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ā€œThe Archaeology of an Underwater Battlefield: The WWII Battle for Saipanā€

Davidson College 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, United States

Jennifer McKinnon Flyer 2About the lecture: From shipwrecks to aircraft wrecks to amphibious vehicles, Saipanā€™s waters in the Mariana Islands contain sunken sites that together tell the story of a critical battle in the WWII Pacific War between US and Japanese forces in June and July of 1944. This lecture will provide a brief overview […]

Space, Symbols, Society: Ritual Dynamics in Ancient Lucania

101 Swallow Hall 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, United States

Dr. Ilaria Battiloro (Associate Professor, Classics and Visual and Material Culture Studies departments at Mount Allison University) This talk offers an overview of the archaeological evidence for Lucanian sanctuaries and discusses how cult sites were conceived and used by people who built, frequented, and finally abandoned them. For this purpose, special emphasis is put on […]

In Search of Greener Pastures: Climate Change, Migration, and the Emergence of Fort Ancient Societies in the Middle Ohio Valley

University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe) 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, United States

How did climate change and migration shape early settlement in the Middle Ohio Valley? Archaeologist Aaron Comstock (Indiana University East) addresses this in his upcoming talk. The spread of maize agriculture into the Eastern Woodlands of North America was a process that resulted in significant cultural transformations. In the Middle Ohio Valley, the origins of […]