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Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Deborah Carlson. “Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros”

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

This talk will share the latest research on underwater excavations of an ancient (1st century BCE) cargo-ship, which was carrying architectural marble when it sank off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kizilburun. We will go behind-the-scenes to look at how the cargo's intended destination was identified. Please join us for this livestream presentation.

Managing and Curating Yale University’s Numismatic Collection

WEBINAR (Kansas City/Lawrence 1) Lawrence, KS

Metcalf lecture For registration, please email Phil Stinson of the University of Kansas (pstinson@ku.edu), or Jeff Rydberg-Cox of the Univ. of Missouri Kansas City (rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu).

AIA Archaeology Hour with Deborah Carlson

Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) presents Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros. This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Between 2005 and 2011, researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University excavated and raised […]

Decorated Caves of the Pyrenees & the Rhone Valley

Discover a collection of magnificent but largely unheralded examples of Ice Age art while in the company of acclaimed paleoanthropologist and popular trip leader Ian Tattersall. Admire unusual, elegant bas-relief animal images in Basque caves, a profusion of hand prints at Gargas, and the famous panels of line-drawn and subtly shaded bison, horse, and ibex […]

“We Are Shaped by Space”: Some Archaeological Perspectives of the Materiality of Black Life

UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 227 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, United States

Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture For Zoom attendance, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/2xcu7ntk Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste (UMass Amherst) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “'We Are Shaped by Space': Some Archaeological Perspectives of the Materiality of Black Life."

A Lecture about the Neolithic site of the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney (Scotland) by Scott Pike PhD, Environmental Science and Archaeology, Willamette University

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, United States

Abstract coming soon. About Dr. Scott Pike: As both a trained geologist and archaeologist, my research uses geological theories and methodologies to tackle archaeological and art historical problems. Currently, I am pursuing two major research trajectories. The first is the development and application of portable instrumentation to study the synergistic relationships between societies and their […]

Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00 pm October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply. *Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024. Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. […]

Morocco: From the Desert to the Sea

Join us for a unique look at the history, architecture, archaeology, and art of Morocco in the company of Professor Emeritus Trevor Marchand and a professional national guide/ tour manager. Explore the magnificent landscapes that helped form the country’s ancient and modern cultures, from the wild Atlantic coast to the High Atlas Mountains, dense cedar […]

Corpse Wine: Dionysiac Imagery and the Fermentation of the Dead in Roman Sarcophagi

Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum 801 S Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH, United States

A lecture by Mont Allen, Southern Illinois University Why are roughly one-ninth of all surviving Roman sarcophagi shaped not like rectangular boxes with squared-off ends, but instead like lenoi: those large tubs or vats with rounded ends in which Greeks and Romans pressed grapes and fermented the juice to make wine, an association underscored by […]