We are privileged that the Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addresses the National Arts Club on the occasion of International Archaeology Day, the committee's most significant annual lecture. Ambassador Miller discusses The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, established in 1984 and located at the University of Haifa, whose installations display the […]
Join us for a free, fun night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries. Explore the art of craft beer making from 6:00 to 7:00 pm with the founders of Bow & Arrow Brewing Co., based in Albuquerque, […]
Dr. Tiffany Fulkerson will discuss her work on PNW studies. Home to the sʔukʷnaʔqín (Okanogan) people, the Okanogan Highlands of northern Washington is a region characterized by mountainous terrain with diverse habitats ranging from forests to desert shrub-steppe. While oral traditions and archaeological and ethnographic data speak to a long history of cultural use of […]
The second presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America Dayton Society's 2024-2025 Lecture Series presented by Dr. Brad Lepper, Senior Archaeologist World Heritage Program, Ohio History Connection Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio is one of the largest and most spectacular earthen sculptures in the world. The age of the serpent is a subject of […]
Available 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 […]
Lecture by Dr. Glenn Schwartz Whiting Professor of Archaeology Near Eastern Studies Department The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Society AIA Lecture at Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus Gilman Hall Room 50
Thousands of Plains farmers settled along Ponca creek in northeastern Nebraska during the latter decades of the 13th century, in the midst of a wave of social change and dislocation across the mid-continent as Cahokia collapsed and drought spread widely over much of North America. In contrast to the small homesteads on the central Plains […]
Native American tribes across the U.S. have historically been dispossessed of their traditional homelands lands through legal maneuvering, formal policy, and outright deceit. Working with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe of California received some of their historic homelands back in 2021. Since then, the Tribe has collaborated with the Placer […]
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
The Arkansas Archeological Survey and Arkansas Archeological Society are co-hosting a new Virtual Lecture Series, called “Archeology in Pajamas,” from Fall 2024 through Spring 2025. Have you been interested in attending a talk but weren’t wanting to travel far distances, battle inclement weather, or leave the house because you aren’t feeling up to coming to […]
Lecture presented by Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos, Professor of Greek History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and director of the Ilklaina Archaeological Project in Greece.
In-person lecture Saturday, December 14, 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Classroom 2 A holiday party will follow the lecture Speaker: Dr. Shelby Justl Title: Researching in the arc-“hives”: Ancient Egyptian honey and beekeeping Abstract: With no sugarcane until 710 AD, honey was the major sweetener for ancient Egyptian food and wines, an important ingredient in […]
