TALK: Mound and Memory: Excavating the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania
Sarah P. Morris (Classics, UCLA) and John K. Papadopoulos (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA)
Friday, November 6 / 3:30 PM
2001a HSSB
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Between 2004 and 2008, UCLA archaeologists and their Albanian collaborators excavated one of the last remaining undisturbed prehistoric burial mounds in Albania. Dating from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (ca. 14th – 9th centuries B.C.), the cemetery yield 100 graves and numerous spectacular finds in bronze, gold, iron, clay, semi-precious stone, and glass. This presentation tells the story of the excavation of the tumulus, as well as the survey around it, the reconstruction of the mound at the end of the project, and its ramifications for the prehistory of Europe.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG.
