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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