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  • The (Beautiful) Men and Women of Jaina Figurines

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    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 […]

  • “Late Victorian Race Science and its Legacies in Aegean Archaeology”

    Swallow Hall, Room 101 507 South 9th Street, Columbia, MO, United States

    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 […]

  • 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 States

    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 […]

  • 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 States

    Wednesday 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, Recent Discoveries at the Anubis-Mountain Royal Necropolis, Abydos

  • 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 States

    Lecturer: 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 archaeologists has made considerable strides toward identifying sites visited by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto’s army in the American Southeast (A.D. 1539-1543). In addition to […]

  • 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 States

    Lecture 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 societies and the emergence of early states. He has over 30 years of experience conducting archaeological fieldwork and developing museum exhibitions for the Field Museum. […]

  • 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 States

    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 a Canaanite in the southern Levant. This lecture will provide a tour of the extraordinary development of the alphabet from its beginnings to its eventual […]

  • Petra’s Forgotten Past

    Buchanan A202, Unversity of British Columbia 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship