This exhibit celebrates the 20th year of the Community Achaeology Program at SUNY Schenectady County Community College. The exhibit includes artifacts from the French and Indian War, as well as from colonial and early American life. It is located at SUNY Schenectady's Begely Library, and is open all semester to the public. For hours, visit: […]
Wampanoag World: Patuxet to Plymouth is an exhibition at the Pilgrim Hall Museum through December. The exhibit captures the vitality and persistence of the Wampanoag peoples of Patuxet through 10,000 years of lived experience and features displays of archaeological artifacts from the region.
Discussion with Dr. Nicholas Bellantoni, nicknamed "Connecticut's Indiana Jones, about his tenure as an archaeologist and his new book: "The Long Journeys Home: The Repatriations of Henry 'Opukaha'ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk." The book details how Henry Opukaha'ia (c.1792–1818), a Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (c.1879–1900), an Oglala Lakota, each individually decided to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut. Though […]
The 3rd Conference on “Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development” (UPADSD), to be held in Italy, follows the success of previous meetings 2015, 2017. It has become apparent that contrivers, environmentalists, architects, technologist, policy Creator and economist have to work together in parliamentary law to ensure that planning and evolution can meet our […]
In the not too distant past, most archaeologists believed that most of the world’s islands were not inhabited until relatively recent times, after the introduction of food producing Neolithic economies. In recent years, however, convincing evidence has emerged for far earlier Paleolithic occupations, such as on of Flores in Indonesia, home of the controversial “hobbit” […]
Rachel Egan, M.A. University of Colorado Boulder When the Volcano Erupts: Lessons from the Archaeological Record on Human Adaptation to Catastrophic Environments How do repeated disasters shape and strengthen communities? The Tilarán-Arenal region of Costa Rica is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world, but despite the risk, from the advent of […]
Gender Numismatics. Fluid Identities and Ancient Coinage International Workshop, University of Tübingen, November 29-30, 2018 Recent archaeological studies have acknowledged that the function and meaning of ancient material culture is both resulting in and generative of habits, values, norms, and behaviors in a given society requiring a new set of interpretative methodologies. To that end, […]
This international workshop seeks to explore the complexity and dynamics of gender roles in the ancient Mediterranean. Focus is on coinage as a source material that has so far rarely been investigated in terms of gender studies, although it provides critical evidence as medium of exchange, of communication, of power and authority on practical and symbolic levels. While the archaeological […]
OIKOS Archaeological approaches to House Societies in the ancient Aegean International Workshop organised by AEGIS at the UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 6th-7th December 2018. 1st Circular Conveners: M. Relaki & J. Driessen "Lévi-Strauss was the first to recognize the potential of Houses as “moral persons holding an estate made up of material and immaterial wealth which […]
"How do social networks evolve over huge time-scales? How did geography constrain or enhance the development of past social networks? These are fundamental questions in both the study of the human past and network research, yet our ability to answer them is severely hampered by the limited development of spatiotemporal network methods. PastNet is an […]
7th INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE PeCla 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th PeClA 2018 International Postgraduate Conference (Perspectives on Classical Archaeology) will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Thursday and Friday, 06th – 07th December 2018 PeClA 2018 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral […]
"The 7th PeClA 2018 International Postgraduate Conference (Perspectives on Classical Archaeology) will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Thursday and Friday, December 6-7th, 2018 PeClA 2018 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral students traditionally offering a space for presenting research results, discussion, and an exchange […]
ARCE-PA Lecture & Holiday Party Dr. Steve Harvey, Director, Ahmose and Tetisheri Project, Abydos, EGYPT Understanding Ancient Egyptian Comics: Conversations, Quarrels, and Songs in Ancient Egyptian Tombs ABSTRACT Since Egyptian hieroglyphs could first be read again in the modern era, it has been recognized that texts recorded on tomb walls include conversations, speeches, songs, and […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Julia Troche, Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Missouri State University Deified Dead in the Pyramid Age Sunday, December 9, 3 pm Room 20 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley Campus […]
Lecture by Professor James Hoffmeier of Trinity International University Co-sponsored by the Missouri History Museum
It is now almost 20 years since the discovery here in Portugal, in December 1998, of the Lapedo child skeleton (LV1). This finding was extremely important for human phylogeny history and triggered a series of debates in the scientific community. In fact, some of the features of the skeleton suggested that the LV1 fossil resulted from interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern human populations. An international team with several […]
The Save Cultural Heritage Group and its partners are organizing the International Archaeology Day at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad to provide an opportunity to share knowledge and experience which in turn foster a better understanding of both challenges and opportunities in the art, architecture and archaeology, and related cultural heritage sectors in Pakistan.
"The 2019 MLA Annual Convention will be held in Chicago from January 3 to 6. The presidential theme for the convention is Textual Transactions. We’re pleased to be collaborating with the American Historical Association, which will hold its annual meeting in Chicago from January 3 to 6. To promote interdisciplinary collaboration, the MLA and the AHA […]
