Archaeological Institute of America -
The St. Louis SocietyGreat lectures given in past years - this is a partial list
Archaeological Institute of America -
The St. Louis Society
Great lectures given in past years - this is a partial list
7 May 2022, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please....ZOOM lecture: "New research at St. Mary's City in Maryland" by Tim Horsley of Horsley Archaeological Prospection, LLC.
2 April 2022, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM Lecture entitled "New Archaeological Discoveries in England" by Katherine Neustadt, Senior Heritage Consultant at Atkins.
5 March 2022, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM Lecture entitled "Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora" by Prof. Douglas Bramforth of the University of Colorado.
5 February 2022, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 3 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please....ZOOM lecture: "Archaeology of Tattoos and Skin Art" by Dr. Aaron Deter-Wolf, Tennessee Division of Archaeology.
15 January 2022, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. ....ZOOM lecture: "Around the Ancient World in 80 potsherds" by Nora-Miriam Voss of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna.
11 December 2021, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please....ZOOM lecture: "New discovery of a Roman Legionary Base at Legio, Israel" by Dr. Matthew J. Adams, director of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
13 November 2021, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM lecture. The room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please....
**"Tracing the Origins of Art in Africa" by Dr. Michael Chazan (University of Toronto). [Joukowsky lecturer provided by the National AIA]
16 October 2021, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please.... International Archaeology Day lecture "Archaeology and the Mystery of a Church Burned Down during the Civil War" - a ZOOM presentation by Dr. Steve Dasovich, Archaeology Program Director at Lindenwood University.
25 September 2021, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please....
**ZOOM Lecture: "New Research in Ancient Mesopotamia" by Dr. Rocco Palermo in Univesity of Groningen. THIS WILL BE A LIVE LECTURE FROM NORTHERN IRAQ.
10 April 2021, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). Zoom lecture "The Virgin's Lot: Christian Archaeology and Architecture of Georgia" by Dr. Emma Loosley in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exerter.
6 March 2021, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM lecture: "Roman Figural Lamps" by Ani Eblighatian, Departement des sciences de l'Antiquite - Universite de Geneve.
6 February 2021, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). Zoom lecture "The Objects and People of Hadrian's Wall in Roman England" by Dr Rob Collins in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Newcastle University
9 January 2021, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM room opens at 2:45 and lecture promptly starts at 3 PM. Sign in at 2:45, please....ZOOM lecture: "Early Modern Italian reception of MesoAmerica" by Dr. David Domenici in the Department of History and Cultures at the Universita di Bologna.
5 December 2020, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM lecture: "Jerusalem's Forgotten Southern Hill - Mt. Zion" by Dr. Michael Wurz in the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main.
21 November 2020, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone).
**ZOOM lecture: "Missing the Boat: Ancient Dugout Canoes in the Mississippi-Missouri Watershed" by Dr. Peter H. Wood (Duke University). [Doris Stone lecture provided by the National AIA]
17 October 2020, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). International Archaeology Day lecture "Historic Archaeology of Missouri" - a ZOOM presentation by Dr. Steve Dasovich in the Anthropology Program at Lindenwood University.
26 September 2020, Saturday at 3 PM (Central Standard Time Zone).
**ZOOM Lecture: "The Archaic Smiles: It's No Laughing Matter" by Dr. Jeffrey M. Hurwit in the Department of Art and Architecture at the Univeristy of Oregon. [Norton lecturer for the National Archaeological Institute of America].
POSTPONED because of Pandemic....Monday 4 May 2020, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Dr. Franco Rossi (Boston University) "Schoolcraft: A Comparative Archaeology of Educational Orders in MesoAmerica"
POSTPONED because of Pandemic....**Monday 6 April 2020, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Peter H. Wood (Duke University) "Missing the Boat: Ancient Dugout Canoes in the Mississippi-Missouri Watershed" [Doris Stone lecture provided by the National AIA]
Monday, 9 March 2020, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Win Scutt (English Heritage properties curator). "A Royal Palace found at Tintagel, England and the Legend of Arthur."
Monday, 3 February 2020, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Rian Thum (Loyola University - New Orleans). "China's Living Silk Road Sites and their Ongoing Destruction."
Sunday, 12 January 2020, 3:00 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Dr. Irving Finkel (Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum). "Secrets of Ancient Games."
Monday, 9 December 2019, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Dr. Geoff Emberling (Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan). "Memories of the Kings and Queens of Kush: Archaeology and Heritage at El Kurru, Sudan"
Monday, 11 November 2019, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Emeritus Garrett Olmsted (Cornell University)
"Tale of Two Kettles: Two Cauldrons Explicating Accounts in Celtic and Greek Mythoogy" [A lecture to honor Professor Ralph Rowlett who planned to relocate outside of Missouri this Fall]
Sunday, 10 November 2019, 2:00 PM - Library of Americana at the Sappington House, 1015 South Sappington Road, Crestwood, MO 63125. "Student Reports on the Service Learning Archaeological Excavation during summer 2019 at the Sappington House Site"
Saturday, 19 October 2019, 10 AM to 2 PM - Ulysses S. Grant National History Site. Noon lecture by Professor Steve Dasovich (Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO) "Historic Archaeology". [Lecture co-sponsored with the U.S. National Park Service. Address is 7400 Grant Road, St. Louis, MO 63123]
** Sunday, 29 September 2019, 3:00 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Kroum Batchvarov (University of Connecticut at Avery Point) "The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project." [McCann/Taggart Lecture provided by the National AIA].
** Wednesday 1 May 2019, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Emerita Gale Owen-Crocker from the University of Manchester; formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. "The Significance of the Bayeux Tapestry."
Tuesday 9 April 2019, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Alison Futrell, Associate Professor of Roman History with the University Arizona. "Sex in the Roman Arena" [Joukowsky Lecturer for National AIA].
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Robert F. Mazrim, Illinois State Archaeological Survey.
"Recent Archaeological Research at Ste. Genevieve, MO."
Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 7:30 PM -Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Warren Riess, Research Professor of maritime history and archaeology at the University of Maine
"The Ship That Held Up Wall Street"
[Steffy Lecturer for the National AIA]
** Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Charles Golden, Brandeis University..
"Life and Afterlife among the ancient Maya."
** Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor James Hoffmeier, Trinity International University.
"Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism"
Sunday, 11 November 2018, 2:00 PM - Sappington House, Library of Americana located at 1015 South Sappington Road, St. Louis, MO 63126. Artifats on Display -"Research results of the Service Learning Archaeological Project at Thomas Sappington House" [Lecture co-sponsored with the Sappington-Concord Historical Society]
Saturday, 20 October 2018, 11 AM to 3:30 PM - at Missouri History Museum.. Three lectures to honor the memory of Judy Brilliant held on INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY.
11 am Janet V. Stephens (Experimental Archaeologist) will lecture and demonstrate "Ancient Roman Hairdressing: Fiction to Fact"
1 pm Professor Alexis Castor (Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Franklin & Marshall College) "More Than Glitter: Jewelry in Ancient Greece and Etruria."
2:30 pm Professor Michael Fuller (Professor Emeritus at St. Louis Community College) "Judy Brilliant and the mysteries of Caesarea Maritima" [Co-sponsored with the Missouri History Museum]
** Monday 24 September 2018, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Jim Brewster,Group Projects Assistant Manager at Family Tree DNA .
"Applications of DNA analysis in archaeology."
** Monday 21 August 2017, 9:30 AM - Washington State Park located 90 minutes south of St. Louis. A guided interpretive discussion (by a ranger) of the ancient Native American rock carvings. Then, the eclipse will start at 11:49 a.m.
** Monday 25 September 2017, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor David Freidel, Department of Anthropology at Washington University - St. Louis.
"Maya Time Lords: Kings, Queens and Destiny in the Archaeological Record of El Peru-Waka', Guatemala.."
