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Speaker: Jared Diamond, UCLA Department of Geography
Part of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture (BEC) Speaker Series
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, this Friday Seminar has been CANCELLED.
Speaker: Dr. Rubina Raja, Aarhus University, Denmark
Since 2011 a Danish-German team has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in ancient Gerasa, Jerash in the Northwest Quarter. The site was one of the famous Decapolis cities mentioned by Pliny and has a rich archaeological record. The large scale excavations of the 1920s and 30s as well as the UNESCO funded international project, Jerash Archaeological Project, which was initiated in the 1980s, are the two largest archaeological undertakings at the site. These projects all focussed on the monumental parts of the city centre. The Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project has taken another approach and has investigated the 4 highest laying hectares within the walled city situated west of the Artemision on a steep hill. This talk will present some of the results from these investigations and show how our understanding of the urban development at the site is improved by looking beyond the main street and its representative monuments.
Contact Matthew Swanson
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Speaker: Thanik Lertcharnrit, Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University
An event sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
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Speaker: Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
UCLA has started a close collaboration with the Museo Egizio in Turin, which holds the most important collection of material culture from ancient Egypt after the museum in Cairo. This pizza talk will highlight the research that has been started in the summer of 2016.
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Speaker: Dr. Dorie Reents-Budet, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
This talk employs distributional patterns of pottery, determined by archaeology, ceramic typology, artistic style and nuclear chemistry, to discern Classic Period (250-850 CE) economic interaction spheres among the Maya. The research points to the crucial role played by cotton production in the political economy of the Maya and throughout ancient Mesoamerica, the ceramic distributional patterns coinciding with configurations of alliance noted in other archaeological data.
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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
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Speaker: Dr. Caroline Cartwright, Department of Scientific Research, The British Museum
Dr Caroline Cartwright is the Senior Scientist and Wood Anatomist in the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum. Her primary areas of scientific expertise cover the identification and interpretation of organics such as wood, charcoal, fibres, macro plant remains, shell, ivory and bone from all areas and time periods in the British Museum’s collections, including for CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). She has led many teams of archaeobotanists, archaeozoologists and human osteologists on archaeological projects in various parts of the world including the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. Reconstructing past environments, charting vegetation and climate changes, and investigating bioarchaeological evidence from sites and data, all form an important part of her research. Prior to joining the British Museum, Caroline was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
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Speaker: Dr. Philippe Walter, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
The precious character of the Cultural Heritage artifacts and their uniqueness imply particular cautions and require instruments, which may give the maximum of information directly on the objects, in-situ in the museums or in the archaeological sites. The implementation of new analytical tools, including mobile instruments, allows a deep insight on the archaeological and artistic materials.
We will show the performances of different new mobile instruments (X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction) we built recently in the laboratory to allow in situ characterization of materials, for instance on prehistoric rock art paintings in France or marble sculptures from Greece (Delphi) and Tunisia (Bardo National Museum), alteration products and modes of preparation of different pigments. XRF imaging – in which the surface of an object is scanned with a focussed X-ray beam to obtain elemental distribution images – and hyperspectral imaging can reveal significant new information on the antique polychromy.
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Speakers: Richard Ehrich, PhD Candidate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Dr. Hans Barnard, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
In June 2016, Cotsen affiliates Hans Barnard and Richard Ehrich briefly visited a number of archaeological sites and museums in Wuhan, Jingzhou, Xiangyang and Suizhou in the Hubei Province in Central China. Richard is a graduate student who lived in Wuhan to conduct research for his dissertation. He will provide some background information on the sites and collections that they were able to see. He will also give a bit of insight into how it was like doing research in this region. Hans is an archaeologist who has worked in different regions of the world, but this was his first trip to China. He will discuss his first impressions of archaeological practices in China as an informed outsider.
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