Past Events

Visitor Talk: Mar Pereira Gómez | Marked Bodies in the Past: The Pazyryk Culture Case

November 7, 2025

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1:30PM - 2:30PM EST

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Tozzer Anthropology Building Rm. #203

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Abstract In the past century, excavations of the Pazyryk culture kurgans in the Altai Mountains revealed one of the most remarkable discoveries in archaeology: exceptionally well-preserved mummies with complex zoomorphic tattoo motifs. These findings...

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Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Irene Soto Marin | An Anthropogenic Disaster? Cash Crops, Water Management, and Desertification in Romano-Egyptian Oases

November 6, 2025

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST

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Tozzer Anthropology Building #203

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Talk Title: An Anthropogenic Disaster? Cash Crops, Water Management, and Desertification in Romano-Egyptian Oases Speaker: Irene Soto Marin (Harvard University, Classics)

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Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Nathalie Peutz | Outcasts to Refugees: Yemen's Racialized Hierarchies in Exile

October 30, 2025

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Tozzer Anthropology Building, Room #203

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Nathalie Peutz is an associate professor of anthropology and Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi, where she manages the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World. Her research examines the impacts of conflict-induced displacement...

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Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Emily Hammer | Spatial Ethnoarchaeology of Change in Mobile Pastoralist and Marsh-Dwelling Communities

October 23, 2025

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Tozzer Anthropology Building #203

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Talk Title: Spatial Ethnoarchaeology of Change in Mobile Pastoralist and Marsh-Dwelling Communities Abstract: Archaeologists face significant challenges in identifying the material remains and environmental impact of certain types of rural communities of...

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Leela Khanna | Cultivating Authority Among the Students of Hindu Nationalism

October 16, 2025

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Tozzer Anthropology Building #203

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Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Li Jingbo | Foodways in Dynastic Transition in Ancient China: Alcohol, Diet, and Identity from Shang to Zhou

October 9, 2025

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Tozzer Anthropology Building #203

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Jingbo Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American School of Prehistoric Research, Harvard University. She received her PhD in Chinese Archaeology from Stanford University in 2025. Her research examines how foodways, especially alcohol production and...

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Pablo Gutierrez | Navigating through wadis and tombs. Landscape archaeology and ancient nomadism in the Northeastern Horn of Africa

September 25, 2025

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Tozzer Anthropology Building #203

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Speaker Bio Pablo Gutiérrez de León is a French-Spanish archaeologist who completed his bachelor’s degree in Archaeology in 2018 and his master’s degree in American Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 2019. He completed his...

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Rowan Flad | Elephants in Bronze Age Central China – Megafauna / Human relationships as seen through material culture

September 11, 2025

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Tozzer Anthropology Building #203

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History and Anthropology Conference

Apr. 24 - Apr 25, 2025

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9:00AM - 8:00PM EDT

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Emerson Hall

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Canada Seminar | Against Cryo Nullius: Icy Materialities and Nunatsiavummiut Refusal of the Settler State

April 8, 2025

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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT

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Bowie Vernon Room (K262) CGIS Knafel

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Against Cryo Nullius: Icy Materialities and Nunatsiavummiut Refusal of the Settler State Emma Gilheany, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Canada Program, and Affiliate, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP) Chair...

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Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard

April 6, 2025

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1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

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Venture on archaeological expeditions around the world in this annual event for all ages. Talk with archaeologists who study ancient Egyptians, Incas, prehistoric peoples, and others. Try ancient cuneiform writing and use an app that animates detailed...

Lubah Lubah | An exhibition by Damina Khaira, Lecturer on Anthropology

Apr. 1 - Apr 30, 2025

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7:00AM - 10:00PM EDT

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