Archaeological Institute of America Abstracts 2017 (Vol 40)

Abstracts of the 118th annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, held January 5-8, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario.

The AIA Annual Meeting brings together professional and avocational archaeologists from around the world to learn more about the latest developments from the field.

Session 1 1A: Transformative Movement 1B: Fresh in the Field: New Research and Resources in the Study of Ancient Surface Decoration 1C: The Technological Revolution and Archaeology: New Ways of Understanding the Past 1D: Cyprus 1E: New Studies on Vase Painting in the Royal Ontario Museum's Greek Collection 1F: The Eastern Roman Empire: Recent Fieldwork 1G: Maritime Archaeology 1H: Satis sit una aliqua gemma: Collecting Classical Gems from Antiquity Through the 19th Century 1I: Interwoven Lives: The Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th to 17th Centuries 1J: Discerning Food, Health, and Mobility in the Past Session 2 2A: Insulae Coniunctae: Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization 2B: Numismatic Evidence for the Republican Period 2C: Small Finds
Writ Large 2D: Digital Approaches to the Study of the Ancient World 2E: Ancient Sicily 2F: Neo-Assyrian and Achaemenid Imperial Art and Archaeology 2G: Iberia 2H: Greek and Roman Sculpture 2I: Fieldwork in Greece 2J: Classics, Classical Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage: Toward a Common Understanding of Professional Responsibilities for the Study of Exceptional Objects Session 3 3A: Tombs and More in Etruria 3B: Shaping Cities: New Ways of Examining North African Urbanism 3C: Ostia: Houses, Infrastructure, and Cult 3D: Objects in Focus: Recent Research into the Royal Ontario Museum's Collections 3E: God the Anthropologist: Text, Material, and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion 3F: Diverging Trajectories: Urbanism and the Roman Conquest of Italy 3G: Gold Medal Session: Context is Everything 3H: Adaptation and Advancement: Investigating Volcanic Landscapes of the Central Mediterranean 3I: Elites and Civic Life in the Provinces 3J: New Developments in Mycenaean Archaeology 3K: Balancing Archaeological Fieldwork and Family Life Session 4 4A: Ceramics 4B: Trade, Movement, and Connectivity in the Roman World 4C: The Imperial Age of Greece 4D: Current Work in the Roman Archaeology of Southeast Europe 4E: Sovereignty and Money 4F: Selinunte: Ten Years of Investigations by the Mission of the Institute of Fine ArtsNYU 4G: Landscape and Society: Diachronic Perspectives on Settlement Patterns in River Valleys in Cyprus 4H: Faces of Power: Roman Imperial Portraits 4I: Imaging from the Air to the Artifact 4J: Graeco-Roman Graffiti, Seals, and Craft Session 5 5A: Women in Greece and the Near East 5B: Archaeological Survey 5C: Undergraduate Paper Session 5D: Sculpture and Greek Sanctuaries 5E: Current Events and Heritage Protection: Efforts to Protect Culture at Risk 5F: Ritual and Religion in the Greek World 5G: Vani Regional Survey 5H: Art and Architecture of Imperial Ideology 5I: Frontiers and Cultural Contact in the Roman World 5J: Coins and Archaeology Session 6 6A: So You've Chosen Your TopicWhat Now?: Best Practices in Data Collection, Management, and Analysis 6B: New Approaches to Roman Death 6C: Collecting and Presenting the Etruscans in North America 6D: Investigating Prehistoric Urbanization in East Crete: New Work at Palaikastro, 20122016 6E: Pottery from Sanctuaries: What Can it Tell Us? 6F: The Regia Reconsidered: A New Interpretation of the American Excavations Results 6G: Tell Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua): The Shifting Fortunes of a Bronze and Iron Age Levantine Capital 6H: A New Look at Old Stones: Reexaminations of Archaeological Projects 6I: New Research on Roman Sarcophagi: Eastern, Western, Christian 6J: New Developments in Minoan Archaeology Session 7 7A: Beyond Reconstruction: New Approaches to Architectural Depictions in Roman Art 7B: Regional Approaches to Identity and Meaning in Greek Landscapes: Current Work of the Canadian Institute in Greece 7C: Architecture and Urbanism 7D: Funerary Sculpture in Palmyra: The Palmyra Portrait Project 7E: Field Reports from Italy 7F: Domestic Spaces and Their Decoration in the Roman World 7G: Bodies, Costumes, and Ideals in the Roman Empire 7H: Bronze Age and Iron Age Anatolia 7I: Researching Ownership Histories for Antiquities in Museum Collections 7J: Interaction and Production in the Aegean Author Index

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