Burning Rings of Fire: Ancient Maya Resource Conservation Strategies
Trinity University, Room TBA 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX, United StatesAnawalt Lecture
Anawalt Lecture
Cohn Lecture Reception to follow
Lecture Series of the Central Arkansas Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society Free and open to the public. Begins at 6:00 PM.
A lecture by Torben Rick.
Norton Lecture
Ken Feder, Ph.D., of Central Connecticut State University asks if archaeologists should rewrite textbooks to include various archaeological oddities found in North America. While his short answer is no, that doesn't make the stories behind them any less interesting. He discusses claims of a hidden history these oddities suggest as described in his book "Archaeological […]
Gregorian Lecture Coffee reception in museum lobby following lecture
Numerous urban centers in the Bay of Naples were completely destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pompeii and Herculaneum are the most famous of these, but other areas were also affected and are less understood, even today, because of their location underneath modern development. The villa complex of Oplontis is one […]
Edward J. Bader Lecture Reception at 5:30 PM
A brief historical outline provides the context for an introduction to LiDAR technology and a demonstration of how LiDAR-derived imagery is being used as an adjunct to traditional methods in the search for early European settlement sites in the Merrymeeting Bay area. Also included are examples of how LiDAR imaging and analytics can be used […]