Artur Petrosyan
Archaeologist, Researcher, Department of Early Archaeology
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia
November 6th 2020 12:00pm PT (contingent on the developing situation in Armenia)
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Arsen Bobokhyan
PhD, Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia
Friday, October 16th, 12:00pm PT (contingent on the developing situation in Armenia)
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Konstantinos Zachos Director Emeritus Of Antiquities For Epiros
Saturday, October 10th, 10:00am PT
Marisa E. Marthari, Director Emerita Of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities For The Cyclades And Samos
Saturday, October 17th, 10:00am PST
Mary E. Voyatzis, Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson
Saturday, October 3rd, 10:00am PST
We are excited to announce that our event Chauvet Cave: Masterworks of the Paleolithic will now be held virtually!
Hear eight of the world’s leading Egyptologists, who will appear together for the first time to share their expertise on life in Ancient Egypt. These experts are all editors of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE), a prestigious resource of in-depth articles on Ancient Egypt that has been a decade in the making. Accessible by the public, these articles cover language, religion, history, art, and a wide variety of other important topics on this critical civilization.
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The Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas and Coahuila, Mexico house some of the most spectacularly complex rock art of the ancient world. Approximately 4000 years ago, hunter-gatherers began transforming this region into a painted landscape.
Since our humble beginnings, human’s have created and discarded unwanted objects: garbage is a human universal, and the archaeological record is brimming with it. Indeed, the everyday human experience – the routine domestic tasks we perform, the foods we process and eat, the goods we consume – is arguably best documented with our discards. Rarely glorified and difficult to romanticize, trash can challenge the dominant historical narrative, give voice to those without, and complicate our understandings of quotidian behavior. But an archaeology of trash is also situated to foster uni