Donate
Archaeological
Institute of America

Events

Lecture

  1. Events
  2. Lecture

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

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 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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

“Women and Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean”

Jepson Hall, Room 109 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, United States

Lecture by Dr. Nadhira Hill (Assistant Professor of Classics and Director of Archaeological Studies, Randolph-Macon College)

Drawing on History: Creating the Graphic Adaptation of 1177 BC

George Washington University, Funger Hall 103 2201 G St NW, Washington, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

How does a cartoonist adapt a scholarly work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline’s 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? Prof. Eric H. Cline and award-winning illustrator Glynnis Fawkes describe the process of interpreting Eric’s text in comics. This meant making historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, as well as imagining characters for whom we have no […]

Children in Context: How Mortuary Contexts Inform our Understanding of the Past

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Lecture by Dr. Erin Bornemann, Director of Information Management for the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. The mortuary record affords archaeologists a unique snapshot in time and space, providing further information surrounding the larger social context of death and burial in archaeological contexts that are often not discernible from other non-burial settings. Studies […]

Lecture: Zuni Region in the Post-Chacoan Era.

Pecos Trail Café 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Lecture by Keith Kintigh (Arizona State University). The Chaco Era has received a tremendous amount of archaeological consideration over the last 45 years. Far less attention has been paid to understanding the organization of northern Southwestern societies following the collapse of Chaco--a time was once viewed as a dark age, a time of cultural backsliding. […]

Beyond the stone giants: an isotopic perspective on life and death of the people buried at Mont’e Prama

Davidson College 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, United States

November 19, 2024 7:30 p.m. ET Davidson College Belk Visual Arts Center 117 Free and open to the public Luca Lai, “Beyond the stone giants: an isotopic perspective on life and death of the people buried at Mont’e Prama” About the lecture: The accidental 1974 discovery of tens of fragmentary statues at Mont’e Prama, in […]

Archaeological Institute of America

Back to Top

Copyright © 2024, Archaeological Institute of America. All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy | Yelling Mule - Boston Web Design