Archaeology Society of Staten IslandOctober 2018: Dr. Dana Bardolph, “Mounds, Missionaries, and Merchants: Cahokian Cultural Influence in the Central Illinois River Valley”
Sunday Oct 28, 2018 at 3pm Dr. Dana Bardolph, Hirsh Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University Mounds, Missionaries, and Merchants: Cahokian Cultural Influence in the Central Illinois River Valley Long before Columbus reached the Americas, Cahokia, located eight miles outside of modern day St. Louis, was the biggest, most cosmopolitan city north of Mexico, with a larger […]
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November 2018: Jessica Walthew, “Archaeology and Conservation: From the Field to the Museum”
Sunday Nov. 11, 2018 at 3:00PM Jessica Walthew Objects Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Archaeology and Conservation: From the Field to the Museum How are archaeological materials preserved once they are excavated? This talk will summarize the role of conservation in fieldwork and in museums. While preservation is our first concern, conservators share archaeological […]
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December 2018: Dr. Shara Bailey, “Making Sense of Neanderthals: bones, teeth, and genes”
Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 3pm The Helen H. Loeffler Memorial Lecture Dr. Shara Bailey, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University Making Sense of Neanderthals: bones, teeth and genes Recent studies have shown that 1-4% of our DNA comes from Neanderthals. What does that mean? Prof. Shara Bailey […]
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January 2019: Dr. Kelly Britt, “The Making of Place and Preservation Policy in NYC Archaeology
Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3pm The Lynda Nilsen Memorial Lecture Dr. Kelly Britt, Brooklyn College, CUNY The Making of Place and Preservation Policy in NYC Archaeology Spanning from an 8,000-year-old Indian settlement on Staten Island to a 17th century Indian community in the Bronx, to an 18th century African Burial ground in Manhattan to […]
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February 2019: Dr. Bridget Buxton, “Recent Underwater Discoveries at Caesarea Maritima, Israel
Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 3pm The Dr.Esther Grushkin Memorial Lecture *Lecture at the Noble Maritime Museum, Snug Harbor, Staten Island* Dr. Bridget Buxton, Department of History, URI Recent Underwater Discoveries at Caesarea Maritima, Israel An introduction to the recent underwater work of the IAA Maritime Unit – University of Rhode Island – Oceangate Foundation […]
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March 2019: Dr. John Arthur, “Potters, Consumers, and Caste in Southwestern Ethiopia”
Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 3pm Archaeological Institute of America – Lobban Lecturer Dr. John Arthur, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Potters, Consumers, and Caste in Southwestern Ethiopia This ethnoarchaeological study examines how the caste system in Gamo society affects both potters and consumers as they produce and use pottery during their daily living. […]
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April 2019: Dr. Emily Cole, “Passing on Traditional Writing in Ancient Egypt”
MONDAY, April 29, 2019, at 5:30 pm The Dr. George G. Hackman Memorial Lecture Dr. Emily Cole Passing On Traditional Writing in Ancient Egypt While working in the per-ankh or “house of life” where vast repositories of manuscripts were kept, Egyptian scribes made every effort to transmit ancient knowledge through Egyptian history. Over the course […]
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September 2017: Dr. Marta Ameri: “Ships from Dilmun, Magan and Meluhha:” Ancient South Asia and its Contacts with the West in the 3rd millennium BCE
Sunday, Sept 17, 2017 at 3pm The Helen H. Loeffler Memorial Lecture Dr. Marta Ameri Assistant Professor of Art History, Colby College “Ships from Dilmun, Magan and Meluhha:” Ancient South Asia and its Contacts with the West in the 3rd millennium BCE The Harappan, or Indus Valley, Civilization, which flourished in India and […]
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October 2017: Dr. Scott MacEachern: Landscapes of Boko Haram: History, Violence and Wealth in Central Africa (image courtesy Christian Seignobos)
Sunday Oct 15, 2017 at 3pm Archaeological Institute of America – English Lecturer Dr. Scott MacEachern Professor of Anthropology, Bowdoin College Landscapes of Boko Haram: History, Violence and Wealth in Central Africa The terrorist organization Boko Haram has inflicted huge amounts of suffering on Central African communities through the last decade. In the course […]
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November 2017: Dr. Alicia Boswell: Ritual Regalia of the Ancient Moche
Sunday Nov 12, 2017 at 3pm Dr. Alicia Boswell Postdoctoral Fellow, Bard College Ritual Regalia of the Ancient Moche In the last thirty years archaeological investigations on the north coast of Peru have produced a wealth of new information leading to nuances in our understanding of Moche sociopolitical organization (AD 200-800). These discoveries have […]
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News from the Archaeological Institute of America
- 300-Year-Old Medical Prosthesis Found in Poland April 22, 2024KRAKOW, POLAND—Live Science reports that an eighteenth-century palatal obturator has been found with the remains of a man with a cleft palate who was buried in a crypt at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Krakow in the eighteenth century. The prosthesis measures about an inch long and consists of a woolen pad […]
- 18th-Century Fort Site Explored on Island of St. Barts April 22, 2024GUSTAVIA, SAINT BARTHÉLEMY—According to a Miami Herald report, a collection of small cannonballs known as grapeshot has been unearthed at Fort Gustav, a military outpost on the Caribbean Island of Saint Barthélemy, by researchers from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research. Construction of the fort was begun by the French in the mid-eighteenth […]
- Genomes of Modern Japanese People Analyzed April 19, 2024YAKOHAMA, JAPAN—A new genetic study conducted by Xiaoxi Liu of the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences and his colleagues suggests that modern Japanese people are mostly descended from three ancestral groups, according to a Live Science report. Those three groups include Jomon hunter-gatherers; a group thought to be the predecessors of the Han people […]