVNF2zKG

Few of the world's premodern polities outside of China achieved the scale or density of urbanism
found in the 9th-15th century Angkor empire, which governed a substantial swath of mainland
Southeast Asia. Angkorian rulers built cities, water reservoirs, stone monuments, and roads that
crisscrossed the empire. Carved images glorify their gods, rulers, and ancestors; inscribed stelae
celebrate political accessions and conquests, and narrate religious merits, economic properties,
and status of the populations. Heng will introduce the ancient metropolis of Angkor and its Khmer
world through recent archaeological findings using historical sources, excavation and remotely
sensed ground survey (LIDAR) data. Heng is the 2022-24 postdoctoral scholar at the Cotsen Institute
and the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia (PEMSEA). His research interests include religious
change, urbanism, political economy, public archaeology, and heritage management. He was a featured
commentator in "Angkor 3D: The Lost Empire of Cambodia," at the California Science Center IMAX
theater.

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Date & time: April 9th, 2022 at 1:00PM PT

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A general overview of the Indus Civilization will be presented along with discussions of how archaeologists find sites, how they excavate them and how they study the artifacts that are discovered from the sites. Special focus will be on some of the traditional as well as innovative new techniques that archaeologists use to discover sites. It will also cover some important analytical approaches that are used to study different types of artifacts to gain unique information about the technologies and social organization of the ancient Indus communities.

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, is the George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology, at the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of numerous books and edited volumes on the archaeology of South Asia and the Indus civilization. He has excavated key ancient cities and elucidated contemporary urban patterns in Pakistan and India. He is a leading figure in South Asian archaeology, history, and ancient civilizations.

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