OFFICERS

President:

Karelisa Hartigan
kvhrtgn@classics.ufl.edu

Vice Pres.:

John F. Scott
jfscott@ufl.edu

Secretary:

Andrew Wolpert
wolpert@ufl.edu

Treasurer:

Judy Turner
jturner@classics.ufl.edu

ADDRESS

AIA, Program Committee
Gainesville Society
P. O. Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611-7435


tel: (352) 392-2075-273

 

 




The Gainesville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
invites you to attend the following lectures:

"Mycenae Invents Itself"

by John Younger, University of Kansas
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Fine Arts Building 103

 
 

"From Rock to Research: Fossils in a Preparation Lab"

by Jane Mason, Vertebrate Paleontology Preparator, Florida Museum of Natural History
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Ruth McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall

 
 

“Ritual Hunting Caches in the Guatemalan Highlands: Implications for Maya Zooarchaeology,”

by Kitty Emery, Associate Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History
Monday, February 4, 2008
6:15 PM in the Ruth McQuown Room (219 Dauer Hall)

 
 

“The Magic of Art and Writing in Ancient Egypt”

by Lanny Bell, Brown University
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
220 Florida Gym at 6:15 PM.

 
 

 

All lectures are free and open to the public.


Previous Lectures:

2002/03

  • Susan Gillespie, Blaming Moctezuma: Anthropomorphizing the Aztec Conquest
  • Paul Zimansky, End of an Empire: Archaeology and the Collapse of Urartu
  • William Marquardt, The Archaeology of Southwest Florida's Shell Coast
  • Elizabeth Benson, Gold Gleaming in theDesert: The Moche of Northern Peru
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    2002/03
  • Francesco Roncalli, Revelation, Writing, 'Holy Writing and Magic in Etruscan Religion
  • David Grove, Up-Dating Olmec Prehistory: New Discoveries on the Gulf Coast
  • Anabel Ford, Lesson from the Past: El Pilar and the Maya Forest
  • Robert Wagman, The Serpent at the Island: New Studies on the Isola Tiberina
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    2000/01
  • Peter Kuniholm, New Dates from Old Trees: The Aegean Dendrochronology Project
  • Michael E. Moseley, Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Andean Civilizations
  • Dorie Reents-Budet, The Economics and Politics of Feasting among the Classical Maya
  • Cemal Pulak, The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck (ca. 1300 B.C.) at Uluburun, Turkey
     

    1999/00

  • Stephen H. Lekson, "Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the American Southwest"
  • Catherine Johns, Goldworking in Britain, 2000 BC to AD 400
  • Jerald T. Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord
     
    1998/9
  • John J. Dobbins, "Problems of Ancient Design: The Imperial Cult Building at Pompeii"
  • J. Wilson Myers, "Twenty Years up in the Air: Looking Down on the Classical World"
  • John K. Papadopoulos, "Virtual Reality and Classical Archaeology:
    The Forum of Trajan in Rome Revisited
    "
    1997/8
  • Stephen L. Dyson, "Looking at Pompeii: Urban Structure and Community"
  • Harrison Eiteljorg, "Early Entrances to the Athenian Acropolis"
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    MEMBERSHIP

    Contact the main office of the AIA for membership information located at Boston University:

    Archaeological Institute of America
    656 Beacon Street
    Boston, MA 02215-2010

    tel: (617) 353-9361
    fax: (617) 353-6550
    email: aia@bu.edu

     

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