ZOOM lecture by Douglas Scott (Retired Supervisory Archaeologist with the National Park Service); he will draw upon his experiences at the Little Big Horn battlefield and at various Civil War battlefields to understand this fascinating category of archaeological site.
Join us for a lecture by WSU grad Student Jordan Thompson on early Northwest culture. Abstract: Mountain environments and resources have played a significant role in Indigenous cultural and subsistence lifeways and knowledge systems yet remain underrepresented in landscape research. Recent archaeological evidence points to the Southern Columbia Plateau as an early entry point for […]
Speaker: Chelsea A.M. Gardner (Acadia University) The Mani peninsula is the literal (geographical) and metaphorical “end of the world”, since it occupies the southernmost point of mainland Greece and the mythical entrance to Hades, the ancient Greek underworld. Mani’s occupation history includes being home to the earliest hominid caves in Greece up to modern tower-houses […]
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lectures Time TBA
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
The AIA Helene J. Kantor Memorial Lecture (link: https://www.archaeological.org/endowment/the-helene-j-kantor-memorial-lecture/) Professor Bruce Routledge (University of Liverpool) Tell Dhiban is a large mound in central Jordan occupied since 3000 BCE. It is best known as the capital of the biblical kingdom of Moab and the site of a significant Nabataean temple. However, focusing on separate moments in […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time TBA
Lifelike Maya figurines from the Island of Jaina have been collected for almost 200 years, with hundreds now known in collections around the world, from Berlin to Brooklyn, and Los Angeles to Mexico City. These figurines also present the largest corpus of female representations of the ancient Americas, comprising roughly one-third of all known examples. […]
About the lecture: How did the Romans carry, store, and save their money? This talk surveys the archaeological evidence for the wallets, purses, bags, boxes, and chests in which the ancient Romans placed their coined money at home and on the go. From reused cooking pots to bronze arm purses and ceramic “piggybanks,” we will […]
Join the AIA for the first AIA Archaeology Hour talk of the new year as new AIA President Brian I. Daniels hosts Danyelle Means for "NAGPRA as a Path to Healing and Reciprocity." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Have you noticed empty exhibit cases at museums over the past […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA
