S250 - Porte Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
Barakatullo Ashurov Harvard University
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture
Ol’ga Smirnova one of the eminent Russian Orientalist and specialist of Sogdian history and numismatics in one of her studies published in 1957 has highlighted two groups of Sogdian coins one of which had special iconographic difference. She has rightfully identified that this newly observed iconography was a cross and might have association with the Byzantine and hence...
Yves Ubelmann (Iconem) and Bastien Varoutsikos (Iconem)
Today’s innovative technologies are transforming cultural heritage and archaeology. Within the realm of heritage preservation, 3D modeling has been the focus of conflicting opinions.
These new forms of recording and representation are, at the very least, seen as a new answer to old questions, but can also provide an entirely new approach to knowledge. However, 3D modeling and, sometimes, reconstruction, have also been...
S250 - Porte Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
Dr. Julia Clark NOMAD Science and American Center for Mongolian Studies
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series 2018-19
The illegal looting of archaeological sites and shifting climate norms are not new phenomena in Mongolia, as in much of the world. However, there is increasing evidence that both are having an effect on Mongolian archaeological sites and cultural heritage at unprecedented levels. The impacts of looting and climate change on archaeological remains are complex and interwoven without easy...
The majority of the population in Medieval Byzantium lived in small settlements in the countryside. It is the study of these rural settlements that will provide important information for a more inclusive understanding about daily life in the Byzantine Empire. This talk focuses on housing and the use of space within Byzantine villages in the Mani peninsula in the southern Peloponnese. Because of the use of stone in the construction of houses, churches, threshing floors, cisterns...
An archaeologist and ethnobotantist at the School of Integrated Plant Science at Cornell, Natalie Mueller is at the forefront of efforts to better understand and recreate the crop species once used by indigenous societies in the Americas.
Room 203, Tozzer Building, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Katie Chiou University of Alabama
Archaeology Seminar Series - Fall Semester
What did it mean to be Moche? To experience Moche life? To eat “Moche”? The Moche people(s) constituted a highly differentiated and complex political organization that stretched up and down the northern Peruvian coast from AD 100-800. In this talk, I seek to enliven the...