Saturday, 21 October 2017, 10 AM to 2 PM - INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY at the Thomas Sappington House Museum. Discuss French Colonial and Early American historic archaeology in St. Louis. DO NOT MISS THE NOON performance of dramatic poetry and prose popular in 1810! Learn about broken china, glassware, animal bones, buttons as well as what nourished the soul in 1810. [Co-sponsored with Sappington House Museum Society, City of Crestwood, and the Archaeological Research Center of St. Louis. Address is 1015 Sappington Rd, St. Louis, MO 63126]
Thurs, 26 October 2017, 7:30 PM - John Burroughs School Auditorium
Dr. James Delgado, NOAA. "The Museum of the Sea" [Co-sponsored with John Burrough's school]
Sunday, 12 November 2017, 2:00 PM - Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site Auditorium located at 7400 Grant Rd, St. Louis, MO 63123 High School student reports. "Research results of the Service Learning Archaeological Project at Thomas Sappington House" [Lecture co-sponsored with the Sappington-Concord Historical Society and the National Park Service].
Tuesday, 14 November 2017, 7:30 PM -Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Kieran O'Conor, Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
"Elite settlement in Gaelic Ireland, AD 1169 - 1350"
** Thursday, 7 December 2017, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Shara Bailey, Dept of Anthropology at New York University.
"CHANGE THE TEXTBOOKS! New dates for the Jabel Irhoud fossils, Morocco ".
** Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Floyd McCoy, Dept. Natural Sciences at the University of Hawaii - Windward College.
"Volcanology and regional effects of the Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera (Greece)." [National AIA Lecturer]
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Sethuraman Suresh, National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage in India.
"From Kanchipura to Kampuchea: South India Art and Cultural Influences in Cambodia, Mainly Angkor Wat." [Kress lecturer for the National AIA].
Tuesday 10 April 2018, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Debra Foran, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
"Town of Nebo Archaeological Project in Jordan"
** Wednesday 9 May 2018, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Dr. Tim Horsley, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University and Managing Director, Horsley Archaeological Prospection, LLC. "Revealing Archaeological Sites using Geophysical Methods."
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2016 - 2017 Lecture Schedule
Wednesday 21 September 2016, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Cinnamon Brown, Chair of the History Department at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. "Archaeological Research at the Moore's Mill Battlefield (1862) in Callaway County, MO."
Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Simon James, Reader in Archaeology at the University of Leicester in England. "Blood in the Dust, Death in the Dark: combat and chemical warfare at Roman Dura-Europos, Syria" [Kress lecturer for the AIA]
Saturday, 15 October 2016, 10 AM to 2 PM - at Fort Belle Fontaine County Park at 13002 Bellefontaine Road
Saint Louis, MO 63138. Discuss prehistoric hunting and butchering tools, then practice throwing an Atlatl (under adult supervision!!!).[Co-sponsored with St. Louis County Park Service and the Missouri Atlatl Association.]
Tuesday, 15 November 2016, 7:30 PM -Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Michael Danti in the Department of Archaeology at Boston University and academic director of American Schools of Oriental Research Cultural Heritage Initiatives.
"The Cultural Heritage Crises in Syria and Northern Iraq"
Sunday, 20 November 2016, 2:00 PM - Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site Auditorium located at 7400 Grant Rd, St. Louis, MO 63123
High School student reports.
"Research results of the Service Learning Archaeological Project at Thomas Sappington House" [Lecture co-sponsored with the Sappington-Concord Historical Society and the National Park Service]
Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford.
"The Atlantis Civilization"
Tuesday, 7 February 2017, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Dr. Michelle Loyet, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Webster University.
"The Mysteries Of Afterlife In Ancient Egypt"
[Lecture co-sponsored with the Mound City chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society]
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Reginald Auger, Laval University in Quebec City.
New Title at speaker's request: "The Loyola Cemetery in French Guiana: Memory of Slavery at a Sugar Plantation" [Lecture cosponsored with the Archaeology Program at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.]
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Nick Card, The University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland. "Secrets of the Ness of Brodgar: a Stone-Age Complex in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site." [Kress lecturer for the National AIA].
