Ancient Technology Fair
A mix of ancient crafts, demonstrations, and brief lectures on ancient technology
12 events found.
Events
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Rivers Edge Conservation Center 20 North 1st Street, Fort Dodge, United States
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Burying Tutankhamun: Ritual, Politics, and the Making of a King
240 Art Building West Iowa City, United StatesDr. Nicholas Brown, University of Iowa
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The Romans in India and the Indian Ocean
CU Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, CO, United States -
Evidence of Mobile Religious Practice from Roman Coins
Pattee Auditorium, Center for Science and Business, Monmouth College 700 E. Broadway, Monmouth, IL, United StatesWilliam E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics
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The Changing Power of the Past at the Late Bronze Age Cemetery of Aidonia, Greece
Campbell Hall 160 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States -
“The Myth of Merit in Greek Aesthetic Thought” presented by Dr. Mary C. Danisi
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Richards Hall 15, Lincoln, NE, United StatesFillets 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 […]
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Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology: “Building an Africani Community at Ostia: Diasporic Identity in the Square of the Corporations” presented by Dr. Lindsey A. Mazurek
Swallow Hall 101 507 S 9th Street, Columbia, MO, United StatesThe 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 […]
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Ariadne’s Thread: Weaving 200,000 Years of Naxos’ History
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Room 125 434 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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“The Changing Power of the Past at the Late Bronze Age Cemetery of Aidonia, Greece”
Jepson Hall, Room 109 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, United StatesLecture by Lynne Kvapil (Professor of Classics, Butler University)
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Working with texts from the Koldewey expedition to Babylon. Insights from the “Governance in Babylon” project.
303 Paterson Hall Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaSpeaker: Odette Boivin (University of Toronto) - focuses on archival, everyday Babylonian documents and historiographic sources. Robert Koldewey and his team excavated in Babylon between 1899 and 1917, carrying out foundational work for our understanding of the city of Babylon and contributing to develop and establish archaeological standards in the early days of the discipline. […]
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Into the Mani: Death, Burial, and Legend on the Southern Greek Mainland
Concordia University, Denault Auditorium 1530 Concordia West, Irvine, CA, United StatesCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Alumni Lecture
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Worlds Forever Changed: The Rio Grande Pueblos, First Contact, and the Vázquez de Coronado Expedition (1540-1542)
Pecos Trail CaféMatthew Schmader (University of New Mexico) The huge exploration led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was the first contact between Ancestral Rio Grande Pueblos and outsiders. Its intended goals failed and the expedition spent the whole winter of 1540-1541 camped in village that was taken over from Southern Tiwa residents. Distrust and strife broke out […]