Past Events

A sampling of some of our past events, sure to be a teaser for what's to come: The Deep History of the Animal Question Prof. Brian Boyd (Columbia University). New York Academy of Sciences, Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Dead Body and its Evidential Traces Prof. Zoe Crossland (Columbia University). New York Academy of Sciences offices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. After Material Culture (Boas Lecture) Prof. Julian Thomas (University of Manchester, U.K.). Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference 2008 Professors from numerous domestic and international universities, in the first US-held TAG conference in the group's history. The Stonehenge Riverside Project: Interrogating the Prehistoric Landscape of Stonehenge Prof. Julian Thomas (University of Manchester, U.K.). Using Local Political Economy to Combat Narratives of Indigenous Decline: An Eighteenth Century Seneca Iroquois Example Prof. Kurt Jordan (Cornell University). Human and Faunal Osteology Workshops Prof. Pam Crabtree (NYU). Modern Human Behavioral Origins and Dispersal: New Perspectives Prof. Paul Mellars (University of Cambridge). Finding Fieldwork Workshop Prof. Zoe Crossland (Columbia University). Pottery: Manufacture and Analysis Workshop Jeff Lamia (AIA). Conservation for Archaeologists Workshop Julie Unruh, Conservator. South Brooklyn Archaeology & Cemetery Tour The Gotham League of Archaeology Majors. Patina: Temporality and Social Aesthetics (Boas Lecture) Prof. Shannon Dawdy (University of Chicago). The Ruination of the Social and the Social Lives of Ruins An interdisciplinary workshop exploring the social significance and impact of ruins. Celluloid Idylls: Swords, Sandals & Sex AIA—NYC Society Archaeology & Screen Media Program. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Movie Screening) The Gotham League of Archaeology Majors. Maya Cosmology Prof. Lisa Lucero (University of Illinois). Senior Thesis Presentations Jen Thum (Barnard College), Michelle Hutt (Columbia College), Elizabeth Berger (Columbia College) and Christina Perry (Barnard College). Archaeological survey in Central Yunnan: Documenting the Rise and Fall of the "Dian" Kingdom (Brown Bag Research Seminar) Prof. Alice Yao (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World). The Politics of DNA (Brown Bag Research Seminar) Prof. Nadia Abu el-Haj (Barnard College). Collecting & Gathering: Making Worlds and Staking Claims A graduate student conference put on by our wonderful mentees.