This October the Marquette Regional History Center is joining hundreds of organizations around the world to celebrate International Archaeology Day. For the 12th year, our fair will provide a look […]
Lecture on the Viking Jupiter cruise ship while in harbor in Barcelona, Spain. Discussion of the archaeology and history of Spain from the Stone Age through the modern age. Lecture […]
Join us for a free virtual talk on Sunday, October 20, at 10 AM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GwcLqYTgTc-3mWwwipI9yg#/registration ABOUT THE […]
Dr. Steven Ellis from the University of Cincinnati will be discussing his research into the archaeology of everyday life in ancient Pompeii.
A lecture by Professor Matthew Notarian (Hiram College, OH) Abstract: The remarkable preservation of the Roman city of Pompeii provides unprecedented insight into an aqueduct-fed urban water system. Visitors often […]
Between ca. 1650 and 2800, the Oyo Empire was the largest political formation in West Africa, south of the River Niger. Over the past twenty years, Akin Ogundiran has conducted […]
As Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury finished their lecture tour of the United States in 1891, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote: “Miss Edwards’ visit will do a great deal of good in teaching the men of America how learned and how winning a woman of study can be and in teaching the women of America […]
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 […]
Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. federal government engaged in a systematic project of conquest through civilization. A key facet of this imperial endeavor by the imposition of Western forms of architecture onto Indigenous landscapes, including day and boarding schools. These concrete structures were accompanied by assimilationist policies that […]
Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. federal government engaged in a systematic project of conquest through civilization. A key facet of this imperial endeavor by the imposition of Western forms of architecture onto Indigenous landscapes, including day and boarding schools. These concrete structures were accompanied by assimilationist policies that […]
