Events

Tuesday April 1, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm - in person Things you probably didn't know about New Hampshire Archaeology- Dr. Richard Boisvert, retired NH State Archaeologist New Hampshire may not have archaeological monuments like cliff dwellings or burial mounds but it does have a remarkable number of important and unusual archaeological sites and artifacts. […]

2025 Gordon R. Willey Lecture David M. Carballo, Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies, Boston University Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the world over 1,500 years ago, stands today as a premier archaeological site and a powerful symbol of Mexico’s precolonial heritage. Despite its enduring fame and millions of annual visitors, […]

A joint program sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America Dayton Society, the Miami University Department of History, and the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University. Although we often take them for granted, mirrors in antiquity were powerful tools for the construction of feminine identity. Building on the idea of the mirror […]

The AIA San Francisco Society is thrilled to welcome Dr. Rubina Raja (Aarhus University) back to Berkeley. Please join us to hear Dr. Raja speak about the archaeology and history of ancient Gerasa. This will be the final lecture of the AIA San Francisco Society’s 2024-2025 lecture series. Abstract: The Antonine period Artemis sanctuary in […]

In this year’s Sardis Biennial Lecture, Professor Nicholas Cahill of the University of Wisconsin–Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis in Türkiye. The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Discoveries include monumental remains of the […]

Saturday, April 12 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Classroom L2 In-person; no registration required Speaker: Rolland Long, PhD Candidate, UPenn Title: “A DEM-onstration of Quantitative 3D Analysis: Lower Nubia in the Recent and Distant Past” Abstract: Soon after the declassification of satellite imagery from the CORONA satellite spy-mission in the mid-1990’s, archaeologists working around the […]

Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person 2025 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series Louise Leakey, Director, Koobi Fora Research Project; Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University; National Geographic Explorer at Large Kenya’s fossil-rich Turkana Basin has been—for over five decades—a cornerstone in unraveling the story of human origins in Africa. In […]

Though often understood as a purely technical or aesthetic pursuit that focuses on restoring historical objects to their former splendor, the conservation of cultural heritage is a profoundly human and complex endeavor. Objects and places gain significance from the people who make, value, and care for them. Change is inevitable and becomes part of the […]