PIZZA TALK: Digging Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Mines
Submitted by sutakahashi on November 2, 2018 - 4:03pm
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PIZZA TALK: Decoding Andean Formative Iconography: Didactic Images, Esoteric Knowledge, and the Emergence of Complexity on the North Coast of Peru
Submitted by sutakahashi on October 17, 2018 - 11:22amDr. Cathy Lynne Costin, Professor, Department of Anthropology, CSU Northridge
Revisiting North Coast Formative Period Ceramic Iconography: the Case for Foundational Ritual Power
PIZZA TALK: Meroitic Kush and Rome: The Politics of Temple Piety and Religious Identities
Submitted by sutakahashi on October 17, 2018 - 11:01amDr. Salim Faraji, Professor, Department of Africana Studies, CSU Dominguez Hills
PIZZA TALK:The Bubasteion and its New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara. Results and Challenges.
Submitted by sutakahashi on October 12, 2018 - 11:53amThe Bubasteion and its New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara. Results and Challenges.
Dr. Alain Zivie, Director, French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteionat Saqqara
PIZZA TALK: Architectural Models from 6th century BC Selinunte as Votives: Reconstruction, Dating, Function
Submitted by sutakahashi on October 9, 2018 - 1:16pmDr. Henner von Hesberg, Visiting Scholar, Getty Villa
PIZZA TALK: PROCESSIONS AND COMMUNITY BOUNDARIES AMONG THE NORTHERN LOWLAND MAYA
Submitted by sutakahashi on September 27, 2018 - 3:47pmSpeaker: Dr. Travis Stanton, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside
Pizza Talk: "Samoan Hybridity: Fa'a Samoa and Lotu"
Submitted by mswanson on April 4, 2018 - 4:13pmSpeaker: Dr. Brian Alofaituli, Visiting Scholar, Asian American Studies Department, UCLA
The syncretism of Sāmoa’s past and new religion blended different ideas that defined the way these Polynesians understood Christianity. The new belief system unsuccessfully suppressed the pre-Christian past of myths and legends, and faʻa-sāmoa (Sāmoan way of life and culture) navigated through the new terminologies and beliefs through Sāmoan practices. The matai (Sāmoan chief) played a significant role in the spread of Christianity.
Pizza Talk: "Where Did All the Goths Go?"
Submitted by mswanson on April 4, 2018 - 4:12pmSpeaker: Dr. Jana Skrgulja, Visiting Scholar, UCLA
Pizza Talk: "The Iron Age and Late Antique Southern Levant: New Insights from the UCLA Ancient Agriculture and Paleoethnobotany Laboratory"
Submitted by mswanson on April 4, 2018 - 4:11pmSpeaker: Dr. Alan Farahani, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
This talk is a summary of the research conducted by the research participants of the Ancient Agriculture and Paleoethnobotany Laboratory at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology under the supervision of Postdoctoral Scholar Alan Farahani. Each research participant will present the results of their individual analyses on material deriving from the archaeological site of Dhiban, Jordan, inhabited ca. 1000 BCE to the present. The site of Dhiban (ancient Dibon) was the center of an Iron Age (ca.
Pizza Talk: "The metalworkers of prehistoric Thailand: A bioarchaeological approach"
Submitted by mswanson on April 4, 2018 - 4:09pmSpeaker: Dr. Chin-hsin Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cal State University, Northridge
A specialized craft industry in prehistory is often studied from perspectives such as social organization, labor and product distribution, and exchange network. While these angles indeed provide significant insight to the past, the biological impact of craft production on community members is a critical component offering a nuanced view on people’s lifeways.