Shannon Dunn is a Ph.D. candidate at Bryn Mawr College (ABD, expected 2024), Her dissertation is titled, "Peloponnesian Border Sanctuaries”. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr (M.A.) and Colorado College (B.A.). Her research interests include: Greek polytheism and cult regionalism; maritime religion; the relationship between landscape, mythology, and cult practice; and early modern reception of antiquity; contemporary issues of cultural heritage. She is the Bass lecturer for the AIA's 2023-2024 National Lecture Program.
For reservations or questions, please email us at aia@studytours.org (and include your full name) or call us toll-free at (800) 748-6262 (toll: 603-756-2884). Many of the most magnificent and best-preserved ancient Greek and Roman sites are found along Türkiye’s beautiful Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Visit world-famous, plus little-visited yet spectacular, Greco-Roman sites, Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, and Ottoman palaces. Your engaging AIA lecturer/host, Yaşar Ersoy, teaches classical art and archaeology and has been doing fieldwork in…
July 19, 2023 @ 11:00 am
Join the Nashville Parthenon for a free virtual talk on July 19 at 11 AM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public. Register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dzYvt4DXQgCZraTHv7leag#/registration ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: Panagiotis Kotsanas, of the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, will share about replicas of ancient Greek technologies and how his museum in Greece uses replicas to help visitors learn about ancient technologies, innovations, and more. This talk is inspired by the…
April 20, 2024
Join us for a unique look at the history, architecture, archaeology, and art of Morocco in the company of Professor Emeritus Trevor Marchand and a professional national guide/ tour manager. Explore the magnificent landscapes that helped form the country’s ancient and modern cultures, from the wild Atlantic coast to the High Atlas Mountains, dense cedar forests, and vast Sahara Desert. It is a land of extraordinary contrasts, and on this custom-designed itinerary you will visit…
To celebrate our 2023 Fellowship recipients, we will be spotlighting each of our winners in news stories on the AIA website. We have reached out to our winners to learn about their projects and about their experiences in archaeology. We’re excited for you to meet Lisa Nevett, one of the AIA-NEH Grant recipients for this year. Lisa Nevett is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology with…
To celebrate our 2023 Grant recipients, we will be spotlighting each of our winners in news stories on the AIA website. We have reached out to our winners to learn about their projects and about their experiences in archaeology. We’re excited for you to meet Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, one of the Kathleen And David Boochever Grant recipients for this year. Kathleen and David Boochever Grant Recipient: Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez (he/him); The University of Haifa What…
Every year, thousands of irreplaceable archaeological sites around the world are destroyed by development, looting, vandalism, warfare, environmental changes, and irresponsible tourism. To date, the AIA's Site Preservation Program has saved over 30 threatened archaeological sites across five continents! The Site Preservation Grant provides $15,000 to fund innovative conservation projects that uphold the AIA's mission to preserve and protect the world's archaeological heritage for future generations. The winner of this year's Site Preservation Grant is…
April 15, 2023 @ 10:30 am
The final presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America's Dayton Society 2022-2023 Lecture Series presented by Northern Cheyenne Tribe citizen Marsha Small, M.A. from Montana State University and Dr. Jarrod Burks from Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc. Since 2016 Marsha Small and Jarrod Burks have been conducting geophysical investigations to identify the locations of over 200 unmarked burials at the Chemawa Boarding School in Salem, OR. The school originally opened in 1880 and today is one…
April 3, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
University of New Hampshire - Open Archaeology and Anthropology Day - featuring NH Archeological Society members Experiment with flint knapping, atlatl throwing, and excavation! Learn about anthropology and experience cultural diversity! Location: Piscataqua Room, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH 03824, USA. For more information contact Ashley Schubert ashley.schubert@unh.edu or AnneTorres annetorres@unh.edu
April 26, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
White Mountain National Forest Archaeology: An Evening With Heritage Staff - NHAS Sarah Jordan, Heritage Program Manager and Forest Archaeologist, Claire Sleeman, Assistant Forest Archaeologist, Genevieve Everett, Archaeological Technician, White Mountain National Forest The White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) comprises 800,000 acres of federally managed land in three New Hampshire counties, Grafton, Carroll, and Coos, and Oxford County in Maine. The 800,000 acres are split into three districts, the Pemigewasset, Saco and Androscoggin, where Forest…
