The Archaeological Institute of America
Western Illinois Society
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
1998-1999
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"An Update on the Excavations at the Original Peoria: the
Marquette-Joliet-Illini Site in N. E. Missouri" (no lecture description available)
Prof. Lawrence Conrad of the Archaeolgical Research Lab at
Western Illinois University
Thursday, September 17, 1998 (ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY AWARENESS WEEK)
Highlander Room, Stockdale Center, Monmouth College, Monmouth,
Illinois.
7:30 P.M.
An Archaeological Fieldtrip to the Marquette-Joliet-Illini Site
in N. E. Missouri
with Prof. Lawrence Conrad the Archaeological
Research Lab Western Illinois University
and Mr. Robert Boyd of the Missouri State Park Service
Saturday, October 17, 1998, 10:00
A tour of the archaeological site will be accompanied by a display of artifacts and a
slide show. The program begins promptly at 10 A.M. at the Battle of Athens State Park just
off Missouri State Road 81 near Farmington, Iowa.
Limited seating is available on a van which leaves the Monmouth College campus at 7:15
A.M.
"Tiresias
and the Parthenon Frieze"
Dr. Ian Jenkins of the Department of Greek and Roman
Antiquities at the British Museum
Thursday, October 15, 1998
Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. Nauvoo Room, Student Union, 7:30
P.M.
"Cypriot Sculptures and
the Market for Miniatures in Archaic Greece"
Dr. Ian Jenkins of the Department of Greek and Roman
Antiquities at the British Museum
Friday, October 16, 1998
Highlander Room, Stockdale Center, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois.
12:00 Noon
NOTE: Cypriote style lunch available in the Highlander Room. Cost: $4.25 per person (free
to MC students on meal plan).
"The Art of Flint Knapping and Artifact
Identification"
with Rick Steiner of Monmouth, Illinois, and Larry Conrad of Western
Illinois University
April 27, 1999
Monmouth College, Monmouth Illinois
7:30 P.M.
"Tiresias and the Parthenon Frieze" by Dr. Ian Jenkins of the
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum
The British Museum's Tiresias Project offers a new way of looking at the Parthenon frieze
with an exhibition and a book. The aim of the project is to focus interest in the frieze
on the sculpture itself and to locate any speculation as to its symbolic meaning in a
close reading of what survives. In particular, Tiresias attempts to reconstruct the
original 'blueprint' of the frieze with the aim of understanding how the viewer was
intended to interact with the sculpture. As part of an ongoing commitment to promote
understanding of the Parthenon sculptures by the broadest possible audience, the project
includes a program that will make the frieze accessible to visually impaired people for
the first time. The lecture will include a demonstration of a tactile book recently
published by British Museum Publications and entitled Second Sight of the Parthenon
Frieze.
"Cypriot Sculptures
and the Market for Miniatures in Archaic Greece" by Dr. Ian Jenkins of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum"The Search for Aztec Ancestors:
Archaeological Investigations at Xochicalco, Mexico" by Dr. Kenneth Hirth of
Pennsylvania State University
At the time of the Spanish conquest the Aztecs had established a large and powerful
conquest state which extended over much of the modern territory of Mexico. The Aztecs were
not the first group in ancient Mexico to establish a militaristic society. Rather,
militaristic societies appeared throughout Central Mexico between 700-900 A.D. which were
identical in form and organization to the well-known Aztec culture. The speaker explores
these early societies. He will explore 16 years of research at the site of Xochicalco,
Morelos and will summarize the evidence indicating that it was an early forerunner of
Aztec-style military societies.
"Militarism and City-States
before the Aztecs: Archaeological Investigations at Xohicalcom, Mexico" by Dr.
Kenneth Hirth of Pennsylvania State University
Research over the past decade has established that the Epiclassic period between 700-900
A.D. was characterized by the emergence of militaristic city-states throughout Central
Mexico. These societies were similar in both social organization and religious ideology to
the later and better known Aztecs encountered by the Spanish at the time of the conquest.
They are important for two reasons. First, they represent a break with and change in forms
of social and political organization associated with the Teotihuacan state which was the
main political power in Central Mexico between 200-700 A.D. Second, they provide a
foundation on which all subsequent militaristic societies in Central Mexico (e.g., Toltec,
Aztec, Tarascan, Tlaxcalan, Tepenecan) develop during the Postclassic. The speaker
explores the development of militarism and militaristic city states in Central Mexico
during the Epiclassic period. He will explore 16 years of research at the site of
Xochicalco, Morelos and will summarize what it tells us about social organization,
political structures, and religious ideology during Epiclassic.
"Student Excavators in Israel:
Tel Rehov, 1998" by Professor Robert Haak of Monmouth College with student
participants in 1998 excavations
Participants in a consortial program for undergraduate students sponsored by Hebrew
University offer an illustrated presentation on a major Bronze and Iron Age site, one of
the largest archaeological sites in Israel. Information about the 1999 summer program will
be available.
"Tel Anafa: A Case Study of a Graeco-Phoenician
Settlement in the Hellenistic Era" by Dr. Sharon Herbert of the University of
Michigan
Ten years of excavation (1983-73; 1978-86) at Tel Anafa in the Upper Galilee of Israel
have revealed a country estate, Hellenistic in date, probably belonging to a wealthy
hellenized Phoenician from the city of Tyre. The final publication of the site has
recently (1994) appeared and this lecture summarizes the results of the excavation and
discusses the ways in which the Phoenician identity of the inhabitants has been discerned
under the largely hellenized surface of the material remains. Prospects for a new project
at the Tyrian stronghold of Kedesh of the Upper Galilee will also be discussed.
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