BU Archaeology Day!
October is Archaeology Month! Archaeology Day at Boston University, we open up the department collections to the public and host hands-on activities and demonstrations with real BU archaeologists! Come talk to the experts and learn how past people made and used technology, how we discover them, and how we learn from them. Demonstrations include: stone […]
The Archaeology Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture: “What Good are Ancient Cities? Archaeology and Comparative Urbanism”
Lecture by Michael E. Smith, Professor of Archaeology, School of Human Evolution & Social Chang and Director, Teotihuacan Research Laboratory, Arizona State University. Lecture: College of Arts and Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 224 Reception to follow Gabel Museum of Archaeology, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 253.
Professor Kathryn Bard Exhibit: Sail the Red Sea: Ancient Egyptian Maritime Explorations
Professor Kathryn Bard has a new exhibit, Sail the Red Sea: Ancient Egyptian Maritime Explorations, at the Simon Fraser University museum. The exhibit features artifacts from her and Profesor Rodolfo Fattovich’s discoveries. The exhibit consists of 12 informational posters about the finds at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt, and was originally exhibited at the Supreme Council of […]
Quincy Middle School visits BU Archaeology Department
Students from the Quincy Atlantic Middle School visited the Boston University Archaeology Department where they attended a lecture giving an overall view of the field of archaeology by Kali Wade, Archaeology Senior Lab Technician, then they got some hands-on experience in the Archaeology/Anthropology teaching lab where BU Anthropology Alum, Meagan Sobel (CAS’14), talked about human […]
Cabinet of Curiosity – Watch City Steampunk Festival
BU Archaeology Students participated in the Watch City Steampunk Festival in Waltham, May 13, 2017. “Find our camp on Waltham Common, and join us for a glimpse into the past. We are proud also to announce the unveiling of new finds from Ancient Egypt, including the mummy of Nanefer-ka-ptah, long considered lost to the world, […]
Photos & Videos of Archaeology Workshop: FTIR Spectroscopy for the Study of Material Culture
The workshop was held Saturday, May 6 at Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems and Sunday, May 7 at Boston University Department of Archaeology. This workshop aimed to facilitate the sharing of knowledge directly useful to practitioners working with cultural heritage materials. There were presentations and discussions in the morning, followed in the afternoon by […]
Archaeology plans the menu for an Alumni Association Event – Eating Archaeology: Cooking up the Past
***SOLD OUT EVENT*** photo gallery of the evening(CLICK) The event was held on Tuesday, December 13, 6:30pm, Food & Wine Program, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Join us for an evening of food and wine with a menu researched by BU graduate students in the Department of Archaeology. Our chefs will re-create dishes from Prehispanic Aztecs, Bronze Age […]
We are pleased to announce that the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation will increase the endowment for the annual Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology with a gift of $50,000.
This donation is in acknowledgment of the success of the lecture series and the Department of Archaeology’s breadth of scholarship in teaching and research. The Sackler Foundation generously endowed an annual Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology in 2010 in honor of Emeritus Professor Norman Hammond. These lectures alternate between the archaeology of the New and Old […]
Slides from The Archaeology Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture
Boston University Archaeology Department 2016 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology in honor of Professor Norman Hammond was given by Professor Melinda A. Zeder, titled “Pathways to Animal Domestication: A Continuing Journey” was held Thursday, November 3, 5pm, College of Arts and Sciences, with a reception following at the Castle. Abstract: Animal […]
BU Today coverage of BU Archaeology Cabinet of Curiosity & Unrolling of the Mummy
BU Today 10/31/2016 by Amy Laskowski Event director Ilaria Patania (GRS’17), a PhD candidate in archaeology, said unveiling parties were very fashionable occasions, hosted by those who could afford to buy a mummy as “entertainment for their house party,” and also by professors or hospitals, who would examine the relic in the name of science. […]