Ancient social environments are difficult to reconstruct, and archaeologists have a much poorer grasp of how the social environment affects where and how people live. One sort of social behavior […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. […]
Virtual Lecture on Zoom; Registration required Saturday, December 16 at 3:30pm For Zoom link, email: vp@arce-pa.org Speaker: Dr. Stacy Davidson, Adjunct Faculty, History and Continuing Education at Johnson County Community […]
30 December 2023, Saturday at 2 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM lecture by Dr. Harry Allen, Fellow at the University of Auckland in New Zealand: "Archaeological Narratives and the […]
Dig into the new year with a lecture hosted by the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History (CSMNH) and the Office of State Archaeology. The frozen winter ground puts most archaeological excavations on hold... but on Thursday, January 11th, State Archaeologist Dr. Sarah Sportman will be digging into Connecticut archaeology... in the form of a […]
a lecture by Dr. Megan Rhodes Victor One of my current research projects focuses on homosexuality and the 18th-century taverns which were known as molly houses in England and English […]
Talk by Jennifer L. Muslin (Loyola University Chicago, Classical Studies) Most ancient Romans enjoyed wine and believed that everyone, from emperors to enslaved peoples, should drink it daily. To meet such high demand, viticulture, winemaking, packaging, and trading happened all over the Mediterranean, with the highest quality vintages coming from Central and Southern Italy and […]
A lecture by Amy Margaris, Oberlin College Specimen collecting was a cornerstone of 19th century science and anthropology. 150 years later anthropological collections can still be found at many colleges, lingering in closets or forgotten on storeroom shelves. Using cultural heritage items at Oberlin College as my starting point, I’ll explore the question: What use […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Raghda (Didi) El-Behaedi, University of Chicago: "Recent Work at Memphis and the Fayum: An Overview of Methodologies and Results" Sunday, January 21, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Time […]
Today, there are about 12,000 archaeologists working in the US with less than 10 percent of them employed by universities. While university anthropology and archaeology departments are shrinking, the applied sector, known as cultural resource management (CRM) is growing. This lecture explores what accounts for these opposing trends and what, if anything, can we do […]
