Columbia Center for Archaeology
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The Columbia Center for Archaeology is designed to bring together those interested in the archaeological study of the past, materiality and the modern world, and heritage and museum studies, among other topics. We foster collaboration in teaching and research between the many archaeological researchers based in different departments and schools at Columbia and Barnard. We also arrange lectures, workshops, and other events, many of which are open to the public. More information on the Center’s history, aims and facilities.
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Now out: Recommended courses for Spring 2023
List of courses for archaeology majors and concentrators (PDF)Fall Newsletter 2022
“Facing The Mannequin” – Digital Companion to the Museum Anthropology MA exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Dive into the unique backstories behind some of the mannequins still used in the dioramas in the Gardner D. Stout Hall of Asian Peoples, which opened in 1980 at the American Museum of Natural History. Find out how the dioramas were designed, the lifecasting process used to make mannequins and some of the problems they present. Plus much more at the link above.
Congratulations to our graduates!
Congratulations to the class of 2022! Celebrating our students’ achievements, especially those graduates in archaeology through the Center for Archaeology’s interdepartmental program James Rice (GS Archaeology) Elliot Zayas (CC Archaeology concentration) Sara Reed...Upcoming Events
march 2024
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Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Local Administrative Centers and their Transitions during the Warring States and Qin-Han Period” Speaker:
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Early China Seminar Lecture Series
Title: “Local Administrative Centers and their Transitions during the Warring States and Qin-Han Period”
Speaker: Tao Guo, Columbia University / Central China Normal University (China)
Time: March 29, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST)
Venue: Faculty House
*Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information.
The Warring States and Qin-Han period marked the establishment of the county and commandery system, during which the local administrative centers gradually shifted from counties to commanderies, moving from decentralization to centralization. This talk will examine the changes in the relationship between the central and local authorities and within the regional administration during different stages from the Warring States to the early Han dynasty. It will reveal the time points and political mechanisms behind the formation of phenomena such as the dominance of commanderies, the concentration of power to the county court, the division of county magistrates and prefects, and the allocating of specific duties to officials during the Han dynasty.
Time
(Friday) 4:30 am - 6:30 am
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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Edward E. Cohen University of Pennsylvania Roman Inequality Affluent Slaves and Important Businesswomen Friday, March 29 at 11:00 am The Italian Academy, 5th-floor seminar room Abstract This
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Edward E. Cohen
University of Pennsylvania
Roman Inequality
Affluent Slaves and Important Businesswomen
Friday, March 29 at 11:00 am
The Italian Academy, 5th-floor seminar room
Abstract
This lecture will explore how at Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in business amidst a generally impoverished population, both free and enslaved, both male and female. The presentation will focus on two anomalies to which only minimal academic attention has been previously directed: (1) the paradox of a Roman economy dependent on enslaved entrepreneurs who often achieved considerable personal affluence, although functioning within a legal system that supposedly deprived unfree persons of all legal capacity and human rights; (2) the incongruity of the importance and accomplishments of Roman businesswomen operating under legal rules that in many aspects discriminated strongly against women.
Edward E. Cohen is Professor of Classics and Ancient History (Adjunct) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books and articles on ancient economic and legal history, including most recently Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex and Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions (both published by Oxford University Press).
This is a hybrid event. Please fill out this form if you wish to participate remotely (a Zoom link will be circulated on the morning of the event): https://forms.gle/bZWDZMngPL3D1Lxk6
For any questions, feel free to get in touch with Giovanni Lovisetto at gl2623@columbia.edu.
A short reception will follow the event.
Time
(Friday) 11:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
5th Floor Seminar Room, Italian Academy for Advanced Study
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027
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april 2024
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Kevin W. Schlottmann Head of Archives Processing, Columbia Rare Books and Manuscripts Library Hunt, Beynon, and Boas: Stewardship of Ethnographic Manuscripts at the Rare Book and
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Kevin W. Schlottmann
Head of Archives Processing, Columbia Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Hunt, Beynon, and Boas: Stewardship of Ethnographic Manuscripts at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Friday April 5th, 4:10 pm
Room 951 Schermerhorn Ext
This event will be livestreamed. Please register at the following link:
https://forms.gle/gg3Ta8hoszCL6qA19
Time
(Friday) 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Columbia University, 951 Schermerhorn Ext.
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Roundtable New Reports from Sardinia’s UNESCO Site: Nuragic Culture in Barumini Tuesday, April 9, 4PM
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Roundtable
New Reports from Sardinia’s UNESCO Site: Nuragic Culture in Barumini
Tuesday, April 9, 4PM
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The best-known example of a nuraghe—the unique type of Bronze Age defensive complex—is found at Barumini in Sardinia. UNESCO inscribed this archaeological site, “Su Nuraxi,” on its list of World Heritage Sites in 1997, in recognition of its “outstanding universal value.” Expert researchers will gather for a roundtable talk about the long history and the recent discoveries at Barumini. The event will conclude with the opening of a linked photographic exhibition in our gallery.
