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Assembling the Dinosaur

Sep 17, 2019
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6:00PM EDT
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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
In Person
Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of late-nineteenth-century discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. Around the same time, the United States also emerged as an...

Collecting War Crimes Evidence during Cultural Rescue in Iraq
Sep 16, 2019
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12:00PM EDT
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Wasserstein 1019, HLS campus
In Person
After ISIS established its “Caliphate” in Mosul in 2014, it intentionally destroyed cultural heritage across Iraq’s Nineveh Plain. When Mosul was liberated in 2017, international cultural organizations offered salvage and stabilization assistance. Faced...

Reconstructing settlement landscapes in the Indus River Basin: Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoBasins projects
May 2, 2019
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3:30PM EDT
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Room 203, Tozzer Anthropology Building, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series Cameron Petrie University of Cambridge The populations of South Asia's Indus Civilisation lived across an extensive area characterised by diverse and variable environments. Over a century of archaeological research has...

Digging Veritas: Archaeology of Harvard Yard
Apr 25, 2019
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3:30PM EDT
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Room 203, Tozzer Anthropology Building, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series Trish Capone and Diana Loren

Population Palaeogenomics as a Window into the Legacy of the Black Death
Apr 25, 2019
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3:30PM EDT
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Biological Labs Lecture Hall 1080
In Person
Tom Gilbert University of Copenhagen A talk hosted by the OEB Seminar Series: Reception to follow talk Human populations have been shaped by past catastrophes, some of which may have left long-lasting signatures in our genomes. Although numerous tools...

Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age to the End of Antiquity

Apr 23, 2019
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6:00PM EDT
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Sardis was one of the most important ancient cities of western Turkey—it was the birthplace of coinage, capital of the Lydian king Croesus, and site of one of the Seven Churches of Asia. In this biennial lecture, director Nicholas Cahill, professor of art...