Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Justin Dunnavant (UCLA). The development of plantation slavery radically transformed societies and environments in […]
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Helen Green (University of Melbourne). Australia hosts the world’s oldest continuing culture, and Aboriginal […]
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Akin Ogundiran (Northwestern University). Enclosures and perimeter walls, built of lateritic clay and stones, […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Danyelle Means (Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe). Have you noticed empty exhibit cases at museums over the past two years as museums move to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)? Means' […]
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Alison Futrell (University of Arizona). In ancient-Roman ‘arenas’ — structures and spaces like the Colosseum in Rome — mass events were staged that exaggerated, aestheticized, and then normalized extreme and shocking forms of violence, deploying a twisted, voyeuristic ‘pleasure’ […]
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University). The Marzamemi “church wreck” (as it has been labeled) — a 6th-century CE shipwreck found off the southeastern tip of Sicily, has long been interpreted as a symbol of the emperor Justinian’s ‘revival’ of a […]
Please join us to hear a talk by Leah Bonstead and Scott Hall, archaeologists with the Walla Walla district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Preservation and exploration […]
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Tate Paulette (North Carolina State University). The inhabitants of the "land between rivers" (Mesopotamia) […]
This lecture will focus on the many sole-ruling kandakas ('queens') of the ancient kingdom of Meroë (Kush/Nubia), including those who ruled contemporaneously with Cleopatra and with Roman aggressions and occupation […]
For many people, the word "archaeology" conjures up images of monuments, often interpreted as traces of the lives of powerful rulers who can seem to be inevitable parts of any […]
The history of archaeology as a scientific discipline has received a great deal of attention in recent years. As a result of extensive archival research and the reading of archives […]
