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Hidden History Walk

Jones Tavern 128 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

Join local archaeologist Kimberly Connors to discover the hidden history of South Acton's Mill Corner. Our 1 1/2-mile hike will start at the Jones Tavern and highlight historic industrial sites from the early 18th-through the mid-20th centuries. We will discuss the features that remain that allowed South Acton to be the home of mills, factories, […]

Mansion Inn: The Making of a Scholar

Wayland Public Library 5 Concord Road, Wayland, MA, United States

Mansion Inn is a well-known Native American cremation burial site. Concord native and archaeologist, Dena Dincauze, took on the formidable task of studying the artifacts recovered from a site that was dug in a non-scientific way by avocational archaeologists and local residents. Dincauze studied the stone tools as part of her dissertation research at Harvard […]

Dressing Up as an Ancient Assyrian Queen in Life and Death

Spiro Hall 2, Wagner College 631 Howard Avenue (1 Campus Road, Grymes Hill), Staten Island, NY, United States

The Dr. Esther Grushkin Memorial Lecture, presented by Dr. Amy Rebecca Gansell (St. John's University) This presentation takes us into the palaces of ancient Assyria in northern Iraq to discover the robes and regalia worn by queens during the 800s to 600s BCE. Based on artifacts from royal tombs found beneath Nimrud’s Northwest Palace, I […]

Carving Cucurbits

Outside of the Anthropology Department at Texas A&M University 340 Spence st, College Station, TX, United States

Please join the TAMU Anthropology Research Collections for our stone tool pumpkin carving party! Learn about cucurbit domestication, Texas stone tools and the cultural origins of autumn festivals! BYOP (bring your own pumpkins), stone tools will be provided! All ages and majors welcome!

Carving Cucurbits

Outside of the Anthropology Department at Texas A&M University 340 Spence Street, College Station, TX, United States

Please join the TAMU Anthropology Research Collections for our stone tool pumpkin carving party! Learn about cucurbit domestication, Texas stone tools and the cultural origins of autumn festivals! BYOP (bring your own pumpkins), stone tools will be provided! All ages and majors welcome!