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Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
Abstract: The past, whether real, tangible, embellished, or imagined, can be a particularly powerful and alluring source of symbols, narratives, and ideas. Echoes from the distant past can reverberate and affect the lives of contemporary and descendant communities, and issues related to politics, cultural heritage management, tourism, and national identity can all be tied to […]
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Pandemics, Plagues, and Pestilence in early Byzantine Thebes
Excavations in the Sanctuary of Ismenion Apollo in Thebes also revealed a later cemetery of Early and Middle Byzantine burials, which are apparently associated with an early Christian hospice or hospital. The skeletons showed that a remarkably high percentage of individuals suffered from significant pathologies with high rates of infectious diseases. Two mass graves are […]
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Second Sunday Culture Films: Fugetsu-Do & Morkovcha
Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe 2022-2023 culture film series Folklife, a joyful celebration of local folkways: writing, storytelling, visual arts, handcrafts, cuisine, and other forms of expression which make places and people distinctive and […]
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Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter
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. Branko van Oppen, Tampa Museum of Art: Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter Sunday, March 12, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Daylight […]
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Rural Landscapes, Archaeological Fieldwork, and Cultural Heritage Destruction in Turkey
Dr. Ömür Harmanshah, Director, The School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago, will present the AIA’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage for the AIA-Milwaukee Society Archaeological remains and landscapes are witnesses to deep time histories, yet they have increasingly been victims of targeted […]
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Collision of Worlds: An Archaeological Perspective on the Spanish Invasion of Aztec Mexico
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.
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Lenapehoking: Archaeology, Heritage, and the Power of Place for Descendant Local Nation
Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis panel discussion highlights tribal relationships to Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Delaware peoples of the Delaware Valley. Archaeologists and tribal cultural specialists will bring […]
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Collision of Worlds: An Archaeological Perspective on the Spanish Invasion of Aztec Mexico
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.
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“They are still teaching us”: Community Bioarchaeology and the Sisters of Loretto Project presented by Dr. Lauren Hosek
CU Museum of Natural History Broadway, Boulder, CO, United StatesIn the summer of 2022, construction necessitated the relocation of a small 19th /20th century cemetery of nuns from southwest Denver. Before their reinterment, a team of local researchers and […]
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In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marie Style pottery in Minoan Crete
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Dr. Christine Johnston: “Merchants and Markets in Egyptian Trade”
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, United StatesThe role of centralized institutions in the economy of the Egyptian states has traditionally been over-emphasized, in part due to the exaggerated part played by state actors in surviving texts. […]