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SUMMARY:2026 Cotsen Annual Archaeology Day
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, February 7\, from 11:00am-2:00pm\, the Cotsen Institute will host its second annual Archaeology Day for K–12\, welcoming students from schools across Los Angeles. This event is organized in collaboration with the undergraduate Archaeology Club and will feature hands-on activities such as a dig box\, pottery reconstruction\, rock art wall painting\, and a photo booth. \nAt 1:00pm we will host the Annual Ernestine Elster Lecture in Lenart Auditorium. This year’s speaker will be Dr. Julien Riel-Salvatore (Département d’anthropologie\, Université de Montréal)\, who will present his talk\, “Red rocks\, white sands\, and dark caves: Snapshots of the human adventure in Paleolithic Italy”.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/2026-cotsen-annual-archaeology-day/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T110000
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SUMMARY:Cotsen Annual Open House
DESCRIPTION:October 29\, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 8:00 pm\nDig into discovery at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House! Join us Wednesday \, October 29th for a full day of archaeological exploration\, community\, and celebration at UCLA. From lab tours and exhibits to Weds Talks and lectures—there’s something for everyone! All events are in-person | Guest parking in Lot 4 | 11AM–8PM | Come for one event or stay all day!
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-annual-open-house/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T120000
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CREATED:20260520T140917Z
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SUMMARY:Come Dig with Me: Fieldwork Adventures in Armenia
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: This talk explores the fieldwork experiences of undergraduate students participating in the Masis Blur Neolithic Archaeological Project in Armenia. As one of the region’s earliest known farming settlements\, Masis Blur offers a rich context for hands-on learning in archaeological excavation\, analysis\, and cultural heritage preservation. The presentation highlights student involvement in daily field operations\, laboratory work\, and engagement with the local and culture. Through firsthand accounts the talk underscores the value of experiential learning in shaping future archaeologists. But put simply\, come\, learn what we did last summer! \nBIO: Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky is an assistant researcher at the Cotsen where she directs the Armenia Laboratory\, and she has been the co-directing the Masis Blur Archaeological Project since 2012. Rosalyn Campbell is a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist who has excavated through the Middle East\, Africa\, as well as Peru and North America. Chloe Gupta\, Elizabeth Petrick\, Eric Large\, and Holland Fox are undergraduate students at UCLA. Chloe\, Elizabeth\, and Eric are also the founding members of the “risen from the ashes” Undergraduate Archaeology Club.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/come-dig-with-me-fieldwork-adventures-in-armenia/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250208T110000
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SUMMARY:2025 Cotsen Annual Open House
DESCRIPTION:February 8\, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm \nOpen House for K-12 students: Visit the labs\, participate in a variety of activities including dig boxes\, pottery-making\, rock art\, photobooth\, and more!
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/2025-cotsen-annual-open-house/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T170000
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SUMMARY:Once Upon a Time in the Jazira: Archaeology and the Mass Graves of the Armenian Genocide
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:  For the dead\, and for the wretched who lived to give testimony to the Armenian Genocide\, the Jazira region of northeastern Syria was hell on earth\, its arid expanse and biblical rivers bloated with bodies and bones—the victims of Ottoman deportations and massacres. But for archaeology\, which Laurent Olivier has dubbed the “consummate once-upon-a-time discipline”\, the Jazira has been more akin to an Eden\, brimming with vestiges of the deep past. This talk explores the practice of archaeology in this necrogeography. I disclose and diagnose how\, for nearly a century\, archaeology has remained virtually silent on the mass graves of the Jazira. Analysis centers on the mound of Tell Fekheriye\, where several teams have uncovered and disregarded skeletal remains from the 1915-1916 massacres ever since the University of Chicago launched excavations in 1940. Among the world’s first mass grave exhumations\, the Chicago project produced a collection of photographs\, long buried in the archive. As archaeologists ignored the dark record of modernity in northern Syria\, there emerged a parallel engagement with traces that I call survivor archaeology\, a vernacular practice undertaken by genocide survivors and descendants to reckon with the memory of atrocity through the excavation\, collecting\, memorialization\, and circulation of bones. \nBIO: Trained as an archaeologist\, Dr. Katchadourian’s research spans the fields of archaeology\, social anthropology\, and critical heritage studies\, with a particular focus on Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and neighboring regions. Her work explore problems of empire\, materiality\, the archaeology of modernity\, Soviet socialism and its aftermath\, and the politics of heritage. Her research and teaching are temporally expansive\, extending from the deep past to the present\, and attentive to the ways in which the materiality of the past shapes contemporary politics\, economics\, and ethics. She pursue these concerns using the methods of archaeology\, ethnography\, spatial analysis\, and archival research.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/once-upon-a-time-in-the-jazira-archaeology-and-the-mass-graves-of-the-armenian-genocide/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
