Replacing Empires. The Archaeology of Political Transformation and Spatial Dynamics in 1st Millennium BCE Mesopotamia
TBA (Columbus) Columbus, OH, United StatesKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
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From Farmers to Kings: The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistoric Europe 2
TBA (Lynchburg 1) Lynchburg, VA, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA
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Punitive Labor and Enslavement in the Roman Bakery
Semans Auditorium (Room 117), Belk Visual Arts Center 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, United StatesAbout the lecture: In 2023, excavators in Pompeii found a bakery in the Casa di Rustio Vero that was separated from the house—and the rest of the world—by metal bars. The excavators interpreted the bars as an indication of incarceration and the use of convicts as labor. This lecture explores the evidence for convict labor […]
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Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy
Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, the Mall at Wellington Green 10300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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The Origins of the Alphabet and How It Spread Across the World
Knight Auditorium, The Spurlock Museum(UIUC) 600 S.Gregory Street, Urbana, IL 61801, Illinois, United StatesPublic 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 […]
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Bone by Bone: The Commingled Remains from the Tomb at Tell Abraq, UAE (2200-2000 BC)
TBA (North Coast)Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time TBA
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Petra’s Forgotten Past
TBA (Vancouver) Vancouver, British ColumbiaMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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The Elk Ridge Community in the Mimbres Pueblo World
TBA (Gainesville 1) Gainesville, FL, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA
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AIA Archaeology Hour February 2026: Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire
Join the AIA for a virtual trip to West Africa as Akin Ogundiran delivers the February AIA Archaeology Hour talk "Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Register here!
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The Making of Myth & Marble: Bringing the Torlonia Sculptures to the U.S.
Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Life, Death, and Disease: Insights form Petra’s Tombs and Cemeteries 3
TBA (Western Massachusetts) Northampton, MA, United StatesKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
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New Approaches to Roman Urbanism: The Excavations of the Falerii Novi Project (Lazio, Italy) 2
TBA (Central Missouri) MO, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA