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  • Archaeology of the Oyo Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period

    Zoom
    Virtual Event

    Between ca. 1650 and 2800, the Oyo Empire was the largest political formation in West Africa, south of the River Niger. Over the past twenty years, Akin Ogundiran has conducted archaeological research in the capital, colonies, and provinces of the empire to understand the strategies of Oyo expansion and the everyday lives of different segments […]

  • AIA Talk by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard: How Winning a Woman of Study Can Be in Early American Egyptology

    Swallow Hall 101, University of Missouri 101 Swallow Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States

    As Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury finished their lecture tour of the United States in 1891, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote: “Miss Edwards’ visit will do a great deal of good in teaching the men of America how learned and how winning a woman of study can be and in teaching the women of America […]

  • Gods, Warriors, and Stars: A Close Relationship in Chichén Itzá

    Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    María Teresa Uriarte Castañeda, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Chichén Itzá—a World Heritage Site—is the most important archaeological record of the fusion between Maya and the so-called Toltec civilizations in the Yucatan Peninsula. The site’s monuments, dating to the 10th–15th centuries, showcase both Maya and foreign architectural elements, and […]

  • Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

    Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

    Thurman J. White Forum Building 1704 Asp Ave, Norman, OK, United States

    Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. federal government engaged in a systematic project of conquest through civilization. A key facet of this imperial endeavor by the imposition of Western forms of architecture onto Indigenous landscapes, including day and boarding schools. These concrete structures were accompanied by assimilationist policies that […]

  • Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

    Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

    Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. federal government engaged in a systematic project of conquest through civilization. A key facet of this imperial endeavor by the imposition of Western forms of architecture onto Indigenous landscapes, including day and boarding schools. These concrete structures were accompanied by assimilationist policies that […]

  • The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and World Heritage

    Siegal Lifelong Learning Auditorium, Landmark Centre 25700 Science Park Dr #100, Beachwood, United States

    Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are enormous earthen enclosures, many in precise geometric shapes, that were built 2,000 years ago by Native Americans known today as the Hopewell. Their creators designed the earthworks as places of ceremony, connecting them to the cosmos by aligning them with carefully observed movements of the moon and sun, including those […]

  • “Hercules and Holy Water” (Professor Ann Glennie)

    College of the Holy Cross, Smith Labs 154 (Fauci Integrated Science Complex) College Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

    While in the common imagination, Hercules might be most well known for his heroic deeds and feats of strength, across the ancient Mediterranean he was also a deity closely associated with fresh water. In one of his canonical labors in Greece, he dug canals to redirect the Alpheus and Peneus rivers to clean out the […]

  • New Hampshire Archeological Society Annual Meeting

    Manchester Community College - Student Union 1066 Front St, Manchester, NH, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Zoom options available Speakers will include: William Griswold, Ph.D., retired National Park Service (NPS) archeologist. Owner of Hadley Woods Archaeological Services, LLC in Nashua, NH.. Reconstructing the Beginning of the second Revolutionary War battle of Saratoga Mark Doperalski, NH State Archaeologist, Updates from SCRAP Work at Mollidgewock State Park Kimberly Kulesza, Behavioral & Social Science […]

  • When Democracies Vote to Overthrow Themselves: Lessons from Classical Athens.

    John Cabot University - Room F.G.4 @ Frohring Campus Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio, Roma, Lazio, Italy

    Democracy most often ends not with a violent spasm, but with a vote. Oligarchic challengers leverage their small numbers to coordinate dis-informing campaigns, hoping that enough citizens will withhold their support for democratic rule. Already in the fifth- and fourth-centuries BCE, Greek democracies experimented with strategies to overcome these problems, such as the Solonian law […]

  • No Ordinary Dogs: Canine Behavior in Theban Tombs

    Penn Museum 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In-person lecture Saturday, November 9, 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Classroom 2 Speaker: Dr. Chelsea Kaufman Title: No Ordinary Dogs: Canine Behavior in Theban Tombs Abstract: The wall scenes of the rock-cut Theban tombs of the New Kingdom are filled with richly painted imagery that captures the lives and beliefs of the people who built […]

  • Harry’s Bracelet: a Canadian battlefield archaeology case study

    Harry’s Bracelet: a Canadian battlefield archaeology case study

    University of Ottawa Desmarais Bldg., DMS 1110 Laurier Avenue East 55, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    A bracelet found in a slit trench in Normandy in 2014 led to the identification of Harry Edward Fox, a Canadian Gunner who fought during the Second World War and returned to Canada. Denis Renaud identified this soldier in 2017 and connected with his family. Harry passed away in 2005. This discovery is a case […]

  • Age of Wolf and Wind: The Viking World and the Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic

    Siegal Lifelong Learning Auditorium, Landmark Centre 25700 Science Park Dr #100, Beachwood, United States

    The Vikings continue to fascinate us because their compelling stories connect with universal human desires for exploration and adventure. In Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages through the Viking World, Dr. Davide Zori (Baylor University) argues that recent advances in excavation and archaeological science, coupled with a re-evaluation of oral traditions and written sources, inspire […]