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Anthropology
Expert On The Indus Valley Will Give U.Va. Art Museum’s Weedon
Lecture On Oct. 8 September 24, 2004 -- WHAT: Weedon Lecture on the Arts of Asia WHO: J. Mark Kenoyer, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin TITLE: “Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley” WHEN: Friday, Oct. 8, at 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Campbell Hall, Room 153 Archaeological research in the Indus Valley has unearthed important contributions from the Indus culture that influenced later civilizations in South Asia and other regions of the world. In his illustrated lecture, J. Mark Kenoyer, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, will present an overview of the sculpture, ornament, seals and technologies of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and western India. He will focus on recent discoveries in Harappa, Pakistan, that have provided evidence on the origins of writing and urbanism in the Indus Valley. Kenoyer also will talk about other sites, including Mehrgarh and Nausharo in Pakistan, and Dholavira, India, and will discuss new discoveries on the origins of agriculture and animal husbandry, the emergence of village cultures and development of towns, and the urban expansion of the Indus or Harappan periods. Kenoyer has worked in Pakistan and India for the past 29 years. He was born in India, where he lived until he came to the United States to attend college. He received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also received his M.A. and Ph.D. in South Asian Archaeology. He is a specialist in ancient technologies and crafts, socioeconomic and political organization, and religion in South Asia covering a broad range of cultural periods. Since 1986, he has served as the co-director and field director of the Harappa Archaeological Research Project in Pakistan, a long-term study of urban development in the Indus Valley. During this time, he has been a consultant and curator for national exhibits on Pakistan and the Indus Valley. Kenoyer
has written numerous books and articles, including a feature
in the July 2003 issue of Scientific
American and the June 2000 issue
of National
Geographic. For more information, call the University of Virginia Art Museum at (434) 924-3592 or visit the Web site: www.virginia.edu/artmuseum. Contact: Jane Ford, (434) 924-4298 |
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