10 FEBRUARY 2013   3 MARCH 2013      31  MARCH  2013

Sunday 10 February @ 3PM in 237 University College

S. Brooke Milne, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba

Sourcing the Stone: A Geochemical Analysis of Palaeo-Eskimo Technological Organization on Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut

The Palaeo-Eskimos are the earliest inhabitants of the eastern Arctic and are well known for their small, sophisticated stone toolkit. The most common type of stone used by Palaeo-Eskimo toolmakers was chert. On southern Baffin Island the geology is such that chert is scarce in many coastal regions yet is abundant in the island's interior where it can be found in widespread surface scatters. Geochemical analyses of this toolstone indicate that both early and late Palaeo-Eskimos were exploiting chert from the interior. These data appear to suggest long-term continuity in Palaeo-Eskimo technological organization and seasonal land use patterns, despite inferences elsewhere of significant differences in land use between early and late Palaeo-Eskimo populations. This talk discusses my ongoing research in this region of Nunavut including the many challenges archaeologists face when working in the far North. I also present the most recent results of this provenance study and explain how these new data are reshaping current interpretations of Palaeo-Eskimo lifeways in this region of the Arctic.

Sunday 3 March @ 3PM in 237 University College

Dr. Kim S. Shelton
Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology
Department of Classics, University of California 

Nemea and the pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Zeus

This lecture will present the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea and the history of the pan-Hellenic festival and games celebrated there from the 6th to the 2nd centuries BCE.

 Sunday 31 March @ 3 PM in 237 University College

 

Dr. Deborah Carlson
Associate Professor of Nautical Archaeology
Texas A & M University

The Tektas Burnu Shipwreck:Shedding New Light on Classical Ionia

At the time the Tektas Burnu ship was wrecked in the third quarter of the fifth-entury B.C., Athens was the leading naval power in the Mediterranean, a position the Athenians achieved through the economic exploitation of allied city-states and heavy-handed control over maritime trade.  As the only Classical shipwreck ever to be fully excavated in Aegean waters, the Tektas Burnu ship promises to shed light on local trade networks at a time when Ionia was thought to be mired in an "economic paralysis" brought on by the high cost of Athenian imperialism in the decades following the Ionian Revolt of 499 B.C.

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