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Archaeology @ UBC

Borden Room, Laboratory of Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Come join us as faculty and graduate students from the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies share their exciting work, including Caroline Arbuckle (ancient Egypt); Hector Williams (UBC excavations at Stymphalos); and Kevin Fisher (digital archaeology). You'll get a close-up look at the Department's collections of ancient coins and epigraphic squeezes as well […]

The Wildcat Pond Site Complex

Memorial Hall, 3rd Floor 30 School Street, Milford, MA, United States

Listen to archaeologist Kristen Heitert give an illustrated talk on a multi-year archaeological investigation which uncovered house foundations, field systems, abandoned roads, and sawmill ruins associated with the former "Wildcat" neighborhood of Milford. This neighborhood began as farming community in the eighteenth century and later shifted focus to the quarrying industry that dominated nineteenth-century Milford. […]

Archaeology of the Red Clay Creek Floodplain

Auburn Valley State Park 3000 Creek Road, Yorklyn, DE, United States

Meet an archaeologist from Dovetail Cultural Resources Group who worked at the park and hear what they learned during their excavation.

The History of Archaeology in Charlotte County: a Video Documentary

Singer Hall, room 151 7 Macaulay Lane, UNB Campus, Fredericton, NB, Canada

September - October 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of two salient episodes in the archaeology of Charlotte County: the investigation of the Simpson's Farm shell-bearing site at Oak Bay by Spencer F. Baird & George A. Boardman, and the destruction of portions of the coastal archaeological record of the county by the impact of the […]

Demons in the Dust

Western Gateway Heritage State Park, Visitors Museum, Building 4 115 State Street, North Adams, MA, United States

The season of the witch is a perfect time to investigate archaeology's many unearthed, ancient treasures. Among them are symbols, statues, monuments, and words that were thought to harness great powers. Some of those powers were thought to be dangerous to humanity.

The Mystery of the “White Walls”: New discoveries at Memphis by Dr. Galina Belova

UPenn Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

As part of the Russian Egyptological Institute program, a Russian team has been working since 2002 at Kom Tuman, a site near Mit Rahina where the well-known Temple of Ptah is located. The mission has been working at the Palace of Apries, a Persian era palace, where excavations have revealed a nearly continuous, 12 metre […]

Delaware Humanities Series Lecture

Auburn Valley State Park 3000 Creek Road, Yorklyn, DE, United States

Archaeologist Cara Blume's presentation of "The People Who Stayed Behind: A History of the Indian People of Delaware, 1630-2008"

Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and other Strange Sites in North America

Breed Memorial Hall, Tufts University 51 Winthrop Street, Medford, MA, United States

The inaugural Peabody Lecture in Archaeology and Education Join Central Connecticut State University Professor of Anthropology Ken Feder for an entertaining and eye opening tour of sites that have inspired some of the strangest, and most dangerous, ideas about North American archaeology. From aliens, dragons, giants, and trans-Atlantic visitors, Feder explains why these amusing and […]

International Archaeology Day Gala

Sedona Poco Diablo Resort 1752 AZ-179, Sedona, AZ, United States

This is an annual gala to mark International Archaeology Day and features a talk by British-born and Cambridge University educated Brian Fagan, widely regarded as the world’s leading archaeological writer with an international reputation as an author of influential books about major issues such as ancient climate change, the relationship between humans and water, past […]

The Synagogue in the New Testament: A New Frontier in Biblical Archeology

Upper House 365 East Campus Mall, Suite 200, Madison, WI, United States

What role did synagogues play in the Gospel narrative of Jesus' life and ministry? Dr. Jordan Ryan of Wheaton College (IL) has sought to open new avenues for interpretation and understanding of who Jesus was, as well as what he taught and how he lived, through a better understanding of one of the primary settings […]