Events

Celebration of International Archaeology Day (IAD): Archaeology Book Club

Please join us for our inaugural Archaeology Book Club meeting! Ashley Morton will be leading us in a discussion of Sarah Moss' novel, Ghost Wall ("a taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior..."). Advance registration is required.  

Celebration of International Archaeology Day (IAD): Archaeology Book Club

Ashley Morton will be leading us in a discussion of Sarah Moss’ novel, Ghost Wall (“a taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior…”). Come celebrate International Archaeology Day with us! This event will be hosted online, via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Please use the […]

Weapons, Warfare, and Women

Whitman College, Maxey Hall 413-461 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, United States

The Dangerous Lives of Early Bronze Age Women in Central Anatolia Speaker: Stephanie Selover Abstract: In archaeology and art history, women of the ancient world are often identified through stereotypically “feminine” materials such as jewelry or weaving tools. This study of ancient cultures and the rise of early urbanism in the Early Bronze Age (ca. […]

Tracing Ancient Tunes: Reconstructing the Lost Melodies of Greek Tragedy

Lecturer: Anna Conser (Whitman College) This talk will introduce what is known about ancient music and the music of Greek tragedy in particular. It calls attention to the fact that the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were originally musicals, which featured spectacular song-and-dance sequences composed by the poets themselves. Unfortunately, no sheet music or […]

The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia

Lecturer: Miriam Stark (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Angkor’s first great king, Jayavarman II, established Cambodia’ Angkorian state on the banks of the Tonle Sap in 802 CE and built his first capital, Mahendraparvata, on the slope of the nearby Kulen mountains. What followed were six centuries of political competition, warfare, and imperial rule by […]

Celebration of International Archaeology Day (IAD). William J. Roberts Lecture: The Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos, Oregon’s Beeswax Wreck

Whitman College, Olin Hall 129 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, United States

Lecturer: Scott Williams, Maritime Archaeological Society The Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos left the Philippine Islands for the Port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) in July 1693, loaded with Asian luxury goods of silk, fine cottons, porcelain, spices, art- and beeswax, in large blocks and candles. The ship, undermanned and with an inexperienced […]