• From Farmers to Kings: The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistoric Europe

    Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College 1 Quinlan St, Lynchburg, VA, United States

    Lecture by William Parkinson; William (Bill) Parkinson is an archaeologist who specializes in European and Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory. His anthropological and archaeological research explores the social dynamics of early village societies and the emergence of early states. He has over 30 years of experience conducting archaeological fieldwork and developing museum exhibitions for the Field Museum. […]

  • Jon Frey’s The Origins of Roman Bathing at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia

    Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College 1 Quinlan St, Lynchburg, VA, United States

    Oscar Broneer Memorial Lecture In addition to being one of the most recognizable monuments at the site, the Roman Bath at Isthmia in Greece continues to yield surprising discoveries. Excavations in the 1960s through the 1980s revealed not only the 2nd c. CE structure but also parts of an earlier Greek-period pool of impressive dimensions—a […]