The Archaeology of “Race” in the Roman Empire: Aethiopians in the Imperial Imagination
2022-02-23 18:00 (America/New_York) | Leggett 537, Harold G. Leggett Building, Randolph College, 2500 Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, 24503, United States

Roman Baths Here, There, and Everywhere
2022-02-24 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Church Lecture

POSTPONED--Shopping for artists’ materials in ancient Rome: pigment shops, pigments, and product choice
2022-02-24 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Texas Tech University, Room TBA, Lubbock, TX, 79410, United States
This event is postponed until a later date this spring. New date to come!

The Art of Wine Flinging: Kylix and Kottabos at the Greek Symposium
2022-02-24 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Boegehold Lecture

On the Literacy and Education of Ancient Egyptian Artists (Free Virtual Lecture)
2022-02-24 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Dimitri Laboury, Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art History, Archaeology, History and History of Religions; Research Director, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research in Ancient Egyptian Art History and Archaeology; Director of the Ancient Egyptian Art Historical Research Unit, University of Liège, Belgium
One of the salient characteristics of ancient Egypt undoubtedly is its hieroglyphic script. The “code” to decipher this writing system was cracked precisely two hundred years ago, in 1822, by the brilliant French linguist Jean-François Champollion—the founding father of Egyptology. The complexity of Egyptian hieroglyphs resulted in a low literacy rate among the Pharaonic population. In this lecture, Dimitri Laboury will address the level(s) of literacy and scholarly education among the makers of the countless hieroglyphic monuments that help make ancient Egypt so famous. Was every ancient Egyptian artist capable of reading and writing hieroglyphs? And in that society, who were the real experts in hieroglyphic writing?
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Excavations at 63 ½ Coming St.: Exploring an evolving urban African-American landscape in Charleston
2022-02-24 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY
The discoverers of one of Archaeology magazine’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021, the slave tag found at 63 ½ Coming St. in Charleston, SC, discuss the development and evolution of the urban landscape of Charleston, with a particular emphasis on evidence for African-American life and culture in 19th c. Charleston.
Speakers: James Newhard, Grant Gilmore, and Scott Harris (College of Charleston)
Feb. 24, 7-8 pm EST; virtual lecture via Zoom. Register in advance: https://cofc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvce2tqTgpH90jeku3XJhQOVt2r65GMZEb

Sensing the Past: Sensory Experiences in Ancient Mesopotamia (a 4-D Presentation)
2022-02-25 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Manton Lecture

The Archaeology of Cheese: Cattle, Strainers, Chemistry, and Genes
2022-02-26 13:00 (America/Denver) | TBA (Denver 1), Denver, CO, United States

Behind-the-Screens with Sarah Clunis (Free for HMSC Members)
2022-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Sarah Anita Clunis, Director of Academic Partnerships and Curator of African Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Located in the Kasaï Oriental Province along the Sankuru River in the central part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Kuba identify themselves as the children of Woot and the tale of their origins is often reenacted in masquerades for the royal Kuba court. The focus of this Black History Month Behind-the-Screens is a conversation with Peabody Curator of African Collections, Sarah Clunis, about three royal Kuba masks—housed at Harvard’s Peabody Museum—that as a triad re-enact the founding of the Kuba kingdom and highlight the significance of gender and status in Kuba political systems and Kuba life.
Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Not a member of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture? Become a member today so you can join us on February 28th! Visit us at https://hmsc.harvard.edu/membership

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2022-02-28 19:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Anawalt Lecture

In the Footsteps of Roman Soldiers: Excavations at Vindolanda and the Archaeological Landscape of Hadrian’s Wall
2022-03-01 19:30 (America/Chicago) | NY

