Africans, Europeans, and Finding Castle Cormantine: Archaeology and Cultural Entanglement on the 17th Century Gold Coast
Oberin Public Library 65 S Main Street, Oberlin, OH, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Lecture. Donna Seifert (Former president Society for Historical Archaeology). Case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points—New York City’s most notorious neighborhood—and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill. Also Brothels in the American West are also looked at—in […]
The 2024 Midwest Archaeological Conference (MAC) will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! This year's theme for the conference is Inspiring Students. A series of programs, workshops, and tours are being […]
To celebrate the occasion of the International Archaeology Day, the Museum of History in Šumperk has organized a program for schools, kindergartens, families with children, and other interested parties. Visitors will be able to test their knowledge and improve their understanding of our ancestral cultures by exploring real archaeological finds and prehistoric crafts. Participants can […]
We have spent the first quarter of this school year learning about the process of archaeological digs, including excavation, documentation, looking for sites, preservation, and the archaeology of the Southwest. We will be performing our very own dig for artifacts, provided to us through the work of another class at the school. These created "artifacts" […]
This lecture will provide an introduction to the royal women of Kush/Nubia and the powerful, sole-ruling kandakas ('queens') of Meroë. Hear how Nubian families tracked filiation through their mothers. Learn about the high status and significant political, sacred, and military power of women in ancient African societies along the Nile. Please join us in-person to […]
Caesar’s Cervisia presented by Travis Rupp (CU Boulder) Examinations of Roman cuisine often downplay the role of beer in the ancient Roman diet seeing it as a symbol of barbarity. This presentation examines the plausibility of beer as a standard component of the Roman soldier’s diet and seeks to highlight when it may have become […]
October 16, 2024 7:30 p.m. ET Davidson College Belk Visual Arts Center 117 Free and open to the public Martha Gimson, “Forgotten Past? Bridging Beaver Dam’s Past to the Present (and into the Future)” About the lecture: Join Davidson College’s Historic Sites Program Manager, Martha Gimson, for a talk about the former plantation site Beaver […]
Join us at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific as the AIA-Pittsburgh Society hosts the second installment of the 2024-2025 AIA Archaeology Hour series! Register or join now!
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
