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Pizza Talk: Winter Rains and Safflower Oil
A222 Fowler
January 12, 2011, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talk: A Tale of Three Castles
A222 Fowler
January 05, 2011, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Cotsen Institute's Holiday Party
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December 09, 2010, from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Friday Seminar: Richard Redding
A 222 Fowler
December 03, 2010, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Archaeological Survey at the Wen-Si River Basin
a 222 Fowler
December 01, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Snapshot from the Cave
A 222 Fowler
November 24, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Friday Seminar: Amber VanDerwarker
A 222 Fowler
November 19, 2010, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Digital Archaeology in Turkey
A 222 Fowler
November 17, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Friday Seminar: Heather Lapham
A 222 Fowler
November 12, 2010, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Glass Making in Ancient India
A 222 Fowler
November 10, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Friday Seminar: Gail Wagner
A 222 Fowler
November 05, 2010, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Pizza Talk: An Overview of the New Excavations on Mt. Lykaion
A 222 Fowler
November 03, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Friday Seminar: Thomas Wake
A 222 Fowler
October 29, 2010, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Pizza Talk: A Constantinian Hoard from the Syro-Anatolian Frontier
A 222 Fowler
October 27, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Night of the Corroding Dead
A 222 Fowler
October 20, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Sacred Animals in Prehellenic Religion
a 222 Fowler
October 13, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Chalcolithic Transition in Southern Levant
A 222 Fowler
October 06, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
12th Annual St. Shenouda-UCLA Conference of Coptic Studies
As every year, the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures co-sponsors the event. The program features fifteen international speakers presenting on the language, literature, art and archaeology of early Christian and medieval Egypt.
Royce Hall 314
June 16, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Archaeology Film Festival
Lenart Auditorium
June 05, 2010, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Pizza Talk: Jason De Leon
A222 Fowler Building
June 02, 2010, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
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The Construction of Value

Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.

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