Experience 4,000 years of games in a day! Test your strategy and skill! Play games from around the world and through time, including a game featured in the first Harry Potter movie. Included is a giant floor-sized Royal Game of Ur, where you are the playing piece. Engage in battle to see whose tactics will […]
The Cerruti Mastodon Site, circa 130,000, in San Diego County, documents an early movement of humans into North America. Rapid climate warming and attendant floral and faunal changes during the last interglacial resulted in mega-fauna moving far north of their previous ranges. This includes the spread of mastodons and sloths from the USA to north […]
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. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, Pratt Institute: Man vs. Wild? Rethinking the Interpretation of Human and Animal Representation in Egyptian Art Sunday, January 12, 2020, 3 pm Room 20 Barrows […]
Dr. Irving Finkel (Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East) will present a lecture reviewing his decades of research on the question of ancient games.
Travel with paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall to Madagascar and other Indian Ocean islands and learn about human origins. On this warm, winter getaway you will explore Madagascar from the convenience and comfort of the 53-cabin MS Serenissima. Discover spectacular landscapes from pristine coral reefs and coastal mangroves to virgin rain forests and groves of Baobab trees. […]
Haupt Lecture
Biggs Lecture
Absolute Egypt is carefully crafted to provide the discerning traveler with the finest educational Egypt tour available. It combines all the best attributes of an in-depth, all-inclusive, well-paced luxury trip. Travel with Egyptologist Stephen Harvey plus a wonderful local Egyptologist guide and an excellent trip manager, who have been working together for years and have […]
Title: Landscape archaeology and modern human dispersal on the East European Plain Abstract: The dominant landform on the continent of Europe is an immense plain that stretches from the eastern slope of the Carpathians to the Ural Mountains. Owing to its geographic isolation from the North Atlantic, the East European Plain is characterized by a […]