April 13, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Where's the Beach?: A Decade of surveying Minong's Relict Nipissing Shoreline - NHAS Seth DePasquale, Cultural Resource Manager, Isle Royale National Park (Minong) Since 2012, the cultural resource program at Isle Royale National Park has conducted focused archaeological survey work on the island’s Nipissing beach, a relict Lake Superior shoreline dating to approximately 5,000 BP. The 2022 field season celebrated 10 years of this annual research project, which has yielded many interesting results. To date,…
April 1, 2023 @ 9:50 am
Registration opens at 9 am with sessions starting at 10 am. Registration: $10 at the door. Complimentary with Student ID. All times below are approximate. 9:00 am - Registration opens. Morning refreshments. 9:50 am - Welcome and opening remarks. 10:00 am The Place before the Park: An Archaeological Perspective on our Recreational Treasures. Mark Doperalski, NH State Archaeologist A presentation focusing on archaeological research conducted by the NH State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program (SCRAP)…
Image: Late Classic Polychrome Vase from Buenavista del Cayo, Belize (Courtesy of Jason Yaeger) The Southwest Texas Archaeological Society (San Antonio) has an active agenda planned for 2023. M. Kathryn Brown, President of the Society, shares an update with us below. "The Southwest Texas Archaeological Society has enjoyed returning to face-to-face lectures and gatherings and we are excited to be expanding our community. In fall of 2022, we shifted our lecture venue to the University of…
The field school takes place in the quaint Transylvanian village of Sânpetru, a few km from the city of Brasov, and aims to develop specific aspects of the broader Braşov Bioarchaeology Project (est. 2014), investigating biocultural diversity in medieval Transylvania. Two core objectives are: 1) To continue the post-excavation processing of human skeletal remains from the Braşov medieval cemetery (cleaning, organising, bagging); 2) To uncover new archaeological evidence through the excavation of areas of the…
This field school is an integral part of the major research project, the Monastic Midlands Project. It takes a holistic landscape scale approach to community based archaeological research, assessing several monasteries in the midlands region of Ireland. The program will examine the geological and glacial processes that shaped the landscape where the early saints founded their monasteries. We will then apply a range of survey techniques to interpret the sites they left behind, recording the structures,…
The ancient city of Stobi, which lies at the confluence of the Crna and Vardar (ancient Erigon and Axios) rivers, was the largest northern city of the Roman province of Macedonia. It later became the capital of the province Macedonia Secunda, an important urban, military, administrative, trade, and religious center of two large empires: The Roman and Early Byzantine. During the 2014-2018 field seasons, excavations were focused in an area next to one of the…
April 25, 2023 @ 6:30 pm
We’re now accepting abstracts for an opportunity to present at our Lightning Round Research Presentations which will take place as a hybrid event in Iowa City and virtually via Zoom. This lightning round is open to undergraduate and graduate students from Iowa colleges and universities. We welcome abstracts from anthropology, archaeology, art history, classics, history, and other related disciplines that engage with archaeological research from around the globe. Abstracts (200-300 words) are due no later…
March 15, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
In the summer of 2022, construction necessitated the relocation of a small 19th /20th century cemetery of nuns from southwest Denver. Before their reinterment, a team of local researchers and students worked with the Loretto Community to undertake a bioarchaeological analysis of the remains of the Sisters of Loretto. This ongoing project highlights community collaboration, education, and historical memory in the spirit of these women and their service to the Denver community. Bio: Lauren Hosek…
The Narragansett (Providence) Society celebrated International Archaeology Day 2022 by hosting its popular Community Archaeology Day for the first time since 2019. Anna Soifer, President of the Society, shares a full update with us below. “The AIA Narragansett Society (based in Providence, Rhode Island) has co-hosted a Community Archaeology Day for many years in celebration of International Archaeology Day and Rhode Island Archaeology Month. After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were…
February 9, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Since 2015, Justin Walsh and Alice Gorman have been leading the first archaeological study of a human habitation site in space, the International Space Station. In that time, they have studied crew-created visual displays, processes for handling cargo returned to Earth, population distributions in the various ISS modules, the use of simple technologies as "gravity surrogates," and more. Recently, they performed the first archaeological work in space, with the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE),…
