Past Events

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Science of the Human Past presents Big Ideas, Quick Talks
October 21, 2025
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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Belfer Case Study Room (CGIS S020) at 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
The Science of the Human Past will be hosting "Big Ideas, Quick Talks" on October 21 at 5:00pm in the Belfer Case Study Room (CGIS S020) at 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA. This event is a popular and lively gathering in which SoHP affiliates from...
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Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas—Past, Present, and Future
September 22, 2021
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7:00PM - 8:00PM EDT
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Virtual Zoom Event
Virtual
Western scholarship has focused on the monumental sculptures in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley as Buddhas created in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. This lecture tells an alternative story based on Islamic sources from the tenth to the twentieth...

Trading for Power in Ancient Egypt: Modeling the Evolution of Travel Routes and Contacts in the Egyptian and Sudanese Eastern Deserts in the Pharaonic Period, a talk by, Sara Zaia (PhD Candidate, Harvard Anthro)
Apr 8, 2021
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12:00PM EDT
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Virtual Zoom Event
Virtual
The involvement and evolution of state power in long-distance trade, the legitimation of power through the control of precious resources linked to the religious and ritual sphere, and the relationship between people and landscape. Her research provides a...

Excavations and Research at Sardis
April 7, 2021
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT
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Virtual Zoom Event
Virtual
Join us for the biennial lecture on research and discoveries at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Turkey from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. While the pandemic prevented a full field season in 2020, a virtual Sardis season in...

Global networks and the trade in cowries, 800-1400 CE
Feb 25, 2021
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12:00PM EST
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Virtual Zoom Event
Virtual
Almost seven hundred years ago, North African traveller ibn Battuta described the use of cowrie shells as adornment and currency in both the Maldives and Mali. Though these regions were a quarter of a world apart, they were linked by networks that moved...

Making Ties: The Cangdong Village Project
February 19, 2021
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12:00PM - 2:00PM EST
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Virtual Zoom Event
Virtual
Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion Panelists Dr. Barbara L. Voss, Principal Investigator, Stanford University Barre Fong, Filmmaker, Barre Fong Designs Laura Ng, Project Director, Stanford University Veronica Peterson, Research and Editorial...