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03/27/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Cylindrical water vessel made from elephant bone and decorated with relief in bands depicting stylized animals and decorative motifs.

The King and His Industries:

Archaeology of Craft Production at the Shang Capital Anyang

Yung-ti Li

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Anyang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty (ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE), is one of the most important Bronze Age sites in China. While it is known for the inscribed oracle bones and the royal cemetery, the site also provides invaluable information on craft production in Bronze Age China.
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04/02/2024 05:30 PM Online
Photo of circular stone stamp seal next to clay impression; the design features stylized hunters and goats.

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Globalization in the Ancient World

Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. We tend to think of globalization as a modern phenomenon, where far-flung places impact one other through exchange of ideas, resources, commodities, technologies, and human mobility. How can we engage with the evidence regarding the early history of interconnectedness in the world?
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04/04/2024 01:00 PM Online
Portion of a fresco showing market scene in which customers interact with merchants

RESCHEDULED: “Generating” New Ideas:

A Longer Term View of Linked Open Data for Pompeii

Sebastian Heath

NOTE: This lecture has been rescheduled; the new date is Thursday, April 4th, 2024. The lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Grants end, projects don't have to. This is the third and last in a series of "faculty work-in-progress" talks that have introduced and then reported on the work of the Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP), which was a Getty Foundation funded collaboration between the speaker and Prof. Eric Poehler of UMASS Amherst.
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04/08/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Photo of archaeological site on top of hill in a mountainous area, taken from a higher vantage point

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The End in Sight? Archaeological Science, Globalisation and Unsustainability

Lecture 1: Great Zimbabwe: Archaeological Science, Globalisation and Humans with a Different History

Shadreck Chirikure

This lecture -- the first in a four-part series -- will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Great Zimbabwe, located deep in south-eastern Zimbabwe in southern Africa, is globally prominent for various reasons, some graceful but others more disgraceful. It is an impressive architectural ensemble of multi-building settlements that were listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986.
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04/10/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
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Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The End in Sight? Archaeological Science, Globalisation and Unsustainability

Lecture 2: Archaeological Science and Internal African Globalisation

Shadreck Chirikure

This lecture -- the second in a four-part series -- will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The African continent is a vast continent, characterised by different resource gradients. However, Africa suffered greatly from extractive activities of other continents since time immemorial.
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04/15/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Several spread out gold coins

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The End in Sight? Archaeological Science, Globalisation and Unsustainability

Lecture 3: Archaeological Science, Globalisation and the Atlantic-Indian Ocean System – Oranjemund Shipwreck

Shadreck Chirikure

This lecture -- the third in a four-part series -- will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. In 2008, routine sand dredging for diamond mining exposed a Portuguese ship resting on the Atlantic ocean floor since sinking in 1533 on its way to India. The remnants of the Bom Jesus as the ship was known were recovered from Oranjemund, a small town near the Orange River Delta in Namibia.
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04/17/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Jade teapot with an opened lid

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The End in Sight? Archaeological Science, Globalisation and Unsustainability

Lecture IV: Homo faber and Homo dolor: Archaeological Science, Globalisation and (Un)sustainability

Shadreck Chirikure

This lecture -- the fourth in a four-part series -- will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Humans thrive on materials to fulfil daily needs and wants. They develop relationships of interdependence with things and exchange them to create social relationships and to fulfil obligations. Peering into the deep past, starting millions of years ago, humans and their ancestors worked materials such as stone to make tools, and with time produced things for beautification, and to fulfil symbolic functions.
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05/01/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Photo of the Dakhla Oasis showing the dramatic distinction between the grassy oasis and the sands and escarpment of the surrounding desert

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Ancient Environmental History: How Do You Build a Roman City in the Middle of Egypt’s Western Desert?

Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Ancient Trimithis was one of many medium-sized cities in the Roman Empire; but unlike most, it was located right in the middle of Egypt’s inhospitable Western Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the Nile Valley, one of the driest places on earth. In this workshop we will explore how people adapted to and thrived in this harsh and changing environment by studying the results from NYU’s Amheida Excavations in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis.
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