2021-01-28 Shayla Monroe - Animals in the Kerma Afterlife
Channel: Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
Date: 2021-01-28

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Animals in the Kerma Afterlife: Animal Burials and Ritual at Abu Fatima Cemetery, Sudan: A lecture in the series "New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia" by Shayla Monroe (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Jan. 28, 2021
This lecture is part of New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia, a new monthly lecture series hosted by the Badè Museum in partnership with the Archaeological Research Facility. The series brings together a diverse group of scholars whose research explores various aspects of the archaeology, art, and history of ancient Nubia, the region of modern-day southern Egypt to central Sudan.

These lectures will take place monthly from October 2020 through June 2021, on Thursdays at 12:00 Pacific (unless otherwise indicated). See the list of lectures and dates below. Watch live or catch up on recorded lectures on the ARF YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/arf-channel

October 29, 2020
“The Ascendancy of the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma in the Post Middle Kingdom Era: Revisiting the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt”
Dr. Salim Faraji | California State University, Dominguez Hills

November 19, 2020
“A Game of Thrones: The Social Role of Board Games at Kerma”
Dr. Carl Walsh | Barnes Foundation

December 10, 2020
“More than Kush: Capturing the Complexity and Diversity of Ancient Nubia”
Dr. Aaron de Souza | Austrian Academy of Sciences

January 28, 2021
“Animals in the Kerma Afterlife: Animal Burials and Ritual at Abu Fatima Cemetery, Sudan”
Dr. Shayla Monroe | UC Santa Barbara

February 18, 2021
“Sacred Dancers: Nubian Women as Priestesses of Hathor”
Dr. Solange Ashby | Barnard College

April (Monday) 5, 2021
""Like the Coming of the Winds": Kushite Pharaohs and their Armies in the Near East”
Dr. Jeremy Pope | College of William and Mary

April 29, 2021
“Decolonising New Kingdom Nubia through its Material Culture”
Rennan Lemos | Cambridge University

May 20, 2021
“Kushites in the Hebrew Bible”
Dr. Kevin Burrell | Burman University

June 3, 2021
Nile Valley Collective Round Table
Dr. Sally-Ann Ashton | Edge Hill University
Dr. Vanessa Davies | Bryn Mawr College
Debora Heard | University of Chicago
Dr. Elizabeth Minor | Wellesley College
Dr. Kimani Nehusi | Temple University
Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith | UC Santa Barbara