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  • “What Do We Owe to Already-Looted Objects?”

    Jepson Hall, Room 118 Richmond Way 221, Richmond, VA, United States

    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 Ecstasy and the Agony:Excavations at La Venta, Mexico, an Olmec Capital

    University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

    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 […]

  • Josef Wegner – Digging into Egypt’s Late Middle Kingdom, Recent Discoveries at the Anubis-Mountain Royal Necropolis, Abydos

    Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus Gilman Hall Room 50 Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus, BALTIMORE, MD, United States

    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

  • Soto’s Stuff: Spanish 16th Century Expeditions and What They Left Behind

    University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

    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 […]

  • From Farmers to Kings: The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistoric Europe

    Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College 1 Quinlan St, Lynchburg, VA, United States

    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. […]

  • Punitive Labor and Enslavement in the Roman Bakery

    Semans Auditorium (Room 117), Belk Visual Arts Center 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, United States

    About 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 […]

  • Egyptian Blue, humanity’s first inorganic pigment

    Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane, WA, United States

    Join us for a lecture by Professor John McCloy, Washington State University, who will present results of an investigation into the materials science and processing parameters to fabricate Egyptian blue faience. Recently, our group at Washington State University, with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, recreated Egyptian blue to […]

  • Piramesse – from the City of Wonders to Terra Incognita

    Online via Zoom PA, United States
    Virtual Event

    Saturday, February 21 3:30 pm EST Virtual on ZOOM FREE lecture; RSVP required for Zoom link Speaker: Dr. Henning Franzmeier, Senior Research Associate, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia Title: Piramesse - from the City of Wonders to Terra Incognita Abstract: Where today just a typical Egyptian village is located, surrounded by fertile, green fields, 3300 years […]

  • 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 States

    Public 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 […]