Resources

 

Focus Gallery- “Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas”

Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas considers how two components of Andean life—coca leaves and hand-woven textiles—are brought together in the small bag called a chuspa and examines this traditional object in changing cultural and economic contexts. Curated by Nicola Sharratt, this groundbreaking exhibition highlights the tension between tradition and innovation surrounding these socially important woven objects by presenting chuspas not as representations of a static, indigenous heritage but as the embodiment of social and economic change.   Click here to learn more!

News – “Google’s Art Project”

– This is a new way to explore museums around the world and view hundreds of art works. Visit museums listed or find individual art objects from the National Gallery and Tate in London to the the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. View the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdan to the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA in New York City. It’s amazing! Go to Art Project.

Archaeological Institute of America

Important Future Dates: Visit The Archaeological Institute of America for ongoing archaeological news and make your plans to join us for the forthcoming Annual Meetings.

  • January 02-05, 2014 115th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
  • January 08-11, 2015 116th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
RSS News from the Archaeological Institute of America
  • Rare Turtle Statue Found in Angkor April 25, 2024
    SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—A rare sandstone sculpture of a turtle has been found at Bayon Temple in the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, according to a report in The Phnom Penh Post. The Bayon temple was built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century A.D. during the reign of the Khmer ruler Jayavarman VII […]
  • Teotihuacan's Pyramids Damaged By Ancient Earthquakes April 25, 2024
    MADRID, SPAIN—A new study of pyramids at the ancient city of Teotihuacan by a team of Spanish geologists has documented damage to the structures caused by five devastating megathrust earthquakes that hit the site between about A.D. 100 and 600, Live Science reports. At its height, the population of Teotihuacan, which is located northeast of […]
  • Sacred Spring Unearthed Beneath Roman Ruins in France April 25, 2024
    PARIS, FRANCE—According to a Live Science report, near the village of Chamborêt north of the French city of Limoges, archaeologists have uncovered a freshwater spring likely dating to between 4,500 and 6,000 years ago below the remnants of a Roman-era pool. The Roman ruins, which date to the third century A.D., probably formed a landscaped basin surrounded […]