Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Climate, Water, and the Evolution of Early Societies
From the Tropical Maya Lowlands to the Arid Puebloan Southwest
Vernon L. Scarborough, Distinguished University Research Professor and Charles P. Taft Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati
The earliest complex societies found in the Western Hemisphere developed under very different environmental conditions. The Maya, for instance, emerged in the tropical lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, a region with high seasonal rainfall and rich biodiversity...
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The great Nubian scholar, Charles Bonnet, author of The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings of the Nile, will be at Harvard on October 18-20 to deliver the Hutchins Center’s Huggins Lectures on the topic “The Double Capital of Kush: Kerma and Dukki Gel.” Please see the...
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard is pleased to be hosting the 35th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Please see our website for more details!
The Upper Xingu area of the Brazilian Amazon is known for its cultural diversity where traditional indigenous lifestyles persist even in the face of the encroachment of mechanized agriculture in the area. Archaeologist Michael Heckenberger, anthropologist and award-winning filmmaker Carlos Fausto, prominent leader Aufkaka Kuikuro, and award-winning Kuikuro filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro will talk about their joint research on the archaeology and collective memory of the Kuikuro people. They will present the plans for the new...
and THE DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
present a lecture
by
Manfred Bietak University of Vienna
The “Enigma of the Hyksos” is a new project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences directed by Prof. Dr. Manfred Bietak and supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The project aims to shed light on the so-called Hyksos Period in Egypt (c. 1750–1530 BC), an obscure era that saw the rise to power of...
*Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series Presents: *
*Melissa S. Murphy*
/'Bioarchaeological perspectives on care and disability during the Late
Horizon (A.D. 1470-1532) on the central coast of Peru'/
*Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series Presents: *
*David Hurst Thomas*
**/'Romance and Reality in the Mythical Mission Past: How We Found the
Long-lost Spanish Mission on St. Catherines Island'/
Nostalgia and romance have long surrounded the Franciscan and Jesuit missions
of America’s Spanish Borderlands, in the process coloring how we all
perceive the surviving archaeological record. From San Francisco
(California), through the American Southwest to St. Augustine (Florida), a
mainstream national narrative has constructed and perpetuated an idealized,
romanticized version of the... Read more about David Hurst Thomas: 'Romance and Reality in the Mythical Mission Past: How We Found the Long-lost Spanish Mission on St. Catherines Island'
Evidence for the bow and arrow 50,000 years ago from the Mediterranean basin (Mandrin, France) and comparative studies with the Harvard Peabody Museum collections from Ksar Akil, Lebanon.
The Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) is pleased to announce that the Seventh SEAA Worldwide Conference will be held in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on June 8-12, 2016. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Standing Committee on Archaeology, Harvard University, and the Department of Archaeology, Boston University. The local organizer of the conference is...