Capidava was a Roman and Byzantine fort on the Lower Danube. Although the object of extensive archaeological study, the living conditions of the soldiers stationed there in the 6th and the 11th century have never been examined in a detailed, comparative mode. In both centuries, the population inside the fort included both women and children, […]
Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lectures Time TBA
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
Lecturer: Dr. Eleni Bozia Associate Professor, Department of Classics Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group University of Florida Archaeology, epigraphy, and heritage sites point to and recall the past, and reasonably so. People usually turn to them for Instagram photos or contemplate on them because they are told that "history may not repeat itself, […]
The AIA Helene J. Kantor Memorial Lecture (link: https://www.archaeological.org/endowment/the-helene-j-kantor-memorial-lecture/) Professor Bruce Routledge (University of Liverpool) Tell Dhiban is a large mound in central Jordan occupied since 3000 BCE. It is […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Register for Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/6xRhkuW-ScGmMN4GpWaPKA
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 […]
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 […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
Interested 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 well as the Classics, Archaeology, and Religion (CAR) Department welcome Dr. Anne Duray for her lecture “Late Victorian Race Science and its Legacies in Aegean […]
Lecturer: 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: La Venta on Mexico’s southern Gulf coast, an area of swamps and tropical forest. These finds produced an “ecstatic” reaction in the world of archaeology […]
