DENVER SOCIETY

UPCOMING LECTURES at the LODO Tattered Cover Bookstore (see directions and parking information below):

Sunday, September 13, 2009: 2:00pm
James Stratis
Preservation Projects Manager,
Colorado Historical Society, State Historical Fund
"Post Excavation Stewardship in Colorado"

From Kommos, the Minoan port of Phaistos to the Anasazi Lunar standstill at Chimney Rock: a journey of archaeological park conservation and development. James Stratis, the Preservation Projects Manager at the Colorado Historical Society, will navigate a slide illustrated overview of his work in the Colorado southwest and on coast of Crete. Conservation needs assessment and the execution of treatment planning will be coupled with public access and educational benefit considerations. Case studies from Minoan palace-temple sites of Knossos, Mallia, Phaistos and Kommos will be compared to the Colorado Ancestral Puebloan sites of Mesa Verde, Chimney Rock and Morris III within the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park. Environmental factor mitigations and public access safety management will be discussed along with interpretive programs from both areas of concentrated archaeological sites which provide site stewardship, economic benefits and opportunities for heritage education - tourism.

Sunday, October 25, 2009: 2:00pm
AIA NATIONAL VISITING LECTURER
Marjorie Venit, PhD
Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Architecture
University of Maryland
"Egypt as Metaphor: Decoration and the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria"

This talk explores the intersection of Egyptian and Greek (or Roman) decorative elements and motifs in Alexandrian monumental tombs and the eschatological climate that permitted and encouraged the convergence. It argues that Greeks adopted and adapted Egyptian modes of expression in order to fill a void in their own visual repertoire at a time when visualizing the road to the afterlife became more acutely essential.

Sunday, November 15, 2009: 2:00pm
Jonathan Kent, PhD
Professor of Anthropology
Metropolitan State College of Denver
“Rural Life & Death in Ancient Peru; an update on the archaeology of the Santa Rita B Complex"

We welcome the return of Jon Kent to our group. Jon has conducted field schools & studies in Peru for upwards of 30 years. His presentation will bring us up to date on aspects of the daily lives and death rituals uncovered at the Santa Rita B site in northern Peru.

Sunday, January 24, 2010: 2:00pm
Linda Scott Cummings, PhD
PaleoResearch Institute, Inc.
“Delving into the Mystery of the Visible, Nearly Visible, and Invisible Records of PaleoEnvironment and PaleoSubsistence at Archaeological Sites"

Understanding the environmental setting in which people have lived is critical to understanding any people. So, too, does our picture of diet color our opinion of people of the past? Both combine to build a picture of the past as “real people” who lived in well-defined time and space.

Sunday, February 21, 2010: 2:00pm
AIA NATIONAL VISITING LECTURER,
Samuel H. Kress Lectureship in Ancient Art
Nejib ben Lazrig, PhD
Institut National du Patrimoine of Tunisia
"Roman Mosaics of Tunisia"

Dr. ben Lazreg has conducted surveys throughout central and coastal Tunisia, with a specialization in the mosaics of Roman Tunisia. This should prove to be an enlightening afternoon while we learn about his studies of mosaics and Roman kilns.

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE: Sunday, March 7, 2010: 2:00pm
Steve Holen, PhD
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
"New Evidence for the Early Peopling of North America"

Have we been here longer than we thought? Join us to hear new evidence suggesting that humans arrived in North America before the Last Glacial Maximum; possibly as early as 30,000-40,000 years ago.

LECTURE LOCATION:
TATTERED COVER BOOKSTORE IN LODO
1668 16th Street, Downtown Denver at 16th and Wynkoop

Books related to lecture topics will be available for purchase. All AIA lectures are free and open to the public. Bring a friend along to share in these outstanding and informative lectures.

PARKING on the Street is FREE on Sundays.
Paid parking is available 1/2 block further east on Wynkoop.

Please contact (303) 488-3623 for more information.

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