“In the Footsteps of Roman Soldiers: Excavations at Vindolanda and the Archaeological Landscape of Hadrian’s Wall”
2022-03-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | NY
In the past few decades the Roman fort at Vindolanda has had some of the most extraordinary finds from the northern frontier of the Roman Empire that have truly changed our understanding of life in the Roman army. The site lies near Hadrian’s Wall in a remote countryside in Northumberland, England and was part of the original frontier line in this location in the late first century CE. Decades of excavation at the site have given us an extraordinary view into the lives of soldiers living in this frontier region. Greene has excavated at Vindolanda since 2002, directing trenches in new areas of the site for several years, and will give a presentation focusing on the recent excavations and new hypotheses from this work. Highlights of the presentation concentrate on the extraordinary finds from the site, including Roman shoes, numerous inscriptions and artifacts, as well as the unparalleled corpus of writing tablets (letters and military records), to reveal what life was like on the edge of the Roman empire and how the site has changed many accepted views of life in the Roman army.
Speaker: Elizabeth Greene, University of Western Ontario
To join the virtual meeting, go to https://knox-edu.zoom.us/j/89207455252?pwd=[REDACTED]

Synoikismos: Formation and Forms of Ancient Greek Cities
2022-03-02 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Bryant Hall 209, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, United States

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2022-03-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Caskey Lecture

"The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The Role of Wives, Children and Families in Roman Military Communities" Elizabeth M. Greene
2022-03-02 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | NY
Elizabeth M. Greene, Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology, University of Western Ontario (egreene2@uwo.ca)
Research over the past few decades has shown quite clearly that women and children were part of life in the Roman army far more than had ever been considered before. The evidence and spatial patterning of material within and outside Roman forts makes this clear, but still research on the social role of these individuals lags behind. This presentation concentrates on Dr. Greene’s current research into this aspect of the Roman army, considering the evidence that illuminates the varied roles of non-combatants within these somewhat unique settlements. The presentation highlights the very different realities for the wives and children of officers and the family members of, for instance, a foot soldier, who was paid far less and was not legally allowed to contract a marriage while serving. This lecture follows on past talks I have given that present the archaeological evidence for the presence of women at Vindolanda and pushes the argument toward women’s social roles within military communities and the intersectional identities of those living in the Roman provinces and in military communities on the frontiers.

Ramesside Royal Women’s Tombs, the Book of the Dead, and the Deir el-Medina Iconographic Tradition
2022-03-03 17:30 (America/New_York) | NY
La Follette Lecture

Mosaics and the Antioch Recovery Project
2022-03-03 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | TBA (Central Arizona), Phoenix, AZ, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Religious Ritual on board the Greco-Roman Ship
2022-03-03 19:00 (America/Chicago) | NY
Bass Lecture

Coastal Heritage and Climate Change—A Monumental Challenge to Preserve the Past in the 21st Century
2022-03-03 19:00 (America/New_York) | NY

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
2022-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Lecturer: Miriam Stark (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Angkor’s first great king, Jayavarman II, established Cambodia’ Angkorian state on the banks of the Tonle Sap in 802 CE and built his first capital, Mahendraparvata, on the slope of the nearby Kulen mountains. What followed were six centuries of political competition, warfare, and imperial rule by Angkor’s kings. Like rulers of other ancient states, Khmer kings built vast stone monuments to honor their predecessors and gods that still stand today. A century of scholarly research on the Khmer empire’s achievements has shed light on the scale and nature of premodern Southeast Asia’s most influential polity; it has also shaped political agenda in unanticipated ways. This lecture introduces the Angkorian world, from its temples to its ceramics, and examines how cosmology and statecraft created Southeast Asia’s greatest premodern empire and the world’s largest preindustrial city.
This event will be hosted remotely via Zoom. To register in advance, please use the link provided below.

Gender, Creator Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu
2022-03-05 10:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton Science Center 255 (Chudd Auditorium), 300 College Park Avenue, Dayton, OH, 45469, United States

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2022-03-05 13:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (St. Louis 2), St. Louis, MO

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
2022-03-05 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall, 3380 N. 13th Street, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States

Unearthed Voices From the First Emperor of Qin's Unification of China
2022-03-06 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | AIA-LA, 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, United States
Ahmanson Lecture

The Application of LiDAR Scanning for the Documentation of Ancient Cities and Regions
2022-03-06 15:00 (America/Chicago) | NY

Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture
2022-03-07 19:30 (America/Chicago) | NY

Bird/Egg, Pen/Hand, Torch/Deer? Pairs of Ordinary Objects on Roman Coins
2022-03-08 | Room L140, Elvehjem Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706
Metcalf Lecture

The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress
2022-03-08 17:30, 2022-03-10 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-09 16:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Norton Lecture
