Wednesday, October 31

• 12:00 PM Advancing the Study of Human Origins: New data from Wonderwerk Cave and Bestwood Farm, South Africa

Friday, November 2

• 12:15 PM Making the Majiayao Culture Complex: Pottery Production in NW China ca. 5300 to 4000 BP

Monday, November 5

• 9:00 AM PhD/MA Exams

Thursday, November 8

• 6:00 PM Bicentennial Petra: Celebration and Trepidation at a Wonder of the World

Friday, November 9

• All Day Last day to drop classes with a "W" grade
• 3:00 PM Matters of Life and Death: Exploring Citizenship, Materiality, and Necroviolence along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Friday, November 16

• 12:15 PM Temple Style and Immigrant Identity: A Look at the Construction of the Yinshan Temple in Danshui, Taiwan during the 1800s

Wednesday, November 21

• All Day Thanksgiving Recess Starts

Monday, November 26

• 12:30 PM Bronze Craftsmanship in ancient Central and Southern China: Studies of the Zeng Zhong You Fu fanghu ritual vessel

Wednesday, November 28

• 12:00 PM Mini Conference: Mixed Methods & Interdisciplinary Research Practice
•   Department Meeting

Friday, November 30

• 12:00 PM Brown Bag Lecture: "New Directions in Three-Dimensional Recording in Archaeology"

Monday, December 3

• 5:00 PM Casting the Sacral Vessel: Fifty Years of Technical Studies of Ancient Chinese Bronzes.
• 7:00 PM Professor William Saturno National Geographic Live at the Goodman Theatre

Friday, December 7

• 12:00 PM Brown Bag Lecture: "Sugar! Sweetening History for High-School Students"

Wednesday, December 12

• All Day Last day of classes
• 2:00 PM Archaeology Holiday Party

Thursday, December 13

• All Day Study Period

Monday, December 17

• All Day Finals Start

Friday, December 21

• All Day Last day of finals