Pizza Talk

Abstract: In Egyptological scholarship, the term “model tools” has been used to characterize miniature representations of implements that have been stripped of their practical function, emphasizing their relatively “cheap” method of production.

Abstract: Preservation of organic food remains from Ancient Egypt is an exceptional aspect of the archaeology in this region. The level of preservation of these materials has contributed to the early development of archaeobotany and radiocarbon dating.

Abstract: In the North American Southwest, the long-term centrality of birds to Pueblo and Ancestral Pueblo life has been demonstrated both ethnographically and archaeologically. This talk explores the relationship between people and birds in Chaco Canyon during its major occupation between 800 and 1150 CE.

Abstract: The project Ancient and Modern Communities at Industria is a research effort of the Cotsen

 Institute, Kent University (UK), Newcastle University (UK), and the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). 

Abstract: Tres Zapotes is an important site in the broader discussion of Olmec cultural continuity and formative period political economy with an archaeological record that spans the two millennia between 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1000.