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  • Ancient Nubia: Reframing Power Dynamics in the Nile Valley

    UNCG Greensboro

    Nubiologist Caroline Rocheleau discusses the NCMA’s fall exhibition Ancient Nubia: Excavating Treasures of the Nile and how it helps reframe power dynamics in the Nile Valley. Discover how the exhibition debunks George Reisner’s biased understanding of the Kingdom of Kush by using archaeology as the interpretive framework to reveal how knowledge of Nubia has been […]

  • November AIA Archaeology Hour with Joe Bagley: An Archaeology of the Battle of Bunker Hill

    Join the AIA as Joe Bagley (City of Boston) presents the November AIA Archaeology Hour talk of the 2026-2027 season: “An Archaeology of the Battle of Bunker Hill.” This presentation will be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Register Here! This lecture will also be available in American Sign […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Screening: What was the REAL Paleodiet?

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian). The modern "paleo" diet movement makes many assumptions about what our ancient humans ate. But are these assumptions accurate, based on what we know about past diets? Presenting a variety of lines of evidence for prehistoric […]

  • Mirror, Mirror: The Many Lives of an Ancient Greek Wedding Vase

    C.W. Bill Young Hall (CWY), Room 108 12303 USF Genshaft Dr., Tampa, FL, United States

    Please join us for our final event of the Fall 2026 cycle. Please note that this talk will be in-person only because it includes a report on unpublished material. Here's a description of the talk from the speaker: A fifth-century Athenian wedding vase in the British Museum depicts a bride seated on her marriage bed, […]

  • Carver, Cleric, Soldier, Smith: Movers of the Late Antique Mediterranean

    Joseph Merrick Jones Hall 102 6801 Freret St, New Orleans, LA, United States

    Lecture by Prof. Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University) Abstract: Seafaring shaped the Mediterranean, generating social, economic, and other connections that enabled the Roman Empire. The unraveling of Rome’s political unity in late antiquity offers an opportunity to examine how these individual links—the people, objects, and processes—intertwined to create a broader network. In this talk, I examine […]

  • Jade Caches and Turtle Pots: The Rise and Fall of the Earliest Ballcourt Sites in the Northern Maya Lowlands

    Hybrid via Zoom Simulcast

    Around 3,000 years ago, a few intrepid farming families braved the journey into the remote Puuc hills of the Northern Maya lowlands and founded the earliest villages in the region. Over the course of several generations, these communities grew into planned civic centers complete with large central platforms and ballcourts. Small-scale communities like Xanab Chak […]

  • New Ways of Seeing the Past: Machine Learning, X-ray Fluorescence, and the Coins of Rome and ancient Judea

    Michigan State University Library, Room 360 Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, United States

    Yanniv David Levy is a researcher and curator in the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), with a specialty in experimental technologies and numismatics. In addition to managing the Mediterranean’s largest collection of ancient coins with archaeological provenance, Yanniv has worked extensively with computer scientists on machine learning applications for the study of […]