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Where Was the American Southwest? And Why Isn't It There Anymore?
We often divide native North America into well-defined “culture areas” that correspond roughly to environmental/physiographic areas (the Northwest Coast, the Great Plains, etc.). The Southwest, extending from Durango (Colorado) to Durango (Mexico) and from Las Vegas (Nevada) to Las Vegas (New Mexico) is one of these. The earliest Europeans who described the region saw a vivid natural and...
Sex and Gender in the Arena
Although popular culture has long revered the gladiators as the manliest of Romans, posturing before howling crowds of plebeians as the rockstars of their day, the sex of gladiators as constructed by Romans is rather more complicated. This talk tackles the sexualized nuances of the arena, touching on the relative masculinity of gladiators as a group, within Roman society, as well as the...
Legitimizing the Past: Conservation, Expertise and the Power of Transformation
This talk will examine the historic role of the conservation discipline in legitimizing narratives of the past, and the impact this continues to have on the field, its practice, and future. Further, I will unpack the critical roles played by expertise and authority in defining and valuing heritage work, the labour engaged in its production, and the development of training and pedagogy.
A New Cycle of Fieldwork at the Temple of Athena at Paestum
The results of five seasons of fieldwork conducted since 2017 at the Temple of Athena at Paestum in southern Italy are presented. The research is concerned with the north urban sanctuary whose Doric temple of the late sixth century BCE stands as its centerpiece. The North Urban Paestum Project (NUPP) is being conducted by Colgate University in collaboration with the Parco Archeologico di...
Earth and Fire: Ancient Greek Potters and Their Masterpieces (A Hellenic Cultural Foundation Lecture)
The Hellenic Cultural Foundation Presents...
An ancient city was a city of clay: from the architectural terracottas on roofs of homes and temples, to the clay drainage pipes underground, Greeks potters mastered earth and fire to produce almost everything a household and a city needed from the mundane to the exquisite. In this richly illustrated lecture Professor Hasaki provides a closer...
Shipwrecks and the Transport of Luxury in the Roman Mediterranean
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During the late Republic and early Empire, Rome had a voracious appetite for importing luxury objects from around the Mediterranean: spices from the Arabian Peninsula, sculptures and bronzes from Greece, glassware from Egypt and the Levant, nd textiles from India, to list a few...
Fête Champêtre: Ritual Consumption in the Greek Countryside
Archaeological research over the past thirty years has highlighted rural gatherings, sacrifice, and feasting as central aspects of Early Iron Age ritual practice in many parts of Greece. But less attention has been paid to similar evidence from later periods or to the practicalities of organisation and provision for events in often remote locations. From Archaic times on, attention moves to...