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HYBRID - Great Lecture: Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE

May 3, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

Penn Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, 19104 United States


The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses on reconstructing the ancient environment of southern Iraq through remote sensing, geological coring, and excavation. This illustrated lecture will bring this formative chapter of human history to life through an overview of this work to date, including geological, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence.

Speakers: Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities; Professor, History of Art; Director, Lagash Archaeological Project and Curator, Near East Section, Penn Museum and Reed C Goodman, Ph.D. Candidate in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.

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Date:
May 3, 2023
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1345/marshland-of-cities-lagash-and-its-neighbors-ca-2500-bce

Contact

Tena Thomason
Phone
2158982680
Email
tenat@upenn.edu
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Hybrid

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Penn Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, 19104 United States
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