Tuesday 18 April 2017, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Mary Miller, Sterling Professor of Art History at Yale University. "What Figurines Can Tell Us: A Life of Traders and Enslavement on the Island of Jaina, Mexico"
Saturday 29 April 2017, 10 AM -St. Louis Community College - Meramec, Lecture Hall Social Science 105
Professor Emerita Gale Owen-Crocker from the University of Manchester; she was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. "Beowulf and Archaeology." A second lecture will be given at 11:30 in the same room entitled "Archaeological Evidence for Anglo-Saxon dress."
Wednesday 10 May 2017, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Dr. Michael Nelson, Art Historian at the City University of New York (CUNY), Queens College. "A Roman period sanctuary at the site of Omrit in Israel."
Wednesday, 16 September 2015, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Dr. Frances Levine, Director, Missouri History Museum.
The Past is Still Present: Revisiting Historic Battlefields and Massacres.
Dr. Levine's publication Frontier Battles and Massacres: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives will be sold before and after the lecture.
Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Jaime J. Awe, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Maya Apocalypse: Deciphering the Evidence for Collapse and its Aftermath in the Belize River Valley.
Saturday, 17 October 2015, 10 AM to 2 PM - Jefferson Barracks County Park Visitor's Center, 345 North Road, St. Louis, MO 63125, INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL DAY, A family event. Lectures and hands on study. Archaeologists and living historians will be talking about archaeology at military sites ranging from Jefferson Barracks to Roman legionary camps.
At noon, Mr. Barnes Bradshaw - special events coordinator for the Missouri History Museum, will explore the life of Civil War spy Absalom Grimes in a first-person, fully-costumed program. Free program. Everyone welcome.
[Co-sponsored with the St. Louis County Park Service - Jefferson Barracks County Park .]
Tuesday, 10 November 2015, 7:30 PM -Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Katheryn Sampeck, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University.
How Chocolate Came To Be.
** Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor William M. Murray, Department of History, University of South Florida.
The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies.
Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Rami Arav, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Director of Bethsaida Excavations.
Thirty Years of Archaeological Excavations at Bethsaida.
Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Michael MacKinnon, Department of Classics, University of Winnipeg.
Pet Animals in Roman Antiquity: Reconstructions from Archaeological Evidence
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Megan Cifarellli, Department of Art History, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
Taking It With You: Death and Personal Adornment of Hansanlu, Iran."
** Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Dr. Della Scott-Ireton, Associate Director of Florida Public Archaeology Network.
History is the Real Treasure: The 1733 Spanish Galleon Trail.
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Dan Bahat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto and former Chief Archaeologist of the City of Jerusalem
The Golden Gate and the Eastern Gate of the Temple of Jerusalem.
Monday, 16 March 2015, 7:00 PM - Central Reformed Congregation at 5020 Waterman
Professor Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford.
The Ancient Synagogue and the Colossus of Rhodes, Greece.
** Wednesday 12 September 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Dr John Roberts Hale, University of Louisville,
Dragons of the North: The World of Viking Longships.
Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Robert Brier, Long Island University.
Secret of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
Sunday, 13 October 2013, 1:00 PM - Kopolow Federation Building at 12 Millstone Campus
Professor Richard A Freund, University of Hartford.
Sobibor (a documentary film)
Saturday, 19 October 2013, 10 AM to 3 PM - 700 North 1st Street in downtown St. Louis, MO
[INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY CELEBRATION in the heart of the French colonial settlement of St. Louis!!!!]
[Co-sponsored with the National Park Service and moved off of NPS property because of the Federal Government shutdown.]
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 7:30 PM -Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Shelley Wachsmann, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A & M University.
Wheels, Wagons and the Transport of Ships Overland in Antiquity.
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Dan Bahat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto and former Chief Archaeologist of the City of Jerusalem
The Temple Mount of Jerusalem from the First to the Second Temple Period.
Sunday, 26 January 2014, 3:00 PM - Brown Hall, Washington University
Professor Michael Franchetti, Washington University in St. Louis. "
A New Face of Ancient Civilization: Bronze Age Nomads and The Influence Across Inner Asia.[Co-sponsored with the Washington University Archaeology Program]
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Marcello Canuto, Tulane University, New Orleans.
The Forging of a Classical Maya Kingdom: La Corona and its Alliance to the Snake Kings Calakmul [in Guatemala]."
**Tuesday 4 March 2014, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Thomas Noble Howe, Southwest University in Georgetown, Texas.
The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries of the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae near Pompeii [Italy].
Tuesday 8 April 2014, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
William Appleton, Director of Education & Visitor Experience at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City.
Unveiling Buddhism: The Legacy of Giuseppe Tucci.
Wednesday 14 May 2014, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Patrick Hunt, Stanford University.
Otzi the Iceman: 5,300 year old Alpine Mummy and Forensic Science.
** Wednesday 12 September 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Dr. James P. Delgado, Director of the Maritime Herietage, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Siverl Spring, Maryland.
"Titanic at 100"
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Jane E. Buikstra, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Director of the Center of Bioarchaeological Research, Arizona State University; President, Center for American Archaeology, Kamspsville, Illinois.
Venerated Ancestors: Mummies of the Ancient Andes.
[Co-sponsored with the St. Louis Chapter of the Explorers Club and the St. Louis Academy of Science]
Saturday, 20 October 2012, 10 AM to 3 PM - Cahokia Mound Museum in Collinsville, Illinois
[NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY CELEBRATION at a World Heritage Site!!!!]
10 to 11 am Professor Michael Fuller, Professor of Anthropology at St. Louis Community College - Meramec
Cahokia's Westward influence in AD 1100.
11 am to 1 pm - Archaeology Open house and hands-on learning at the front of the museum.
1 to 2 pm Phyllis Steckel, Professional Geologist with Earthquake Insight LLC
Ancient Earthquakes and Archaeology.
[Co-sponsored with the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society.]
Sunday, 27 January 2013, 1 to 6 PM - 23rd Steinberg Hall, Washington University
"Symposium in Honor of Sarantis Symeonoglou on the Occasion of his Retirement"
Keynote address by Professor R. Ross Holloway, Professor Emeritus, Brown University. His talk with be on The Other Bronze Age of the Classical World. Shorter talks will be given by several colleagues and former students on topics related to Old World Archaeology.
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Wooster College, Wooster Ohio. Principle Investigator of El Peru-Waka Archaeological Project.
Memory, Monuments and Mortuary Ritual in the ancient Maya City of El Peru' Waka' in Guatemala.
Tuesday 9 April 2013, 7:00 PM (PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME!)- Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
25th Annual Memorial Lecture. An event honoring the life and
work of Professor George E. Mylonas. Professor Michael B. Cosmopoulos,
Chair and organizer.
Co-sponored with the Hellenic Government Foundation Endowed Professionship in Greek Studies at UMSL, St. Louis and Washington University Archaeology Program; the faculty from the Art History and Archaeology, Classics Department, and Anthropology. Endowed by the Mylonas Fund.
Keynote address by Dr. Dora Vassilikou, Vice President of the Athens Archaeological Society. Mycenae, Rich in Gold: Excavating the Capital City of Agamemnon.
**Wednesday 8 May 2013, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Dr. William W. Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..
Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Empire.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Derek Counts, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Master of Animals: Divine Symbols and Local Traditions in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 2:00 PM - Mastodon State Park in Kimmswick, MO
Michael J. Fuller, Prof. of Anthropology, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Archaeology of Jefferson County, MO.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Michael J. Fuller, Prof. of Anthropology, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Romans, Early Christians and Anglo-Saxons in England.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Dan Bahat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto and former Chief Archaeologist of the City of Jerusalem
The Authenticity of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic Holy Places in Jerusalem.
