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Archaeology of College Hill Community Archaeology Day

Be part of an active archaeological excavation! Brown University students will be digging on the grounds outside the List Art Building, uncovering the foundations of a 19th century home and […]

International Archaeology Day Fair

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bromery Arts Center Plaza Amherst, MA, United States

In honor of International Archaeology Day, please join us for an archaeology fair on Saturday, October 26, 12:00-3:00 pm. Visit activity tables to learn about the past: write your name […]

Salem Chapel Tour

Salem Chapel 92 Geneva St., St Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Our society will be hosted by the Salem Chapel in St. Catharines for International Archaeology Day. During this tour (90 minutes in duration), guests will gain insight into local history […]

Gods, Warriors, and Stars: A Close Relationship in Chichén Itzá

Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street,, Cambridge, MA

María Teresa Uriarte Castañeda, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Chichén Itzá—a World Heritage Site—is the most important archaeological record of the fusion between Maya and the so-called Toltec civilizations in the Yucatan Peninsula. The site’s monuments, dating to the 10th–15th centuries, showcase both Maya and foreign architectural elements, and […]

“When Informants Become Knowledge Producers: Rethinking Great Zimbabwe”

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Lecture by Prof. Shadreck Chirikure, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford: Using the lenses of insurgent scholarship, this paper addresses itself to a contradiction that characterised southern African archaeology from the 1980s and has residuals in the present. Archaeology in Africa’ southern third, like elsewhere, was introduced as a tool of empire. The first westerners […]

The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and World Heritage

Siegal Lifelong Learning Auditorium, Landmark Centre 25700 Science Park Dr #100, Beachwood, United States

Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are enormous earthen enclosures, many in precise geometric shapes, that were built 2,000 years ago by Native Americans known today as the Hopewell. Their creators designed the earthworks as places of ceremony, connecting them to the cosmos by aligning them with carefully observed movements of the moon and sun, including those […]