Dr. Palitha Kohona — Sri Lanka’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, former Head of the UN Treaty Section, and former Ambassador to China — discusses the importance of Sri Lanka to the Chinese Silk Road. Sitting in the middle of the Indian Ocean at the southern tip of India, meeting point of monsoon winds and swirling […]
On Thursday, Nov. 27th, 530-630pm, Dr. Scott Gallimore will deliver the key-note lecture, Looking for People Behind the Crafts: Evidence for Production and Industry at Sikyon, Greece, as part of a two-day student conference. This lecture will take place at Concordia University in MB 2.130.
On Tuesday, December 2nd, at 400pm Dr. Claire Balandier (Université d’Avignon) will deliver the lecture, L’Urbanisme de Chypre À L’époque Hellénistique. This lecture will take place in the Centre d’Études Classiques, Room 515-43 (3744 Rue Jean-Brillant). The lecture will be in French
Since 2007, the Gabii Project has launched archaeological initiative aiming at understanding the long trajectory of a Latin center from its formation phase to the end of its ancient life. Five city blocks have been extensively excavated exposing a continuous sequence of occupation spanning from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity. This talk will […]
Join us for a free, fun night at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology! Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries. All ages are welcome. Explore Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic, a new, innovative exhibition that documents the art collective TRES’s journey along the beaches […]
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Alison Futrell (University of Arizona). In ancient-Roman ‘arenas’ — structures and spaces like the Colosseum in Rome — mass events were staged that exaggerated, aestheticized, and then normalized extreme and shocking forms of violence, deploying a twisted, voyeuristic ‘pleasure’ […]
In Person Teen Program Games of the Ancient Near East: Teen Saturdays Workshop Saturday, December 13, 1:00–3:30 pm, Advance registration required Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge Leer en español Travel back in time and explore some of the world’s oldest board games from the ancient Near East! In this […]
ZOOM lecture by Douglas Scott (Retired Supervisory Archaeologist with the National Park Service); he will draw upon his experiences at the Little Big Horn battlefield and at various Civil War battlefields to understand this fascinating category of archaeological site.
Join us for a lecture by WSU grad Student Jordan Thompson on early Northwest culture. Abstract: Mountain environments and resources have played a significant role in Indigenous cultural and subsistence lifeways and knowledge systems yet remain underrepresented in landscape research. Recent archaeological evidence points to the Southern Columbia Plateau as an early entry point for […]
Speaker: Chelsea A.M. Gardner (Acadia University) The Mani peninsula is the literal (geographical) and metaphorical “end of the world”, since it occupies the southernmost point of mainland Greece and the mythical entrance to Hades, the ancient Greek underworld. Mani’s occupation history includes being home to the earliest hominid caves in Greece up to modern tower-houses […]
Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lectures Time TBA
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
