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The Regimes and Revolutions: Power, Violence, and Labor
in Oriental
Institute, Breasted Hall DAY ONE: Thursday, May 1 10:30-11:00 Welcome from Adam Smith and Gil Stein 11:00-12:00 Session 1a: Introductory Lecture Archaeology and
Politics in Victor Shnirelman (Russian Institute of Ethnology and Archaeology) 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break Persistent Frontiers and the
Interpretation of Ethnic Borders David Anthony ( Modern Cosmologies of Ancient
Civilisations: How The Anatolian Mother-Goddess Has Come To Immobilise Bike Yazicioglu (
Archaeology and Cultural
Heritage in Gwen Bennett (
Archaeological Rhetorics, Public
Assemblages, and the Making of Yerevantsi Adam Smith (
Politics, Geography and Power in
the Past and Present: Rethinking Urartu by Evaluating Müge Durusu & Mert Catalbas
(Bilkent University) The Resting Place of Charismatic Leaders or Laura Popova & Eileen Murphy ( In Life and In
Death: Towards a Bioarchaeology of Dynamic Societies Maureen Marshall (
Burials With Weapons in the North-West Caucasus, 4th-3rd centuries
B.C. Mikhail Lunev (West Caucasian Institute of Research for Natural and Cultural
Heritage)
A Biocultural
Study of Population Change at Iron Age Aymyrlyg, Tuva, Eileen
Murphy (Queen's University
Did Elites Eat
Better?: Implications From Patterned Dental Abrasion
and Illness Among Khitans Rick Zhang & Dong WEI (Research Centre for Chinese Frontier Archeology
of DAY TWO: Friday, May 2 The Production
of Wall Paintings at the Site of Kazakhl’i-yatkan, Elizabeth Baker Brite (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Power and
Prestige of Fortress Architecture in Ancient Chorasmia Michelle Negus Cleary (University of Sydney)
Living With
Ancestors: The Spatial Structure of Ceramic Consumption at a Town in Pasture Hu LIN
(
Where Pottery
and Politics Meet: Material Production and Complex Political Life in the Late
Bronze Age Alan Greene ( 10:20-10:40 Coffee Break Power and
Presence: Expressions of Authority in Middle Bronze to Iron Age Jessie Birket Rees (University of Melbourne)
Mining During the Late Bronze Age in Eurasia: Communal Labor or Proto-Tributary
Exploitation? Jorge Rolland et al. (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Reconsidering
the Origins and Socio-Economic Grounds for Development of Eastern, Central,
and Northern European Corded Ware Cultures Through
Spatial Analysis Matthew Rifkin (Towson University)
Variability of
Ceramic Assemblages as a Reflection of Complex Social Processes: A New
Perspective from the Chalcolithic Site Areni-1 Dina Zardaryan ( Mural Art and
the Communication of Power in Ancient Chorasmia Fiona Kidd (University of Sydney)
An Archaeology
of Power and Authority in the Achaemenid Empire: A Case Study From the Armenian Highlands, ca. 600-300 B.C. Lori Khatchadourian (University of Michigan)
Ritualization of
Eurasian Weapons in Early Chinese Funerary Contexts Kathryn Linduff & Jianhua YANG (
Horse, Arrow and
Bow – Instruments of Power in the Scythian Age Anja Hellmuth (Freie Universität Berlin)
Violence and Power in Central Asian History of Sixth to Fourth
Centuries B.C. Xin WU
(The Forging Networks of Authority:
Early Metal Production in the Middle Volga and the David Peterson (University of
Chicago)
Bronze Production Without Workshops Peter Northover (University of
Oxford)
Forming Conclusions from Forming
Techniques: Some Observations on Technical Variability and Kura-Araxes Wares MaryFran Heinsch (University of
Chicago)
A Multidisciplinary Approach to
Middle Bronze Sintashta Community Organization and Social Status Bryan Hanks et al. (The
Metal Production and Exchange in
Bronze Age Southeast Arabia: Regional Integration and Disintegration in the
Face of Growing “Global” Interaction Lloyd Weeks ( 8:00-9:00 Session 2e: Keynote Lecture Trifles,
Hegemony and Other Small Things Victor Buchli ( DAY THREE: Saturday, May 3 10:00-12:00 Session 3a: The Nature of Authority Repopulating
Polygons: Localizing Power in Movement through Spatial Analysis for the Early
Medieval Kate Franklin (University of Chicago)
Beastly Goods:
Elite Power and Pastoral Control in the Late Bronze Age Belinda Monahan
Ethos,
Materiality, and Paradigms of Political Action in the Communities of the
Western Caspian Region During the Early Islamic
Period Irina Shingiray (Boston University)
Pastoralists and
Townspeople: Nomadic Liao Dynasty in Northern China and Nikolay Kradin (Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography, Far East Branch
of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Primary Economy
and Labor Control Versus Prestige Goods and Defense
Ruling: Two Models of Power Structuring at the Rise of Hierarchical Societies Marcella
Frangipane (Università
di Roma La Sapienza) Agricultural
Subsistence Strategies and Local Administration at the Kura-Araxes Sites of
Kültepe II and Maxta, Naxçıvan, Tiffany Earley & Lauren Ristvet ( Homelands in the Present and
Past: Political Implications of a Dangerous Concept Philip Kohl (
The Forgotten Fortifications of
Shabelnia: A Scythian Period Fortified Settlement in the Ukrainian Forest-Steppe Nicholas Efremov-Kendall & Yuri Boltryk (
Prehistoric Fortifications in
Hunter-Gatherer Societies of the West Siberian Taiga and Their Implications
for the Social and Political Development in Northernmost Arianna Zischow (Freie Universität
Landscapes of Communication in
Prehistoric Inner Joshua Wright (
Settlements versus Elite Burials
during the Iron Age in Claudia Chang (
Predictive Modeling
Implementation for Analyses of Settlement Patterns of an Early Agricultural
Society in Rouhollah Yousefi Zoshk & Morteza Hessari (Islamic 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break From Ripples to Revolutions Joanna Sofaer ( |