NEEAN Lectures
Previous Lectures
Fall 2018
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Ingrid Ahlgren
New England in the South Seas
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 – 6:00pm
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University
24 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
A HISTORY OF CHANGE: Navigating Modern Climate Change Through Archaeological and Environmental Study (UMASS)
Four presenters presenting their environmental and palaeoclimate study, disaster mitigation, and human-environment interaction research
Friday, April 26, 2019 – 2:00pm – 5:00pm
UMASS Boston Historical Archaeology Graduate Students
University of Massachusetts Boston
Room 3507, Healey Library Media Auditorium
Boston, MA 02125
Patricia Capone and Diana Loren
Digging Veritas: Archaeology of Harvard Yard
Thursday, April 25th, 2019 – 3:30pm
Archaeology Program Seminar Series
Tozzer 203
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Heather Hurst (Skidmore University)
TBA
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Christopher Morehart (Arizona State University)
Biological Diversity and the State: Paleoethnobotanical Considerations on the Body Politic
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 – 4:00pm
Pre-Columbian Dialogues Series and sponsored by the Herbert Goldberger Lecture Fund
Brown University
Room 110, 280 Brook Street, Providence, RI
Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania)
Troy and Gordion: Excavating Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 – 5:00pm
8th Annual Distinguished Archaeology Lecture in honor of Professor Norman Hammond
Boston University
CAS 211, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Christian E. Loeben
Ancient Egyptian Gardens
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 – 6:00pm
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University
24 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Dr. Lyu Peng (Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Beijing) and Ms. Wang Yifan (Shandong University, China)
From South to North in China: New Developments in Zooarchaeological Research on Shell Midden Sites and Bronze Age Dietary Strategies and Subsistence Patterns Liaodong Peninsula, China: Stable Isotope Studies
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 – 11:15 – 12:45pm
Archaeological Science Lectures
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Andrea Berlin (Boston University, Faculty Spotlight)
Life on Board: The Kyrenia Ship and the Goods of the Crew
Wednesday, March 6, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Benjamin Mutin
Investigating the Food Production Revolution East of the Fertile Crescent
Thursday, February 28th, 2019 – 3:30pm
Archaeology Program Seminar Series
Tozzer 203
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Madelynn von Baeyer
Roots of Resilience. Shifting Agricultural Practices at Late Chalcolithic Çadir Höyük, Turkey
Thursday, February 21st, 2019 – 3:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Tozzer 203
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Mark Plotkin and Brian Hettler
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evan Schultes
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 – 6:00pm
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University
24 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Graduate Workshop: The Academic Job Hunt
Wednesday, February 20, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Paul Weinberg
Traces and Tracks
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 – 6:00pm
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University
24 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Kristine Bovy (University of Rhode Island)
Why so many wings? Examining bird skeletal part distribution from Pacific Northwest Coast sites
Wednesday, January 30, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Ellery Frahm (Yale University)
A Neanderthal, a human, and a turtle walk across a landscape: Reconstructing Palaeolithic mobility in Southwest Asia
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
James Kellner (Brown)
Introduction to LiDAR (Lecture) and Workshop
Friday, October 12th, 2018 – 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Brown University
Giddings Hall 202 (Archaeology Lab), Providence RI
Patrick E. McGovern (University of Pennsylvania)
Ancient Brews Rediscovered and Re-Created
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 – 6:00pm
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University
24 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Natalie Munro (University of Connecticut)
The Emergence of Animal Management in the Southern Levant
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Tiffany Tung (Vanderbilt University)
Violence, Food Insecurity, and Body Desecration: A Bioarchaeological and Isotopic Study of Climate Change and Imperial Collapse in the Peruvian Andres
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 – 4:00pm
Precolumbian Dialogues Lecture Series
Brown University
McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St, Providence RI
Amy Bogaard
How Early Cities of Western Asia (re)Invented Agriculture
Thursday, September 27th, 2018 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Harvard University
Tozzer 203, 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA
Joseph Manning (Yale University)
Volcanoes, The Nile, and the End of Ancient Egypt
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 – 7:00pm
University of Maine
Donald P. Corbett Business Building, Room 100
Orono, ME 04469
Leslie Reeder-Myers (Temple University)
Ancient Oysters and Modern Messes: How Archaeology Can Help Clean Up Urban Estuaries
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Jesse Casana
TBA
Thursday, November 1, 2018 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Harvard University
Tozzer 203, 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA
Jennifer Bates (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
TBA
Thursday, November 1, 2018 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Brown Bag in Archaeology Series
Brown University
Rhode Island Hall, Providence RI
Robert Cook
Maize, Mounds, and Migration: Multicultural Native American Origins and Descendants of the Ohio Valley
Thursday, November 8th, 2018 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Harvard University
Tozzer 203, 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA
Parker VanValkenburgh (Brown), Miriam Rothenberg and John F. Cherry (Brown), and Charles Golden (Brandeis)
A series of reports on the use of LiDAR in Peru, Montserrat, and Guatemala
Friday, November 9th, 2018 – 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Brown University
Giddings Hall 202 (Archaeology Lab), Providence RI
Daphne Gallagher
Africa in the Medieval World Lecture Series: ‘Reflecting on Medieval West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal
Monday, November 12, 2018 – 5:15pm
Africa in the Medieval World Lecture Series
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Heather Clifford, Andrei V. Kurbatov, and Paul A. Mayewski, Michael McCormick and Alexander More
Climate, Pollution and Economic Growth in Human History: New Results from the Historical Ice Core Project
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 – 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
Location TBA
Lucas Proctor (University of Connecticut)
Fueling Complexity: Archaeobotanical Approaches to Fuel Economies and Early Urbanism in Northern Mesopotamia
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Hayal Akarsu
TBA
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 – 5:00pm
Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS)
Brandeis University
Pearlman 113, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Katherine L. Chiou
Common Meals, Noble Feasts: The Archaeology of Moche Cuisine
Thursday, November 29th, 2018 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Harvard University
Tozzer 203, 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA
Brian Horton
TBA
Friday, November 30, 2018 – 2:30pm
Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS)
Brandeis University
Schwartz 103, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Alix Johnson
TBA
Monday, December 3rd, 2018 – 5:00pm
Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS)
Brandeis University
Pearlman 113, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Vijayanka Nair
TBA
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 – 5:00pm
Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS)
Brandeis University
Pearlman 113, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Samuel Munoz (Northeastern University)
Muddy Perspectives: Recent Advances in the Application of Geoscience in Archaeology
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 – 12:20pm – 1:30pm
Archaeology Seminar Series
Boston University
STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA