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TILL DEATH DO WE PART: Archaeological Interventions in Massive Discard Events

University of Southern California Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA, United States

An illustrated talk that reveals the things we leave behind and considers what we owe to the objects that once constituted the social lives of households. Professor Anthony Graesch of Connecticut College shares his recent research, an archaeological intervention in life's final massive discard event. If you are coming from off-campus and are not a […]

International Archaeology Day

University of Florida 201 Criser Hall, PO Box 114000, Gainesville, FL, United States

Our executive board will be working with art history, classics, and anthropology departments to plan an outreach event on University of Florida campus. This event will coincide with our national lecture and may also include a "membership drive".

Lecture: Communal Water, Invisible Labor: Modeling the Social Impact of Pompeii’s Street Fountains

Joseph Merrick Jones Hall 108, Tulane University Freret Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

A lecture by Professor Matthew Notarian (Hiram College, OH) Abstract: The remarkable preservation of the Roman city of Pompeii provides unprecedented insight into an aqueduct-fed urban water system. Visitors often marvel at the city’s network of public street fountains, but few consider the practical consequences of the tedious but essential labor required to transport water […]

Archaeology of the Oyo Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period

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Between ca. 1650 and 2800, the Oyo Empire was the largest political formation in West Africa, south of the River Niger. Over the past twenty years, Akin Ogundiran has conducted archaeological research in the capital, colonies, and provinces of the empire to understand the strategies of Oyo expansion and the everyday lives of different segments […]