20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
Harbor Walk West 217, College of Charleston 360 Concord Street, Charleston, SCRenner Lecture
Renner Lecture
Matson Lecture
Kershaw Lecture
Dunwalke Lecture
Eisenpreis Lecture
Stone Lecture
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.
Abstract: West African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans, animals, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal, iconographic and stylistic aspects of […]
"What Happened in History: 81 Years on from Gordon Childe" This lecture borrows the title from Gordon Childe's famous book and asks how his theory of the overall shape of prehistory and ancient history looks today.
Abstract: The small town of Quft in southern Upper Egypt is unique in the history of archaeology for having developed a specialized craft industry of highly skilled archaeological excavators, whose skills and networks in the field have been passed down through several generations of family “guilds” from the late nineteenth century to today. This talk […]
