Archaeology Colloquia and Events (Spring 2012)

Monday, January 30, 2012
Anthropology Department Brown Bag Series
"A Forgotten Colonial American Industry: Standardized Marine Shell Ornaments of the 17th Century Northeast"  [PDF flyer]
Duane Esarey (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Alumni 304, 12 noon

Thursday, February 2, 2012
Anthropology Department Brown Bag Series
“Working Hard or Hardly Working? Divisions of Labor within the Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100)”  [PDF flyer]
Sara Becker (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Alumni 304, 12:30 pm

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Archaeological Institute of America, Triangle Chapter Lecture
"Of Senators and Sheep: New Investigations into the Settlement and Landscape History of Central Abruzzo"  [PDF flyer]
Prof. Michael Heinzelmann (University of Cologne)
Murphey 116, 6 pm

Monday, February 13, 2012
Archaeological Institute of America, Triangle Chapter Lecture
"Mudbrick to Mosaics: Recent Excavations at Hacimusalar Höyük in Northern Lycia"  [PDF flyer]
Prof. Elizabeth Baughan (University of Richmond)
Murphey 104, 6 pm

Thursday, February 16, 2012
Center for the Study of the American South, Hutchins Lecture
"Art and Iconography of the Ancient American South"  [PDF flyer]
Prof. F. Kent Reilly (Center for the Study of Arts and Symbolism of Ancient America, Texas State University) Graham Memorial, Room 039 (Kresge Foundation Common Room), 4:30 pm

• Dr. Reilly will give an overview of recent advances in the study of Precolumbian art and iconography in the American South, focusing on the period from AD 1000 to 1400.

Friday, February 17, 2012
UNC Archaeology Colloquium
"Power from the Beneath World: Images of the Underwater Panther in Mississippian Art"  [PDF flyer]
Prof. F. Kent Reilly (Center for the Study of Arts and Symbolism of Ancient America, Texas State University) Hyde Hall, Room 210 (IAH Seminar Room), 3 pm

• Dr. Reilly will discuss the meaning and style of feline and serpent imagery produced by the Mississippian cultures of the American South in the period from ca. AD 1200-1500.

Friday, March 2, 2012
Archaeological Institute of America, Triangle Chapter Lecture
"Excavating Istanbul's Ancient Harbor: Recent Discoveries at Yenikapi"  [PDF flyer]
Dr. Ufuk Kocabas (Maritime Archaeology Department, Istanbul University)
Murphey Hall, Room 104, 5 pm
Reception will follow

Monday, April 9, 2012
Archaeological Institute of America, Triangle Chapter Lecture
"When the Elephant Grew Fins: Discovery of an Ancient Naval Battle Landscape in Sicily."
 [PDF flyer]
Prof. Jeff Royal
Murphey Hall, Room 104, 6 pm

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Anthropology Department Brown Bag Series
“Negotiating NAGPRA: Various Perspectives“  [PDF flyer]
Sara Juengst, Vin Steponaitis, Brett Riggs (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Alumni 304, 12 noon