Indigenous to the Americas and cultivated by Native peoples for thousands of years, tobacco was introduced to Europeans in the 16th century, and by the early 17th century, it had spread across the globe. In Puritan New England, religious leaders condemned tobacco as sinful while early practitioners used it as medicine. Clay tobacco pipes commonly […]
Natural blue pigments in the ancient world are uncommon, usually sourced from far away and difficult to process. Reviewing these shady characters, like lazurite and azurite, will shed light on ancient artisanal capabilities, technical knowledge, and even trade connections that reveal the extent to which ancient people would travel and experiment in order to find […]
THE SOUTHERN ATHABASKANS: SEVEN CENTURIES OF INNOVATION FROM OKLAHOMA TO ARIZONA What archaeologists refer to as the Southern Athapaskan cultural tradition spread across the American Southwest during the second millennium […]
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Doug Wilson. Abstract: This talk will illuminate Fort Vancouver's central role in the colonial history of the Pacific Northwest seen through the […]
Discovering Byzantine Corinth and Its People Join AIA-Nashville Society for a free virtual talk on Sunday, October 18, at 11 AM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public. It will be recorded. Register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EZz5ABV4RJu6psOXovgnZQ#/registration ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: Ancient Corinth is renowned as one of Greece's most iconic archaeological sites, […]
From the 5th through the 8th centuries, the Nebo region became the home of numerous religious and secular communities. The region was dotted with both ascetic and communal monasteries that […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Internet sensation Milo Rossi — better known to his 3+ million followers as "miniminuteman" — is coming to St. Louis for an unforgettable evening of science, skepticism, and side-splitting commentary. This isn't your typical archaeology lecture. With more than a billion views, the self-proclaimed “Googledebunker” has become one of the most trusted voices in debunking […]
(Eric Blinman, Ph.D. (Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico) European Colonization coincided with a dynamic period within the Native American cultural landscape of Northern New Mexico. Sequential adaptations to a series of climate changes included migrations, displacements of communities, successes and failures of the agricultural economies, and conflict and resolution among an ethnically diverse population.
A lecture by Allison Smith (Davidson College)
