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Tour: Archaeology and Bronzeville: Erased, Extant, and Emerging Forms of the Black Metropolis, 1880-2023

Bronzeville 3360 South State Street, Chicago, IL, United States

This walking tour will take participants to some essential sites in Chicago while posing and attempting to answer the following questions: what are some of the past and present sites of significance in the newly recognized Bronzeville/Black Metropolis National Heritage Area? How do we understand the landscape as formed by erased and extant structures and […]

Archeology and Collectors

History 801 E. Cedar St., Fulton, TX, United States

Sunday 2:00 program series at the History Center, 801 E. Cedar St., Rockport Texas. David Kroskie (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department) and Pam Stranahan (Texas Archeological Society) will speak about how local collectors have contributed to the archeological record regionally.

An Archaeological Investigation and Interpretation of a Cornerstone Deposit from Louisville’s Confederate Monument

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

Amid recent efforts to remove Confederate Monuments throughout cities in the South, the City of Louisville removed its monument situated on a public street in the middle of the University of Louisville’s main campus. During disassembly of the monument, a cornerstone box containing commemorative objects was found. This presentation discusses these objects and their relationship […]

The Mummies of Aswan: The Missing Link (Free Hybrid Lecture)

Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street,, Cambridge, MA

In recent years more than four hundred ancient tombs, dating from the 6th century BCE to the 3rd century CE, have been discovered on the West Bank at Aswan, Egypt, near the Aga Khan mausoleum. A multidisciplinary team, including the Egyptian-Italian Mission, has found more than a hundred individuals along with their funerary equipment. Piacentini […]