NYSAA Finger Lakes Chapter
Past Talks and Activities
2015
May 7, 2015: Paula Turkon (Department of Anthropology, Ithaca College) "Dendrochronology in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Preliminary Findings from Northwestern Mexico."
April 2, 2015: Michael Malpass (the Charles A. Dana Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, Ithaca College) “The Middle Horizon Site of Sonay: New Radiocarbon Dates (!) and Interpretations (?)”
March 5, 2015: Jeffrey R. Zorn (Cornell University Dept. of Near Eastern Studies) "Standing on Hole-y Ground: Storage Pits at Tell en-Naṣbeh and the Role of the State."
February 5, 2015: Jennifer L. Muller (Department of Anthropology, Ithaca College), who will be giving a talk on "Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Morality and Disability: Impacts on Mortuary Context and Pathology Among the Children of the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery (1851-1913)."
2014
December 4, 2014: Roald Hoffman (Department of Chemistry, Cornell University) “Protochemistries are a Bridge.”
November 6, 2014: Ananda Cohen Suarez (History of Art, Cornell University) “Colonial Church Murals Near Cuzco, Peru.”
October 2, 2014: Linah Ababneh (Department of Classics and the Dendrochronology Laboratory, Cornell University) “Palynology and Archaeology: a Case Study from the Azraq Basin, Jordan.”
May 7, 2014 : Kathleen A. Sterling (State University of New York, Binghamton): "Challenging the European Stone Age; New Insights from the Late Pleistocene site of Peyre Blanque (Midi-Pyrenees, France)."
April 2, 2014: Jared Miller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): “The Organization of Knowledge in the Archives of Ḫattusa”
March 5, 2014: Katie Kearns (grad student, Archaeology Program, Cornell University):“Investigating environmental change in first-millennium BC Cyprus: an integrated approach"
February 12, 2014: John Henderson (Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University): “Hot air and politics: sweatbaths in ancient Mesoamerica”
2013
December 4, 2013: Philip Nicholson (Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University): “A Tour of Neolithic Brittany”
November 6, 2013: Elena Devecchi (Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie, Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität, München): "How to Govern an Empire: The Case of the Hittites (XIV-XII century BCE)"
October 2, 2013: Brita Lorentzen (Cornell University Tree-Ring Laboratory): “From the Forest to the Mosque: New Tree-Ring and 14C Evidence for Dating Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque and Sourcing Its Timbers”
May 1, 2013: Wilfred van Soldt (Leiden University, the Netherlands): "Recent Excavations on Tell Satu Qala (Iraqi Kurdistan): The Ancient Kingdom of Idu."
April 6, 2013: Special event: Walking tour of Forest Home with Forest Home Historian Bruce Brittain.
April 3, 2013: Ken Stuart (Cornell University): “Recent work at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney: a virtual tour of an amazing Neolithic site"
March 6, 2013: Michelle L. Machicek (Hirsch Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell University, and Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History): "Investigating Early Lifeways in the Mongolian Steppes through Bioarchaeological Research."
February 6, 2013: Nerissa Russell (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University): "Taboo Topics: Exploring Absences in the Faunal Remains from Çatalhöyük, Turkey."
2012
December 5, 2012: Wendy Bacon (University of Pennsylvania): “Sex, Drugs and 2012: Ancient Maya and Modern Media Phenomenon”
November 7, 2012: Jack Rossen (Professor of Anthropology, Ithaca College): "Cultural Revitalization and Great Debates in the Archaeology of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)"
October 3, 2012: Scott Stull (SUNY Cortland and Cornell University): "The Archaeology of Medieval Novgorod, Russia"
September 6, 2012: Co-sponsored with the Tompkins County History Center: Sherene Baugher (Associate Professor, Cornell University) and Josh Teeter (New York State Park Environmental Educator): “Excavating Tourism History in Robert H. Treman State Park”
June 7, 2012: Co-sponsored with the Tompkins County History Center: Carol Griggs (Research Associate, Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory) and Ted Sobel (Finger Lakes Bottle Collectors Association): “Pieces of the Past: Ithaca Pottery”
May 1, 2012: Peter Cobb (Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Program, University of Pennsylvania): “The Bronze and Iron Age Ceramics of Central Lydia in Western Turkey: An Archaeometric Investigation of the Organization of Production.”
April 3, 2012: Philip Nicholson (Professor, Dept. Astronomy, Cornell University): “Megalithic Monuments in Scotland”
March 6, 2012: Sam Duwe (Visiting Scholar, Cornell University): “The Pueblo Cosmos in Time and Space”
February 7, 2012: Jeffrey R. Zorn (Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. Near Eastern Studies, Cornell): “The Clothes Make the Man: Re-Imagining Goliath of Gath”
2011
December 6, 2011: Eilis Monahan (grad student, Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University): "Seeing the Bigger Picture: Magnetometry and GIS in understanding a Neolithic Landscape in Eastern Hungary."
November 1, 2011: Magnus Fiskesjö (Department of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Cornell University): “Collecting China: The Global Politics of Chinese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage”
October 4, 2011: Sharon Steadman (Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Cortland): "A Settlement Within Empires: 5,000 Years of Occupation at Çadir Höyük in Central Turkey"
June 18, 2011: Pottery sorting--special activity. Sherds from the 1970s excavation of the historic Ithaca Pottery site.
May 3, 2011: Lori Khatchadourian (Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology, Cornell University): "Armenia and the Politics of the Archaeological Imagination"
April 5, 2011: Jeffrey Leon (grad student, Department of Classics, Cornell University): "Pulling the Wool from Our Eyes: Using Archaeometry to Understand Minoan Pastoralism"
March 1, 2011: Scott Stull (Lecturer, Ithaca College): “Constructing Identity through Built Form: Houses, Status and Ethnicity in New York's Colonial Mohawk Valley”