Archaeological Institute of America - The St. Louis Society
Founded in 1906 - 107 years old and going strong!

The St. Louis Society holds free monthly lectures that are open to the public. All programs will be held at the Missouri History Museum auditorium located at 5700 Lindell Boulevard EXCEPT for the programs on October 20, January 27, and March 18. Parking lots at the History Museum are located to the right and left of the south entrance. All lectures are free and open to the public, include color powerpoint illustrated presentations followed by a reception to meet the speaker.

The lectures are given by professional archaeologists who are experts in their fields and cover a wide range of topics from new excavation data to analysis of sculpture and painting. Our Membership includes professional, student, and avocational archaeologists with fieldwork expertise in Asia, Africa, Europe, North American, MesoAmerica, and South America. There is no better place in St. Louis to come and talk about archaeology. We are always glad to speak with middle school and high school students interested in a career in archaeology. We proudly remember our local history and especially the Mylonas years.

All lectures are free and open to the public. The lectures are color powerpoint presentations and are followed by a reception to meet the speaker. Our past lectures cover a wide variety of topics including Old World and New World archaeological discoveries.

2012 - 2013 Lecture Schedule - Funded by the Arthur and Helen Baer Foundation


** Wednesday 12 September 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Dr. James P. Delgado, Director of the Maritime Herietage, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Siverl Spring, Maryland.
"Titanic at 100"


Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Jane E. Buikstra, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Director of the Center of Bioarchaeological Research, Arizona State University; President, Center for American Archaeology, Kamspsville, Illinois.
Venerated Ancestors: Mummies of the Ancient Andes.
[Co-sponsored with the St. Louis Chapter of the Explorers Club and the St. Louis Academy of Science]


Saturday, 20 October 2012, 10 AM to 3 PM - Cahokia Mound Museum in Collinsville, Illinois
[NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY CELEBRATION at a World Heritage Site!!!!]


10 to 11 am Professor Michael Fuller, Professor of Anthropology at St. Louis Community College - Merame
Cahokia's Westward influence in AD 1100.


11 am to 1 pm - Archaeology Open house and handsOn learning at the front of the museum.


1 to 2 pm Phyllis Steckel, Professional Geologist with Earthquake Insight LLC
Ancient Earthquakes and Archaeology.


[Co-sponsored with the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society.]


Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 7:30 PM -Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Carolina A. Aznar, St. Louis University, Madrid Campus; Co-Director of the Tell Regev Excavation, The Southern Plain of Akko Project (Israel)
The Phoenicians and the Israelites: Cooperators or Rivals

Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Dan Bahat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto and former Chief Archaeologist of the City of Jerusalem
Masada: The Greatest of the Herodian Fortresses
Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0 is Wednesday, 21 December 2012. So, where should we party?


Sunday, 27 January 2013, 1 to 6 PM - 23rd Steinberg Hall, Washington University
"Symposium in Honor of Sarantis Symeonoglou on the Occasion of his Retirement"
Keynote address by Professor R. Ross Holloway, Professor Emeritus, Brown University. His talk with be on The Other Bronze Age of the Classical World. Shorter talks will be given by several colleagues and former students on topics related to Old World Archaeology.


Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Wooster College, Wooster Ohio. Principle Investigator of El Peru-Waka Archaeological Project.
Memory, Monuments and Mortuary Ritual in the ancient Maya City of El Peru' Waka' in Guatemala.


**Tuesday 12 March 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Christina Conlee, Texas State University.
The Nasca Lines in their Cultural and Religious Context (Peru).

Monday 18 March 2013, 7:00 PM - Central Reform Congregation at Southwest corner of Kingshighway and Waterman
Professor Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford, Director of University of Hartford Excavations at Nazareth, Bethsaida and Yavne, Israel.
Digging through History: Archaeology and History from Atlantis to the Holocaust.

Tuesday 9 April 2013, 7:00 PM (PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME!)- Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
25th Annual Memorial Lecture. An event honoring the life and work of Professor George E. Mylonas. Professor Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Chair and organizer.

Co-sponored with the Hellenic Government Foundation Endowed Professionship in Greek Studies at UMSL, St. Louis and Washington University Archaeology Program; the faculty from the Art History and Archaeology, Classics Department, and Anthropology. Endowed by the Mylonas Fund.
Keynote address by Dr. Dora Vassilikou, Vice President of the Athens Archaeological Society. Mycenae, Rich in Gold: Excavating the Capital City of Agamemnon.

**Wednesday 8 May 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Dr. William W. Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..
Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Empire.
** This lecture is partially funded by the Archaeological Institute of America and is a selection from its national lecture circuit.

The Missouri History Museum is located at 5700 Lindell Boulevard at DeBaliviere in Forest Park.

Directions to the Cahokia Mounds Museum from St. Louis: Take Highway 40/64 across the Poplar Street Bidge into Illinois. State left, follow Interstate 55/70 to Exit 6 (Highway 111). Exit and turn right onto Highway 100 South. At stoplight make a left onto Collinsville Road. The Museum/Interpretive Center is about 1.5 miles on the right - directly across the street from Monks Mound.

***All lectures and programs are free and open to the public. Reception are held following the lecture to meet the speaker**



Several Old World Archaeological Expeditions have been headed by members of the St. Louis Society of the AIA. Currently, one important excavation projects is directed by a members of the St. Louis Society:

IIklania Archaeological Project by Prof. Michael Cosmopoulos

Four important 1906 - 1907 projects conducted by Gerard Fowke and sponsored by the St. Louis Society:

Painted Rock in Osage County, Missouri

Dawson Mounds in Boone County, Missouri

Easley Mounds in Boone County, Missouri

Utz village site in Saline County, Missouri

 

Three members of the St. Louis Society have received the "Gold Medal" for their distinguished archaeological achievement by the Archaeological Institute of America:


Prof. George Mylonas................ Prof. Patty Jo Watson............... Prof. Susan Rotroff

St. Louis Society Officers:
Howard R. Wimmer, President and Secretary
John E. Kelly, Vice President
C. Dennis Joerger, Treasurer

Board of Directors:
Expiring 2013: Lisa Aya Calmak, Neathery Batsell Fuller and Lawrence D. Perlmutter
Expiring 2014: Linda L. Bickel, Michael J. Fuller and Allison Thomason
Expiring 2015: Judith Feinberg Brilliant, Jerome E. Glick and Sharon Klein.


Nominating Committee: Judy Feinberg Brilliant and Prof. Neathery Batsell Fuller

The St. Louis Society of the AIA Office telephone number is (314) 432-3900

Neathery and Michael Fuller
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Updated 22 July 2012