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Interested in Cotsen events? Sign up for our mailing list.The Graduate Student Association of Archaeology, an affiliate of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, will host the 8th Graduate Archaeology Research Conference. This conference will take place on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, on February 7th and 8th, 2020. Accepted applicants will give 20-minute presentations followed by brief question-and-answer sessions.
Program with Abstracts - 8th Graduate Archaeology Research Conference.pdf
The talks will cover interdisciplinary approaches to this year’s theme on “Experiencing Destruction and Regeneration in Archaeology.” 
Speakers will discuss the many contexts in which uncontrolled or deliberate destruction—as well as regeneration, reconstruction, and re-use—plays a part in the archaeological past and present. Destruction lies at the heart of archaeological inquiries, seen in every context from the collapse of civilizations to the deliberate breaking of ceramics in ritual settings. Destruction of archaeological remains also occurs in the present through the neglect or eradication of material heritage for economic, sociopolitical or environmental reasons. Simultaneously, reconstruction and regeneration penetrate every aspect of archaeology—seen in current heritage management practices as well as in the material traces of ancient and modern peoples’ efforts at recovery, rebuilding and re-use.
Speakers are encouraged to approach this topic from an experiential perspective, as moments of destruction and reconstruction or regeneration provide communal sensorial experiences, producing and reproducing social memory and shared identities. Archaeology, as a discipline rooted in materiality, can access these senses at their most basic level. Exploring such experiences of destruction and regeneration allows us to better understand the mindsets of past and present peoples alike as they destroyed, rebuilt and remembered.
Keynote speaker Dr. Patricia Rubertone, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, will address instances of destruction and regeneration through the intersecting lenses of archaeology, history and ethnography. She will discuss commemoration and erasure of Native American monuments in New England in the context of colonialism, as well as the implications of documentary genocide and urban renewal for recovering indigenous pasts.
Please RSVP by February 3rd here.
Email any questions to archaeogradcon@ioa.ucla.edu. The call for papers can be downloaded here.
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Cotsen faculty Jason De León will be a guest on the podcast "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard" on February 1, 2020. The UCLA Department of Anthropology is hosting a live taping of the podcast at 6:00pm in Korn Convocation Hall at UCLA.
De León will also be speaking on February 11th as part of the Archaeology 50th Anniversary Lecture Series.
Dax Shepard
BA '00, Anthropology
in conversation with
Jason De León
Professor
UCLA Department of Anthropology
UCLA Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Saturday, February 1, 2020
6:00 p.m.
Korn Convocation Hall
UCLA
Registration required.
Seating is first come, first served and is not guaranteed.
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4
About Armchair Expert:
Armchair Expert is a weekly podcast hosted by American actor, director, and writer Dax Shepard and Emmy-nominated Monica Padman. Each podcast features Shepard and Padman interviewing celebrities as well as journalists and academics about "the messiness of being human". Click here to learn more about Armchair Expert.
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The Old Kiyyangan Story, an anthropological film based on oral histories and archaeological excavations at the Old Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao, Philippines, will be presented January 31 at 5pm in the Anthropology Reading Room. In addition to the film screening, there will be a research presentation and Q & A with co-screenwriter and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Stephen Acabado. Acabado is a core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. The event is free and open to the public.
A trailer for the film can be viewed here.
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Dr. Sonia Zarrillo will be presenting on "New Approaches to Tracing Cacao's Dispersal from the Amazon Basin” on January 23rd at 5pm in the Cotsen Seminar Room (A222). This event was sponsored by the Andean Working Group.
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Fowler Curator of Archaeology Wendy Giddens Teeter will discuss the importance of the collaborative web-based project Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and her experiences working with the Tongva and indigenous communities to forefront the multiple historical layers of Los Angeles. She will also speak about national and international repatriation efforts as UCLA’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Coordinator, which has helped Native American tribes regain their ancestors and cultural heritage as well as provide a platform to share their voices in online exhibitions, such as Carrying our Ancestors Home.
For more information, please visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/lecture-by-wendy-teeter-mapping-indig...
