Ken Feder, Ph.D., of Central Connecticut State University asks if archaeologists should rewrite textbooks to include various archaeological oddities found in North America. While his short answer is no, that doesn't make the stories behind them any less interesting. He discusses claims of a hidden history these oddities suggest as described in his book "Archaeological […]
A brief historical outline provides the context for an introduction to LiDAR technology and a demonstration of how LiDAR-derived imagery is being used as an adjunct to traditional methods in the search for early European settlement sites in the Merrymeeting Bay area. Also included are examples of how LiDAR imaging and analytics can be used […]
In this lecture, Dr. Nakassis presents part of his long-running research project on prehistoric Aegean scripts. The Mycenaean palaces of the Greek Late Bronze Age (ca. 1300-1100 B.C.) made use of a sophisticated writing system called Linear B, which they inscribed on clay tablets and sealings. These documents are crucial to our understanding of these […]
Since 2001 the North Kharga Oasis-Darb Ain Amur Survey team has been exploring the sandy routes connecting Kharga oasis to Dakhla oasis and beyond. In the course of this survey, our team has discovered and recorded numerous lonely rock sites that were used in antiquity as camping spots and stopovers for desert travelers. The epigraphic […]
On this day archaeologists from our organization, in collaboration with the Archaeology Institute of the University of Tehran and the Student Society of the University of Tehran, invite people to join them with arms wide open. Through a photo exhibition, live music, theatrical presentations, and a friendly discussion/lecture we'll cover more than 80 years of […]
Joukowsky Lecture Reception at 6:30 PM
Public lecture by Prof. Patrick Crowley (University of Chicago) on his new research on gender, classical archaeology, and historiography
Student Reports on the Service Learning Archaeological Excavation during summer 2019 at the Sappington House Site. Young adults report on the field work and insights gained from the summer of 2019 historic site excavation at the Thomas Sappington House.
Lecture by Dr. Patrick Mullins (University of Pittsburgh) One need not look further than the present political discourse on border security in the United States to appreciate the complex, ambiguous, and often volatile nature of frontiers and borders. To understand the present or future of such borderlands, we need to explore their unique histories and […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Kate Liszka, California State University, San Bernardino: Digging Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Mines Sunday, November 10, 3 pm Room 20 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley Campus (Near the intersection of […]
This event at Assumption College will be among the first in the nation to memorialize the arrival of the Pilgrims and the establishment of a permanent settlement in what would become the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Many events will be taking place next year, but ours is timed conveniently close to Thanksgiving, when the Pilgrims tend […]
The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) is an organized UI research unit established in 1959. Now entering its seventh decade, the OSA continues to actively develop, disseminate, and preserve knowledge of Iowa’s human past through archaeological research, scientific discovery, public stewardship, service, and education. While the roots of Iowa Archaeology are […]
The Old Copper Culture (4000-1000 B.C.) stands out as a unique event in archaeologists’ global understanding of ancient metallurgy—here, copper metallurgy developed, but then “disappeared”. For over three millennia, Archaic hunter-gatherers around the North American Great Lakes made utilitarian implements out of copper, only for these items to decline in prominence during the Archaic to […]
Matson Lecture Co-sponsored by the Wellesley College Book Studies Program
A lecture by Dr. Gabrielle Vail of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Please join the AIA Baltimore Society for the Henry T. Rowell lecture. Dr. Christina Salowey (Hollins University) will deliver a lecture entitled "Learning from Gaia: Nature, Myth, Archaeology and the Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean."
Lecturer: Jeffrey S. Brzezinski, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract: The end of the Formative Period (1800 BCE - 250 CE) in Mesoamerica witnessed significant changes in the social and political organization of many of the region is complex societies. Archaeological research has documented shifting patterns in interregional interaction, particularly through the trade of goods […]
"Prehispanic Turkey Domestication, Husbandry, and Management in the North American Southwest" Presented by Dr. Cyler Conrad Turkeys played a significant role in prehispanic Ancestral Puebloan life in the North American Southwest. Used for a variety of socio-economic purposes, including for feathers, meat, eggs, creation of bone tools and as an iconographic figure, turkey remains appear […]
For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a complex international world in which Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots, and Egyptians all interacted, creating a cosmopolitan and globalized world-system such as has only rarely been seen before the […]
Johnathan Hardy, “Wēh-Ardašīr and the Ruins of Qasr bint al-Qadi: Christian Architectural Adaptation in the Sasanian Heartland,” in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul MN 55105 Using previously unpublished site plans and field notes from the 1929/1930 German Oriental Society […]