• The Southern Mani Archaeological Project: Fieldwork at the End of the World

    303 Paterson Hall Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Chelsea A.M. Gardner (Acadia University) The Mani peninsula is the literal (geographical) and metaphorical “end of the world”, since it occupies the southernmost point of mainland Greece and the mythical entrance to Hades, the ancient Greek underworld. Mani’s occupation history includes being home to the earliest hominid caves in Greece up to modern tower-houses […]

  • The Unknown Ottawa Project – working with colonial and indigenous assemblages from the Ottawa region

    303 Paterson Hall Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Laura Banducci – Carleton University This project involves the re-studying and digitization of artefacts from several assemblages from Lake Leamy Park, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers. This was a central meeting place from the earliest days of human occupation of the region, yet the materials are not well-published or easily […]