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 […]
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 Please note that this talk will be in-person only because it includes a report on unpublished material.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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Nicholas Brown, University of Iowa
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 […]
William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics
Fillets were long, ritualized textile bands most familiar to Classicists in the form of victory ribbons conferred as prizes in poetic, athletic, and martial contests. Artistic renderings of the bands in more permanent forms of visual art, such as in victor statues like Polykleitos’ Diadoumenos, memorialized this symbolic capital of adornment with which Greeks distinguished […]
The Central Missouri Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in co-sponsorship with the University of Missouri, is proud to present the annual Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology. Lecturer: Dr. Lindsey A. Mazurek, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University Bloomington Abstract: Part of Rome’s main port city of Ostia […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
