14.3.14
13.2.14
AIA TALKS: Andean Gold 17 Februrary 2014
In his evening talk on the 17th we get to look at lots of gold! Dr. Aldenderfer will review the ways in which golden objects were used by four cultures in the ancient Andes: the hunters and gatherers of the Titicaca basin at 2000 BC, the Chavin culture of the central Andes (900 BCE), the Moche (400 CE), and the Chimu (1200 CE). Gold served as personal adornment that also had social meaning, and through time, became identified with power and religious ideology.
The next day he will speak on Mustang, a site closed to the world until the 1990s. It is now home to a small but thriving Tibetan Buddhist community that was once part of a much larger world with connections westward into Central Asia and to the east into China and beyond via the famous Silk Road. Their origins are very much unknown. The earliest inhabitants are variously described as Aryans, Mongolians, Tibetans, and others. Archaeologists, historians, bio-archaeologists, archaeological scientists, including specialists in DNA analysis, along with a crack team of Alpinists and climbers, are recovering important new data that speak to the origins of the people of Upper Mustang and the ways in which the polity grew and changed over the past 3000 years.
Monday, February 17
4,000 Years of Andean Gold
7:30 PM
Wilson Hall Theatre, UAH
Tuesday, February 18
Ancient Mustang: The Origins of a High Himalayan Kingdom in Nepal
12:45 PM
Wilson Hall 168 (the art history lecture hall), UAHPlease feel free to forward our information to friends. Our events are always free and open to the public.
16.1.14
AIA Talks! First Humans in the Americas 21 January 2014
Kathleen Holen, who did her MA in Archaeology at Exeter
University in Devon, UK, will
explore how early hominins in Africa learned how to break large animal limb
bones with hammerstones to extract marrow at least 2.5 million years ago.
Early hominins also learned to flake bone into expedient and
patterned bone tools by 1.2 million years ago. Video of experimental breakage
of elephant and cow limb bones shows how breakage patterns found on animal limb
bones from archaeological sites were produced. Patterned bone breakage and
flaking of limb bones at numerous late Pleistocene mammoth sites in the Americas
provide evidence of human technology and behavior at
least 30,000 years ago.
Dr. Steven Holen, the former Curator of Archaeology at the Denver
Museum of Nature and Science, will address a controversial topic that we have
explored with several of our visiting AIA lecturers—the peopling of the
Americas. He will open his talk with a history of debate and then offer new
evidence and ideas about the date when humans first entered the Americas and by
what routes and methods.
Tuesday, Jan. 21
Kathleen HolenTuesday, Jan. 21
When People Broke Bones:
Early Human Technology and Experimental Archaeology
12:45 PM
Wilson Hall 168
Tuesday, Jan. 21
Center for American Paleolithic Research
Early Humans in the
Americas: When, Where and Why
7:30 PM
Wilson Hall Theatre
All events are free and open to the public. Please come and bring a friend!
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