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SUMMARY:2024 Cotsen Annual Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology labs will be open to the public on November 14th\, 2024 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm followed by a lecture by incoming faculty Dr. Koji Lau-Ozawa. His talk\, titled Blossoms in the Desert: Japanese American Incarceration on Indigenous Lands\, will take place in the Lenart Auditorium.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/2024-cotsen-annual-open-house/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231208T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231208T150000
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SUMMARY:2023 Cotsen Annual Open House
DESCRIPTION:Cotsen Undergraduate Open House \nFowler Museum A222\, 308 Charles E Young Dr N \nLos Angeles\, CA 90024 United States + Google Map \nIn conjunction with the Archaeology Mentorship Program\, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites any interested undergraduate students to an informal open house Friday 12/8 in the Cotsen from 12:30-3pm. Please join faculty for food at 12:30 in A222 followed by informal tours of labs. There will then be a short presentation about research opportunities and field school programs in A222. Representatives from the Institute for Field Research will also be on hand to talk about archaeological opportunities.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/2023-cotsen-annual-open-house/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220515T140000
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SUMMARY:The Vishap: From Fairy Tale to Reality
DESCRIPTION:The Vishap: From Fairy Tale to Reality \nYou are cordially invited to   The Vishap: From Fairy Tale to Reality (click on link for schedule) \nSunday May 15th\, 2022 at 2:00 – 6:00pm PDT \nThe Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies presents “The Vishap: From Fairy Tale to Reality\,” by Dr. Arsen Bobokhyan. This event is co-sponsored by the Promise Armenian Institute\, the Ararat-Eskijian Museum\, and the National Association for Armenian Studies & Research with the participation of the Research Program in Armenian Archaeology and Ethnography at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. \n2:00 – 3:30 PM Royce Hall 314 \nIllustrated Lecture on documenting and preserving the dragon-stones of Armenia from the 2nd millennium BCE by Dr. Arsen Bobokhyan (PI of this project and Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan)\, followed by a documentary of the dragon-stones and the initial phase of their investigation and restoration. \n3:00 – 6:00 PM Powell Rotunda \nPresentation of Dr. Bobokhyan’s latest monograph Atrpet’s “Scientific Adventures” and Discovery of the Vishap Stelae (in Armenian)\, followed by a guided tour of an exhibit of thirty high-resolution images of the dragon-stones by Dr. Bobokhyan and recital by the UCLA Armenian Ensemble. The event will conclude with a Wine and Cheese Reception. \nThe event will livestream on the Ararat-Eskijian Museum’s Facebook and YouTube pages.  \nArsen Bobokhyan is Directory of the Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Prehistory at the University of Tuebingen (2008) and has since been an Asst. Professor of History at Yerevan State University and Lecturer at the American University of Armenia. The author of three books and over a hundred articles\, he has served as editor of a number of scholarly journals and has been invited as visiting professor at several universities in the German-speaking world. His research interests include the early Archaeology of the Armenian Plateau and the Caucasus\, the Near East and Asia Minor\, Cultural Relations\, Ancient Barter and Weight Systems and Religion and Cult.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-vishap-from-fairy-tale-to-reality/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T120000
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SUMMARY:New Light on the Neolithization of the Armenia and beyond: Data from the recent excavation at Lernagog - 1 site and Areni-2 Cave in Armenia
DESCRIPTION:New Light on the Neolithization of the Armenia and beyond: Data from the recent excavation at Lernagog – 1 site and Areni-2 Cave in Armenia \nArtur Petrosyan \nArchaeologist\, Researcher\, Department of Early Archaeology \nInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia \nNovember 6th 2020 12:00pm PT (contingent on the developing situation in Armenia) \nUntil recently the Early Holocene sites of the Kura and the Araxes river basins were not known and the question of Neolithization in the region were based on the study of Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic settlements grouped into the “Aratashen-Shulaveri-Shomutepe” tradition\, located in valleys and plains. Fieldwork activities implemented during last 20 years led to the discovery of series of Old and Early Holocene sites in Armenia\, Georgia and Azerbaijan