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Agriculture in China predates domesticated rice: Discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

Greetings Members and Friends of the AIA!

Welcome! Here you’ll find updates on our events as well as links to news on current topics in archaeology. Please consider joining the AIA and supporting our local society. Our society receives three FREE lecturers because we maintain a membership of fifty. As an AIA member affiliated with our local society, you get to vote on what topics we choose to explore each year. AIA headquarters pays the speakers' airfare and honorarium and our local society provides a venue and hospitality. As a local society we also invite three to six speakers annually. Your support directly impacts the number of fascinating archaeologists we bring to North Alabama. Thanks again for your help and enthusiasm!

Lillian Joyce, PhDPresident, AIA North AL Society

Spring 2013 Speaker Schedule

January 28, 2013, Monday, Dr. Katherine Dunbabin, Professor Emerita, McMaster University “The Romans at Dinner” 2:20 PM Wilson Hall 168
January 28, 2013, Monday, Dr. Katherine Dunbabin, Professor Emerita, McMaster University “The Mosaics of Zeugma on the Euphrates” 7:30 PM Wilson Hall Theatre
March 5, 2013, Tuesday, Dr. Payson Sheets, University of Colorado, Boulder “What Horrible Thing Happened Around the World in AD 536?” 7:30 PM Wilson Hall Theatre
March 19, 2012, Tuesday, Dr. V. James Knight, University of Alabama “The Arawakan Chiefdoms of Cuba: Old Collections and New Fieldwork” 7:30 PM Wilson Hall Theatre

The AIA in Action!

Have you ever wanted to go on an archaeological dig? The AIA publishes the Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin, which has listings for digs from the US to Mongolia to Australia. Not ready to get dirty? The AIA offers behind the scenes tours of archaeological sites all over the world. Being a member of the AIA supports many valuable programs in site conservation as well as training activities such as talks to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. We encourage the future of archaeology by providing scholarships to archaeologists in training. Create a future for the past. Join the AIA!

News and Notes

21.5.13

Scientists Finally Pinpoint the Pathogen That Caused the Irish Potato Famine | Surprising Science

19.5.13

Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam's Club

17.5.13

Agriculture in China predates domesticated rice: Discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

14.5.13

Mayan pyramid bulldozed by Belize construction crew

8.5.13

Genes show one big European family

6.5.13

Scholar: Ancient Babylon’s hanging garden was in northern Iraq

1.5.13

Jamestown cannibalism confirmed by skull from 'Jane'

22.4.13

Remains of woman adorned with gold beads and buried 4,500 years ago discovered near Windsor | The Raw Story

21.4.13

Pompeii Falling From Grace

Grotesque Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science

11.4.13

'Entire streets' of Roman London uncovered in the City

7.4.13

Syrian War Devastates Ancient Sites

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