ROMAN TOILETS: THE BLACK HOLES OF ANCIENT SPACE with Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow What can Roman toilets teach us about daily life in ancient Rome? What does the archaeology of these structures reveal about Roman hygiene, public sanitation, customs related to purity or cleanliness? In a talk that investigates and illustrates some key examples of public […]

THE LEPERS IN THE LAB: HUMAN SKELETONS FROM AN EARLY CHRISTIAN CEMETERY IN THEBES, GREECE with Maria A. Liston This webinar presents evidence for the late Roman/early Byzantine leprosy epidemic that affected Thebes, and probably a much wider area of Greece. It also will look at individuals who were buried in two mass graves, suggesting […]

BLOGGING ARCHAEOLOGY with Dr. Smiti Nathan An archaeologist's daily life is quite different than the images portrayed in popular movies and media. However, there is still plenty of discovery, adventure, and personality. Blogging has offered archaeologists the opportunity to communicate both their work and their lives in a personalized and ongoing way that departs from […]

DIGGING DEEPER: HOW ARCHAEOLOGY WORKS with Professor Eric Cline An internationally renowned archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Prof. Eric H. Cline has conducted fieldwork from Greece and Crete to Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. Drawing on his forthcoming book, Digging Deeper, Cline will answer questions that archaeologists are most frequently asked: How […]

MILLENNIUM ON THE MERIDIAN: TRACKING THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT SOUTHWEST with Steve Lekson "Twenty years ago, I suggested that three sequential capitals of the US Southwest -- Chaco, Aztec Ruins, and Casas Grandes -- were deliberately aligned north-south of each other, more-or-less on a meridian. Two decades of new data largely support this reconstruction, […]