In ancient Greece, as today, insults ranged from playful mockery to serious affronts. This talk explores the various social and cultural roles played by insults in classical Athens, including obscene banter at festivals, satire on the comic stage, invective in the courtroom, forbidden slanderous speech, and violent attacks on other people’s honor.
Tourists are attracted to Crete for the splendours of Minoan Knossos and other Bronze Age sites. The architecture of Roma Crete is as substantial as the earlier periods and the importance of Crete to the Roman Empire rivals the earlier periods. Dr Harrison looks at the key sites but also presents material from sites tourists […]
In the first half, probably the second quarter, of the sixth century B.C.E., a ship sank off the coast of Pabuç Burnu, Turkey, southeast of Bodrum or ancient Halikarnassos. Excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the vessel’s preserved cargo and hull remains provide evidence for the development of production and exchange systems in the […]
Dr. Emily Hammer discussed how declassified military imagery from planes and satellites have played an important role in landscape and environmental archaeology. The identification of ancient sites, fortifications, road networks, and irrigation networks in modern satellite images, like those viewable in Google Earth, is limited by the degree to which these features have survived the […]
How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs A Beginner’s Guide Four Tuesdays: March 9, 16, 23 and 30 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm With Dr. Simon Martin This four-part, online course will explain the fundamentals of how ancient Maya glyphs work and how they were first deciphered. Maya script was in use from at least 300 BCE […]
"The lecture will provide a general introduction to the site of Hasanlu, Iran, and the way archaeological evidence can be used to create a narrative about the site's last day and destruction. The last day and destruction includes the deaths of hundreds of residents and their attackers, and provides insight into the importance of emotion—for […]
Don't miss our second archaeology webinar of 2021! Egyptologist Vanessa Davies (The Nile Valley Collective) will be talking about the contribution of scholars of African descent in the early 20th-century development of Egyptology in a talk titled "A 'Culture Distinctly African': Intellectuals of African Descent and Egyptology." Long before Egyptology was ever taught as a […]
Lecture by Dr. Hilary Becker, Binghamton University Greek and Roman sources help us to visualize Etruscan armies fighting against the Romans, but since no Etruscan literary testimony or histories has survived, little is known about the Etruscan military. A group of approximately 125 bronze helmets of Negau type were buried in a votive deposit outside […]
Join us for this semester’s Archaeology Lecture: “Shopping for Artists’ Materials in Ancient Rome: Pigment Shops, Pigments, and Product Choice” delivered by Dr. Hilary Becker of Binghamton University. This lecture is open to the public and will be hosted on Zoom: https://monmouthcollege.zoom.us/j/97688738842 Lecture summary: The discovery of the only known pigment shop in ancient Rome […]
People of the Dawnland: Indigenous presence at Puddle Dock Alix Martin and Anne Jennison, Strawberry Banke Looking at archaeological evidence of Indigenous presence at Puddle Dock, along with other objects to determine how archaeological artifacts and research can be used alongside other lines of evidence for public education, highlighting the importance of our collaborative approach. […]
