BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies - ECPv6.3.7//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211104T200000 DTSTAMP:20240420T075536 CREATED:20210918T235507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220717T013036Z UID:215-1636052400-1636056000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca SUMMARY:The Life and Death of Tombs: The Excavation of the Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira in the Nemea Valley\, Greece DESCRIPTION:Dr. R. Angus K. Smith\, Brock University\n\nFrom 2006 to 2008 an international team conducted archaeological excavations at the threatened late Bronze Age site of Ayia Sotira near Nemea\, Greece.  These excavations saved a cemetery of Mycenaean tombs from looting and revealed new information about the complex mortuary rituals that surrounded the use and reuse of communal tombs during the 14th and 13th centuries BCE. This talk will describe the excavations and what these tombs revealed\, and put them in the larger context of death in Mycenaean Greece. \n\n\nDr. R Angus K. Smith is Associate Professor of Greek Archeology with the Classics Department of Brock University; he holds his degrees from Dartmouth College\, Cambridge University (M.Phil) and Bryn Mawr College (MA\, PhD). His research interests are Greek archaeology\, Aegean prehistory\, ceramic analysis and mortuary analysis.  He is currently Associate Director of excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia on Crete\, and he was Co-Director of the recently completed Ayia Sotira excavation project at Nemea.  Professor Smith is the 2018 recipient of the Brock University Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.  He was President of the Canadian Institute in Greece and is President of the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \nPresented jointly by the Ottawa and Toronto Chapters. URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/life-and-death-of-tombs/ LOCATION:Online with Zoom CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR