Archaeological Institute of America

AIA Archaeology Hour November 2025: The People's Arena
2025-11-12 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1117571134992/WN_obR16xWNSO6l2B2JHgfShg
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening with Alison Futrell as she gives the International Archaeology Day month AIA Archaeology Hour talk “The People’s Arena.”
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.

Register here!

Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure
2025-11-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University
King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent some of the finest in ancient Egyptian sculpture. Crafted for eternity, these statues served as “bodies” through which the king could function in this life and the next. The iconography, inscriptions, figural groupings, stances, gestures, and even the damage of these statues have stories to tell. While these stories rarely involved ordinary Egyptians, certain statue details hint at far-reaching economic ties that did. This talk dives into the mysteries behind Menkaure’s sculptures—exploring their symbolism, damage, and relocation—and reveals how much they still have to say, even after thousands of years.
Advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance.
Free admission. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 4:00 pm. Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.

C. Brian Rose - Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia
2025-11-12 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210, United States
Wednesday Nov. 12, 5:30 – 6:30, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Room TBA
C. Brian Rose
James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania
Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia
Heinrich Schliemann began excavations at Troy in the 1870s, and claimed that he had found evidence there of the battles between the Homeric heroes. Gordion was the capital city of King Midas, famous for his Golden Touch, and the site of the Gordian Knot that was severed by Alexander the Great. In this talk Brian Rose will highlight the positive and negative aspects of working at both projects, focusing on the extent to which regional, national, and global developments have shaped the research agendas there. He will also reflect on the discipline of archaeology in Turkey and the Near East in the early 21st century.

TBA (Charlottesville)
2025-11-12 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | TBA (Charlottesville), Charlottesville, VA, United States
The George F. Bass Lectures Time TBA

The Shipwreck at Gnalić – Gagliana Grossa (1569-1583)
2025-11-11 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Math & Science Center, W201, 400 Dowman Dr NE, Atlanta, 30322, United States
The George F. Bass Lectures

Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (URS) - 6th Edition
2025-11-11 09:00 - 2025-11-13 17:00 (America/New_York) | Italy, Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy, AK, 00123, India
The “Urban Regeneration and Sustainability” conference holds huge importance in today’s world. As cities face numerous challenges, such as quick urbanization, environmental degradation, and social inequality, it is crucial to address these issues through sustainable urban regeneration practices. That is why IEREK is hosting the sixth edition of the conference offering attendees a platform to learn, collaborate, highlight their projects, access resources, and enhance their reputation. By participating in this conference, attendees can gain valuable knowledge, make partnerships, and accelerate their efforts toward creating sustainable urban spaces.

Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival
2025-11-10 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | MO
The multi-day Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival is an annual juried competition, part of Archaeology Month celebration. It is free, open to the public, and is an educational event showcasing the discovery of past cultures gained from ethnological or archaeological research, and illustrated through documentary films.
The Virtual Edition is an international online screening of all the Official Selection films. During the week of the Festival, there are several in-person Arkhaios Festivals in the US, showing the best films from the Arkhaios Official Selections.

Book talk & Signing - Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
2025-11-09 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 254 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a book talk and signing by Dr. Rune Nyord, Emory University:
“Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife”
Sunday November 9, 2025, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time
MELC Lounge, Room 254 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Because of nearby construction, please allow extra time to park your vehicle.
This is an in-person lecture and is not virtual. No registration is required.
The lecture will be recorded for later publication on the chapter’s YouTube channel.
About the Lecture:
The overall model for understanding the ancient Egyptian afterlife in scholarship and popular culture alike is well known: The ancient Egyptians believed in a post-mortem judgement that would determine their fate in the afterlife, being either rewarded with an eternal life of bliss or punished with painful annihilation. However, in my new book Yearning for Immortality, I argue that for the most part these ideas were in place well before the decipherment of hieroglyphs and thus draw more on Greek and especially Christian frameworks for life after death than on ancient Egyptian ones, meaning that our model for understanding the Egyptian afterlife is due for a fundamental rethinking. This lecture covers some of the main results presented in Yearning for Immortality before turning to the question, raised only briefly in the last chapter of the book, of what such a rethinking might look like. If we cannot read texts like the “Book of the Dead” as straightforward descriptions of the Egyptian afterlife, then what sources can we draw on to get a sense of ancient Egyptian ideas of life and death? And correspondingly, what strategies for reading and viewing funerary texts and art can we use to approximate an indigenous understanding as opposed to one projecting Western models of postmortem existence?
About the Speaker:
Dr. Rune Nyord is Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Emory University, where he is also Chair of the Art History Department. His research focuses on conceptions and experiences of representation, ontology, and personhood in ancient Egypt, especially as evidenced in funerary culture, and drawing on a combination of archaeological and textual sources. He is also interested in the history of the discipline of Egyptology and ways in which it continues to influence contemporary practices and interpretations. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several books, the most recent being the monograph Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife (Chicago 2025) and a co-edited special issue of Interdisciplinary Egyptology titled Egyptology in Dialogue (Vienna, 2025).
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About Northern California ARCE:
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Sparta and Totalitarianism
2025-11-09 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Speaker: Susan Downie – Carleton University
The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has never really left the imagination of western civilization. From political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to modern political parties such as Greece’s Χρυσή Αυγή “Golden Dawn”, the Spartan state and its citizens have represented an ideal for which to strive. What elements of the ancient Spartan state and society have made it the poster-child for modern Totalitarianism? Given the significant problems with our sources about ancient Sparta, can we ever understand exactly how the state and its citizens functioned, or must we forever deal with the “Spartan mirage”?
There will also be an initial talk by Christos Zigoumis on Mani and Cephalonia: Survey and Excavation.

TBA (New Brunswick)
2025-11-07 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Halifax) | TBA (New Brunswick), Fredericton, New Brunswick
Time TBA

New Approaches to Roman Urbanism: The Excavations of the Falerii Novi Project (Lazio, Italy)
2025-11-06 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Kelsey Museum, 434 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, United States
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship

Landscapes of Time and Memory: Foragers in the Mojave Desert
2025-11-06 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | TBA (Lubbock), Lubbock, TX, United States

Archive Archaeology at Karanis: Recontextualizing the Michigan Documentation in Three Dimensions
2025-11-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Ellis Library Auditorium, 520 S 9th St, Columbia, MO, 65201, United States
The Archaelogical Institute of America (AIA) Central Missouri Society is co-sponsoring with the Classics, Archaeology, and Religion (CAR) Department a guest lecture by Dr. Tyler Johnson on November 6th at 5:30 pm with a reception beforehand at 5pm in the Ellis Library auditorium. Dr. Johnson will be presenting “Archive Archaeology at Karanis: Recontextualizing the Mighigan Documentation in Three Dimensions”, and he will be exploring the challenges and possibilities of conducting “archive archaeology” at Karansis, creating new tools for exploring, cross-referencing, and reinterpreting this essential legacy dataset.
Although far from modern standards, the University of Michigan excavations at Karanis (1924–1935) employed advanced recording techniques for their time. Documenting the site’s evolution through a system of “levels,” the excavators left behind a dense archival record of photographs, tables, notes, drawings, plans, artifact inventories, and survey results. Housed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, this documentation has been consulted for a century but never systematically analyzed or disseminated. The most authoritative source remains an unfinished manuscript by Enoch Peterson (professor at Michigan from 1924–1962), never published or made publicly available.
Today, a revival of interest in Karanis has created a demand for better curation and accessibility of these records. In response, researchers at the Kelsey Museum are leading a digital initiative with two objectives. First, drawing upon legacy survey data and new radiocarbon results, we are using the game engine Unity to reconstruct and reinterpret the site’s chronological evolution in three dimensions. Second, we are transforming Peterson’s manuscript and related materials into an interactive, open-access resource. These collaborative efforts between Kelsey researchers, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students go beyond digitization, requiring the restructuring and reassessment of excavation data within an updated framework.
As we integrate new insights and methodologies, our work sometimes calls the Michigan excavators’ original interpretations into question. This raises the need to balance faithful preservation of archival materials with that of reassessing the excavation results through contemporary archaeological lenses. This paper explores the challenges and possibilities of conducting “archive archaeology” at Karanis, creating new tools for exploring, cross-referencing, and reinterpreting this essential legacy dataset.

Nomads of the Desert and the Sea: Evidence from Prehistoric Burial Mounds in Qatar
2025-11-06 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Tory Breezeway-1, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Harald Ingholt Lecture in Middle Eastern Archaeology
Lecturer: Dr. Richard Fletcher
Abstract: Prehistoric burial cairns have been a subject of archaeological investigation in Qatar since national development began in the 1950s. The study of various aspects of the burial mounds has yielded substantial evidence, with over 2,000 burials identified. Recent survey projects estimate a density of up to 10 mounds per km2 for the peninsula as a whole. A Qatar Museums project, in collaboration with Sidra Medicine, is testing this estimate through remote sensing to map the burial cairns, using aerial photography, satellite imagery, and LiDAR, and ground truthing results through field survey. Results for an area of 30,000 km2 in northern Qatar indicate 10,782 burials, with a clear pattern of preference in the north-west opposite the island of Bahrain.T he results of the project support the hypothesis that nomads in the desert of northern Qatar were moving between Bahrain and Qatar, probably on a seasonal basis.

Diving the Pyramids: Underwater Tombs and Excavation at the Royal Cemetery of Nuri, Sudan
2025-11-05 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | TBA (Knoxville), Knoxville, TN, United States
The Frederick R. and Margaret B. Matson Lectureship for Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Technology

A Dealer, an Insurance Salesman, Seven University Museums, Eighty-Eight Investors, and Three Hundred Classical Antiquities: a Cautionary Tale – a Nancy Wilkie Lectureship in Archaeological Heritage
2025-11-05 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://www.archaeological.org/event/a-dealer-an-insurance-salesman-seven-university-museums-eighty-eight-investors-and-three-hundred-classical-antiquities-a-cautionary-tale-a-nancy-wilkie-lectureship-in-archaeological-her/
This virtual talk will recount a recently-uncovered story of an unusual, complex, decades-long antiquities investment scheme orchestrated by Royal-Athena Galleries, a prominent Manhattan-based antiquities dealer, that did not end well for most stakeholders. It will also examine the larger ethical implications of the story, raising questions about the relationship of museums to the art market. It also asks, is financial investing in art ever a good idea? This talk is sponsored by the Nancy Wilkie Lectureship in Archaeological Heritage.

Founding the City: Carved Orthostats and Architectural Experimentation in Anatolia
2025-11-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Blegen 308, University of Cincinnati, 2602 McMicken Circle, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship

AIA-Nashville Society Book Club: The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
2025-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Welcome to the Parthenon/AIA-Nashville Society Book Club! In partnership with the Archaeological Institute of America-Nashville Society, the Parthenon hosts free book club gatherings quarterly. Join us for a friendly discussion on The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson. Read about one of the most bizarre museum heists of the century. The informal discussion will be held inside the Parthenon, in the Treasury on Level 2.
This free book club is open to all— all are welcome!
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/parthenon-book-club-the-feather-thief-tickets-1261474346729?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Cantilevered Walkways—A Remarkable feat of Ancient Chinese Engineering
2025-11-02 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | MO
Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen
Distinguished Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History
UCLA
To this day, the Qinling mountains in Shaanxi province, which separate the basin of the Yellow River from that of the Yangzi River, constitute a formidable geographical obstacle to communication on account of their almost unimaginably vertical cliffs. To facilitate inter-regional trade across the Qinling, cantilevered walkways (zhandao 棧道) were constructed since shortly after the middle of the first millennium BC. They were maintained more or less continuously throughout historical times, until the 20th century. Similar thoroughfares were also constructed in mountainous regions elsewhere in China. Recently their archaeological remains have become the subject of major survey projects. This paper presents some of what is currently known about these extraordinary feats of ancient Chinese engineering.

Kingdoms of Asia
2025-11-02 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fresno Chaffee Zoo, 894 W Belmont Ave, Fresno, CA, 93728, United States
The activities in this event will consist of the following:
1. The guided tour of the Kingdoms of Asia Exhibit at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. This Exhibit is new and contains monumental replicas of ancient Khmer temples and sacred sites, including for example, Bayon Temple, Ta Prohm Temple, and Kbal Sapean. The first two temples are very famous in Cambodia, which can be dated to c. the 13th century and became filming locations for several Western movies. The temples have also been studied by archaeologists and art historians. This in-person tour will explain in detail the significance of these sites and their symbolic elements in ancient Southeast Asian cultures.
2. Promotion of archaeology at the Zoo. There will be a lot of people at the Zoo on the Saturday of International Archaeology Day. The Society will have a table where our board members will promote the importance of archaeology and studies of civilizations, disseminate knowledge, hand out information, recruit more members to the Society.

Reading Matthew’s Gospel in the Cemeteries of Roman Syria and Judea
2025-10-30 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | Zoom, 4985 SW 74th Court, Miami, FL, 33155, United States
Why does the Gospel of Matthew prefer a different word for burials, taphoi, than the other New Testament gospels? And why does Matthew consistently revise his sources to describe Jesus’s burial as costly? Matthew emphasizes that Jesus was anointed with expensive spices and buried in a rich patron’s new tomb, which makes it appear as though he wanted to portray Jesus as receiving an elite burial. If, however, we read Matthew’s descriptions of burials in light of archaeological evidence of changing mortuary practices in provincial Syria and Judea, where the gospel was composed sometime in the late first century, his motives appear more complicated. Quick though he is to indicate that Jesus received a rich man’s burial, Matthew is clear that this did not include any of the lavish displays of status that were increasingly common on elite tombs in Matthew’s context. Through a critical analysis of both text and funerary archaeology, this presentation explores how the author of Matthew and his earliest audiences responded to and participated in cultural and socioeconomic changes induced by geopolitical shifts in the Roman East.
Biography
Dr. Tony Keddie is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Fellow of the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin. An award-winning social historian, Keddie’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections of religion and economics in the Roman East, particularly among Jews and Christians in Judea and Asia Minor. He is the author of four books, including Class and Power in Roman Palestine; co-editor of five books, including Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East; and author of more than two dozen articles.
Registration required. Follow this link to register: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/wggxz9iBS2WOCEFg3nGIUA

Preserving Cultural Heritage & Uncovering Hidden Histories: USACE Walla Walla Archaeology
2025-10-30 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College Maxey Hall 207, 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Please join us to hear a talk by Leah Bonstead and Scott Hall, archaeologists with the Walla Walla district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Preservation and exploration of local and regional histories is a critical and often overlooked responsibility of federal organizations. At USACE, archaeologists are dedicated to the ethical stewardship of cultural heritage, working closely with tribes, environmental planners, engineers, and state historical-resource organizations. Come learn more about the work of our Walla Walla district archaeologists in this endeavor.

Water Histories: How 8,000 Years of Fluctuating Lake Levels in North-Central Florida Affected Indigenous Land Use and Regional Interactions
2025-10-29 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100, 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
Recent survey of a tract of public land on Lake Pithlachocco in Alachua County, Florida revealed an 8,000-year record of horizontal stratigraphy extending 500m from and 5m above the modern lake shore. The first half of this record reflects the mid-Holocene expansion of surface water regionally, but the second half reflects a regime of low-frequency, high-magnitude flooding to which lakeside dwellers adapted their land use. Besides affecting settlement choices, fluctuating surface water impacted the potential of regional travel by boat, connecting Lake Pithlachocco to places far afield during extreme hydroperiods and stranding it from flow during extreme droughts.

From Berlin to Berkeley: The History of the Edward Gans Collection of Seals and Its Hidden Gems – a Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
2025-10-29 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | MO
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures currently houses the Edward Gans Collection of Seals, comprising almost seven hundred seals and seal-related objects from a variety of periods, extending from the Neolithic Middle East to Post-classical Mesoamerica. Since 2023, a new team of Berkeley scholars has been working on the collection to prepare it for digital publication, and this talk arises from the provenance research undertaken as part of that project. This talk will highlight the fascinating story of how the Gans Collection came to be and the legacy of Nazi persecution that shaped the collection’s history, while also featuring several Sasanian seals in the collection of particular significance. This is one of the annual Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lectures.

Sweden and the Baltic: A Story Told Through Trade - An International Archaeology Day Lecture
2025-10-28 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | National Arts Club, Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The Archaeology Committee is honored to welcome Ambassador von Uexküll, Sweden’s Deputy Representative to the United Nations, to our International
Archaeology Day Celebration, exploring how trade has shaped integration, prosperity, and identity in Sweden and across the Baltic Sea region.
From Viking voyages to Hanseatic dominance, commerce has long connected cultures around the Baltic and beyond. During Sweden’s Age of Great Power (Stormaktstiden), trade routes became strategic assets though efforts to control them often failed.
Global transactions later fueled the Industrial Revolution and continues to influence politics. From ancient customs to modern cooperation, trade remains a defining force in the region’s history – and its future.

The Origins of the Alphabet and How It Spread Across the World
2025-10-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | MO
Public Lecture by Professor Wayne T. Pitard
Abstract:
Essentially all of the alphabetic scripts in the world descend from a single script invented probably during the 20th century BCE by a Canaanite in the southern Levant. This lecture will provide a tour of the extraordinary development of the alphabet from its beginnings to its eventual spread across the Mediterranean and the world. We will examine the script’s origin and how the signs were conceptualized by their creator(s). We will look at the alphabet’s extension, first across the eastern Mediterranean where it developed into the distinctive Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic scripts, and then moved southward into the Arabian Peninsula, where it evolved into the Arabic system. Then we will examine how the early alphabet, which only expressed consonants, was revolutionized by the Greeks, who began using some of the letters as vowels. We will follow the development of the Greek alphabet into both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets that exist throughout Europe and much of northern Asia. Finally, we will touch upon the spread of the Arabic alphabet across northern Africa and eastward into India, and the Latin alphabet’s movement to the Americas and parts of southern Africa during the European colonial period of the 15th-20th centuries. All of this has made the alphabetic writing system the most widespread method of writing in the world.

Jodi Magness - The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
2025-10-27 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210, United States
Monday Oct. 27, 5:00 – 6:00, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Room TBA
Jodi Magness
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism
Department of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
In 1946-1947, the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by accident near the site of Qumran. Eventually the remains of approximately 1000 scrolls were found in 11 caves surrounding Qumran. In this slide-illustrated lecture, we explore the archaeological remains of Qumran, which was inhabited by members of a Jewish sect who deposited the scrolls in the nearby caves, and examine the meaning and significance of the scrolls.

Spokane AIA Book Club
2025-10-26 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | MO
This is the inaugural meeting of a new archaeology-focused book club sponsored by the Spokane chapter. We will likely meet monthly to discuss archeological news, books and to socialize among local archaeology enthusiasts.

Slip Into the Past
2025-10-25 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Alexandria Archaeology Museum, 105 N Union St, #327, Alexandria, VA, 22314, United States
Experiment with 19th-century pottery slip designs, like marbling and dendritic patterns, and apply your own temporary tattoo in the style of transfer printed ceramic. Take part in this free, walk-in activity between 12 and 4 p.m. at the Alexandria Archaeology Museum. While supplies last. This event coincides with the Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Art Safari, happening throughout the building.

Archaeology Day – University of Alberta
2025-10-25 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | Business/ Tory Atrium, University of Alberta, 11211 Saskatchewan Dr NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Archaeology Day
Presented by The Department of History, Classics, and Religion and the Department of Anthropology, in collaboration with the Archaeological Institute of America.
Generous funding for this event is also provided by the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta
October 25, 2025
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Tory/Business Atrium, North Campus, University of Alberta
Join us for Archaeology Day! An event to celebrate and learn about research, teaching, and outreach related to archaeology at the University of Alberta. The event will include talks about current research and community engagement being done by staff, activities like stone tool making, pottery drawing, a student poster competition, tours of the Archaeology Labs and WG Hardy Classics Museum, other fun demonstrations, and information tables about archaeology in the province.
The event is hosted by the Department of Anthropology and the Department of History, Classics, and Religion, in collaboration with the Archaeological Institute of America.
This is a free public event and is family friendly!
Schedule of Events:
10:00 a.m. Event Opening
10:30 a.m. Flint Knapping and Stone Tool Demonstration
11:00 a.m. Talk: So you would like to become a Mediterranean Archaeologist? Opportunities at the University of Alberta, Dr. Margriet Haagsma, Professor, Dept. of History, Classics, and Religion, Room TBD
12:00 p.m. Student Poster Competition.
01:00 p.m. Talk: Stories Objects Carry: Working with Legacy Collections and Building Relationships, Christine Conciatori, Director, University of Alberta Museums, Room TBD
02:00 p.m. Public Archaeology activity
02:30 p.m. Flint Knapping and Stone Tool Demonstration
03:00 p.m. Pottery Drawing
04:00 p.m. Event Closing
Throughout the day there will be information tables, tours of the WG Hardy Museum, Archaeology Lab, Fossil Hominid Lab, and other activities.
Note that the Second Cup café will be open from 10-4!
Vendor participants will include:
– Archaeological Institute of America
– UAlberta Archaeology Certificate Program
– Bodo Archaeology
– Archaeological Society of Alberta
– Humayma Excavation Project
– Carthage Lamp Lab
– Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology
– UAlberta Anthropology Undergraduate Association
– Archaeology Survey of Alberta
– Cultural Resource Management Firms
