Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Hutchins Center visiting fellow Abidemi Babalola, will speak on primary glass/glass bead making in Ile-Ife -Nigeria, 11th-15th Century AD as part of the Hutchins Center's Fall Colloquium.
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Race, Representation, and Museums Series Lecture
Maia Nuku, Evelyn A. J. Hall & John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art,The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In 1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York staged a landmark exhibition of Māori art that became a significant milestone in the cultural renaissance of the Māori. Notable for the fact that Māori elders and leaders were involved in curatorial decisions from the outset, it was also—remarkably—the first occasion when Māori art was presented in an international context as art. Thirty...
Harvard History and Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Societies Workshop and the Harvard Semitic Museum present a lecture by:
Andrew McCarthy
CAARI Director, Fellow of School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
THE GATEKEEPERS OF ŠEḪNA: ACROPOLIS AND GATE ADMINISTRATION IN THIRD MILLENNIUM BC TELL LEILAN, SYRIA
Interpretations of early state formation often focus on urban centers and their abilities to organize labor and resources, as well as create social, political and economic structures that...
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Race, Representation, and Museums Series Lecture
Joe Watkins (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland
The United States was in the early stages of Reconstruction when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, mandating that “all persons born in the United States” with the exception of American Indians be declared citizens. That December, the tension between the U.S. government and Indian nations intensified as Lakota Chief Red Cloud launched one of the most successful wars against the United...
Buried trash can reveal a lot about how our ancestors lived. Ground-penetrating radar in Harvard Yard revealed a deep and dense area of 17th-century trash near the location of the long-gone Old College building, so this fall, the Archaeology of Harvard Yard class will excavate the spot. Join them as they show and discuss their findings.
Speaker: Eduardo Goes Neves, Professor of Brazilian Archaeology, University of São Paulo; CAPES Visiting Professor, Harvard University
For many years the Amazon was considered to be an area sparsely occupied in the past, due to the supposed environmental limitations. However, archaeological research done in the last few years has been showing that the ancient Amazonia was densely populated and that the indigenous people who lived there left visible marks of their life styles. This presentation aims to provide an overview of...
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences welcome Peter de Menocal, Columbia University, to give a talk as part of the Harvard Climate Seminar Series. Peter de Menocal, Dean of Science and the Director of Center for Climate & Life at Columbia University