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Digging Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Mines

ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Kate Liszka, California State University, San Bernardino: Digging Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Mines Sunday, November 10, 3 pm Room 20 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley Campus (Near the intersection of […]

Pits, Post, and Palisades: The Archaeology of the 17th-century Plymouth Colony Settlement on Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Assumption College, Curtis Performance Hall (TFAC 120) 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA

This event at Assumption College will be among the first in the nation to memorialize the arrival of the Pilgrims and the establishment of a permanent settlement in what would become the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Many events will be taking place next year, but ours is timed conveniently close to Thanksgiving, when the Pilgrims tend […]

John Doershuk: “The OSA and Iowa Archaeology: Historical Reflections and Recent Endeavors”

University of Iowa ABW 240 240 Art Building West, Iowa City, IA, United States

The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) is an organized UI research unit established in 1959. Now entering its seventh decade, the OSA continues to actively develop, disseminate, and preserve knowledge of Iowa’s human past through archaeological research, scientific discovery, public stewardship, service, and education. While the roots of Iowa Archaeology are […]

Reverse Engineering the Past: How Experimental Archaeology Provides the Clues for Understanding the Mysterious Demise of North America’s Copper Culture

Mary Schiller Myers School of Art -Folk Hall Auditorium, University of Akron 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH, United States

The Old Copper Culture (4000-1000 B.C.) stands out as a unique event in archaeologists’ global understanding of ancient metallurgy—here, copper metallurgy developed, but then “disappeared”. For over three millennia, Archaic hunter-gatherers around the North American Great Lakes made utilitarian implements out of copper, only for these items to decline in prominence during the Archaic to […]

Classic Maya Material Meanings

Leggett 537, Harold G. Leggett Building, Randolph College 2500 Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, United States

Borowski Lecture