Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Willamette University

08/13/2024

08/12/2024

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03/12/2024

Our second-to-last AIA Archaeology Hour lecture of the season will be on Wednesday, March 27 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. This month's presenter is Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta), whose lecture is entitled Finding the Children: Using Archaeology to Search for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada.

In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, announced that 215 potential unmarked graves were located near the Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar conducted by archaeologists. In this talk, Supernant provides an overview of how archaeologists have been working with Indigenous communities in Canada to locate potential grave sites and discuss the opportunities and challenges in this highly sensitive, deeply emotional work.

Dr. Kisha Supernant Métis/Papaschase/British) is the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology and a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer, her research interests include the relationship between cultural identities, landscapes, and the use of space, Métis archaeology, and heart-centered archaeological practice. Her research with Indigenous communities (including Métis and First Nations) in western Canada explores how archaeologists and communities can build collaborative research relationships and uphold Indigenous rights to cultural heritage.

Can’t make the talk on March 27? Don’t worry! A recording will be made available on our AIA YouTube Channel. Register with this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RiVnj1urRy25POn73qrCEA?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=f361d2ba0e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_10_03_04_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_640baf0738-f361d2ba0e-215949216&mc_cid=f361d2ba0e&mc_eid=c35d412611 #/registration

03/06/2024

Spring 2024 Hallie Ford Literary Series – A Reading by Terese Marie Mailhot TONIGHT 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Bestselling author Terese Marie Mailhot will be reading from her book “Heart Berries”

02/16/2024

Attention all field school students: the Waldbaum Archaeological Field School scholarship deadline is fast approaching. This funding can help cover the costs of an archaeological field school, such as tuition, travel, and other expenses. The scholarship is open to all undergraduate juniors, seniors, and first-year graduate students who have never participated in a field school before. Apply online by Friday, March 1!

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/GyKk50QB6bz

02/14/2024

Join us for the annual Rumpakis Lecture on March 14th! Any questions can be emailed to [email protected]. We hope to see you there!

01/18/2024

AIA Archaeology Hour will returns on Wednesday, January 24 for “Cultural Resource Management: What Most Archaeologists Do For A Living,” presented by Jeff Altschul (SRI Foundation ). This presentation will be given at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT.

Today, there are about 12,000 archaeologists working in the US with less than 10 percent of them employed by universities. While university anthropology and archaeology departments are shrinking, the applied sector, known as cultural resource management (CRM) is growing. What accounts for these opposing trends and what, if anything, can we do about it?

Jeff Altschul is President of the SRI Foundation and co-President of the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. Since 1975, he has served as principal investigator on more than 1,000 cultural resource management projects in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Can’t make the talk on January 24? Don’t worry! A recording will be made available on our AIA YouTube Channel.

Register HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bmdXIUnjQGyAuZ_YUD6H5Q?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=6d8080f448-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_10_03_04_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_640baf0738-6d8080f448-215949216&mc_cid=6d8080f448&mc_eid=c35d412611 #/registration

Photo Courtesy: Jeff Attschul

01/16/2024

Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Petra Creamer, ‘Be(com)ing Assyrian’: Navigating Imperial Power from the Bottom-Up. This presentation will be given on February 4, 2024 at 1pm Eastern/12pm Central/11am Mountain/10am Pacific. To register, follow this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e25j5AC1SaSsWLKLeQTLtA?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=f655cf5e84-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_12_14_04_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_640baf0738-f655cf5e84-215949216&mc_cid=f655cf5e84&mc_eid=c35d412611 #/registration

At its height, the Assyrian Empire (c. 1350-600 BCE) stretched from modern-day Iran in the east to Egypt in the west, controlling more territory than any entity the world had yet seen. This talk will delve into the profound impact of the Assyrian Empire and its administrative structures on the lives of individuals under its hegemony. This talk particularly dives into the implementation of massive infrastructural projects across the landscape, the establishment of centralized governance systems, and the navigation of personal identities that shaped the idea of “be(com)ing Assyrian”.

Petra Creamer is an archaeologist of the Ancient Near Eastern world researching the genesis and growth of empires and the impact of these empires on the non-elite populations under their hegemony. She is director of the excavation and remote sensing project Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia (RLIIM) in Iraqi Kurdistan, where her ongoing fieldwork addresses long-term settlement patterns and lifeways in the ancient Assyrian imperial core (c. 1350-600 BCE). She is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Emory University.

The lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.

Photo: The movement of deportee populations taking place, depicted in Sennacherib’s Southwest Palace at Nineveh. Photograph courtesy of Petra Creamer.