October looks to be a busy month for AERA Osteologist Jessica Kaiser. As part of the 116th year of the Lecture Program put on by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Kaiser will take part in four speaking engagements in a five-day span.

AERA Osteologist Jessica Kaiser

Traveling between the Great Lakes Region and the Florida panhandle, she will be lecturing on the patterns of child burials at The Wall of the Crow Cemetery and what these patterns can describe to researchers about the families of the deceased. She will also discuss the sacred landscape of Giza and its renewed use as a necropolis.

Sunday, October 16, 2011 – 3:00pm
Giza Through Time and Space: The Renegotiation of a Sacred Landscape
Krannert Art Museum, Room 62, University of Illinois campus
Champaign, IL

Monday, October 17, 2011 – 8:00pm
The Wall of the Crow Cemetery in Giza, Egypt: Remembering the Children
IUPUI Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 – 7:30pm
Giza Through Time and Space: The Renegotiation of a Sacred Landscape
Burpee Museum of Natural History
Rockford, IL

Thursday, October 20, 2011 – 8:00pm
The Wall of the Crow Cemetery in Giza, Egypt: Remembering the Children
Florida State University Fine Arts Building, Room 249
Tallahassee, FL

All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Lecture page at the AIA web site