UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Along the Alpine Road: Encounters between the Sichuan Basin and the Wei River Valley in Material Culture Colloquium | October 15 | 4-6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor) Speaker: Jay Xu, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Sponsors: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS), Institute of East Asian Studies This lecture presents a story seldom told in Qin’s history: about the Sichuan Basin, lying south of the Qin domain in the Wei River valley. Sichuan was a land richly endowed with natural resources, economic products, and manpower. Communication between the two lands was legendary for its difficulty, with two mountain ranges presenting formidable barriers. The present lecture examines the archaeological record of interactions between the Sichuan Basin and the Wei River valley in the early Bronze Age as well as the time before and after 316 BCE, and discusses their expressions in material culture. Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Community-Based, Low Impact Strategies for Archaeology at a Local Bay Area Shell Mound: Applications of Geophysical and Terrestrial LiDAR Technologies Lecture: ARF Brownbag | Wed. October 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility) Speaker: Peter Nelson In this talk, I will introduce my dissertation research to date. This dissertation project was developed in collaboration with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, of which I am a registered member. I consider this project to be a community-based project, because it was developed with, for, and by Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo people. I will discuss the low impact methodologies that were designed in collaboration with my community, and some of the benefits of doing this kind of research. I will also discuss the applications of geophysical and terrestrial LiDAR technologies in interpreting site structure with very low impacts to the archaeological site itself and the implications of these sorts of technologies for California archaeology if used more regularly and broadly. Sunday, October 20, 2013 Building for the Dead: Economics of Tomb Production During the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Period Lecture | October 20 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall Speaker: Marwa Helmi, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Sponsor: American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Off Campus Events: Wednesday, October 16 Stanford Archaeology Lunch Club 12-1pm | Stanford Archaeology Center, Bldg. 500 A Tale of Two Cities: Interpreting Variability in Political Constructions of Time, Place, and Personhood in the Ancient Andes, presented by Edward Swenson (University of Toronto). Lunch provided.
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