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Stress, Sex, and Death: Health and Survival in the Context of Medieval Famine and Plague presented by Dr. Sharon DeWitte

Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, United States

In the 14th-century, Afro-Eurasia was struck by a devastating pandemic of bubonic plague, now often called the Black Death, that killed an estimated 30-60% of some affected populations. Dr. DeWitte will discuss her bioarchaeological research, focusing on the skeletal remains of people who died before, during, and after the Black Death in London, England. This […]

Culture of the Tunica Biloxi

Union Museum of History and Art 211 N. Main Street, Farmerville, LA, United States

Cultural Representative of the Tunica/Biloxi Tribe in Marksville, Louisiana, Ryan Lopez, will speak on the Cultural of the Tunica/Biloxi Tribe.

Kushite Royal Priestesses in the House of the God

ZOOM lecture Saturday, February 22, 3:30 pm EST Registration Required: https://arce.org/event/arce-pa-kushite-royal-priestesses-in-the-house-of-the-god-by-debora-heard/ Speaker: Debora Heard Title: Kushite Royal Priestesses in the House of the God Abstract: Following Egypt’s conquest of all of Nubia in the 18th Dynasty, one of the ways these New Kingdom rulers expressed their dominance over the region was through the construction of […]

Living in a culture of the past; the life and work of a scribe in Hellenistic Uruk

The figure of the scribe looms large in our understanding of the culture and history of ancient Mesopotamia. Scribes composed, copied, edited, and collated the thousands of cuneiform tablets that are such a rich source of information on the ancient past. But what can be learned from examining the career of an individual scribe? “Living […]

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025. This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Zainab Bahrani. “Toward an Archaeology of Preservation”

Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

The history of archaeology as a scientific discipline has received a great deal of attention in recent years. As a result of extensive archival research and the reading of archives against the grain, alternative or indigenous archaeologies and earlier forms of relationships to the past—such as antiquarianism—have also begun to receive more serious scholarly attention. […]