NYU ArchaeoHub Lecture Series Stone Age Precursors to the Silk Road: Theory, Models, and Field Results Radu Iovita, NYU Anthropology This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. In antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a network of trade routes known as the Silk Road connected East and West […]

A History of Excavation and Exploration at the Gladysvale Cave Site, Early 20th Century Keneiloe Molopyane, University of Witwatersrand Tuesday, Mar 11 2025 25 Waverly Place, Kriser Rm 107Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Human Origins & Human Skeletal Biology    

Next to Turquoise Domes: Archaeological Investigations in the City of Bukhara Sören Stark, Professor of Central Asian Archaeology, ISAW The city of Bukhara was once a key node along the fabled “Silk Roads.” Yet, compared to other Central Asian cities of comparable importance, the systematic archaeological investigation of Bukhara lags considerably behind. This is now […]

The Role of the Home in Human Evolution Amy Clark, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Human Origins March 20th, 2025 5-6:30pm 25 Waverly Place, Kriser Room 107  

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the Rose-Marie Lewent Conference People of the Sand, People of the Tent: Archaeological Perspectives on Mobility and Fluidity in Arid Regions Thursday, March 20, 2025 - Friday, March 21, 2025 NYU Silver Center for Arts & Science, Hemmerdinger Hall 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003 This […]

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the Rose-Marie Lewent Conference People of the Sand, People of the Tent: Archaeological Perspectives on Mobility and Fluidity in Arid Regions Thursday, March 20, 2025 - Friday, March 21, 2025 NYU Silver Center for Arts & Science, Hemmerdinger Hall 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003 This […]

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies Reimagining Ancient Worlds: New Stories of the Distant Past Thursday, April 3, 2025 - Friday, April 4, 2025 NYU Silver Center for Arts & Science, Jurow Lecture Hall 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003 This event will be held in-person […]

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies Reimagining Ancient Worlds: New Stories of the Distant Past Thursday, April 3, 2025 - Friday, April 4, 2025 NYU Silver Center for Arts & Science, Jurow Lecture Hall 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003 This event will be held in-person […]

An Egyptian Temple in First Millennium BCE Kush: Moving Beyond Ethnic Identity as a Model of Ancient Intercultural Interaction Kathryn Howley, Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, IFA The Kingdom of Kush flourished in the first millennium BCE in the area of northern Sudan known as Nubia. This complex culture with archaeologically […]

The Messiness of Animal Domestication  Greger Larson, Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford   We are all intuitively familiar with domestic plants and animals. We understand a great deal less about the origins and evolutionary history of domestication, and the stories we tell ourselves about the emergence of domestic species tend to […]