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APRIL 2024 CHICAGO ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURES AND EXHIBITS

LECTURES

April 11, 7:00 PM AIA Society Chicago Lecture "Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephant” Lecturer: Noel Tan While a global phenomenon, rock art has been a relatively recent subject of study in Southeast Asia with the number of known sites growing from a handful in the 1960s to over a thousand today. Research accelerated in the last 20 years with better recording and analytical techniques as evidenced by the increased number of papers on Southeast Asian rock art in international conferences and journals since the 2000s. The majority of sites are located from Indonesia and Thailand, where sustained episodes of research have been conducted. New dates from Indonesia challenge long-standing ideas about the ‘origin’ of art while other discoveries shed light on the movements and activities of peoples across this diverse landscape. This lecture presents a survey of rock art across Southeast Asia from the deep past to more modern times and shows how rock art can help us better understand the archaeology of Southeast Asia. DePaul University Levan Center 2322 North Kenmore Avenue Chicago

April 13, 5:00 PM American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Chicago, Illinois Chapter

"New Evidence of the 25th Dynasty God’s; Wives of Amun at Luxor Temple”

Catherine Witt, Egyptology PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago

In Person only in the LaSalle Banks Room at ISAC This year there is one lecture, 20 minutes long (in keeping with the ARCE Meeting lecture format) so this will be a short meeting.

April 17, 8:00 pm ET, 7:00 PM CT AIA Society, Chicago Online Lecture This is an online event.

"Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros"

Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M)

Between 2005 and 2011, researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University excavated and raised the remains of an ancient ship that was wrecked off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kızılburun in the first century B.C. This ship was transporting about 60 tons of white marble blocks and architectural elements that originated in the quarries on Proconnesus Island in the Sea of Marmara. Ceramic artifacts and coins help narrow the date of the shipwreck, but the pieces of a single monumental Doric column suggest that the ship was destined for one of the most important oracular sanctuaries in the ancient Mediterranean. Join underwater archaeologist Deborah Carlson as she lays out the evidence to solve this maritime mystery!

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uCFCjR1iQ-SNbtaZkrd48Q#/registration

MUSEUM EVENTS

April 25 – August 18, 2024 The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute) Exhibit

"Pioneers of the Sky: Aerial Archaeology and the Black Desert"

The University of Chicago, 1155 E 58th St.

January 26-May 12, 2024 Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography Exhibit “Native America in Translation” https://www.mocp.org/exhibition/native-america-in-translation/

January 6-June 16, 2024 The National Puerto Rican Museum Chicago Exhibit “Caribbean Indigenous Resistance / Resistencia indígena del Caribe ¡Taíno Vive!” https://nmprac.org/exhibition/taino-vive-caribbean-indigenous-resistance/?back=ago