Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Katherine L. Chiou (University of Alabama) presents Cuisine and Crisis: An Edible History of the Moche of Ancient Peru. This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Imagine stepping into the shoes of an ancient Peruvian, tasting the flavors and savoring the meals of […]
Archaeological excavations at the Cooper’s Ferry site reveal a long record of repeated human occupation beginning sometime before 15,785 cal BP and extending to ~2,000 years ago. This site, which is the location of an ancient village known to the Nez Perce Indian Tribe as Nipéhe, bears the earliest well-dated evidence of people in the […]
Joukowsky lecture
Norton lecture
The second presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America's Dayton Society 2023-2024 Lecture Series presented by Guy Jones, President of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans.. The Ever Changing Face of Indigenous People The identity of Indigenous people has and will probably change again and again as new discoveries come to light. As the […]
18 November 2023, Saturday at 2 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM lecture: "Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande" by Cyril Dumas (Curator at the Musee Yves Brayer Baux de Provence). Zoom room opens at 1:45 and lecture promptly starts at 2 PM. Sign in at 1:45, please...
Norton lecture
Bones, Stones, & Genes: Seven Million Years of Human Evolution Geoffrey A. Clark, Ph.D. Regents' Emeritus Professor Arizona State University School of Human Evolution & Social Change Institute of Human Origins Perhaps the greatest story ever told is how we became the last and sole surviving member of our lineage, the hominins – modern humans, […]
Please join the AIA Baltimore Society for the Henry T. Rowell Lecture. Dr. Marie-Lys Annette (The Johns Hopkins University) will be speaking on "Tattooed Mummies and Female Figurines from Ancient Egypt: New Results from Deir el-Medina." To attend virtually, please use the following link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=bGpsWXFuemQvRVcrL1VQaU10WWlqZz09.
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 that is often visible archaeologically is violence: raiding and warfare. Using ethnohistoric cases, I identify “landscapes of predation” created by intense social violence. I will […]