Organizers:
Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy, Columbia University, and Paolo Carta, University of Trento
Speakers:
Anna Depalmas, University of Sassari
Giovanna Fundoni, University of Sassari
Emily Holt, Cardiff University
Luca Lai, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Caterina Lilliu, Barumini Foundation
Moderator:
Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati
Co-sponsors:
The Autonomous Region of Sardinia with the collaboration of the Mont’e Prama Foundation and the Barumini Foundation
These initiatives are part of the Italian Academy’s Sardinia Cultural Heritage Project which includes a book from Columbia University Press, digital exhibitions and gallery exhibitions, and other conferences. In a related initiative, the Academy facilitated the loan of a 3000-year-old statue from Mont’e Prama to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This project is under the umbrella of the Academy’s International Observatory for Cultural Heritage.
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Recording and photography:
This event may be photographed and filmed. By being present, you consent to the Italian Academy using such photographs and video for educational and promotional purposes.
Guests with disabilities:
Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities.
The Italian Academy’s wheelchair access is on the southern façade, near SIPA’s glass doors.
Guests with disabilities can request assistance from the Academy—(212) 854-2306; itacademy@columbia.edu—or from Columbia’s Office of Disability Services—(212) 854-2388; access@columbia.edu.
Time
(Tuesday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Organizer
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
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Prof. Nan Rothschild & Prof. Jessica Striebel MacLean “Archaeology in the City; Archaeology of the City: New York” Friday, April 12, 2024 1:10 - 3:00pm Anthropology Lounge (Room 465, Schermerhorn Ext.) Cities are
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Prof. Nan Rothschild & Prof. Jessica Striebel MacLean
“Archaeology in the City; Archaeology of the City: New York”
Friday, April 12, 2024
1:10 – 3:00pm
Anthropology Lounge
(Room 465, Schermerhorn Ext.)
Cities are complex entities that are difficult to describe and analyze. Archaeology (between art and science) can only access certain aspects of human life. How has urban archaeology been undertaken in New York City and what has it provided in the way of insights into city life and urban processes? Much of the recent archaeological research in New York has been conducted as part of environmental compliance, with a few “research driven” projects. The processes of understanding the material record, including landscape, artifacts, faunal and archaeobotanical remains, have taken a very long time and required multiple stages of analysis. We will consider what we have earned and which areas remain, as yet, inaccessible.
PROF. NAN ROTHSCHILD is Professor Emerita at Barnard College, Anthropology, and is the former director of the Columbia Museum Anthropology Program. She co-directed the first two large block excavation projects in lower Manhattan, and the Seneca Village project in Central Park. Her most significant books include: Buried Beneath the City: the Archaeological History of New York City, (co-authored), the Archaeology of American Cities (co-authored); Colonial Encounters in a Native American Landscape; and New York City Neighborhoods: the Eighteenth Century.
PROF. JESSICA STRIEBEL MACLEAN is an Urban Archaeologist for the City of New York. Her work focuses on the intersection of archaeology, community engagement, and public interpretation and the ways community-based research and public heritage can bridge the gaps between academic research, cultural resource management, and urban communities; a subject most recently explored in her work on the Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground Project in the Bronx. In addition to co-authoring Buried Beneath the City, she has written about colonial identity in the Atlantic world.
The Anthropology Faculty Talk Series offers a collective space for an informal presentation and discussion of ongoing research by our faculty members. The Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA) organizes the series with the support of the Department of Anthropology.
Please RSVP HERE by Monday, April 8. For any questions or concerns, please contact Minny Lee (ml4826@columbia.edu). Thank you.
Time
(Friday) 1:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Anthropology Lounge (Room 465, Schermerhorn Ext.)
Organizer
Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA)
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Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Remembrance in Clay and Stone: Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China” Speaker:
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Early China Seminar Lecture Series
Title: “Remembrance in Clay and Stone: Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China”
Speaker: Hajni Elias, University of Cambridge
Time: April 19, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST)
Venue: Faculty House
*Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information.
This talk, based on my manuscript of the same title, examines the artistic tradition of Southwest China in the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.), with a focus on the geographical area of present-day Sichuan province. The ‘ancient art of Sichuan’ exhibits notable differences from the artistic traditions in other parts of the Han Empire. Pictorial brick tiles, decorated stone sarcophagi and memorial stelae are introduced in the talk to highlight some of the socio-economic, political and cultural influences that illustrate how the Southwest, which, far from being a ‘barbarian’ uncivilized border region as early historiography largely suggests, had a distinct, vibrant and sophisticated regional heritage visibly reflected in its art.
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(Friday) 4:30 am - 6:30 am
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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may 2024
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