• Archaeology-Hour Screening: Dating Australia’s Oldest Rock Art

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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 rock art represents one of its most significant records of knowledge. These paintings and engravings remain of deep importance to Aboriginal people today and provide […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Screening: Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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, […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Screening: NAGPRA as a Path to Healing and Reciprocity

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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 […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Screening: The People’s Arena

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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 […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Screening: Shipping Stone for Justinian’s Empire(?)

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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) — […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Screening: Beer in Mesopotamia

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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) […]

  • Cleopatra and the Queens of Meroë

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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 […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Zainab Bahrani. “Toward an Archaeology of Preservation”

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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 against the grain, alternative or indigenous archaeologies and earlier forms of relationships to the past—such as antiquarianism—have also begun to receive more serious scholarly attention. […]