Our society will be hosted by the Salem Chapel in St. Catharines for International Archaeology Day. During this tour (90 minutes in duration), guests will gain insight into local history […]
St. Mary's Fort, the first fortification built by Maryland colonists upon arrival in 1634 Discovered in 2018 after a nearly century-long search Archaeological work has revealed intriguing new information about […]
Our chapter is organizing an IAD event at the Salem Chapel in St Catharines, Ontario. The Salem Chapel was an important centre of abolitionist and civil rights activity, and was […]
Garbonomix's garbologists are studying and analyzing the garbage bags produced by the café and kitchen at Stadsmissionens Second Hand in Kalmar City, Sweden. Stadsmissionens Second Hand is a charity focused […]
Please join us for a double-header of talks presented by Prof. Camille Reiko Acosta in celebration of International Archaeology Day! In this second talk, Prof. Acosta will be speaking on […]
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 […]
As Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury finished their lecture tour of the United States in 1891, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote: “Miss Edwards’ visit will do a great deal of good in teaching the men of America how learned and how winning a woman of study can be and in teaching the women of America […]
María Teresa Uriarte Castañeda, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Chichén Itzá—a World Heritage Site—is the most important archaeological record of the fusion between Maya and the so-called Toltec civilizations in the Yucatan Peninsula. The site’s monuments, dating to the 10th–15th centuries, showcase both Maya and foreign architectural elements, and […]
Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. federal government engaged in a systematic project of conquest through civilization. A key facet of this imperial endeavor by the imposition of Western forms of architecture onto Indigenous landscapes, including day and boarding schools. These concrete structures were accompanied by assimilationist policies that […]
