Speaker: Laura Banducci – Carleton University This project involves the re-studying and digitization of artefacts from several assemblages from Lake Leamy Park, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Gatineau […]
Lecture by Elizabeth Marlowe, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art department at Colgate University (https://www.archaeological.org/lecturer/elizabeth-marlowe/)
The Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Lecture Provenance refers to an artwork’s history of ownership, from the time of its creation or archaeological discovery to the present. Provenance researchers track down a wide range of sources—scholarship, auction catalogs, financial records, inventories, correspondence, photographs, markings on artworks themselves, and more—to reconstruct an object’s past and retrace […]
Lecturer: Dr. Susan Gillespie Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida In 1942 and 1943, excavations revealed fabulous buried deposits of jade and other precious items in a very unexpected place: La Venta on Mexico’s southern Gulf coast, an area of swamps and tropical forest. These finds produced an “ecstatic” reaction in the world of archaeology […]
Wednesday Feb. 11, 5:30 - 6:30, Gilman Hall Room 50 Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus Dorothy Kent Hill Lecture Josef Wegner, University of Pennsylvania Digging into Egypt's Late Middle Kingdom, Recent Discoveries at the Anubis-Mountain Royal Necropolis, Abydos
Join us for discussion of innovative new approaches to the study of ancient coins! Dr. Melissa Ludke will discuss her numismatic work at early Roman Cosa and beyond. Dr. Ludke serves as Numismatic Specialist at the the Cosa (Terme) Excavations. She has published several papers on numismatics and is working on a book about Cosa […]
Join SGS Beta for an accessible introduction to radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dating and stable isotope applications in archaeology and related sciences. This webinar will cover the fundamentals of how radiocarbon dating […]
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
In 2010, archaeologists monitoring excavation at the World Trade Center redevelopment site made an extraordinary discovery: the remains of an 18th-century wooden gunboat buried deep beneath Manhattan’s historic landfill. Likely built near Philadelphia in the early 1770s, this Revolutionary War-era vessel once patrolled shallow waterways before being abandoned along the Hudson River. Preserved for over 200 years in oxygen-poor […]
Lecturer: Dr. Charles Cobb Lockwood Chair in Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History 2025 UF Research Foundation Professor Over the last decade, research by a collaboration of archaeologists has made considerable strides toward identifying sites visited by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto’s army in the American Southeast (A.D. 1539-1543). In addition to […]
Lecture by William Parkinson; William (Bill) Parkinson is an archaeologist who specializes in European and Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory. His anthropological and archaeological research explores the social dynamics of early village societies and the emergence of early states. He has over 30 years of experience conducting archaeological fieldwork and developing museum exhibitions for the Field Museum. […]
