Mike Parker Pearson (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) Friday, April 18 / 4:00 PM 1701 Theater and Dance Building Stonehenge is one of the greatest mysteries of world prehistory but it is now beginning to give up some of its secrets. In the last ten years, an...
Dr. Andy Yatsko (Senior Archaeologist and Navy Region Southwest Archaeologist for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest in San Diego) Friday, October 18 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB Yatsko will discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating academic archaeological research and regulatory compliance through his many years of...
Statement of Purpose The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Focus Group draws together faculty and graduate students across eight departments in the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities within the College of Letters and Sciences. Lectures and discussions address current approaches to archaeological method, theory, and material analysis....
Willeke Wendrich (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) Friday, June 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The north shore of Lake Qarun in the Egyptian Fayum Oasis has the earliest evidence found for the introduction of domesticated wheat...
Eugene Cruz-Uribe (History, Northern Arizona University) Monday, March 28 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Based upon his field work at a number of sites around Egypt, Dr Cruz-Uribe will develop a theme around the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt especially during Roman and Byzantine...
Timmy Gambin (Director of Archaeology, Aurora Trust) Thursday, February 17 / 3:30 PM HSSB 4041 Over the past three years, AURORA Trust, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, has carried out a project aimed at mapping and studying the underwater cultural heritage around the Pontine Islands....
Colleen Delaney-Rivera (Anthropology, CSU Channel Islands) Monday, November 15, 2010 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The archaeology of the Oxnard Plain of Ventura County has received relatively little attention, with a few notable exceptions. This study focuses on the Chumash occupations of the Oxnard Plain...
L. Michael White (Classics, University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, May 20 / 3:30 PM Phelps 1160 L. Michael White is a Professor of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin and the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Christian Origins. White also serves as director of the...
Barbara Voorhies (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, May 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB New evidence is presented for the antiquity of Indian gaming in Mesoamerica. Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG....
Ian Lindsay (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, 10 April, 5:30 pm McCune Conference Room...
Elizabeth Klarich (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, April 10 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB...
Michael Jochim (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, March 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) Wednesday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The transmissions of a vast number of artmotifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoric period was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes...
John W. I. Lee (History, UCSB) Monday, February 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
Stuart Smith, (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, January 9 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
Brice Erickson (Classics, UCSB) Wednesday, October 29 / 5:00 pm 2001a HSSB, Anthropology Seminar Room...