Why underwater? The importance of submerged landscape research for understanding Pleistocene peoples in the New World
Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lectures
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Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, the Mall at Wellington Green 10300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL, United States
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Living in a culture of the past; the life and work of a scribe in Hellenistic Uruk
The figure of the scribe looms large in our understanding of the culture and history of ancient Mesopotamia. Scribes composed, copied, edited, and collated the thousands of cuneiform tablets that are such a rich source of information on the ancient past. But what can be learned from examining the career of an individual scribe? “Living […]
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAvailable during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025. This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]
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Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Zainab Bahrani. “Toward an Archaeology of Preservation”
Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United StatesThe history of archaeology as a scientific discipline has received a great deal of attention in recent years. As a result of extensive archival research and the reading of archives against the grain, alternative or indigenous archaeologies and earlier forms of relationships to the past—such as antiquarianism—have also begun to receive more serious scholarly attention. […]
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AIA Archaeology Hour with Zainab Bahrani: Toward an Archaeology of Preservation
Virtual EventJoin the AIA for a fascinating evening with Zainab Bahrani presenting “Towards an Archaeology of Preservation." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
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Life and Death along the Nile: Tales from the Tombs of Tombos
University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe) 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, United StatesBeginning around 1500BC, the New Kingdom Egyptian Empire expanded its reach into the territory of its southern neighbor, Nubia, in search of resources such as gold and cattle. Over the next few hundred years, interactions between the ancient Egyptians and Nubians would include violent encounters, trade and exchange, political relationships, and the establishment of interethnic […]
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“The Past of the Future / The Future of the Past: Stories from the Archaeology of a Space Station”
University of Maryland Francis Scott Key Hall, Rm. 0106, College Park, MD, United StatesHybrid EventProfessor Justin P. Walsh, Chapman University and USC presents a lecture: Since 2015, Professor Walsh has co-directed the first full-scale archaeological investigation of a site in space, the International Space Station. In this talk, he will discuss different aspects of the project, including the first archaeological experiment ever to happen off of the Earth. He […]
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From Ancient Quarries to New Inquiries: Exhibiting the ISAC Museum’s Roman Sculpture Collection in an Age of Greater Transparency
Willamette University Law School, Paulus Lecture Hall 245 Winter St SE, Salem, OR, United StatesKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
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Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy
UC Santa Barbara, Arts 1341 Art Museum, Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, CA, United States -
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAvailable during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025. This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]
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CFP: JIAAW Spring Symposium 2026
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology Rhode Island Hall, Brown University, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, United StatesThe Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW) is accepting collaborative proposals for a symposium to be held in the spring semester of 2026. Joukowsky symposia are one- or two-day affairs organized around a topic relevant to the central mission of the Institute. This includes a core strength in archaeological and allied approaches […]
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Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in Palau, Micronesia
Doe Library 308 A, UC Berkeley Campus Berkeley, California, United States