Events

Reports from the Virtual Field

COVID-19 has affected the way archaeologists throughout the world have been able to conduct fieldwork and research. In celebration of International Archaeology Day (Saturday, October 17th, 2020) join us to hear how three UC Berkeley graduate students in Classical Archaeology and Anthropology adapted their research in the face of the international public health crisis. Jordan […]

A Tale of Three Temples: 5th and 4th Century B.C. Architectural Sculpture in the Athenian Agora

Since 2010, selected U.C. Berkeley graduate students and Dr. Andrew Stewart have been studying the Classical and Hellenistic architectural and free-standing sculpture found in the Athenian Agora since the start of excavations in 1931, publishing our results seriatim in Hesperia, the journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This talk summarizes our […]

Kill the Rabbit: Early Human Exploitation of Small Game in Paleolithic France

Recent archaeological studies in the Mediterranean have brought to light new and exciting evidence of the diets of Neanderthals and other archaic humans. Dr. Jacqueline Meier will present the findings of her recent collaborative research on small game exploitation at some of the earliest Paleolithic archaeological sites in southeastern France to reconsider the notion that […]