Texas Tech University

Past AIA Lectures

Spring 2025

Alienated Ancestors: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian History of Anthropology in the Americas

Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor of History, The Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, February 6th, 2025, 5:30pm. 
Location: MCOM 359

 

Surviving Change: The Persistence of a 3,000-Year-Old City

Gregory Zaro, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Climate Change, University of Maine
Thursday, February 27th, 2025, 5:30pm. 
Location: MCOM 359

 

Tracing megalithic heritage: Ceramic archaeometry research in the Upper Rhône Valley, Switzerland

Branimir Segvic, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, TTU
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 5:30pm
Location: MCOM 359

 

AIA Archaeology Hour Lectures

Throughout the semester the AIA offers on-line lectures by renown archaeologists through its Archaeology Hour series. This is open to all AIA members.

For more details see visit the Archaeological Institute of America website.  

 

Fall 2024

Drunken Women with Spears? Funerary Practices and Female Identity in Pre-Roman Apulia

Bice Peruzzi, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Rutgers University

Thursday, October 10th, 2024, 5:30pm. 

Holden 104

 

The Understories of Samothrace 

Christopher Witmore, Professor of Archaeology and Classics, Texas Tech University 

Thursday, November 21st, 2024, 5:30pm. 

MCOM 359

 

AIA Archaeology Hour Lectures

Throughout the semester the AIA offers on-line lectures by renown archaeologists through its Archaeology Hour series. This is open to all AIA members.

For more details see: https://www.archaeological.org/programs/public/lectures/archaeologyhour/

 

Spring 2024

Cultural Resource Management: What Most Archaeologists Do For a Living 

Jeff Altschul

(Hosted by the AIA Lubbock Society)

Wednesday, January, 24th, 2024, 7:00pm 

 

Dignity and social control through burial practices in ancient Rome

Dorian Borbonus, Associate Professor History, University of Dayton

Thursday, February 1st, 2024, 5:30pm 

Holden Hall 104 

 

Other Lectures TBA 

Wandering the Green Hell and Sailing the Middle Sea: Lessons in Lidar-based Archaeology from the Maya Lowlands and the Mediterranean

Thomas G. Garrison and Brody W. Manquen
(Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin)

Thursday, April 25th, 2024, 5:30pm, Holden Hall 104

 

Fall 2023

Pottery in Ptolemaic Military Stations: Retooling Network Approaches to Early Hellenistic Maritime Trade

Melanie Godsey, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, Texas Tech University

Thursday, September 28th, 2023, 5:30pm. 
Holden Hall 104. 

Warfare, Heterarchy, and Empty Hillforts: Understanding the Samnites' Non-Urban Society through Digital Archaeology Methods

Giacomo Fontana, Research Fellow in computational archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology, Associated researcher, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Project director of the Ancient Hillforts Survey 

Thursday, October 19th, 2023, 5:30pm. 
Holden Hall 104. 

AIA Archaeology Hour Lectures

Throughout the semester the AIA offers on-line lectures by renowned archaeologists through its Archaeology Hour series. This is open to all AIA members. For more details see: https://www.archaeological.org/programs/public/lectures/archaeologyhour/

The AIA Lubbock society will host an Archaeology Hour in the Spring Series—details to come.   

 

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