AIA lecture Thursday 10/13

The first Richmond AIA lecture of the academic year (and first in-person event since Feb. 2020!) will be held on Thursday, October 13 at 6 pm in Jepson 118: Jack Gary (Director of Archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg) will present “Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church” (click here for recent news coverage of the project).

Mark your calendars for future AIA lectures this year:

Thurs. 11/17, 6 pm, Jepson 118 – Sonia Alconini (University of Virginia), “Rethinking Andean and Amazonian Relations: The Taypi Yungas as Spaces of Encounter, Ethnogenesis and Sociopolitical Transformations”

Thurs. 2/8, 6 pm (location TBA) – Chris Motz (University of Richmond), “Connecting Ecology, Economy, and Craft in the Roman Fish-Salting Industry”

Thurs. 3/16, 6 pm (location TBA) – Emilia Oddo (Tulane University), “In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marine Style pottery in Minoan Crete”

Thurs. 4/13, 6 pm (location TBA) – Eric Cline (George Washington University), “1177 BC Revisited: Updating the Late Bronze Age Collapse”