Fall 2010

September 16th

Allison Davis (Brown University)
Excavations at Yuthu: A Community Study of an Early Village in Cusco, Peru (400 – 100 BC)

September 23rd

Jeffrey Becker and Jessica Nowlin (Brown University)
Orientalizing Infant Tombs at Gabii: Discovery, Documentation, and Interpretation

September 30th

Ian Russell (Brown University)
The Ethics of Oblivion: Against Archaeology's Hypermodern Heritage

October 7th

Steven Ellis (University of Cincinnati)
IPads, etc.: Collecting Field Data the Easy Way, New Tools for Recording the Past 

October 14th

Benjamin Anderson (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art)
The Cupola Paintings of Qusayr 'Amra: From Art History to Archaeology and Back Again

October 21st

Thomas Leppard (Brown University)
Examining Similarities and Differences in Agriculturalist Maritime Expansions: The Lapita, Saladoid, and Cardial-Impressed Phenomena in Comparative Perspective

October 28th

Emanuela Bocancea and Timothy Sandiford (Brown University)
Dammed!  Exploring an Ancient Water Management System in Wadi Beqaa (Petra, Jordan)

November 4th

Marta Ostovich (Boston University)
Excavation of a Muslim Kitchen at Torre d'en Galmes, Menorca, Spain

November 18th

John Marston (Brown University)
Land Use and Abuse in Ancient Anatolia

December 2nd

Michael Heckenberger (University of Florida)
Haffenreffer Museum Pizza Roundtable Discussion with Amazonian Archaeologist Michael Heckenberger
To be held at 1:00 in the Haffenreffer Museum at Manning Hall

December 9th

Susanne Moraw (Brown University)
Homer's Odyssey in Late Antiquity: Return to Ithaka