including a stratified cave and rock-shelter as well as open-air sites and settlements\, filling the gap between the 10th and early 6th millennium BC. While excavations and research of the Early and Middle Holocene sites continues\, the accumulated information to date allows us to look at the process of Neolithization in the Kura and the Araxes river basins from a new perspective. The data suggests dividing the Early Holocene archaeological sequence into two chronological groups or steps. Group 1/Step 1 with chronometric dates between 10.000 – 7300 Cal BC is described by seasonal hunting and habitation camps on higher elevations organized inside caves and rock-shelters in combination with built structures in front of them as well as short-term open-air activities. Some shifts in the economic lifeways and technological production of tools (so-called “apnagyugh” tools) is obvious even though many similarities can be noticed with the lifestyle of the Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers. Group 2/Step 2 span between 7300 – 6200 Cal BC\, when the first settlements and sites with ritual function appeared\, in parallel with the cave sites. New data indicate that the origin of the early farming culture in the Araxes River valley is local even though there is noticeable influence from the southern cultural centers. \nArtur Petrosyan received his PhD at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of NAS RA in 2010\, where he has worked since 2007 as an Archaeologist and Researcher. He has participated in a number of archaeological expeditions in Armenia\, Italy (Calvatone\, Sassofortino) and UAE (Vadi al Hello). Currently he is the co-director of Armenian – Italian\, Armenian – Japanese\, Armenian – German and Armenian – Chinese expeditions in Kotayk\, Vayots Dzor\, Ararat and Armavir regions of Armenia.  Petrosyan has published extensively.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/new-light-on-the-neolithization-of-the-armenia-and-beyond-data-from-the-recent-excavation-at-lernagog-1-site-and-areni-2-cave-in-armenia/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T130000
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SUMMARY:Dragon Stones of Armenia: Recent Research and Protection Works
DESCRIPTION:October 16\, 2020\n12:00pm\nDragon Stones of Armenia: Recent Research and Protection Works\nArsen Bobokhyan\nPhD\, Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia\nFriday\, October 16th\, 12:00pm PT (contingent on the developing situation in Armenia)\nRegister here \n \nIn the high mountains of Armenia\, exist unique monuments called by the people “vishapakar” – dragon-stone. Although vishapakars were discovered more than a century ago\, their secrets are far from being deciphered. Much like the khachkars (cross-stones) of Medieval times\, vishapakars are typical for the prehistoric landscapes of the Armenian Highland. The centres of their distribution are Mount Aragats and the Geghama mountains. Today we know approximately 150 examples of these monuments. Vishapakars are 150-550 cm high and made\, as a rule\, of grayish basalt. They had been widely used during the Bronze Age\, especially within the 2nd millennium BC. Among the many questions vishapakars raise\, one of the most important is the problem of their protection. Two kinds of dangers exist – destruction and dilapidation in their original places\, and removal to the lowland. Both destruction and removal took place as early as the beginning of the 1st millennium BC\, in the Urartian period\, increased during Middle Ages and unfortunately continues today. The lecture will present recent works to investigate and protect these monuments.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/dragon-stones-of-armenia-recent-research-and-protection-works/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200916T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200916T140000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
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SUMMARY:The Earliest Farmers of the Caucasus: A View from Masis Blur
DESCRIPTION:Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, CIoA\, UCLA \nAlan Farahani\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, UNLV \nSeptember 16\, 2020\, 1:00pm – 2:00pm PST \nVirtual Pizza Talk Series \nThis talk is a summary of research conducted at the archaeological site of Masis Blur\, an early farming community located in the Ararat plain of Armenia and occupied continuously for nearly a millennium from ca. 6200 cal. BC – 5200 cal. BC. While much is known about how communities in west Asia adopted a farming way of life\, much less is known about the Caucasus. The Masis Blur Archaeological Project explores the rhythms of everyday life at the Neolithic village in this understudied region using high resolution techniques to recover\, record\, and analyse the material remains of day-to-day activities. The talk highlights recent fieldwork and preliminary results from Masis Blur with specific focus on enhanced photographic techniques (photogrammetry)\, archaeological plant remains \, animal husbandry\, obsidian procurement\, and a few key discoveries such as calcified basket remains\, evidence of thatched roofs\, and pigment processing workshops  which\, to date\, are singular for the region. \nKristine Martirosyan-Olshansky is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology where she is directing the Research Program for Armenian Archaeology and Ethnography. She earned her PhD in Archaeology from UCLA in 2018 and she has been directing the Masis Blur Archaeological Research Project since 2012. As an anthropological archaeologist she uses geochemical characterization of materials to study past human behavior. In particular\, she looks at how early farming communities of the Southern Caucasus made use of the available natural resources and how these behaviors influenced the spread of technological innovation and social change. \nAlan Farahani is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas.  