Discussants: Jada Ko E. Dalyn Grindle Veronica Peterson Kristen Pearson
Topic: Archaeologists Doing Ethnography: Adventures with the IRB (Institutional Review Board) Process Time: Oct 8, 2020 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Mary C. Stiner, Regents Professor, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Humans are the only animal species that bury their dead, and this practice is preserved in Paleolithic sites as early as 120,000 years ago. The emergence of burial traditions in this time period implies that both Neanderthals and early humans had already begun to conceive of the individual as unique and irreplaceable. Mary Stiner will discuss the archaeological evidence for burial practices in the Paleolithic, the earliest-known ritualized bridge...
Willeke Wendrich,Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology; Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles
Archaeologists study stylistic and technological changes in excavated materials—...
a talk by Dr. Laura Taronas and part of the Harvard workshop, Methodologies in Egyptology and Mesopotamian Studies (MEMS)
Abtract
The campaign to erase the names and images of some of Egypt’s traditional deities during Akhenaten’s reign is one of the few key elements of the Amarna Period that Egyptologists have yet to treat in-depth in order to better understand the phenomenon. This paper is the product of my dissertation research, which explores which elements are erased — and with what frequency — from portable objects that...