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Disability accommodations in ancient Greece

WEBINAR (Central Illinois 1) Urbana, IL

Young Lecture Please contact Jane Goldberg at jgoldber@illinois.edu for information on joining this online lecture.

Long lost lives of forgotten New Yorkers at Dead Horse Bay

Hofstra University, Breslin Hall 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, United States

A lecture by Dr. Robin Nagle, Anthropologist-in-Residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, and Clinical Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at NYU.

The Hoover Fakes: How Defrauding a Presidential Library Exposed the Brazen Sale of Forged Antiquities (Dr. Bjorn Anderson and Erin Daly)

805 Southlawn Drive 805 Southlawn Drive, Iowa City, IA

Join the Iowa Society of the AIA for our October International Archaeology Day virtual lecture! "The Hoover Fakes: How Defrauding a Presidential Library Exposed the Brazen Sale of Forged Antiquities" In April 2019, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum cancelled a planned exhibition, Written in Stone: The Treasures of Eden and The Rosetta Stone, […]

Did We Evolve to Exercise? (Free Virtual Lecture)

Daniel Lieberman, Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Exercise is a paradox: everyone knows it is healthy, but most of us struggle to do it. Further, as technology and machines increasingly replace human labor, fewer people are getting enough exercise. In this talk, Daniel Lieberman will […]

Archaeology Abridged: Indian Cuisine, Past and Present

Join us for this Archaeology Abridged talk by Monica Smith. Today, Indian cuisine is a global favorite, anchored through a diaspora of restaurants in small towns and urban centers alike. But did you know that a hankering for the flavors of the subcontinent goes back thousands of years? The Romans imported pepper from India by […]

How Beer Made Kings in Early Egypt (Free Virtual Lecture)

Matthew Douglas Adams, Director, Abydos Archaeology; Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University The remains of a 5000-year-old brewery found in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos are providing insights into the relationship between large-scale beer production and the development of kingship in Egypt. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Abydos brewery produced […]

Hopewellians in a Non-Hopewellian World: The Rise of Elaborate Ceremonialism and Long Range Interaction in Precontact Northern Ohio

Evidence of precontact Native American ceremonialism is generally rare in northern Ohio. Only a few isolated mound sites, such as Esch in northcentral Ohio, were thought to have actively participated in the Hopewell Interaction Sphere of southern Ohio. More recent work, however, has identified additional localities in northern Ohio that produce classic Interaction Sphere artifacts […]