Desert Kites – The Enigmatic Traps From The Air And On The Ground
2023-10-12 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | Humanities Centre HC1-L3, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2R3, Canada
Kershaw Lecture

The splendor and misery of the inhabitants of Písek in Bohemia in the early modern era
2023-10-12 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Prague) | Prácheňské muzeum v Písku, Velké nám. 114, Písek, Bohemia, 397 24, Czechia
Lecture in Prachenske Museum in Písek, Bohemia.
Royal town of Písek was founded in 13th century AD on the commercial crossroads. Archaeological findings from the last decades also shed new light on the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the town of Písek in the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries. The Renaissance, and especially the Rudolfinian period, is a sign of conjuncture in all areas of human activity in the Czech lands. On the one hand, there are written sources showing the wealth of the inhabitants of that time, and on the other, there are finds of various imports of precious commodities (like imported majolica from Italy and Catalania, as well the example of porcelaine of Ming dynasty). The vanity of this period is, however, linked to the sharp indebtedness of the municipality of Písek. This is joined by confessional jealousy between Catholics and Protestants, leading to the Thirty Years’ War and the decline of the town as a whole, when its status temporarily changes from a royal city to a vassal city.

Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival
2023-10-12 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Florence County Museum, 111 West Cheves Street, Florence, 29501, United States
The Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival is an annual juried competition, part of the Archaeology Month Celebrations taking place in the United States. It is also an educational event, showcasing the discovery of past cultures gained from ethnological or archaeological research, illustrated by documentary films. These films are of great artistic and scientific quality but may be unknown because of limited access to traditional distribution channels. It also encourages the interest of local filmmakers to apply their art to State history. This in-person festival is free and open to the public, no tickets or pre-registration is required. Festival films are also available virtually for free on the Arkhaios website the second week of October.

Human-Animal-Divine Relationships in Cyprus: a Social Zooarchaeology of Sacrifice
2023-10-12 18:00 (America/New_York) | Campbell Hall 160, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, United States

Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America's Oldest Black Baptist Church
2023-10-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall, Room 109, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg)

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students
2023-10-13 14:00 - 14:45, 2023-10-14 14:00 - 14:45, 2023-10-15 14:00 - 14:45 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00 pm October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply.
*Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024.
Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times, student schedules permitting.
Photo: EJSP Visual | Julieta Sarmiento

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
2023-10-13 18:30 (America/New_York) | Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, 43620, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival
2023-10-13 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-10-14 14:30 - 17:30, 2023-10-15 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | University of Pittsburgh / Frick Fine Arts Building Theater, 650 Schenley Drive, PIttsburgh, PA, 15260, United States
The Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival is an annual juried competition, part of the Archaeology Month Celebrations taking place in the United States. It is also an educational event, showcasing the discovery of past cultures gained from ethnological or archaeological research, illustrated by documentary films. These films are of great artistic and scientific quality but may be unknown because of limited access to traditional distribution channels. It also encourages the interest of local filmmakers to apply their art to State history. This in-person event is free and open to the public, no tickets or pre-registration is required. Festival films are also available virtually for free on the Arkhaios website the second week of October.

Archaeology Day in Pittsburgh
2023-10-14 | Phillips Park, Pittsburgh, PA, 15121, United States
Archaeology Day in Pittsburgh Parks

8th Annual Archaeologists for Autism
2023-10-14 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park and Museum, 2180 Freedom Avenue, Mims, FL, USA, Mims, FL, 32754, United States
The Archaeologists for Autism mission is to unlock the potential of children and young adults with autism and autism related disorders. We aim to provide a chance to experience archaeology in a fun, low stress environment and on their terms.
We are a non-profit 501(c) (3) association consisting of all volunteers and no one receives a salary or other compensation. We depend entirely on donations from the public and all funds go directly to running AFA.
We have partnered with various autism agencies and organizations as well as the archaeology and paleontology communities to run these events each year.
Has the person in your family on the spectrum ever wanted to excavate actual artifacts (some 8,000 years old)? Excavate fossils? Touch and hold actual artifacts? Learn how prehistoric peoples lived? Do they like prehistoric animals? What about playing with clay to make pots? We have all these activities and more!

Boonville Days: Texas Heritage Festival
2023-10-14 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History, 3232 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan, TX, 77802, United States
Join the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History on October 14, 2023, for the 18th annual Boonville Days: Texas Heritage Festival!
To kick off the festival, runners and walkers of all ages are welcome to join in the 15th Annual Buffalo Stampede Half Marathon & 5K Race at 7:30 am starting at the Brazos Center.
After the race, the entire family can enjoy other fun activities highlighting Texas History at this free heritage festival! From 9 am – 4 pm learn about Brazos County’s pioneer history: visit with characters in period costume, enjoy cowboys, reenactors, musicians, dancers, artisans, and much more.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to observe demonstrations of frontier skills and trades including flint-knapping, spinning, weaving, quilting, and blacksmithing.
This is a family-friendly event, so there will be free pony rides, train rides, and other activities for children.
The Museum will be open free with more exhibits, activities, and demonstrators inside!