He is an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on how ancient agriculture was embedded in and influenced the social\, political\, and cultural practices of people in the past. His methodological expertise is paleoethnobotany\, or the analysis of archaeological plant remains\, as well as in the use of contemporary computational tools such as Python and R to effectively manage archaeological data. He has conducted fieldwork throughout the world\, and has been working on the Masis Blur project since 2018.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-earliest-farmers-of-the-caucasus-a-view-from-masis-blur/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T160000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20260520T134343Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Annual Cotsen Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House will take place on May 18\, 2019 from 11:30 to 4:00pm with the theme “Technology: Ancient and Modern.” Explore the breadth of ancient technologies through a mosaic of talks by Drs. John K. Papadopoulos\, Gregson Schachner\, Monica L. Smith\, and Willeke Wendrich. Then visit the labs within the Cotsen to learn more and see these technologies up close!
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/2019-annual-cotsen-open-house/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T160000
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SUMMARY:2018 Annual Cotsen Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House will take place on May 12\, 2018 from 12:00 to 4:00pm with the theme Celebrations. Join us at 12:00 pm in the Fowler Museum for two gallery talks followed by a feasting forum in the Lenart Auditorium (A-Level) at 1:00 pm.  \n“Decoding textiles: the transmission of traditional knowledge with Dr. Sonali Gupta-agarwal” and \n“Archaeology and representation: empowering descendant communities through museum- based education” with Dr. Stephen Acabado. Celebrations across the world and throughout time usually involve feasting: consuming elaborate and plentiful food (and drink) in the company of others. The important social\, religious and political roles of feasting will be presented and discussed by three core members of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, Drs. Elizabeth Carter\, Alan Farahani\, and Monica Smith. After their brief introductions the panel will discuss this subject with the audience\, an exchange of thought moderated by Dr. Willeke Wendrich\, Director of the Institute. After the forum\, come explore our labs and interact with archaeologists from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/2018-annual-cotsen-open-house/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T130000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20260520T140728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260520T140728Z
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SUMMARY:Rediscovering Masis Blur: A Neolithic Settlement in the Ararat Plain\, Armenia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLA \nThis talk is a summary of field research conducted by Cotsen/UCLA doctoral student Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky at Masis Blur\, Armenia\, over the course of three seasons from 2012-2014. Excavations at Masis Blur have unearthed Neolithic habitation layers (ca. 6200 – 5400 cal.BC) belonging to the Shulaveri-Shomutepe culture\, with a rich material culture and several important new discoveries. Many questions have been raised concerning the origins and sudden appearance in the Southern Caucasus of sedentary communities having fully domesticated plants and animals. The abrupt abandonment of their settlements at the end of the Neolithic period is also still just as obscure. Certain cultural elements and fragments of imported pottery within otherwise Aceramic settlements attest to relations with societies in northern Mesopotamian area. This talk highlights findings from recent fieldwork at Masis Blur and discusses the new data within the framework of Neolithization processes in the Southern Caucasus.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/rediscovering-masis-blur-a-neolithic-settlement-in-the-ararat-plain-armenia/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170513T160000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20170417T055157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T055445Z
UID:1268-1494676800-1494691200@armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House
DESCRIPTION:Connections \nArchaeology is a collaborative field and archaeological teams always consist of specialists from many disciplines. This interconnectedness is an integral part of a holistic understanding of our past. Join us for an open house that illuminates the relationship between UCLA’s museum collections and archaeological research\, beginning with a 12pm gallery talk with Sonali Gupta-Agarwal.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/cotsen-institute-archaeology-open-house/
LOCATION:Fowler A204\, 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170513T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170513T170000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20170417T044940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T045816Z