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Presenters 報告者:
1:00-1:30 Kirie Stromberg 益田雾繪 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校): Beyond Form:
Preliminary Thoughts on Music and Visual Abstraction in Early China 早期中國的音樂與視覺
抽象化表达
1:40-2:20 Gao Jiangtao 高江涛 (CASS 中國社會科學院考古研究所):Comprehensive Analysis
of Musical relics Unearthed from Taosi Site 鼍鼓逢逢：陶寺遗址出土乐器综析
2:30-3:00 Zhang Wenjie 張聞捷 (Xiamen University 厦门大學) New Thinking on the Chime
Bells of Wangsun Gao 對王孫誥編鐘的一些新思考
3:10-3:40 Li Guangming 李光明 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校) The Tonal Structure of the
Yajiang Chimes: On the Missing Shang Note in Western Zhou Music and Guanzi Tonal Theory
从亚弜编铙音列结构看周乐戒商及管子生律法之由来
3:50-4:20 Zhu Guowei 朱國偉 (China University of Mining and Technology 中國礦業大學）
A review on experimental music archaeology and its prospect in China 實驗音樂考古研究綜述
及其在中國的研究展望
4:30-5:00 Lee Mei-Yen 李美燕 (National Pingtung University 國立屏東大學) Western
Cultural Origin of Musical Instruments Found on the Musical Icons in Yungang Grottoes 雲岡石
窟音樂圖像中的西方源流
Discussants 點評者:
Lothar Von Falkenhausen 罗泰 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校藝術史系)
Helen Rees 李海倫 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校民族音樂學系)
Sponsored by 资助机构：
Henry Luce Foundation 路思基金會
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 加州大學洛杉磯分校蔻岑考古研究所
UCLA Center for Chinese Studies加州大學洛杉磯分校中國研究中心
UCLA East Asian Library 加州大學洛杉磯分校東亞圖書館
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series
Speaker:
Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University)
Moderated by:
Dr. Aaron Burke (NELC)
Sponsored by:
Kershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
The United Monarchy – the famed kingdom of David and Solomon – is at the center of a heated debate. While until 25 years ago there was a consensus that David and Solomon were historical figures who ruled over fairly large territories, it is now questioned by many who believe either that these kings were either petty chiefs controlling a limited territory around Jerusalem or that they did not even exist. Given these doubts, the archaeological evidence has come to the center of discussion stage. A broad examination of the nature of the Iron I-II transition, however, reveals major changes in practically every aspect of life, from settlement patterns to various aspects of material culture, including pottery form and decoration, and architectural developments. While each change could, in theory, be a result of a number of causes, a broad analysis of all the processes and transformations, and especially their sequencing in time and space, greatly narrows down the possible options. It is therefore the aim of the present lecture to briefly present the sweeping changes that accompanied the Iron I-II transition, to reconstruct (temporally and spatially) the processes of growing social complexity that they reflect, and subsequently to examine the implications of this analysis on the debate over the historicity of the so-called United
Contact Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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Speaker:
Megan Perry
East Carolina University
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology
Abstract:
The mysterious Nabataeans, builders of the magnificent city of Petra, have long fascinated scholars and the public. Scant archaeological research and minimal textual sources have not clarified the shift from a primarily nomadic encampment in the late 4th century BC into a major capital city by the 1st century BC. Our understanding of Petra’s urban life recently has been transformed with the excavation of tombs within the ancient city. The human skeletal remains from these tombs have illuminated the origins of the city’s residents, their disease profiles, and what foods they relied on in this desert environment. This lecture demonstrates how Petra’s dead can inform what life was like in this ancient city.
Contact Aaron A. Burke (aaburke@ucla.edu) for more information.
