Events

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Solange Ashby. “Ancient African Queens”

Whitman College, Olin Hall 129 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, United States

This lecture will provide an introduction to the royal women of Kush/Nubia and the powerful, sole-ruling kandakas ('queens') of Meroë. Hear how Nubian families tracked filiation through their mothers. Learn about the high status and significant political, sacred, and military power of women in ancient African societies along the Nile. Please join us in-person to […]

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Alison Futrell. “The People’s Arena”

Whitman College, Maxey Hall 413-461 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, United States

Mass events in the Colosseum were highly visible performances of Rome’s imperial power. But how did the arena impact the lives of ordinary individuals? This talk explores evidence for the […]

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Uzma Rizvi. “Caring for MohenjoDaro”

Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 116 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, United States

How do we understand care in the ancient world? This talk will focus on current archaeological research conducted in the city of MohenjoDaro (a World Heritage Site) located in contemporary Pakistan (Sindh Province). Archaeological excavations at Mohenjo-Daro document hundreds of dwelling-houses and large buildings built along streets and lanes oriented towards cardinal points, which index […]

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Zainab Bahrani. “Toward an Archaeology of Preservation”

Whitman College, Maxey Hall 413-461 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, United States

The history of archaeology as a scientific discipline has received a great deal of attention in recent years. As a result of extensive archival research and the reading of archives against the grain, alternative or indigenous archaeologies and earlier forms of relationships to the past—such as antiquarianism—have also begun to receive more serious scholarly attention. […]

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Mark Aldenderfer. “Archaeology and the Tibetan/Himalayan Afterlife”

Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 116 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, United States

Although historians and Tibetologists since the early 20th C have collected and interpreted religious documents describing in general terms rituals of death and safe passage to the afterlife among the early peoples of the Himalayas, the archaeological record offered little insight into them. But recent research by archaeologists across the region have made extraordinary discoveries […]

Cleopatra and the Queens of Meroë

Whitman College, Olin Hall 129 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, United States

This lecture will focus on the many sole-ruling kandakas ('queens') of the ancient kingdom of Meroë (Kush/Nubia), including those who ruled contemporaneously with Cleopatra and with Roman aggressions and occupation […]