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Welcome! Here you’ll find updates on our events as well as links to news on current topics in archaeology. We appreciate your support! Please consider joining the AIA and supporting our local society. Our society receives three FREE lecturers because we maintain a membership of fifty. The AIA pays their airfare and honorarium and our local society provides a venue and hospitality. Thus, your support directly impacts the number of speakers we bring to North Alabama. If we drop below fifty we are in danger of losing speakers. Thanks again for your help and enthusiasm!

President, AIA North AL Society

Spring 2009 Calendar of Events

January 20
Paul Zimansky
SUNY Stony Brook
"City of the Grim Reaper: Rediscovery and Demise at Mashkan-shapir, Iraq"
Chan Auditorium
7:30 PM

February 17
Paula Girshick, Indiana University
Humanities Center Visiting Eminent Scholar Program
"Molders of the Gods: the Priestess as Artist in the Benin Kingdom, Nigeria"
Roberts Hall 419, 12:45 PM

February 17
Dr. Paula Girshick, Indiana University
Humanities Center Visiting Eminent Scholar Program
"There Are Three Things in the Palace That Are Threatening": Royal Ritual Symbolism in the Benin Kingdom, Nigeria"
Chan Auditorium
7:30 PM

February 18
Dr. Paula Girshick, Indiana University
Humanities Center Visiting Eminent Scholar Program
viewing and discussion of film "In and Out of Africa"
Union Grove Gallery 12:30

February 19
Dr. Paula Girshick, Indiana University
Humanities Center Visiting Eminent Scholar Program
"National Monuments and the Re-figuration of the Past in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
Chan Auditorium
7:30 PM

March 10
Ret. Special Agent Robert Wittman
FBI Art Crime Team
"US vs. Art Thieves: Tales from the FBI's Real Indiana Jones"
Chan Auditorium
7:30 PM

March 30
John E. Kelly
Washington University in St. Louis
"Cahokia's Mound 34 and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex"
Chan Auditorium
7:30 PM

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News and Notes

6.7.09

Looted treasures return to Afghanistan

Historic Bible pages put online

Rome Opens Seldom Seen Ancient Sites

Scientist Promotes Idea of Chaco Meridian in Southwest

26.6.09

Touring the Caves of Belize’s Cayo District

Carvings From Cherokee Script’s Dawn

24.6.09

Stone Age Flutes Found in Germany Offer Clues to Early Music

Forging Ahead - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBay

21.6.09

Utah Town Unsettled by Doctor’s Suicide and an Inquiry on Indian Artifact Looting

20.6.09

In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat

15.6.09

Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil

11.6.09

Arrests Made In Sale Of American Indian Artifacts

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