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…Continue Reading From Dinosaurs to Emperors: Cultural Property and the Department of Homeland Security

What do we mean by ‘Gaelic Ireland’ in the period from the arrival of the Normans in 1169 A.D. to the middle of the 14th century?  The conquest of Ireland in the years after 1169 was only partial, unlike England in 1066, and large parts of Ireland, particularly in the west and north, remained in…Continue Reading Elite settlement in Gaelic Ireland, 1169-1350AD

Social networks are an important factor for fostering creativity and innovation, back in ancient Greece and today. Such networks allow people to efficiently find the resources and partners they need and help new ideas catch on and spread. The ancient Greeks were remarkably innovative — what was their secret? What can we learn from them…Continue Reading Social Networks and Innovation in the Periclean Building Program

For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a complex international world in which Egyptians, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots, and Canaanites all interacted, creating a cosmopolitan and globalized world-system such as has only rarely been seen before…Continue Reading 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

…Continue Reading A New View of the Neolithic through Orkney’s Ness of Brodgar

The Kyrenia ship, so named when it was discovered in 1964 largely intact one mile north of the northern Cypriot town of Kyrenia, is the best preserved small Greek merchant ship ever found. Its cargo included 400 amphoras, most from Rhodes along with some from Knidos, Samos, Paros, and Cyprus, 45 sizeable unused millstones, iron…Continue Reading At Home on Board: the Kyrenia Ship and the Goods of its Crew

…Continue Reading Heritage in Peril: How International Agreements Protect and Preserve Archaeological Sites and Objects

The Greek Stone Age has been an active field of research, very much favored by the archaeology of caves. This presentation will demonstrate the wide research potential of cave contexts for the Greek prehistoric record, as emerging from their character as multi-temporal and multi-functional sites where subsequent time periods and cultures are able to survive…Continue Reading Stone Age and Cave Archaeology in Greece

Abstract: Etruscan artists used, in a wide variety of contexts, different types of violent imagery as a form of visual communication. Well-known and frequently-illustrated examples include the relief sculpture from Temple A at Pyrgi with its graphic depiction of scenes from the Seven Against Thebes epic, wall paintings from the Tomb of the Augurs (Tarquinia)…Continue Reading The ‘Taste’ for Violence in Etruscan Art: Debunking the Myth

This talk outlines some of the crucial aspects of research on the earliest surviving archive of paper and ink preserved in the manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan. The objects in this study are Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, Manichaean, Tokharian and Sogdian manuscripts drawn from the Stein Collection in the British Library in London; the Turfan collection…Continue Reading The Archaeology of the Silk Road Manuscripts