12 events found.
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Ancient Sims: Using AI-driven play to identify ancient board games
Professor Crist will demonstrate how AI-driven play, when combined with traditional archaeological methods, can provide new insights about ancient games. Contact AIA Ottawa for Zoom code at aiaottawachapter@gmail.com.
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Aethiopia Abroad: The Role of Kush in a Network of Cultural Exchange in the Greater Mediterranean
Virtual EventImage caption: Décoration du mobilier, 539-330 BCE (Achéménide) Place of discovery : Suse ville royale donjon SB 3723 Département des Antiquités orientales, Musée du Louvre (© 2008 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Thierry Ollivier) ---------------------- The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and […]
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A Day in the Life of an Etruscan Sanctuary: Gender, Community and Ritual at the Etruscan Site of Poggio Colla
Jones Hall 108, Uptown Campus of Tulane University 6801 Freet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesGeorge M.A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
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A Late Bronze Age “Naval Station” at Kalamianos (Saronic Gulf), Greece? presented by Dr. Daniel Pullen
Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, United StatesHybrid EventThe Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project has documented the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th cent. BCE) harbor town at Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf coast of the Corinthia, Greece. We suggest this site might be the Homeric town of “Eïones” which later Strabo identified as a “naval station.” The implications of this identification of Kalamianos as […]
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Decolonizing Museums and the Case of the ‘Elgin Marbles’: Exceptionalism vs Solidarity
Newberry Hall, Room 125, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 434 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
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Colonial Transitions in Ancient Perú: How Osteoimmunology is Reconstructing Hidden Life Histories
University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe) 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, United StatesHow can bioarchaeology be used to illuminate colonial encounters? Dr. Fabian Crespo (UofL Anthropology) addresses this question in his talk, "Colonial Transitions in Ancient Perú: How Osteoimmunology is Reconstructing Hidden Life Histories." This presentation will discuss the complex biosocial transition in northwest Peru during the colonial process and how new theoretical and methodological approaches can […]
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“the way we lived was shaped by objects”: Contemporary Reflections on Black Materiality
D.H. Hill Library Auditorium 2 Broughton Dr., Raleigh, NC, United StatesCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAvailable during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025. This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]
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Normalizing Loot: A Case Study of a Plundered Imperial Shrine
IU Indianapolis, Campus Center INCE 002 420 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN, United StatesHybrid EventMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
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Jon Frey’s The Origins of Roman Bathing at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College 1 Quinlan St, Lynchburg, VA, United StatesOscar Broneer Memorial Lecture In addition to being one of the most recognizable monuments at the site, the Roman Bath at Isthmia in Greece continues to yield surprising discoveries. Excavations in the 1960s through the 1980s revealed not only the 2nd c. CE structure but also parts of an earlier Greek-period pool of impressive dimensions—a […]
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Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant
University of North Carolina Greensboro, MHRA building, Room 1215 1111 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC, United StatesKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology