Around 3,000 years ago, a few intrepid farming families braved the journey into the remote Puuc hills of the Northern Maya lowlands and founded the earliest villages in the region. Over the course of several generations, these communities grew into planned civic centers complete with large central platforms and ballcourts. Small-scale communities like Xanab Chak […]
Dr. Nicholas Brown, University of Iowa
Yanniv David Levy is a researcher and curator in the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), with a specialty in experimental technologies and numismatics. In addition to managing the Mediterranean’s largest collection of ancient coins with archaeological provenance, Yanniv has worked extensively with computer scientists on machine learning applications for the study of […]
William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics
Fillets were long, ritualized textile bands most familiar to Classicists in the form of victory ribbons conferred as prizes in poetic, athletic, and martial contests. Artistic renderings of the bands in more permanent forms of visual art, such as in victor statues like Polykleitos’ Diadoumenos, memorialized this symbolic capital of adornment with which Greeks distinguished […]
The Central Missouri Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in co-sponsorship with the University of Missouri, is proud to present the annual Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology. Lecturer: Dr. Lindsey A. Mazurek, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University Bloomington Abstract: Part of Rome’s main port city of Ostia […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Lecture by Lynne Kvapil (Professor of Classics, Butler University)
Speaker: Odette Boivin (University of Toronto) - focuses on archival, everyday Babylonian documents and historiographic sources. Robert Koldewey and his team excavated in Babylon between 1899 and 1917, carrying out foundational work for our understanding of the city of Babylon and contributing to develop and establish archaeological standards in the early days of the discipline. […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Alumni Lecture
