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Event Series SASA’s Halloween Bash

SASA’s Halloween Bash

FREE and open to the public, this celebration of SASA’s progress and call to action to support our mission is complete with a 10-day lineup of special events! From Mesopotamian ‘vampires’ and the underworld, to Pictish monsters, ‘Assassins Creed: Valhalla’ archaeogaming, and a feature on ‘Lovecraft’, join us to explore the history of Halloween and […]

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Event Series Berry site “Dig Day”

Berry site “Dig Day”

Berry site Henderson Mill Road, Morganton

Volunteers are invited to join in the excavation of the Berry site, located outside of Morganton, North Carolina. Berry is the location of the Native town of Joara and the Spanish Fort San Juan which was built in January 1567 and destroyed in 1568. Fort San Juan, occupied by 30 Spanish soldiers, constitutes the earliest […]

U2 Spy Plane Photos and The Archaeology of the Middle East

Declassified military imagery from planes and satellites plays an important role in landscape and environmental archaeology. Historic imagery sources, especially the large archives generated by the US during the Cold War, are far better than Google Earth for providing archaeologists with a window into the past, before development and intensive agriculture took hold in many […]

POSTPONED!!! “Archaeology through Art: Early Modern Japanese Ship Construction”

THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL SOMETIME IN THE SPRING. Michelle Damian, Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth College (mdamian@monmouthcollege.edu) Maritime trade and transport flourished during Japan’s early modern (Edo, 1603 – 1868) period, connecting the urban centers of Osaka and Edo with the farthest reaches of Hokkaido and Kyushu. The omnipresent nature and variety of […]