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White Mountain National Forest Archaeology: An Evening With Heritage Staff

White Mountain National Forest Archaeology: An Evening With Heritage Staff - NHAS Sarah Jordan, Heritage Program Manager and Forest Archaeologist, Claire Sleeman, Assistant Forest Archaeologist, Genevieve Everett, Archaeological Technician, White Mountain National Forest The White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) comprises 800,000 acres of federally managed land in three New Hampshire counties, Grafton, Carroll, and Coos, […]

April 29, 2023: Toys, Burial Goods or Ritual Objects? – West African figurines and their archaeological traces presented by André Luiz Ruivo Ferreira Burmann, PhD candidate Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Pre- and Protohistory of Africa, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Abstract: West African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans, animals, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal, iconographic and stylistic aspects of […]

Great Lecture: Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses […]

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

Harvard Art Museums Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today […]

Discoveries in the Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt

ZOOM lecture: "Discoveries in the Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt" by Dr. Kate Liszka (California Sate University, San Bernardino). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please... More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.