Presented by Dr. Donald Ryan After nearly two hundred years of exploration, and over ninety years since the finding of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, the Valley of the Kings continues to produce new surprises, insights, and puzzles. In this lecture, archaeologist/ Egyptologist Donald P. Ryan will share some of his recent discoveries while […]
Presented by Dr. Brian Buchanan The island of Great Britain witnessed dramatic changes between the 4th and 9th centuries CE due to the withdrawal of Roman authority, climatic change, migration, and cultural transmission of cultural and religious identities. This was particularly true in central Britain along the modern Anglo-Scottish border, which in the beginning of […]
"Prehispanic Turkey Domestication, Husbandry, and Management in the North American Southwest" Presented by Dr. Cyler Conrad Turkeys played a significant role in prehispanic Ancestral Puebloan life in the North American Southwest. Used for a variety of socio-economic purposes, including for feathers, meat, eggs, creation of bone tools and as an iconographic figure, turkey remains appear […]
Dr. Pedar Foss (Depauw University) It has long been held, on the basis of a letter of Pliny the Younger, that Mt. Vesuvius erupted on 24 August, AD 79. But after excavators began to work at the sites of Herculaneum at Pompeii, some scholars expressed doubts, suggesting a date later in the autumn of that […]
Dr. Pedar Foss (Depauw University) The text of Pliny’s letters for the eruption of Vesuvius may give one date, but what if that date is wrong? How else could we check? This talk follows on the lecture about manuscript and inscriptional evidence to look at the archaeological data for climate, sunlight, coinage, clothing worn by […]
Dr. Eric Poehler (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Please note--this lecture has been replaced by a live WEBINAR by Dr. Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of Washington), the link for registration is as follows: Meeting ID: 500-211-071 Registration URL: https://gonzaga.zoom.us/meeting/register/uJQtdeiprjwrwZ6i4__mBnJxE6sUvDZHFQ This talk brings to life Pompeii’s purpose-built brothel, the only assured brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity. We take a virtual tour of the structure’s material evidence, […]
Please note--this lecture has been replaced by a live WEBINAR by Dr. Andrew Goldman (Gonzaga University), the link for registration is as follows: GoToWebinar Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2186968616064584460 Abstract: The Roman gladiators were the ultimate fighters, famous for their blood-thirsty behavior and the kill-or-be-killed world in which they lived. Or so they are often depicted, in modern […]
