In our first meeting of the new academic year, the AIA Iowa Society hosts a discussion about the AIA’s recently released statement on racism in archaeology. You can read that statement here. As a round table, participants in this Zoom event will have the opportunity to comment on the AIA's statement and discuss how we […]
Call for papers: "Space and Governance: Towards a New Topography of Roman Administration" conference, 2-3 October 2020, Royal Academy of Spain at Rome (Real Academia de España en Roma) The purpose of the conference is to explore the transformation of public space and administrative activities in Republican and Imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary exploration of […]
Archaeologists will prepare special tasks and games for families with children, which will introduce them to the life of prehistoric and medieval inhabitants of the town of Čáslav. The event is organized by the Institute of Archaeology in cooperation with the town of Čáslav and other institutions.
Following previous years, the Research Centre at Panská Lhota (Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University) will open to public, not only to show how archaeologists work, but also a glimpse into the past will be presented through a medieval-like tournament with real knights and ladies.
Celebrate the glamour, labor, humor, and discoveries of archaeology at Harvard. Join student archaeologists as they share their experience with an Irish castle, a shaft tomb in western Mexico, monuments on the Giza plateau in Egypt and drones used to study El-Kurru in ancient Nubia, among other locations. Place a friendly wager on an atlatl […]
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ recent exhibition Ancient Nubia Now revealed the often misunderstood and previously unacknowledged sophistication of this ancient African culture. Dr. Freed will address the challenges faced in mounting the exhibition that drew on the largest collection of Nubian artefacts outside Sudan
Cesnola Lecture
This lighthearted, heavily illustrated presentation examines how archaeologists think about why people make and believe fantastic claims explaining the distant past. From ancient alien interventions to Pre-Columbian transoceanic explorations—especially those pesky Vikings and their runestones supposedly found in present-day Oklahoma—how well do such claims hold up under the scrutiny of evidence and critical thinking? Come […]
In Southwestern archaeology, pottery has always held pride-of-place for both quantity and quality of archaeological data. Pottery defines the basic "culture areas," and changes in pottery track much of the history we infer for those regions. Other, larger, clunkier evidence is worth a look: Architecture, for example. Various "types" of buildings -- as valid as […]
