OFFICERS

President:

\Barbara Barletta barletta@ufl.edu

Vice Pres.:

John F. Scott
jfscott@ufl.edu

Secretary:

Phyllis Saarinen saarinen@gru.net

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:

"Taino Indian Myth and Spanish Early Contact,"

William F. Keegan, PhD,
Curator of Caribbean Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008 8:00 pm Bldg 42, Computer Science and Engineering, Room 119E (adjacent to Marston Library)

 
 

"New Research on the Origins of Urbanism in Ancient Mesopotamia,"

Prof. Jason Ur,
Harvard University
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 8:00 pm location TBA

 
 

"Aigina Beyond Kolonna and Aphaia (The Ancient Greek Island State of Aigina),"

Hans Goette, PhD,
German Archaeological Institute
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 8:00 pm location TBA

 
 

 

 
 

 

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
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    Boston, MA 02215-2010

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

     

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