On the Move: Migrants and Mobility in the Roman Empire
2023-10-26 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Helge Center Multipurpose Room, Valparaiso University, 1509 Chapel Drive, Valparaiso, IN, 46383, United States
Tsakirgis Lecture

The Maya and Climate Change: Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands
2023-10-27 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eugene Public Library Downtown, 100 W 10th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Stone lecture

Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Contested Caucasus
2023-10-27 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Baltimore), Baltimore, MD

Let’s Talk About Ancient Apocalypse: It’s Inaccurate, Harmful, and the Real Story of Ice Age Peopling of the Americas is Far More Interesting Anyway
2023-10-27 19:00 (America/New_York) | Joseph C Shouvlin Center, Rm 105, Wittenberg University, W Ward St, Springfield, OH, 45504, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Coin Production and 'Monetary Policy' of the Roman Imperial Period
2023-10-27 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WEBINAR (Stanford), United States
Metcalf lecture

Let’s Talk about Ancient Apocalypse: It’s Inaccurate, Harmful, and the Real Story of Ice Age Peopling of the Americas is Far More Interesting Anyway
2023-10-28 10:30 (America/New_York) | SC 114, University of Dayton, 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH, 45469, United States

An Archaeological Investigation and Interpretation of a Cornerstone Deposit from Louisville's Confederate Monument
2023-11-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe), 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, 40203, United States
Amid recent efforts to remove Confederate Monuments throughout cities in the South, the City of Louisville removed its monument situated on a public street in the middle of the University of Louisville’s main campus. During disassembly of the monument, a cornerstone box containing commemorative objects was found. This presentation discusses these objects and their relationship to the “Lost Cause” movement espoused by ex-Confederates. It also examines the battle for the memorial landscape and the monument itself as a symbol of ex-Confederate power that perpetuated the “Lost Cause” narrative into the present day.

Imperialism, Colonialism, Reparations, and the “Universal” Museum
2023-11-02 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall room 129, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Norton lecture

Saving Heritage from the Sea: The Communities Working to Rescue Scotland’s History
2023-11-03 17:30 (America/New_York) | John C. Hitt Library Room 402, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States

Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict
2023-11-04 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States

New Light on King Herod’s Harbor (6:15pm start time)
2023-11-06 18:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
McCann/Taggart lecture
Note: This lecture’s start time is 6:15pm Eastern time.

The History of Scotland - As Revealed at its Eroding Coast
2023-11-06 19:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Alabama in Huntsville, Wilson Hall 168, 301 Sparkman Drive NW, Huntsville, AL, 35805, United States

The Forbidden Voyage
2023-11-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | Cohen Lounge, 1st floor Dickson Hall, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07043, United States
McCann/Taggart lecture

Saving Heritage from the Sea: The Communities Working to Rescue Scotland’s History
2023-11-08 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia
2023-11-08 19:00 (America/Denver) | Eaton Humanities, Rm 250, CU Boulder Campus, 2055 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO, United States
Matson lecture

"New Light on King Herod's Harbor (Caesarea Maritima)"
2023-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York) | Room 1400 Marie Mount Hall, 7814 Regents Dr, College Park, MD, 20742, United States

"Otzi the Iceman": Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-11-09 18:00 (America/Denver) | Montana State University, Bozemon, MT, 59717, United States

Saving Heritage From The Sea: The Communities Working To Rescue Scotland’s History
2023-11-09 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Newcomb Hall, room 18, Tulane University Uptown Campus, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States

Human-Animal-Divine Relationships in Cyprus: a Social Zooarchaeology of Sacrifice
2023-11-09 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall 109, University of Richmond, 410 Westhampton Way, Richmond, 23173, United States
Kershaw lecture

AIA Archaeology Hour with Katherine L. Chiou
2023-11-15 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Illinois
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Katherine L. Chiou (University of Alabama) presents Cuisine and Crisis: An Edible History of the Moche of Ancient Peru.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Imagine stepping into the shoes of an ancient Peruvian, tasting the flavors and savoring the meals of a time long past. In this talk, we’ll journey into the rich culinary history of the Moche people, who thrived along the desertic northern Peruvian coast from AD 100-800.
But it’s not just about what was on the plate; it’s about what those meals can tell us about the lives, struggles, and joys of two very different parts of Moche society. By exploring both a grand feast preparation area and a humble commoner’s home, we’ll dig into what food reveals about wealth, status, and daily life during a turbulent time marked by drought and political tension.
How did food contribute to social unrest? Were the rich and poor eating the same meals or were there stark differences? What does a simple dish tell us about a person’s identity? These questions and more will be served up in this delicious journey into the past, blending archaeology, technology, and a good pinch of culinary intrigue. Whether you’re a foodie, history buff, or simply curious about how meals connect us to our ancestors, this talk is a feast for the mind you won’t want to miss.

