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Events
ANCS CAREER SERIES
Expanding Library Careers
ANCIENT STUDIES IN 3-D
Graduate School
TIM PHIN Ancient Studies Instructor and Johns Hopkins PhD candidate will give his advice and recommendations for students thinking about attending graduate school. Wednesday, March 30, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in FA 466
ANCS in the news: Lecturer Esther Doyle Read and some Ancient Studies students have been excavating an 1845 ritual bath, or mikveh, at the Lloyd Street Synagogue in Baltimore. The article in The Baltimore Sun is available here.
A warm welcome to Rabbi Yuter to our department, as the teacher of Israel and the Ancient Near East.
Wednesday, September 8, noon, FA 450 - Welcome meeting for new and returning majors and "wannabes"
The events of Ancient Studies Week in October:
Monday, October 11, noon, FA 215 - Laura Cripps speaks on her excavation in Scotland and Project Management Institute Special Event: **Acropolis Museum Project, lecture by Theofanis Giotis, M.Sc., MP President of PMI Greece 6:00 P.M. - University Center Ballroom - Dinner included**Registration required: Free for UMBC Students and Staff
Wednesday, October 13, 3:00 pm, Library, Special Collections - Meeting of ANCS and VART curatorial students with Betsy Bryan (JHU Egyptologist) to discuss curatorial issues (with contribution from VART).
Wednesday, October 13, 4:00 pm, Library Gallery - "Cultic Revelries in New Kingdom Egypt," a lecture by Betsy Bryan (part of the Dresher Center Humanities Forum Lecture series)
Friday. October 15, noon, FA 450 - Student recipients of excavation scholarships, Taylor Teske, Pablo Clemente (both Roman site in Macedonia) and Catherine Pasqualoni (Megiddo), present their summer work.
Other News: At the beginning of March, Dr. Michael Lane received an award of $26,000 from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) to cover the costs of his fieldwork between October and November 2010 around the Mycenaean citadel of Gla in the Kopaic Basin of Boeotia in central mainland Greece. The first phase of his project, known as Archaeological Reconnaissance of Uninvestigated Remains of Agriculture (AROURA), will last for three years, from 2010 till 2012, and consist of extensive geophysical survey of the Late Helladic IIIB polder (dry land claimed from marshes) immediately around the Mycenaean stronghold, accompanied by collection of small finds from the ground surface in selected areas. The principal aim of his research is to test a theoretical model of palace-supervised extensive agriculture which he has constructed on the basis of quantitative data in relevant Linear B texts together with inferences from historical and ethnographic records. Not only would drainage of the land, creating the polder, have provided rich, perfectly suited agricultural land, but Gla itself contains telltale storehouses for several thousand tons of grain, mainly, it seems, of one species of wheat. Further aims include demonstrating the utility of geophysical methods in archaeological investigation of agricultural practices and strategies, applying survey data to begin to answer questions left by previous investigators of the region, and -- not least -- laying the interpretative foundation and set up fieldwork conditions for "ground-truthing" of geophysical results under the terms of a subsequent excavation permit. The expected further five to ten years of excavation would involve a field school, offering training and research opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students from institutions in the United States, Greece, and other countries. |
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Last Updated: April 26, 2011 |
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