TBA (Denver)
TBA (Denver 1) Denver, CO, United StatesAnna Marguerite McCann and Robert D. Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology Time TBA
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AIA Lecture Program
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The Myth of Ariadne from the Labyrinth to the Walls of Pompeii
Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University 801 S. Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH, United StatesThe Archaeological Institute of America- Dayton Society, Miami University Department of History, and the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (RCCAM) at Miami University present the Archaeological Institute of America's […]
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The Origins of the Alphabet and How It Spread Across the World
Public Lecture by Professor Wayne T. Pitard Abstract: Essentially all of the alphabetic scripts in the world descend from a single script invented probably during the 20th century BCE by […]
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From Berlin to Berkeley: The History of the Edward Gans Collection of Seals and Its Hidden Gems – a Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures currently houses the Edward Gans Collection of Seals, comprising almost seven hundred seals and seal-related objects from a variety of periods, extending […]
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Water Histories: How 8,000 Years of Fluctuating Lake Levels in North-Central Florida Affected Indigenous Land Use and Regional Interactions
University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesRecent survey of a tract of public land on Lake Pithlachocco in Alachua County, Florida revealed an 8,000-year record of horizontal stratigraphy extending 500m from and 5m above the modern […]
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Reading Matthew’s Gospel in the Cemeteries of Roman Syria and Judea
ZoomVirtual EventWhy does the Gospel of Matthew prefer a different word for burials, taphoi, than the other New Testament gospels? And why does Matthew consistently revise his sources to describe Jesus’s […]
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Cantilevered Walkways—A Remarkable feat of Ancient Chinese Engineering
Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen Distinguished Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History UCLA To this day, the Qinling mountains in Shaanxi province, which separate the basin of the Yellow River […]
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Founding the City: Carved Orthostats and Architectural Experimentation in Anatolia
Blegen 308, University of Cincinnati 2602 McMicken Circle, Cincinnati, OH, United StatesCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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A Dealer, an Insurance Salesman, Seven University Museums, Eighty-Eight Investors, and Three Hundred Classical Antiquities: a Cautionary Tale – a Nancy Wilkie Lectureship in Archaeological Heritage
Virtual EventThis virtual talk will recount a recently-uncovered story of an unusual, complex, decades-long antiquities investment scheme orchestrated by Royal-Athena Galleries, a prominent Manhattan-based antiquities dealer, that did not end well […]
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Diving the Pyramids: Underwater Tombs and Excavation at the Royal Cemetery of Nuri, Sudan
TBA (Knoxville) Knoxville, TN, United StatesThe Frederick R. and Margaret B. Matson Lectureship for Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Technology
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Nomads of the Desert and the Sea: Evidence from Prehistoric Burial Mounds in Qatar
Tory Breezeway-1 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaHarald Ingholt Lecture in Middle Eastern Archaeology Lecturer: Dr. Richard Fletcher Abstract: Prehistoric burial cairns have been a subject of archaeological investigation in Qatar since national development began in the […]
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Landscapes of Time and Memory: Foragers in the Mojave Desert
TBA (Lubbock) Lubbock, TX, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship