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Landscapes of Predation: Exploring Hostile Social Environments in Small-Scale Societies presented by Dr. Catherine Cameron (CU Boulder, Anthropology)

Ancient social environments are difficult to reconstruct, and archaeologists have a much poorer grasp of how the social environment affects where and how people live. One sort of social behavior that is often visible archaeologically is violence: raiding and warfare. Using ethnohistoric cases, I identify “landscapes of predation” created by intense social violence. I will […]

The Becoming of Mesoamerican Pigments: The Olmec presented by Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez (CU Boulder)

CU Museum of Natural History Broadway, Boulder, CO, United States

This lecture presents a new study of pigments and coloring materials that offers a unique window into the development of indigenous science, ideology, and learning processes to innovate knowledge. The color palettes of Juxtlahuaca, Cauadzidziqui and Oxtotitlan caves, all located in the state Guerrero, Mexico, will be compared and evaluated and I will propose how […]

Men and Women in the Wild West: The Production of a Red-Light District in Ouray, Colorado given by Prof. Mary Van Buren (Colorado State University)

Eaton Humanities 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Since the 1980s studies of prostitution, a key component of red-light districts, have focused almost exclusively on female sex workers. While an important corrective to the omission of women from historical accounts of the West, the roles played by men in the construction, organization, and experiences offered by red-light districts have been largely ignored. This […]

Caesar’s Cervisia

Eaton Humanities 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Caesar’s Cervisia presented by Travis Rupp (CU Boulder) Examinations of Roman cuisine often downplay the role of beer in the ancient Roman diet seeing it as a symbol of barbarity. This presentation examines the plausibility of beer as a standard component of the Roman soldier’s diet and seeks to highlight when it may have become […]

Experiencing Epiphany in the Ancient Greek Sanctuary presented by Dr. Jess Paga (William & Mary)

Eaton Humanities 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Sensory studies of embodiment have gained traction in recent years as unparalleled tools for examining the vicissitudes of ancient lived experience. When used in conjunction with cognitive studies, it becomes possible to tease out the links between (over)stimulation, deprivation, and religious transformation. Kinesthetics, in particular, can facilitate a nuanced embodied account of approach, (in)accessibility, and […]

Building a 13th and 14th Century Multi-Ethnic Community at 25BD1 in Northeastern Nebraska presented by Dr. Doug Bamforth

Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, United States
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Thousands of Plains farmers settled along Ponca creek in northeastern Nebraska during the latter decades of the 13th century, in the midst of a wave of social change and dislocation across the mid-continent as Cahokia collapsed and drought spread widely over much of North America. In contrast to the small homesteads on the central Plains […]

A Late Bronze Age “Naval Station” at Kalamianos (Saronic Gulf), Greece? presented by Dr. Daniel Pullen

Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, United States
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The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project has documented the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th cent. BCE) harbor town at Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf coast of the Corinthia, Greece. We suggest this site might be the Homeric town of “Eïones” which later Strabo identified as a “naval station.” The implications of this identification of Kalamianos as […]

Stress, Sex, and Death: Health and Survival in the Context of Medieval Famine and Plague presented by Dr. Sharon DeWitte

Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, United States

In the 14th-century, Afro-Eurasia was struck by a devastating pandemic of bubonic plague, now often called the Black Death, that killed an estimated 30-60% of some affected populations. Dr. DeWitte will discuss her bioarchaeological research, focusing on the skeletal remains of people who died before, during, and after the Black Death in London, England. This […]

The Past in the Past: The Power of Monuments in Ruin presented by Dr. Art Joyce

Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, United States

This presentation examines two ruined monumental architectural complexes in prehispanic Oaxaca, Mexico: The Main Plaza of the mountaintop city of Monte Albán in the Valley of Oaxaca and the acropolis of Río Viejo on the coastal floodplain of the Lower Río Verde. Both complexes were built during the Formative period and became the ceremonial centers […]

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