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Amr Shahat Wins Best Student Poster at ARCE Annual Meeting
May 22, 2018
Amr Shahat, a second-year student in the Archaeology PhD Program, has won the award for Best Student Poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).His poster, The...
Archaeologists uncover evidence suggesting rice terraces helped the Ifugao resist Spanish colonization
April 9, 2018
Cotsen Alum Brett Kaufman Receives Tenure-Track Position at the University of Illinois
March 20, 2018
Dr. Brett Kaufman, an alumnus of the UCLA Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, will be joining the University of Illinois Department of Classics as an Assistant Professor in August 2018. 
Discovering the World's Oldest Wine
March 19, 2018
The Smithsonian released a podcast about the discoveries in the Areni Cave in Armenia. The Cotsen Institute's own Dr. Hans Barnard appears in the podcast to discuss his work on the wine residues....
CIOA Press Author Awarded G. Ernest Wright Award at ASOR
November 21, 2017
Friday, 17 November 2017Boston, MassachusettsThe Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is extremely happy to announce that Glenn M. Schwartz, the editor and principal author of Rural Archaeology in Early...
1,500-yr-old artifacts found in CamSur
August 25, 2017
Dr. Stephen Acabado's work in Camarines Sur was featured in recent news in the Philippines.
"Maya Pompeii" Offers Snapshot of Village Frozen in Time
August 17, 2017
Cotsen Postdoctoral Scholar Alan Farahani is the lead author of a new study published in the journal Antiquity detailing the results of recent reseach at Joya de Ceren, a small Maya village buried...
Academic Excellence: Friends of Archaeology Dinner
July 20, 2017
Speakers Ellen Hsieh on Archaeology of the Boxer Codex: Spanish, Chinese, and Indigenous reactions in the Colonial Philippines, Karime Castillo on Glass Production in New Spain: Some Results of a...
Jaffa Excavations Featured in Archaeology Magazine
June 19, 2017
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures professor Aaron Burke’s archaeological research of an Egyptian fortress in Jaffa are the subject of Archaeology magazine’s cover story by Roger Atwood in the July/...
Harvard Awards Sarah Morris the Centennial Medal
May 26, 2017
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at UCLA and an archaeologist...
Friends of Archaeology Tour to Downtown LA Theater District Spring 2017
April 14, 2017
Photos from Wednesday, February 15 Lecture and Book Launch
March 23, 2017
UCLA Archaeologists Enlist Community to Help Preserve Cultural Heritage in Ethiopia
February 24, 2017
Professor Willeke Wendrich leads the effort to help locals recognize the value of protecting ruins
Deidre Whitmore wins Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award
February 3, 2017
Deidre Whitmore, the Cotsen Institute's Digital Archaeology Lab Manager, has received the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology. 
Alan Farahani Receives a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scholar Award
January 12, 2017
An Interview with Anneke Janzen, the Cotsen Institute's New Postdoctoral Scholar
November 16, 2016
Photos from the October 2016 Cotsen Prize Ceremony
October 24, 2016
Previously Unknown Canaanite Revolt Against Egypt Revealed in Ancient Jaffa
October 24, 2016
New discoveries from the Cotsen Institute's Professor Aaron Burke and the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project suggests that the Canaanites at Jaffa ousted their Egyptian rulers thousands of years ago.
Eight Things You Might Not Know About UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
September 6, 2016
Photos from the May 2016 Cotsen Directors Celebration
July 7, 2016
Near the end of the Spring Quarter, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology held a reception on the roof of the Fowler Museum to thank Chip Stanish for 15 years of outstanding service as the Director of...
Archaeologists and Geographers Team to Predict Locations of Ancient Buddhist Sites in India
May 27, 2016
In a study published this week in Current Science, archaeologist Monica Smith and geographer Thomas Gillespie identified 121 possible locations of what are known as Ashoka’s “edicts." 
Announcing the 2016 Cotsen Prize Recipient: Dr. Jane Buikstra
April 18, 2016
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is pleased to announce that the second triennial Lloyd Cotsen Prize for Lifetime Achievement in World Archaeology has been awarded to Dr. Jane Buikstra. Professor...
Professor Stella Nair awarded John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
April 13, 2016
Congratulations to Prof. Stella Nair on receiving a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship! Dr. Nair's work spans a variety of subjects and regions including Tiahuanaco architecture and technology,...
Professor Richard Lesure Awarded the Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett Endowed Chair in Mesoamerican Archaeology
February 19, 2016
 
An Archaeological Investigation of Dolphin Hunting in Precolombian Panama
January 11, 2016