The (Beautiful) Men and Women of Jaina Figurines
Lifelike Maya figurines from the Island of Jaina have been collected for almost 200 years, with hundreds now known in collections around the world, from Berlin to Brooklyn, and Los […]
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AIA Archaeology Hour January 2026: NAGPRA as a Path to Healing and Reciprocity
Join the AIA for the first AIA Archaeology Hour talk of the new year as new AIA President Brian I. Daniels hosts Danyelle Means for "NAGPRA as a Path to […]
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Founding the City: Carved Orthostats and Architectural Experimentation in Anatolia
Reed College, Performing Arts Building (PAB) 320 3017 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR, United StatesCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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“Late Victorian Race Science and its Legacies in Aegean Archaeology”
Swallow Hall, Room 101 507 South 9th Street, Columbia, MO, United StatesInterested in receptions of antiquity, discoveries in prehistory, and ideas about race during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)’s Central Missouri Chapter as […]
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The Ecstasy and the Agony:Excavations at La Venta, Mexico, an Olmec Capital
University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesLecturer: Dr. Susan Gillespie Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida In 1942 and 1943, excavations revealed fabulous buried deposits of jade and other precious items in a very unexpected place: […]
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Josef Wegner – Digging into Egypt’s Late Middle Kingdom, Recent Discoveries at the Anubis-Mountain Royal Necropolis, Abydos
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus Gilman Hall Room 50 Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus, BALTIMORE, MD, United StatesWednesday Feb. 11, 5:30 - 6:30, Gilman Hall Room 50 Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus Dorothy Kent Hill Lecture Josef Wegner, University of Pennsylvania Digging into Egypt's Late Middle Kingdom, […]
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Soto’s Stuff: Spanish 16th Century Expeditions and What They Left Behind
University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesLecturer: Dr. Charles Cobb Lockwood Chair in Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History 2025 UF Research Foundation Professor Over the last decade, research by a collaboration of […]
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From Farmers to Kings: The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistoric Europe
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College 1 Quinlan St, Lynchburg, VA, United StatesLecture by William Parkinson; William (Bill) Parkinson is an archaeologist who specializes in European and Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory. His anthropological and archaeological research explores the social dynamics of early village […]
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Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy
Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, the Mall at Wellington Green 10300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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The Origins of the Alphabet and How It Spread Across the World
Knight Auditorium, The Spurlock Museum(UIUC) 600 S.Gregory Street, Urbana, IL 61801, Illinois, United StatesPublic 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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Bone by Bone: The Commingled Remains from the Tomb at Tell Abraq, UAE (2200-2000 BC)
Santa Rosa Junior College Campus Petaluma, CACharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time TBA
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Petra’s Forgotten Past
TBA (Vancouver) Vancouver, British ColumbiaMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship