Archaeology

Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series Lecture by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France (Paris), Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Society The arrival of Homo sapiens in the mid-latitudes of Eurasia 48,000 to 45,000 years ago and the...

Join Boston City Archaeologist Joe Bagley for a presentation on archaeological research that is deepening our understanding of Boston’s role in the American Revolution. Bagley shares new findings on the impact of the Siege of Boston and the 1775 Battle of...

2025 Tatiana Proskouriakoff Lecture When the looting and illicit trade of cultural artifacts surged In the 1960s, one voice rose in defense of archaeological sites in the Americas—Clemency Coggins. A pioneering art historian and legendary figure in Maya...

2025 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture by Louise Leakey, Director, Koobi Fora Research Project; Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University; National Geographic Explorer at Large Kenya’s fossil-rich Turkana Basin has been—for over...

Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the world over 1,500 years ago, stands today as a premier archaeological site and a powerful symbol of Mexico’s precolonial heritage. Despite its enduring fame and millions of annual visitors, much remains...

Watch the video on YouTube Mexican authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Salvador Novo, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, and Rosario Castellanos, among others, have sought to use language to explore and recover the links between Mexico’s Indigenous...

Transcript The 2022 Gordon R. Willey Lecture The story of Maya culture as a once-great civilization that built towering pyramids in the jungles of Central America was developed and popularized by national governments, anthropologists, and archaeologists...

Could the ancient city of Caral in Peru be the oldest city in the Western Hemisphere? Four Thousand Years Ago in Coastal Peru: America's First Civilization? Gordon R. Willey Lecture by Dr. Michael E. Moseley Professor in the Department of Anthropology at...