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The Artifact The Artifact A Publication of the Archaeological Institute of America - Milwaukee Society Vol. 26 No. 2, Spring 2021 Letter from the President Contents Jane Peterson, Professor Letter from the President 1-2 Marquette University Dear AIA-Milwaukee Society Members, Welcome New Members 2 Happy New Year! I am pleased to present the Spring Lecture, February 21: Andrew J. Koh, A Land Called 2-3 2021 edition of the Artifact – a benefit of belonging to Crete: From Harriet Boyd Hawes to the Cretan the Milwaukee Society of the Archaeological Institute of Collections Project America. This spring we are distributing the newsletter Lecture, March 7: Joshua Driscoll, Alcohol and 3-4 digitally due to concerns about health, finances, and our Power: Recontextualizing Drinking Practices in Iron environment. Thank you for continuing to support AIA’s mission and goals Age Europe through your membership and Lecture, April 11: Darian Marie Totten, The Ancient 4-5 participation in Economies of a Small Port on the Adriatic: The Case AIA events. of Salapia (Puglia, Italy) from the 1st-8th c. CE. While the pandemic has AIA’s 121st Annual Meeting, Virtual, January 3-10 5 challenged us all, by Jocelyn Boor, Derek Counts, Jane Peterson, and please know that Jane Waldbaum AIA is working diligently – at both the local and Open Wide: Investigating the Microbial Mysteries of 5-7 national levels – the Historic Oral Microbiome to promote by Ashley Brennaman archaeology and provide Our Long History of Archaeology Here 8 opportunities to by Alice Kehoe keep you engaged. And Waldbaum Wins AIA’s Joukowsky Award 9 with your continued support, we look forward to seeing by Jane Waldbaum you in Sabin Hall again before too long. I’m always happy to hear from members about changes we have made or ideas for new initiatives. So feel free to contact me at: [email protected] 2020-2021 Milwaukee Society Looking back on the summer and fall, we had several Officers and Volunteers virtual programming successes. We developed a Wisconsin Archaeology Site Visit flyer that provided Jane Peterson, President: [email protected] members and friends information about local sites to Emily Stanton, Vice-President: [email protected] visit. Feedback and suggestions poured in and we are Alice Kehoe, Secretary-Treasurer: [email protected] considering continuing the site visit flyer for the coming Thomas H. Hruby, Webmaster: [email protected] summer. We also held our first live and online event – an Joshua Driscoll, Artifact Editor: [email protected] expert panel entitled The State of Wisconsin Archaeological Institute of America - Milwaukee Society http://aia-milwaukee.uwm.edu Page 1 Archaeology. Experts in underwater (Kevin Cullen, ****************************** Neville Museum), Effigy Mounds (Amy Rosebrough, Welcome New Members Wisconsin Historical Society), and historical (Joceyln Joined Since September 2020 Boor, UWM) archaeology provided summaries in their areas of expertise and answered questions from the Emma Eisner Riley Rockford audience. Many thanks to Alice Kehoe, who filled in Daniel Kennedy Morton Soifer with insights about Menominee agricultural features and practices, when Dave Overstreet experienced some We are very happy you joined us! technical difficulties. A full recording of the expert panel is available on our AIA Milwaukee website: https://aia- ****************************** milwaukee.uwm.edu/lectures/ A Land Called Crete: From Harriet After briefly pausing our lecture program in the fall – we are back with three lectures for spring 2021. The Boyd Hawes to the Cretan Collections lectures will be held on-line and will follow the same Project format of the in-person lectures. You will receive email flyers announcing each, along with links to register for A Lecture by Andrew J. Koh events. As always, you’ll find abstracts and speaker Massachusetts Institute of Technology biographies for each lecture in this issue as well as online. Since so much of our travel has been curtailed, it Sunday, February 21st, 2021 will feel particularly refreshing to hear from experts Virtual Lecture, 3:00 p.m. working in Crete, Europe, and Greece. Born in Boston in 1871, Harriet Boyd Hawes was In addition to the lecture previews, this issue includes a introduced to the classical world by her brother and nd review of the AIA’s 122 annual conference. Also eventually earned a classics degree from Smith College. included is a short feature on Wisconsin archaeology, Encouraged to become a teacher or librarian, Hawes was which seems appropriate given the enthusiastic response nevertheless determined to overcome the norms of the to our efforts to promote local site visits over the day to conduct archaeological fieldwork. Spurred by her summer. A research report by UWM doctoral candidate father’s death in 1896, Hawes made her way to Greece Ashley Brennaman provides fascinating insights into and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, how bioarchaeologists are reconstructing microbiomes where women were officially accepted if effectively from dental calculus. And lastly, Jane Waldbaum marginalized. Awarded an AIA fellowship in 1898, contributes a personal reflection about her long-term Hawes spent the next two years soaking in everything affiliation with AIA on the occasion of receiving this Greece had to offer until Crete beckoned. Despite year’s Joukowsky Award for Distinguished Service. ongoing hurdles, the intrepid Hawes left Herakleion on Happy reading! April 1900 for East Crete and by the following year became the first woman to direct major excavations in While nothing can replace the pleasures of coming the Aegean at Gournia (and address the AIA), together in person to learn about exciting discoveries and inaugurating one of the most remarkable chapters in the research in archaeology, I encourage you to participate annals of archaeological research. in on-line programming, as you are able, until we can meet again. In addition to our Milwaukee Society Prior to Gournia, Hawes excavated a smattering of lectures, there is an expanded menu of on-line lectures smaller Late Minoan III sites in East Crete. available for your viewing, sponsored by both the Overshadowed by Gournia, these eclectic, hybridizing national office and various local societies. These are all finds from the Final Bronze Age have been largely open to active AIA members. I hope you are able to take forgotten. Mostly unpublished, they hold a major key to advantage of some of these offerings. better understanding migrations and cultural https://www.archaeological.org/programs/public/lectures interconnectivity (and societal reactions to these / phenomena) during one of the best-documented and most disruptive cross-cultural mass events in ancient Best, history – the Bronze Age Collapse. The Final Bronze Age in the Mediterranean was a particularly dynamic Jane Peterson period characterized by displacement and turmoil as its mighty Bronze Age empires disintegrated. Crete has played a surprisingly minor role in reconstructions of Archaeological Institute of America - Milwaukee Society http://aia-milwaukee.uwm.edu Page 2 Pan-Mediterranean narratives despite its central location Alcohol and Power: Recontextualizing and noteworthy documentary references, such as those that place it as a homeland of the Philistines. Thanks to Drinking Practices in Iron Age Europe the forgotten excavations of Hawes and her successors, the Cretan Collections Project through a blend of A Lecture by Joshua Driscoll traditional and archaeometric analyses can now highlight University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee the great potential these smaller LM III assemblages hold to unraveling the complex inter-regional Sunday, March 7th, 2021 connections that would help define a new world of Virtual Lecture, 3:00 p.m. emergent Iron Age cultural microclimates such as classical Greece. During the Early Iron Age (c. 800-400 BCE) in Europe, the power of elites was linked to their political Dr. Andrew Koh manipulation of feasts at which alcohol was a key is a Senior resource, whether in the form of local beer and mead or Research Fellow imported Mediterranean wine. This lecture will explore with the new research into the Massachusetts relative sociopolitical Institute of value and uses of these Technology, and a various types of alcohol. Research It will challenge the Associate with the previous paradigm that Harvard Semitic contrasted an easily Museum; he was spoilable “barbarian” beer formerly Assistant with the natural Professor and superiority of storable Director of “civilized” wine. Driscoll Graduate Studies will present the results of with the an experimental Department of archaeology program for Classical Studies at which fifteen batches of Brandeis University, as well as Affiliated Faculty with prehistoric-style beer were brewed and stored in various the Department of Anthropology and a Florence Levy containers, including oak barrels and low-fired ceramics Kay Fellow with the Department of Chemistry there. He sealed with beeswax or pine pitch. The storability of holds his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania these batches of prehistoric-style beer was tracked for a (Ph.D.) and the University of Illinois at Urbana- period of more than two years. The results of this Champaign, and his areas of specialization are Greek art experiment will be considered in light of new research and archaeology, Aegean prehistory, Bronze and Iron on Iron Age wine and mead in order to contextualize the Age Mediterranean, archaeological and conservation accessibility
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