MARCH 2015 ANCIENT ANDEAN LECTURES
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Mike R
Mar 5, 2015, 2:26:25 AM3/5/15
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March 8, 1;00 PM
"Reinterpreting an Old Dig: Sitio Conte and the Penn Museum”
Unlike many other museums, many collections at the Penn Museum were obtained through scientific excavation by professional archaeologists. The detailed excavation records by curator J. Alden Mason in 1940 provide the opportunity for scholars to continue learning about the indigenous past of Central America. Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator-in-Charge, American Section and Co-Curator of Beneath the Surface, discusses old and new insights from the collection.
Penn Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/1583-beneath-the-surface-lecture-series-reinterpreting-an-old-dig-sitio-conte-and-the-penn-museum.html
March 19, 6:45 PM-8:45 PM
Smithsonian Evening Seminar
"Ancient Peru’s Mysterious Moche"
$30 Member
$42 Gen. Admission
The origins and collapse of the Moche, an enigmatic Andean civilization that ruled the northern coast of Peru for hundreds of years beginning in the first century A.D., remains a tantalizing puzzle. Tonight, Haagen Klaus, assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University, offers insights into the life of this ancient culture.Dozens of the massive pyramids and cities they built still remain. Some contain giant murals depicting sacred scenes, some contain imagery of terrifying deities and human sacrifice. Other pyramids held the elaborate tombs of their leaders. Moche engineers also created the most extensive aqueducts in the New World, transforming inhospitable deserts into farmlands. Their political systems were also among the most complex devised in the ancient New World.
They left no written record, but evidence of their lives and times is in pottery decorated with images of people, fish, birds, and other animals. Others show scenes that reveal an enigmatic belief system rooted in death, violence, sacrifice, and the regeneration of life. Moche metalwork displays sophistication in technique and design.
Why the Moche disappeared is still debated. Like other civilizations that flourished then failed, they offer a rich story of human achievement, creativity, and struggle against natural disasters in an intriguing chapter of the human story.
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange)
Washington DC
http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=230508&utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JAN15eAlertWorldHist01.18.15&utm_content=version_A&tmssource=210813
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and Lectures
http://bit.ly/11aKJzE
"Reinterpreting an Old Dig: Sitio Conte and the Penn Museum”
Unlike many other museums, many collections at the Penn Museum were obtained through scientific excavation by professional archaeologists. The detailed excavation records by curator J. Alden Mason in 1940 provide the opportunity for scholars to continue learning about the indigenous past of Central America. Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator-in-Charge, American Section and Co-Curator of Beneath the Surface, discusses old and new insights from the collection.
Penn Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/1583-beneath-the-surface-lecture-series-reinterpreting-an-old-dig-sitio-conte-and-the-penn-museum.html
March 19, 6:45 PM-8:45 PM
Smithsonian Evening Seminar
"Ancient Peru’s Mysterious Moche"
$30 Member
$42 Gen. Admission
The origins and collapse of the Moche, an enigmatic Andean civilization that ruled the northern coast of Peru for hundreds of years beginning in the first century A.D., remains a tantalizing puzzle. Tonight, Haagen Klaus, assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University, offers insights into the life of this ancient culture.Dozens of the massive pyramids and cities they built still remain. Some contain giant murals depicting sacred scenes, some contain imagery of terrifying deities and human sacrifice. Other pyramids held the elaborate tombs of their leaders. Moche engineers also created the most extensive aqueducts in the New World, transforming inhospitable deserts into farmlands. Their political systems were also among the most complex devised in the ancient New World.
They left no written record, but evidence of their lives and times is in pottery decorated with images of people, fish, birds, and other animals. Others show scenes that reveal an enigmatic belief system rooted in death, violence, sacrifice, and the regeneration of life. Moche metalwork displays sophistication in technique and design.
Why the Moche disappeared is still debated. Like other civilizations that flourished then failed, they offer a rich story of human achievement, creativity, and struggle against natural disasters in an intriguing chapter of the human story.
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange)
Washington DC
http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=230508&utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JAN15eAlertWorldHist01.18.15&utm_content=version_A&tmssource=210813
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and Lectures
http://bit.ly/11aKJzE
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