Sunday, April 25, 2021: Dr. Brenda Baker – Arizona State University: Sifting Sand in Sudan: New Light on Life and Death in Ancient Nubia

Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 3pm Archaeological Institute of America – Danyale Z. English Lecture Dr. Brenda Baker – Arizona State University Sifting Sand in Sudan: New Light on Life and Death in Ancient Nubia See the recording of the talk on AIA’s YouTube channel! The Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition (BONE) project area lies between […]

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2020-2021 Lecture Series Calendar

Archaeology Society of Staten Island Archaeological Institute of America Staten Island Society 2020-2021 Lecture Series   All lectures presented via Zoom. Invitations and links will be shared via email approximately two weeks prior to the event.   Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 3:00 PM Dr. Sherene Baugher, Cornell University The Dr. George G. Hackman Memorial […]

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Sunday, March 29: An Ancient Remedy: The Intersection of Archaeology, Folklore, and Health in Ireland: Jennifer Shaffer Foster

An Ancient Remedy:  The Intersection of Archaeology, Folklore, and Health in Ireland Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 3pm Archaeological Institute of America – Forsyth Lecture Jennifer Shaffer Foster The reuse of archaeological sites by contemporary populations, both today and in the past, is a well-known phenomenon. In Ireland, domestic and monumental sites were reused over […]

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Sunday, February 23, 2020: The Woman in the Iron Coffin: Dr. Rhonda Quinn

Biogeochemical evidence for residence, diet and health of the Woman in the Iron Coffin (Queens, New York City) Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 3pm Dr. Rhonda Quinn In 2011, the mummified body of a Black adult female was discovered in a mid-19 th C. Fisk iron coffin buried in Queens, New York City. Archival research […]

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Sunday, January 26, 2020: Kurt Hirschberg: The Voorlezer’s House – A New Place In History

Sunday, January 26, 2020 (1:00-3:00 PM)         The Dr. George G. Hackman Memorial Lecture Kurt Hirschberg, Jan Hird Pokorny, Assoc. The Voorlezer’s House – A New Place In History The Voorlezer’s House at Historic Richmond Town in New York City has long been believed to be one of the oldest school houses […]

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Sunday, April 26, 2020: Dr. Celia J. Bergoffen: Excavating Schnaderbeck’s Lager Cellar, Brooklyn

Sunday, April 26, 2020, at 3pm             The Lynda Nilsen Memorial Lecture Dr. Celia J. Bergoffen  Excavating Schnaderbeck’s Lager Cellar, Brooklyn Four adjoining, massive stone and brick lager vaults were discovered fourteen feet below grade in the heart of Williamsburg’s former lager brewing district. Unlike other beers, lager yeast ferments at the bottom […]

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September 15, 2019: Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in Palau, Micronesia

Sunday, Sept 15, 2019 at 3pm        Archaeological Institute of America English Lecture Dr. Scott M. Fitzpatrick Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in Palau, Micronesia For centuries, peoples from the island of Yap in the western Pacific voyaged southward to the Palauan archipelago to quarry their famous stone […]

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October 27, 2019: Dressing Up as an Ancient Assyrian Queen in Life and Death

Sunday Oct 27, 2019 at 3pm                                       The Dr.Esther Grushkin Memorial Lecture Dr. Amy Rebecca Gansell Dressing Up as an Ancient Assyrian Queen in Life and Death  This presentation takes us into the palaces of ancient Assyria in […]

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November 10, 2019: Legacies in the Landscape: Transformations of the Chaupiyunga Borderland in the Upper Moche Valley of Peru

Sunday Nov 10, 2019 at 3pm Dr. Patrick Mullins Legacies in the Landscape: Transformations of the Chaupiyunga Borderland in the Upper Moche Valley of Peru One need not look further than the present political discourse on border security in the United States to appreciate the complex, ambiguous, and often volatile nature of frontiers and borders. […]

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September 2018: Dr. Alison Carter, “Looking Beyond the Temples: Exploring the Residences of the Ancient Angkorians”

Sunday, Sep. 16, 2018 at 3:00PM Archaeological Institute of America Lecture-English Lecturer Dr. Alison Carter Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon Looking Beyond the Temples: Exploring the Residences of the Ancient Angkorians Angkor, centered in the modern nation of Cambodia, was one of the largest pre-industrial settlements in the world and has been the […]

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