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
Resources, Exchange, and Society
UCLA Chinese Archaeology Forum (2019)
第一届洛杉矶中国考古论坛：资源、贸易与社会
9:30-4:30 Friday Aug 23 UCLA Young Research Library Presentation Room
Opening Remarks: 9:30-9:40
First Panel: Resources and Exchanges in Early China (Chair Li Min, UCLA)
第一组：早期中国的资源与交换 (主持人：李旻 加州大学洛杉矶分校)
9:40-10:10 Wu Hao (Shandong University): Settlement and Social Structure on the Jianxin Site during the Middle and the Late Dawenkou Period
武昊（山东大学历史文化学院）：枣庄建新遗址大汶口中晚期聚落与社会结构
10:10-10:40 Gao Jiangtao (CASS): Resources, Trade Routes, and Settlements in theEmergence of Early Civilization in China: Perspective from the Jinnan Basin
高江涛(中国社会科学院考古研究所)：中国早期文明之路视野下的晋南资源聚落
10:40-11:10 Pang Xiaoxia (CASS): The Xiawanggang Site during the Erlitou Period: A Transportation Hub in Cultural Interaction
庞小霞（中国社会科学院考古研究所）：文化互动中的枢纽----二里头时期的淅
川下王岗
11:10-11:20 10 minutes break
11:20-11:50 Li Min (UCLA) The Minshan Pathway in the Prehistoric Interaction of Early China
李旻（加州大学洛杉矶分校）：史前中国互动圈中的岷山通道
Second Panel: Ritual and Society (Chair Zhang Meimei, Occidental College)
第二组：仪式与社会 (主持人：张楣楣 西方学院)
11:50-12:20 Kirie Stromberg (UCLA): Music and State Formation in Early China
益田雾绘(加州大学洛杉矶分校)：早期国家形成视域中的音乐
12:20-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-1:30 Tian Zhaoyuan (East China Normal University)
Pledge of Allegiance: Reflection on the Early State of System
田兆元（华东师范大学社会发展学院）：盟誓：关于早期国家制度的思考
1:30-2:00 Li Wanmeng (UCLA): Investigation of Daoist Temple in Grotto-Heaven
Landscape Based on the Case Study of Dongxiao Temple Site
李皖蒙(加州大学洛杉矶分校)： 洞天福地中道教宫观考古调查——以临安洞霄
宫遗址为例
Third Panel: Maritime Resources and Networks (Chair Liu Miao, Xiamen Univ.)
第三组：海洋资源与网络 (主持人：刘淼 厦门大学)
2-2:30 Cao Yang (Shandong University): Salt Archaeology Survey at the West Coast of the Bohai Gulf: Results from the 2018 Season
曹洋（山东大学文化遗产研究院）：2018 年渤海湾西岸地区盐业考古调查及研究
2:30-3:00 Liu Miao (Xiamen University): Production and Export of Fujian Ceramics: Survey of Anxi Kiln Sites
刘淼（厦门大学人文学院）：福建古陶瓷生产及外销----安溪县古窑址调查
3-3:30 Zhou Jun (East China Normal University): Genglubu Navigation Manuals
from the Perspective of the Maritime Communities
周俊（华东师范大学社会发展学院）：海洋命运共同体视野下的《更路簿》
Special Presentation: Chinese Archaeology through Camera Lens
特别报告：考古镜像
3:30-4 Du Lin (UCLA) A Modern Man's Way of Viewing the Past: Archaeological
Photography in the Northwestern Provinces of China
杜琳(加州大学洛杉矶分校):摄影之眼的“怀古”与“求真”西北文物考察照片
4-4:30 Commentary 总结评议：
Prof. Lothar Von Falkenhausen 罗泰 教授 (加州大学洛杉矶分校艺术史系)
Sponsored by: 资助机构：
Henry Luce Foundation 露丝基金会
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 加州大学洛杉矶分校蔻岑考古研究所
UCLA Center for Chinese Studies 加州大学洛杉矶分校中国研究中心
UCLA East Asian Library 加州大学洛杉矶分校东亚图书馆
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
The Art and Archaeology of Ritual and Economy in East Asia: Workshop and Symposium in Honor of Lothar von Falkenhausen
東亞古代禮制和經濟的藝術與考古研究：羅泰教授還曆慶賀學術研討會
June 5-6, 2019, YRL Main Conference Room, UCLA
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
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