Yale University Anthropology

Colloquium > Fall 2005 Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series

Fridays, 12:00-1:00
Room 1, 158 Whitney Avenue


Beginning Friday, March 24, the colloquium will meet at
Fridays, 12:00-1:00
121 Whitney,  Room 227

Lunch potluck

The Friday lunch "Brown Bag Lectures" held by the Council of Archaeological Studies, is an opportunity for both students and professors to share the results of their recent research and to receive invaluable feedback. In addition, by inviting distinguished scholars and students from nearbyinstitutions, it has provided our archaeological community with a chance to widen their intellectual knowledge as well as their academic social sphere.

Colloquium Organizer: Jason Nesbitt

FALL 2005

September 2

Organizational Meeting

September 9
Richard L. Burger, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
An Ongoing Controversy in Andean Archaeology

September 16
Colleen Manassa and Caitlin Barrett, Yale University
Gebel Ghuetia: Four Millennia in the Western Desert

September 23
Harvey Weiss, Yale University
Late Uruk Collapse and the New Facades of State Power

September 30
Angelica Torres, Yale University
Recent Research at Atapuerca, Spain

October 7
Caitlin Barrett, Yale University
Recent Excavations at Mochlos: The Origins of Social Complexity at a Crossroads of Mediterranean Trade

October 14
Yuichi Matsumoto, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Archaeological Research in Huanuco, Peru

October 21
Lucy Salazar and Richard Burger, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Discussion of the Machu Picchu exhibit

October 28
Zainab Bahrani, Columbia University
Sovereign Power and Death in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Stelae of Dadusha and Naram-Sin

November 4
Robert Rosenswig, Yale University
The Soconusco and an Olmec Knowledge Kula (CANCELED)

Replaced by screening of:
Dokwaza: Last of the African Iron Masters

November 11
Gary Aronsen, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
The Dead, They are not Powerless: Repatriation and
the Nexus of Traditionalism, Empiricism, and the Law


December 2
Enrique Lopez Hurtado, University of Pittsburgh
The Emperor's New Pyramids: The Inka takeover of the Lurin Valley

December 9
Daniel Adler, University of Connecticut
Neandertal-Modern Human Interactions in the Southern Caucasus (CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER)

SPRING 2006

January 13
Organizational Meeting

January 27

Robert Gordon, Yale University
Nubian Iron, Artifacts from the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt

February 3

Walton A. Green, Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Yale University
The Generalized Pairs Plot: A Multivariate Graphical Method Suitable for Exploring Trace Chemical Data from Archaeological Pottery

February 10
Frank Hole, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Images of Myth and Ritual in the Fifth Millennium BC

February 17
Cherra Wyllie,
Department of Art History, University of Hartford
Towards Breaking the Olmec Code:
Is it Possible?

February 24
Daniel Adler, University of Connecticut
Neanderthal-Modern Human Interactions in the Southern Caucasus

March 3

Alexia Smith, University of Connecticut
The Current State of Archaeobotanical Research in the Near East

March 24

Warren DeBoer, City University of New York
The Myth Builders: What Can't Ohio Hopewell Be?

March 30
Timothy Kohler, Washington State University
Agent-Based and Systems-Level Models for the A.D. 1280?s Southwest Collapse

April 7

Yukiko Tonoike, Elizabeth Newman, and Heather Hurst, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
SAA Trial Presentations

April 14

Pamela de Condappa, Kings College, Cambridge University
Assessing Cultural Genocide in the Archaeological Record

April 21

Hermann Parzinger, Director of the German Archaeological Institute in
Athens

April 28

Joe Rife, Macalester College and Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University
Life and Death at a Greek Port During the Roman
Empire: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2005

May 5
Leon Doyon, Human Relations Area Files, Yale University
Archaeological Treasures from the Andes of Ecuador: Drawn Between
Mountain and Sky

 

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