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  • The Gunboat at Ground Zero: A Revolutionary War Mystery

    Rye Free Reading Room 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, NY, United States

    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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • Linda Cordell and Her Many Contributions to Southwest Archaeology

    Pecos Trail Café 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    (Lecturers: Dr. Maxine McBrinn and Dr. Judith Habicht Mauche) Linda Cordell was extraordinarily active in southwestern archaeology during her resources in the work of others. Because of this, her influence extended well beyond her own students to those of many of her colleagues. One of her last personal endeavors was working with the Tijeras Pueblo […]

  • 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 […]

  • A Tour of the Ancient Mediterranean Galleries of the Princeton University Art Museum

    Princeton University Art Museum 45 Elm Drive, Princeton, NJ, United States

    Join us for a tour of the ancient Mediterranean galleries of the newly re-opened and highly anticipated Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM). The Museum’s collection of ancient Mediterranean and Byzantine art numbers more than 7,000 objects that were made and used throughout the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. […]

  • Society Sunday 2026 Public Lecture

    Virtual Event

    Marketing the Etruscans—From Mystery to Modern Media Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Jessica Tilley. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. Often deemed the ‘mysterious’ Etruscans, this pre-Roman civilization of early Italy has fought a hard-won battle in finding its place in the […]

  • 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 […]