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Video: Homo sapiens Meets Neanderthals: The End of a World

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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...

Homo sapiens Meets Neanderthals: The End of a World

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Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France (Paris), Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Society Advance registration recommended for in-person and online attendance Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series The...

Ancient Cities of Guatemala’s Pacific Coast

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Free 2026 Gordon R. Willey Series Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Associate Professor, Yale University On Guatemala’s western Pacific coast, the region of Escuintla is home to many ancient cities, and for thousands of years it has...

Video: One Woman's Fight to Protect Ancient Maya Legacy

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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...

Video: Love and Death in the Stone Age

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Humans are the only animal species that bury their dead, and this practice is preserved in Paleolithic sites as early as 120,000 years ago. The emergence of burial traditions in this time period implies that both Neanderthals and early humans had already...

Video: Teotihuacan and the Making of a World City

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In the first century CE, Teotihuacan became the capital of the area known today as Central Mexico. The city grew to include 100,000 people, drawing immigrants from Western Mexico, the Valley of Oaxaca, Veracruz, and the Maya region. Deborah Nichols will...