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The AIA - Orange County Society, Inc. presents
Dr. Jere H. Lipps
speaking on
FROM DINOSAURS TO PEOPLE:
PRESERVING AND UNDERSTANDING ORANGE COUNTY’S
RICH HISTORY OF LIFE
Sunday, May 4, 2014, 2:00-4:00 PM
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Details and Directions
This is the final AIA-OC program before our summer break.
Two
of the 2014-15 programs are listed in the Announcements section, below.
Be sure to check back in the fall for a complete list of 2014-15
programs.
Announcements
Get the Latest AIA Orange County Society Newsletter
Click here to download the AIA-OC Newsletter (posted 1/25/14).
Animal Mummies at the Bowers Museum
Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt
at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA
March 22 - June 15, 2014.
This major exhibition from the Brooklyn Museum focuses on one of the most fascinating aspects of ancient Egyptian culture and religion.
AIA-Orange County Society Programs for 2014-15
The lecture schedule for 2014-15 will include:
Rome by Dr. Gregory Aldrete on October 26, 2014
Greece by Dr. Alexander Ainian on January 11, 2015
Additional programs will be announced in the coming months.
AIA-OC Society News
Dr.
Marie-Henriette Gates, Professor of Archaeology at Bilkent University
in Turkey was the speaker at the AIA-OC meeting on Sunday, January, 26,
2014. She spoke on Kinet Höyük (Turkey) and the Archaeology of Eastern
Mediterranean Seaports. The phto below shows Dr. Gates (standing) with
David Seigle, AIA national board member, and Normaw Kershaw, founder of
the AIA, Orange County Chapter.
National Archaeology Day
Our Saturday, October 19, 2013 the AIA-OC helped celebrate National Archaeology Day
with a program and cuneiform writing demonstration at the Bowers Museum
in Santa Ana, CA. Dr. William Schniedewind, who holds the Kershaw Chair
of Eastern Mediterranean Studies at UCLA, presented a lecture on “The
Ancient Persian Cylinder of Cyrus the Great." See photos here.
The AIA-OC also had a display for International Archaeology Day at the Mission Viejo Library.
Field Trip
The AIA-OC had a field trip to the Center for Near Eastern Archaeology at La Sierra University on Sunday, November 3, 2013.
As
part of a salute to National Archaeology Day, the field trip included a
behind the scenes tour by Dr. Douglas Clark, Director of the Exhibit of
Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts Labs for Collection and Research, and a
PowerPoint presentation on “Excavations in Jordan.” See photos here.
La
Sierra University has one of the largest collections in the United
States of daily use artifacts from Jordan, Palestine, and Israel.
We are one of the AIA local societies
that
provide a vehicle for people interested in archaeology to meet one
another, to hear
from
scholars about their current research, to learn about recent
archaeological discoveries and to take trips together to nearby
archaeological sites and other archaeology-related events.
For a description of our next archaeology lecture, click on Next Lecture at the left. For a list of other upcoming lectures click on Lecture Schedule. A few of our past activities are shown in the photos below. For descriptions and other photos of AIA-OC activities click on Archives. For information on joining the AIA-OC click on Membership.
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