UID:1236-1494673200-1494694800@armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:New Finds\, New Insights: Advances in Armenian Archaeology Over the Last Decade
DESCRIPTION:Excavations at Areni-1 Cave Site\, Vayoc Dzor\, Armenia. Photo courtesy of Dr. Gregory Areshian.\nWe are happy to announce the 3rd Hampartzoum and Ovsanna Chitjian Conference on Armenian Studies. The conference will feature 5 speakers from Armenia\, who will discuss advances in our understanding of prehistoric and historic periods in Armenia\, starting with the earliest hunter-gatherers that inhabited the region some 250\, 000 years ago and ending with the role of Armenia within the greater Silk Road economy.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/new-finds-new-insights-advances-armenian-archaeology-last-decade/
LOCATION:Main Conference Room\, Young Research Library\, UCLA\, 405 Hilgard Ave\, Los Aangeles \, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20260520T144343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260520T144343Z
UID:1415-1494604800-1494612000@armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Synthesis of Archaeology and World Systems Analysis and its Application to the Region of Southern Caucasia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Pavel Avetisyan\, Director\, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia \nThis talk is dedicated to the investigation of the main concepts in World-system analysis such as border\, border-line\, frontier\, and contact zone. Taking in to account the privileges of World-system analysis in archaeological investigations\, this contribution\, through demonstration of concrete cases\, argues the idea of formation of “Near Eastern World-system” during the mid phase of Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNB) as a result of Agricultural Revolution. This oldest World-system was disintegrated during the first half of the 7th millennium BC with the establishment of new historical systems of regional significance: the result of these developments was the appearance in historical arena of Bronze Age World-systems.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/the-synthesis-of-archaeology-and-world-systems-analysis-and-its-application-to-the-region-of-southern-caucasia/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160430T160000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20160125T182753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160125T182753Z
UID:710-1462021200-1462032000@armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cotsen Open House
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Armenian Archives and Research Program during its 19th annual Open House of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Stop by and find out what current research the faculty is undertaking and visit the different labs housed at the Institute.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/19th-annual-cotsen-open-house/
LOCATION:Fowler A204\, 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160311T230000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20160418T193942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160418T194152Z
UID:752-1457722800-1457737200@armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The gift of the Berekian Family Manuscripts   to the Chitjian Archives and Armenian Research Program at UCLA
DESCRIPTION:The Berekian family archive includes letters\, postcards\, diaries\, photographs\, and books\, which belonged to Kacher Berekian and Nevarte Berekian Nahabedian\, survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Kacher Berekian was born in Hajin and Nevarte Berekian Nahabedian in Constantinople. Orphaned during the massacres they arrived to the US and were raised by strangers who became family. Their grandchildren\, Gale\, Annie\, Nancy\, and Beverly\, will donate their family history preserved in these documents for preservation of their family’s legacy. \nPlease\, join us for the ceremony and celebration of this wonderful donation!\nRSVP @ kristineolsh@ucla.edu by Wednesday\, March 9.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/gift-berekian-family-manuscripts-chitjian-archives-armenian-research-program-ucla/
LOCATION:Fowler A204\, 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151114T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151114T171500
DTSTAMP:20260528T164822
CREATED:20160125T181003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160125T181155Z
UID:706-1447497000-1447521300@armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Armeno-Persian Relations and Persarmenian Community Through the Ages
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/armeno-persian-relations-persarmenian-community-ages/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T160000
DTSTAMP:20260528T164823
CREATED:20260518T181051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T181051Z
UID:1362-1430571600-1430582400@armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2015 Annual Open House
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is holding its annual Open House this Saturday\, May 2nd\, from 1-4. Stop by and find out what current research the faculty is undertaking and visit the different labs housed at the Institute. Make sure to stop by room A410 to visit our lab and learn about the different methods we use to examine archaeological objects.
URL:https://armenianarchives.ss.ucla.edu/event/2015-annual-open-house/
LOCATION:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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