Archaeology Society of Staten IslandEvents for 2021-2022
Sunday September 19 at 3pm The Dr. George G. Hackman Memorial Lecture ZOOM ONLY Dr. Robert B. Koehl, Hunter College, CUNY A New Look at Minoan Athletic Competitions The Minoans, as the people of Bronze Age Crete have been called since the early 20th century C.E., are known to us primarily from […]
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Sunday, (NEW DATE , MARCH TBA): Special Event with the Noble Maritime Museum: Dr. James Hunter and Kieran Hosty, Australian National Maritime Museum: Cook’s Endeavor Found
Sunday, (TBA, MARCH), 2022 The Helen H. Loeffler Memorial Lecture Special Event with the Noble Maritime Museum! Cook’s Endeavour Found: Identifying an iconic shipwreck using a ‘preponderance of evidence’ approach Kieran Hosty, Manager, Maritime Archaeology Program, ANMM Dr James Hunter, Curator, Navy Archaeology, ANMM HIS MAJESTY’S BARK ENDEAVOUR is a tremendously significant […]
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Thursday, April 28, 2022: Dr. Elaine Ayers, NYU: Unnatural History: Colonial Collecting and the Politics of Display in Natural History Museums
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022 at 7pm ZOOM LECTURE PRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH Staten Island Museum Dr. Elaine Ayers – NYU On Jennifer Angers’ Exhibit Magicicada Unnatural History: Colonial Collecting and the Politics of Display in Natural History Museums What does the history of collecting, preservation, and display have to do with legacies of violence and […]
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Sunday, April 10, 2022: Dr. Anthony J. Barbieri – University of California, Santa Barbara:
Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 3pm Archaeological Institute of America; Danyale Z. English Lecture Dr. Anthony J. Barbieri – University of California, Santa Barbara Providing for the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt and Early China This lecture compares mortuary culture and conceptions of the afterlife realm from Middle and New Kingdom Egypt and early […]
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June 2021 Newsletter
Dear Archaeology Friends, Happy summer 2021 to you all! It gives me great pleasure to write you all with some exciting updates from the Society. First, please take a look at our website. In particular, here on the post about our last talk of this year, from Dr. Brenda Baker, you will find the […]
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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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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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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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News from the Archaeological Institute of America
- “Porcelain Gallbladder” Identified in Mississippi April 24, 2024JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI—According to an Atlas Obscura report, a “porcelain gallbladder” has been identified among a woman's 100-year-old bones exhumed from the cemetery at the site of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, which operated from 1855 to 1935. A porcelain gallbladder forms through calcium build-up in the wall of the organ, which causes it to harden. […]
- 18th-Century Foundation Uncovered at Colonial Williamsburg April 24, 2024WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—The foundation of an eighteenth-century house was uncovered during an excavation at Colonial Williamsburg, according to a WAVY report. The Colin G. and Nancy N. Campbell Archaeology Center is scheduled to be built on the site. Archaeologist Jack Gary of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation said that the house had plaster walls, casement windows, a […]
- Miniature Portrait of Alexander the Great Found in Denmark April 24, 2024RINGSTED, DENMARK—Live Science reports that a miniature bronze alloy fitting bearing a portrait of Alexander the Great was discovered on an island in Denmark by a pair of metal detectorists who were conducting a survey. Alexander the Great succeeded his father as the king of Macedon and eventually created a far-flung empire before his death […]