Archaeology Fair
This October the Marquette Regional History Center is joining hundreds of organizations around the world to celebrate International Archaeology Day. For the 12th year, our fair will provide a look […]
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Marquette Regional History Center 145 W Spring St, Marquette, United States
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Archaeology and History of Spain
Viking Jupiter (open only to 700 booked guests) Barcelona, Catalonia, SpainLecture on the Viking Jupiter cruise ship while in harbor in Barcelona, Spain. Discussion of the archaeology and history of Spain from the Stone Age through the modern age. Lecture […]
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Virtual Symposium: Archaeology & Science
Zoom FL, United StatesVirtual EventJoin us for a free virtual talk on Sunday, October 20, at 10 AM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GwcLqYTgTc-3mWwwipI9yg#/registration ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: In honor of International Archaeology Day, hear about the intersection of science, archaeology, and anthropolog
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The Making of Pompeii: A behind-the-scenes look at the excavations of a Pompeian sub-elite neighborhood
Higley Auditorium (Room 105) West College Street 100, Granville, Ohio, United StatesDr. Steven Ellis from the University of Cincinnati will be discussing his research into the archaeology of everyday life in ancient Pompeii.
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Lecture: Communal Water, Invisible Labor: Modeling the Social Impact of Pompeii’s Street Fountains
Joseph Merrick Jones Hall 108, Tulane University Freret Street, New Orleans, LA, United StatesA lecture by Professor Matthew Notarian (Hiram College, OH) Abstract: The remarkable preservation of the Roman city of Pompeii provides unprecedented insight into an aqueduct-fed urban water system. Visitors often […]
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Archaeology of the Oyo Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
Zoom FL, United StatesVirtual EventBetween 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 […]
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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 StatesAs 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 […]
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Gods, Warriors, and Stars: A Close Relationship in Chichén Itzá
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMaría 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 […]
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Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era
Thurman J. White Forum Building 1704 Asp Ave, Norman, OK, United StatesOver 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 […]
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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 […]
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The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and World Heritage
Siegal Lifelong Learning Auditorium, Landmark Centre 25700 Science Park Dr #100, Beachwood, United StatesOhio’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 […]
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“Hercules and Holy Water” (Professor Ann Glennie)
College of the Holy Cross, Smith Labs 154 (Fauci Integrated Science Complex) College Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United StatesWhile 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 […]