Rome “Urbs Pensilis”: A Hanging City and its Hanging Gardens
Carleton University 303 Paterson 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaNorton lecture
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 […]
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. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, Pratt Institute: "Contexts and Circumstances in Designing the Divine in Ancient Egypt" Sunday, December 10, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time Room […]
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 College in Overland Park, KS Lecture Topic: “We Are For Egypt”: A Multi-faceted Public Outreach Project On Southern Illinois’ “Egyptian” Past Abstract: It is increasingly […]
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 First Nations of Australia". Zoom room opens at 1:45 and lecture promptly starts at 2 PM. Sign in at 1:45, please...
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 Colonial North America. These molly houses served as clandestine locations for gay men and cross-dressers to interact, to socialize with others ‘like them’, to engage […]
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 […]