Boonville Days: Texas Heritage Festival
2023-10-14 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History, 3232 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan, TX, 77802, United States
Join the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History on October 14, 2023, for the 18th annual Boonville Days: Texas Heritage Festival!
From 9 am – 4 pm learn about Brazos County’s pioneer history: visit with characters in period costume, enjoy cowboys, reenactors, musicians, dancers, artisans, and much more.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to observe demonstrations of frontier skills and trades including flint-knapping, spinning, weaving, quilting, and blacksmithing.
This is a family-friendly event, so there will be free pony rides, train rides, and other activities for children. The Museum will be open free with more exhibits, activities, and demonstrators inside!

Local Archaeology Dig Project Training
2023-10-14 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Packard Proving Grounds, 49965 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby Township, MI, 48317, United States
The Packard Proving Grounds, a National Registered Historic Site, will host an archaeological orientation/training session. Participants will learn how to do an archaeological assessment of an area before participating in an actual dig.
Anyone interested in joining the team, participating in a “dig,” or simply looking to learn more about an archaeological assessment is welcome to attend.
PPG members: $15; non-members: $20

Pravěká Mohelnice v archeologické laboratoři
2023-10-14 10:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Prague) | Pravěká Mohelnice v archeologické laboratoři, Na Hradě 5, Olomouc, 77900, Czechia
Program:
10,00 – 10,45 hod Archeologický výzkum v mohelnické štěrkovně a zpracování jeho movitých – přednáška
11,00 – 13,00 hod Výstava vybraných pravěkých nálezů z mohelnické štěrkovny a prohlídka pracoviště sekce archeologie KHI FF UP
11,00 – 13,00 hod Workshop archeologické práce – možnost vyzkoušet si základní práci s movitým archeologickým materiálem – třídění, mytí, kompletace, lepení, fyzická a počítačová evidence (zájemci o účast na workshopu se hlásí na mail: dominika.vaclavikova01@upol.cz – omezená kapacita 20 míst)

ArcheOlympics
2023-10-14 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | WRI Research Station, 1 Rockefeller Dr, Morrilton, Arkansas, 72110, United States
Join us for a day of archeology themed games and competitions to show off your knowledge of Arkansas archeology, archeological field and lab work, and archeological ethics. There is an archeology obstacle course, spear throwing with an atlatl, and a trivia contest. Form teams of 4-6 archeoletes, register, and join us on Oct 14th! Lunch will be provided by the Arkansas Archeological Society. More info here: https://archeology.uark.edu/archeolympics-2023/

IAD: Community Archaeology Day in Providence, RI
2023-10-14 11:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 02912, United States
To celebrate International Archaeology Day, join the AIA Narragansett Society for a fun Saturday full of archaeological activities!
– In Rhode Island Hall on the Main Green of Brown University, come see ancient coins from Greece and Rome up close! Touch ancient animal bones! Examine and draw Persian and Roman ceramics, prehistoric tools, precious metals, and other artifacts from thousands of years ago – coached by experts! And talk with Brown’s archaeologists about their fieldwork all over the world! Family friendly, free and open to the public.
– On the lawn in front of List Art Building (64 College Street), come be part of an active archaeological excavation! Students from ARCH 1900: The Archaeology of College Hill will be digging the site of a 19th century home and processing artifacts from that household. Stop by any time between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm to see what artifacts students are discovering or even try your hand at digging. Family friendly, free and open to the public.

DigIt!
2023-10-14 11:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 South Kilgo Cir NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, United States
Archeology-centered festival held at Emory University that celebrates International Archeology Day with an exciting program of talks by Emory researchers and hands-on activities. Museum galleries will be open to participants throughout the day. Free lunch is provided to guests who plan to attend a good part of the day, while supplies last.

Western Massachusetts Society IAD Fair
2023-10-14 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bromery Arts Plaza, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States
In honor of International Archaeology Day, please join us for an archaeology fair on Saturday, October 14, 12:00-3:00 pm. Visit activity tables to learn about the past: write your name in ancient scripts, make a curse tablet, hold replicas of ancient vases and coins, and more! Browse the book sale of donated Classics and archaeology books and hear about local archaeological remains at the Quabbin Reservoir.

International Archaeology Day Fair Hosted by the Western Massachusetts Society of the AIA
2023-10-14 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Hagis mall – UMass, 151 Presidents Dr, Amherst, MA, 01002, United States
Join us to learn more about archaeology!
Learn about archaeological projects run by Western MA archaeologists
Take a Minecraft tour of the site of Malthi, Greece
Hands-on crafts and activities for kids (write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and Linear B, make your own Roman mosaic, and more!)
See what portions of the Quabbin look like through LiDAR
See replica Roman coins and Greek vases up close, and learn what they can tell us about the past

Discover Archaeology
2023-10-14 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Phillips Recreation Center at Phillips Park, 201 Parkfield St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15210, United States
Archaeology Month Event at Phillips Recreation Center at Phillips Park. The grounds were once the site of Southern Amusement Park and also has evidence of Native American habitation. There will be archaeology exhibits, demonstrations, lectures, and interactive displays. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or pre-registration is required.

