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2022 Feb 17

Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Early monumentality and climate change: Developing social complexity on a preceramic Andean desert, a talk by Cecilia Mauricio Llonto (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom (register below)

ABSTRACT:     Monumentality and monumental structures are worldwide associated with complex...

Read more about Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Early monumentality and climate change: Developing social complexity on a preceramic Andean desert, a talk by Cecilia Mauricio Llonto (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
2022 Feb 10

Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Out of the Mine and Into the Furnace: Life and Labor in the Silver Refineries of Colonial Peru, a talk by, Sarah Kennedy (Carleton College)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom (register below)

ABSTRACT:     In this talk, Sarah Kennedy presents the results of her research at the site of Trapiche Itapalluni (AD 1600-1800), a colonial period silver refinery located in the western Lake...

Read more about Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar: Out of the Mine and Into the Furnace: Life and Labor in the Silver Refineries of Colonial Peru, a talk by, Sarah Kennedy (Carleton College)
2022 Apr 21

Water, Mud, and Mounds: Archaeology and Dynamic Landscapes of the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana, a talk by Chris Rodning (Tulane University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

ABSTRACT:     The lower reaches of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana encompass a complex array of deltaic landforms. These landscapes and "waterscapes" were and are home to Native American groups such as the...

Read more about Water, Mud, and Mounds: Archaeology and Dynamic Landscapes of the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana, a talk by Chris Rodning (Tulane University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar
2022 Apr 14

Archaeological Praxis in the UAE: The roles of Critical Pedagogy and Public Engagement in testing the limits of the discipline, a talk by Uzma Rizvi (Pratt Institute) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Online

ABSTRACT:     Tracing almost a decade of work and archaeological inquiry in the UAE, this presentation draws our attention to how we can do archaeology in the service of equity and transformational justice. A key component of this approach...

Read more about Archaeological Praxis in the UAE: The roles of Critical Pedagogy and Public Engagement in testing the limits of the discipline, a talk by Uzma Rizvi (Pratt Institute) Harvard Archaeology Seminar
2022 Mar 10

The Earliest Strung Beads, a talk by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer (Harvard Anthro, Peabody Museum, and Tel Aviv University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203, or via Zoom (register below)

ABSTRACT:     Beads made of mollusc shells form an integral part of modern humans’ material culture. Middle Palaeolithic sites in South Africa and the Levant yielded non-utilitarian shells, in particular complete Glycymeris valves that were collected...

Read more about The Earliest Strung Beads, a talk by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer (Harvard Anthro, Peabody Museum, and Tel Aviv University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar
2022 Jan 27

Leaky Pipelines and Mountain Paths: How Inequality Shapes and Prematurely Ends Academic Archaeology Careers, a talk by Laura Heath-Stout (UMass Boston) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Online (Please Register)

ABSTRACT:     If you have spent any time in seminars on diversity issues in the sciences or in higher education, you've likely come across the metaphor of the leaky...

Read more about Leaky Pipelines and Mountain Paths: How Inequality Shapes and Prematurely Ends Academic Archaeology Careers, a talk by Laura Heath-Stout (UMass Boston) Harvard Archaeology Seminar
2021 Nov 18

"A Study of Archaeological Survey in East Asia, or There Really Seem to Have Been Some Fascinating Configurations of Intermediate Scale Societies here", a talk by Joshua Wright (University of Aberdeen)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Zoom, Please Register

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Read more about "A Study of Archaeological Survey in East Asia, or There Really Seem to Have Been Some Fascinating Configurations of Intermediate Scale Societies here", a talk by Joshua Wright (University of Aberdeen)

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