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Body Ornaments and Communities of Practice in the Egyptian Predynastic

ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States

The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Maryan Ragheb, UCLA: Body Ornaments and Communities of Practice in the Egyptian Predynastic Sunday, February 11, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Time Room 20, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley […]

Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece presented by Dr. Joanne Murphy

Eaton Humanities, CU Boulder Main Campus 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Over the past few decades, archaeologists have assigned ancestors significant roles in the supernatural orders of most ancient societies. They argue that ancestors, through their connection to the divine or supernatural, wielded a power that could transform society and grant exclusive rights over limited resources to those who could argue either for a familial connection […]

Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World – exhibit opening

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

Much like today, ancient “consumers” were connected to distant markets. Both basic and precious goods from faraway lands “shipped” to royal palaces, elite estates—sometimes even rural households—and technological advances in craftsmanship and commerce transcended boundaries of language, religion, or culture to spread rapidly. Mediterranean Marketplaces explores how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]

Jungle Kingdoms of the Ancient Maya

This tropical adventure provides the best-paced itinerary available to thoroughly explore ancient Maya sites in the lush jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Maya art and architecture will “come alive” as you encounter enormous stelae (carved monoliths), painted frescoes, stucco friezes, carved lintels, and huge temple-pyramids that soar above the rainforest. Explore, in-depth, the sites […]

Rhodora Vennarucci. “Socci and Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop”

Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 117 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, United States

Father Edward A. Bader, CSB Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology This talk applies a Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) and phenomenological approach to the Felt Shop of Verecundus (IX.7.5-7) from Pompeii. This shop sold fine footwear (socci, or soft-soled felted slippers) and other high-status textile products. We will explore how ancient consumers self-fashioned through public acts of […]

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