Dr. Cathy Lynne Costin, Professor, Department of Anthropology, CSU Northridge
Revisiting North Coast Formative Period Ceramic Iconography: the Case for Foundational Ritual Power
Dr. Salim Faraji, Professor, Department of Africana Studies, CSU Dominguez Hills
The Bubasteion and its New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara. Results and Challenges.
Dr. Alain Zivie, Director, French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteionat Saqqara
Dr. Henner von Hesberg, Visiting Scholar, Getty Villa
Speaker: Dr. Travis Stanton, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside
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.
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.
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.
In 1913 Elizabeth Deuel, a student of archaeology and resident of Los Angeles, wrote a letter to a friend describing a situation that modern readers can only interpret as sexual harassment. Coded with the discretion of the age, her brief account nonetheless resonates to modern readers conscious of the complex history of this topic in the field of archaeology.