Join the MAS Northeast/Gene Winter Chapter for its monthly free lectures by experts in archaeology and history. We meet at the historic R.S. Peabody Institute on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover on the third Tuesday of the month from September to May. There will be no meeting in November. Lectures are free and […]
Dr. Carole Nash of James Madison University will present a free lecture to the public. Public Archaeology refers to those aspects of the broad field of archaeology that relate to the public interest. Public archaeologists investigate the outcomes of the various innovative ways we can engage the public in archaeological research, both within archaeology and […]
Stone Lecture Dinner at 5:30 PM
While most of our knowledge in paleoanthropology comes from studying fossils of adult individuals, fossil children also have unique stories to tell. Join Dr. Zeray Alemseged to learn how the discovery of an almost complete skeleton of a juvenile early human ancestor has helped scientists answer some of the most pressing questions about human evolution.
The Picts are a ‘Lost people of Europe’ and a past society of enduring public fascination. First mentioned in late Roman writings as a collection of troublesome social groupings north of the Roman frontier, the Picts went on to dominate northern and eastern Scotland until late first millennium AD. The emergence of the Pictish kingdoms […]
Presented by Dr. Brian Buchanan The island of Great Britain witnessed dramatic changes between the 4th and 9th centuries CE due to the withdrawal of Roman authority, climatic change, migration, and cultural transmission of cultural and religious identities. This was particularly true in central Britain along the modern Anglo-Scottish border, which in the beginning of […]
Lectures by Kristi Nichols and Clint McKenzie. Join local archeologists for this evening lecture about recent excavations in San Antonio. Clint McKenzie (Center for Archeological Research, UTSA) and Kristi Nichols (Archeologist and Collections Manager, The Alamo) will speak about their archeological findings. Learn about the history of our city through material remains
Dr. Sarah Neusius, Retired Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Research Associate in Anthropology at CMNH, will present the program Forest, Field, and River: Use of Animals by Monongahela People on Wednesday, October 16th at Lutherlyn, 500 Lutherlyn Lane, Butler, PA 16001.The social half hour starts at 6:30 p.m. and the […]
Eric Johnson, Lecturer in the University of Massachusetts/Amherst Anthropology Department, provides a retrospective on the 1980 laboratory analysis and results from the excavation of this remarkable site in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He discusses the identification of animals now or recently extinct in Massachusetts, how the site was used as a winter home 4,000 years ago, and […]
