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2021 Sep 22

Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas—Past, Present, and Future

7:00pm to 8:00pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event
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 century, which saw these sculptures not as Buddhas but as legendary heroes representing the mythic conversion of the Bamiyan Valley to Islam. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Taliban destroyed the sculptures—as Buddhas. After the fall of the Taliban, the sculptures’ entangled histories and the viewpoints of multiple...
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2021 Apr 22

African urbanism from the ground up: Exploring urban lives on the Swahili coast, a talk by, Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York)

12:20pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event
Precolonial urban forms in Africa can be difficult to define. Archaeologists bear witness to a range of settlement that differs in scale and material form from that found elsewhere in the world. Ethnographies of contemporary Africa stress social definitions of urbanism and the importance of leadership and authority. While these have informed...
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2021 Apr 08

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)

12:00pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event
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 significant key for measuring the pharaoh’s power by focusing on the level of state management of...
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2021 Apr 07

Excavations and Research at Sardis

6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event
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2021 Apr 06

The National Museum of Afghanistan—Retrieving the Past, Securing the Future

10:00am
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event
Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Professor of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria/ Assoc. Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University; Philippe Delanghe, Head of Cultural Unit, UNESCO, Kabul, Afghanistan; Mohammad Fahim Rahimi, Director of the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul

This event will take place online via Zoom. It is open and free to all, but registration is required. To register, please click on this link: https://harvard...
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2021 Mar 04

Towards an Archaeology of Redress: The Estate Little Princess Archaeological Field School in St. Croix, a talk by, Ayana Flewellen (UC Riverside)

12:00pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event
This presentation summarizes archaeological fieldwork conducted at the Estate Little Princess since the summer of 2017, led by the Society of Black Archaeologists members Drs. Ayana Flewellen, Justin Dunnavant, William White, Alicia Odewale, and Alexandra Jones. Archaeological excavations, mapping, artifact analysis, and archival research at...
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2021 Mar 04

Ayana Flewellen (UC Riverside)

12:00pm
Location:
online
2021 Feb 25

Global networks and the trade in cowries, 800-1400 CE

12:00pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event

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 people, things and ideas over long distances. This talk will draw on archaeological and...
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2021 Feb 19

Making Ties: The Cangdong Village Project

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event
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 Assistant, Harvard...
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2021 Feb 18

Unsettling Archaeology: Indigenous Archaeology with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

12:00pm
Location:
Virtual Zoom Event

n the language of self-determination, Indigenous archaeologies are expressions of the sovereignty of tribal nations to determine how tribal heritage will be cared for, now and into the future. U.S. Tribal Nations, however, encounter several challenges in articulating sovereignty-based approaches to archaeology and historic...
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Past Events

Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas—Past, Present, and Future

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African urbanism from the ground up: Exploring urban lives on the Swahili coast, a talk by, Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York)

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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)

Location:

Excavations and Research at Sardis

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The National Museum of Afghanistan—Retrieving the Past, Securing the Future

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Towards an Archaeology of Redress: The Estate Little Princess Archaeological Field School in St. Croix, a talk by, Ayana Flewellen (UC Riverside)

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Ayana Flewellen (UC Riverside)

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Global networks and the trade in cowries, 800-1400 CE

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Making Ties: The Cangdong Village Project

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Unsettling Archaeology: Indigenous Archaeology with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

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