Archaeology and Conservation: The Tombs at Rio Azul, a Treasure in Guatemala
2023-11-17 15:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Albany), Albany, NY

Ancient Roman Concrete: Let's build an Empire!
2023-11-17 19:30 (America/Halifax) | Provincial Archives Building, UNB Campus, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5H1, Canada

Rome "Urbs Pensilis": A Hanging City and its Hanging Gardens
2023-11-19 14:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University 303 Paterson, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada

Kelly Goldberg, “Connecting the Diaspora: Archaeology, Memory, and Transnationalism in the 19th Century Transatlantic World”
2024-01-23 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
Kelly Goldberg, University of South Carolina
“Connecting the Diaspora: Archaeology, Memory, and Transnationalism in the 19th Century Transatlantic World”
This event is FREE and open to the public.
January 23, 2023
7:30 p.m. ET
Belk Visual Arts Center 117
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
About the lecture:
The nineteenth century transatlantic slave trade had significant social, political, and economic ramifications for coastal West African environments, and caused reverberations throughout the Atlantic world. As Britain pressured European and American imperial powers to join in anti-slave trading endeavors in the early portion of the nineteenth century, the slave trade was directed to more secluded areas such as the Rio Pongo in coastal Guinea, where imperial and national powers were scarce, and both legal and contraband trade could continue to succeed. In these situations, a newly established class of transnational trading families, with ties to global connections on both sides of the Atlantic, directed the evolution of local social and political landscapes. This talk engages interdisciplinary research to investigate 19th and 20th century sites throughout the Atlantic world, looking at the ways in which material culture, architectural remains, documentary records, and oral historical accounts are used to interpret the complex social dynamics and multiregional origins of a globally oriented African Diaspora.
About the speaker:
Dr. Goldberg, an Instructor for the Honors College at the University of South Carolina, is a historical archaeologist with research specialties in the African Diaspora in both West
Africa and the eastern US, public archaeology and stakeholder relations, and museum studies and management. She has worked on James Island and in Guinea, where she excavated slave trading ports in rural villages of coastal Guinea tried in order to understand how the newly emerging transnational network of nineteenth century trading families manipulated perceptions of identity to maintain power and status during evolution of the abolition of the slave trade, and such manipulations of identity affect contemporary notions of memorialization and heritage. https://goldberg.uofsccreate.org/
This event is FREE and open to the public. Please also support the Archaeological Institute of America, Central Carolinas Society 333, by joining us as a member. https://www.archaeological.org/join/ Thank you for your interest and involvement! See less
Davidson, North Carolina

AIA Archaeology Hour with Jeff Altschul
2024-01-24 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Illinois
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Jeff Altschul presents Cultural Resource Management: What Most Archaeologists Do For A Living.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Today, there are about 12,000 archaeologists working in the US with less than 10 percent of them employed by universities. While university anthropology and archaeology departments are shrinking, the applied sector, known as cultural resource management (CRM) is growing. What accounts for these opposing trends and what, if anything, can we do about it.

Disrupting the Market in Antiquities, Saving Archaeological Heritage for the Future
2024-01-25 20:00 (America/New_York) | Dodd Hall Auditorium (DHA 103), Florida State University, 282 Champions Way, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States

Self-Fashioning in a Roman Province: Gender, Dress, and Difference in the Isiac Funerary Reliefs from Athens
2024-01-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven), New Haven, CT

Dignity and Social Control Through Burial Practices in Ancient Rome
2024-02-01 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Holden Hall 104, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, TX, 79409, United States

Hannibal’s Secret Weapon
2024-02-05 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (ED170), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, 93740, United States

Monumentality in early Etruria: recent discoveries at Poggio Civitate
2024-02-08 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall, Room 109, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Kate Kreindler (University of Virginia). Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology. Free and open to the public.