What Has the PPG Archaeology Team Found?
2023-10-14 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Packard Proving Grounds, 49965 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby Township, MI, 48317, United States
The Packard Proving Grounds, a national Registered Historic Site, will offer a lecture on the findings of this year’s dig season. Learn where we worked, what was found, future plans, and see some of the artifacts, visit the site, and learn their history.
PPG members: free; non-members: $5

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students
2023-10-15 11:00 - 11:45 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Sundays at 11:00 am October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply. Free museum admission for Massachusetts residents every Sunday morning (year-round) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Proof of residency required. Free museum admission is not available to commercial groups.
*Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024.
Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.
Photo: EJSP Visual | Julieta Sarmiento

Packard Proving Grounds Open House
2023-10-15 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Packard Proving Grounds, 49965 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby Township, MI, 48317, United States
As part of the annual Packard Proving Grounds, a nationally registered Historic Site, the PPG archaeology team will showcase their excavation sties and the artifacts found. Those attending this free event will also be able to tour the grounds and buildings and view the many Packard’s and other cars on display.

The Upper Egyptian Temple of Edfu - Its Architecture as an Image of the World
2023-10-15 13:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | WA
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California and Orange County chapters, together with the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Dr. Dieter Kurth, Prof-Dr. Emeritus, Hamburg University:
“The Upper Egyptian Temple of Edfu – Its Architecture as an Image of the World”
Sunday, October 15, 2023, 1:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PlarekpZQYWPSTj1GdyGYg
* After registering, you will receive an email invitation containing a link or button. Save the email, because you will click on that link or button to join the meeting when it starts. ARCE Northern California members should note that this Zoom meeting will be hosted by the Orange County chapter of ARCE, and will start at 1:30 PM instead of the usual 3 PM.
* If you haven’t already installed Zoom, we recommend that you download and install the Zoom program (app) well before you try to join the meeting. There IS an option to use your web browser to join the meeting instead of the Zoom program, but the browser interface is limited and depends greatly on what browser and what operating system you’re using.
* For tutorials on how to use Zoom, go to https://learn-zoom.us/show-me. In particular, “Joining a Meeting” should show you what you need to do to join this lecture.
If you have any questions before you register, please send email to arcencZoom@gmail.com.
About the Lecture:
Since the early days of Egyptology it has been a commonplace that the Egyptian temple was conceived and decorated by the ancient Egyptians as an image of the world. Every visitor of any Egyptian temple would agree at once after a look at the ceiling covered with yellow stars on blue field and after a look at the columns with the floral design of their capitals. This is also true for the temple of Edfu.
The impression, however, that the temple was imagined to be an image of the world is not only gained by the outer appearance of the building and its decoration, which strike the eye and cannot be unnoticed.
There are several other elements of the temple’s architecture and decoration which don’t catch the visitor’s eye immediately because they need some previous knowledge and some elucidation. This concerns the texts in particular.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Dieter Kurth, Prof-Dr Emeritus of Hamburg Univ, is the director of the Edfu Project, which he founded in 1985 with the aim of translating all the hieroglyphic inscriptions in the Temple of Edfu. From 1981 to 1982 he was a professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg, acting for Prof Jan Assmann, and from 1982 until his retirement in 2007 he was professor of Egyptology at the University of Hamburg.
He studied pedagogics in Bonn from 1962 until 1965. Afterwards, until 1967, he worked as a teacher at a primary school and a secondary school in Cologne, finally teaching technical English at a vocational school. From 1968 until 1975 he studied Egyptology (main subject), Classical Archaeology, Ancient Oriental Languages and Prehistory at the University of Cologne. After the promotion (PhD) he habilitated in the 1980s (venia legendi in Egyptology). In the years 2000 and 2004/5 he taught Egyptology as a visiting professor at the Egyptian Universities of Cairo (Ain Shams) and Qena (New Valley).

International Archaeology Day Coloring Poster at ENMU
2023-10-16 10:00 - 2023-10-20 14:00 (America/Denver) | Eastern New Mexico University Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology, Art and Anthropology Building, Portales, NM, 88130, United States
A large coloring poster featuring a variety of archaeological items, specially designed for IAD, will be set out in our building’s student lounge. Students will be able to take a break and color on the poster October 16-20. After that, the completed poster will be hung in the Eastern New Mexico Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology. Images will also be shared on social media and in our department newsletter.

Preservation and Archaeology in Michigan
2023-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Packard Proving Grounds, 49965 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby Township, MI, 48317, United States
Join Sarah Surface-Evans, senior Archaeologist with the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, as she discusses Michigan ‘s rich archaeological history that spans more than 14,000 years and includes 25,000 sites. Learn about the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and Federal laws that protect our archaeological heritage. In this talk, we will discuss the SHPO Archeology Program and how you can be a good steward of Michigan Archaeology.
Free for PPG members; non-members: $5
