Discover the ancient peoples who were defined by the arid landscape of what is now Joshua Tree National Park. Daniel McCarthy will discuss how archaeologists study human culture through material remains and environmental landscapes. The class will begin with an archaeological overview including an exclusive visit to see the artifacts and archival collections at Joshua […]
Arthur Spiess of MHPC will kick things off with a talk concerning the significance of Maine’s varied archaeology, recording archaeological sites and the contributions of Maine's avocational archaeologists. If you have an artifact collection, please bring it along to share. We will have tables set up for people to lay out artifacts including collections provided […]
The Middlesex Canal Association will host a talk by Robert Thorson, the author of The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau's River Years. His 2018 talk on Thoreau's river years is on video in the Internet Archive. His October 27 talk will be about the river, the Billerica dam and Thoreau, timely as the US National Oceanic […]
Since 2001 the North Kharga Oasis-Darb Ain Amur Survey team has been exploring the sandy routes connecting Kharga oasis to Dakhla oasis and beyond. In the course of this survey, our team has discovered and recorded numerous lonely rock sites that were used in antiquity as camping spots and stopovers for desert travelers. The epigraphic […]
On this day archaeologists from our organization, in collaboration with the Archaeology Institute of the University of Tehran and the Student Society of the University of Tehran, invite people to join them with arms wide open. Through a photo exhibition, live music, theatrical presentations, and a friendly discussion/lecture we'll cover more than 80 years of […]
Student Reports on the Service Learning Archaeological Excavation during summer 2019 at the Sappington House Site. Young adults report on the field work and insights gained from the summer of 2019 historic site excavation at the Thomas Sappington House.
Lecture by Dr. Patrick Mullins (University of Pittsburgh) One need not look further than the present political discourse on border security in the United States to appreciate the complex, ambiguous, and often volatile nature of frontiers and borders. To understand the present or future of such borderlands, we need to explore their unique histories and […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Kate Liszka, California State University, San Bernardino: Digging Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Mines Sunday, November 10, 3 pm Room 20 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley Campus (Near the intersection of […]
The Old Copper Culture (4000-1000 B.C.) stands out as a unique event in archaeologists’ global understanding of ancient metallurgy—here, copper metallurgy developed, but then “disappeared”. For over three millennia, Archaic hunter-gatherers around the North American Great Lakes made utilitarian implements out of copper, only for these items to decline in prominence during the Archaic to […]
Please join the AIA Baltimore Society for the Henry T. Rowell lecture. Dr. Christina Salowey (Hollins University) will deliver a lecture entitled "Learning from Gaia: Nature, Myth, Archaeology and the Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean."
Lecturer: Jeffrey S. Brzezinski, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract: The end of the Formative Period (1800 BCE - 250 CE) in Mesoamerica witnessed significant changes in the social and political organization of many of the region is complex societies. Archaeological research has documented shifting patterns in interregional interaction, particularly through the trade of goods […]
Johnathan Hardy, “Wēh-Ardašīr and the Ruins of Qasr bint al-Qadi: Christian Architectural Adaptation in the Sasanian Heartland,” in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul MN 55105 Using previously unpublished site plans and field notes from the 1929/1930 German Oriental Society […]