Sunday, 29 January 2012, 3 PM - 24th George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture at Brown Hall, Washington University
[Chapin Drive, North off Forsyth, 2 blocks West of Skinker.] Co-sponsored with Washington University Archaeology Program, the faculty from Art History and Archaeology, Classic, and Anthropology Departments.
"The Coming of the Greeks "
by Professor Emeritus John Coleman, Cornell University.
Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Zvi C. Koren, Director of the Edelstein Center for the Analysis of Ancient Artifacts, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Israel.
The Unprecedented Discovery of Biblical-Blue Tekhelet and Royal Purple Argaman at Masada.
Tuesday 13 March 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Elizabeth Lee, Director of Projects and Development, CyArk, Oakland, California.
Digital Preservation of the World's Cultural Heritage.
Tuesday 10 April 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
John F. Haslett, Independent Research and Author.
Recent experiments with Manteno-Huancavilca sailing replicas: possible Maritime Innovations emplohyed by the chiefdomos of Coast Ecuador.
*Wednesday 9 May 2012, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Joukowsky Lecturer for the AIA.
All Roads lead to Rome: The Roman Highway System in Global Perspective.
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Andrew L. Goldman, Gonzaga University.
In Search of King Midas: New Discoveris at Gordion in Turkey
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 7:30 PM -Missouri History Museum Auditorium
John R. Tschirch, Director of Museum Affairs/Architectural Historian for the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island.
The Great Houses of Newport - Picturesque to the Gilded Age.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Professor Dan Bahat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto and former Chief Archaeologist of the City of Jerusalem
Herodium: Herod's Palace and Tomb (in Israel).
Sunday, 30 January 2011, 3 PM - 23rd George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture at Brown Hall, Washington University
[Chapin Drive, North off Forsyth, 2 blocks West of Skinker. Co-sponsored with Washington University Archaeology Program, the faculty from Art History and Archaeology, Classic, and Anthropology Departments.
"Minoan Wall Painting in Crete and Egypt"
by Professor Nano Marinatos, Department of Classics and Mediterraean Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 7:30 PM - Missouri History Museum Auditorium
Jarrett Lobell, Executive Editor, Archaeology Magazine.
Greece's Grand Opening: the New Acropolis Museum and the Treasures of Ancient Athens .
*Tuesday 8 March 2011, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Mark Aldenderfer, University of California, Merced. dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.
4000 years of Andean Gold.
Tuesday 12 April 2011, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Endowed Professor of Archaeology and Greek Studies with the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Digging Homer: The Excavation of New Mycenaean Palace in Pylos, Greece.
*Wednesday 4 May 2011, 7:30 PM - Missouri Historical Museum Auditorium
Professor Tracy K. Betsinger, Department of Anthropology, SUNY College.
Bioarchaeology: What the Dead Can Tell the Living.
13 October 2009 - Tuesday. 7:30 PM
Taming the Wild Steed: Origins of Horse Domestication. by
Dr. Sandra Olsen,
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh..
lecture given at the Missouri History Museum.
10 November 2009 - Tuesday. 7:30 PM
Cave Archaeology in the Maya Region by
Professor Jaime Awe (Belize).
lecture given at the
Missouri History Museum.
16 December 2009 - Wednesday.. 7:30 PM
Jerusalem in the beginning of the Medieval Period.
by Professor Dan Bahat, former district archaeologist for the City of Jerusalem. St. Thomas College, Toronto.
lecture given at the
Missouri History Museum.
31 January 2010 - Sunday. 3:00 PM -- The 22nd George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture
Altar of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion in Greece. by Professor David Gilman Romano from the
University of Pennsylvania.
lecture given at Brown Hall
auditorium at Washington University. Brown Hall Auditorium, Washington University.
9 February 2010- Tuesday. 7:30 PM
"From Phrygian Capital to Roman Fort: Recent Excavations at Gordion" (Turkey). by Professor Andrew L. Goldman, Gonzaga University.
lecture given in the MacDermott Grand Hall at the Missouri History Museum.
9 March 2010 - Tuesday. 7:30 PM
"Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective."
by Professor James M. Adovasio, Mercyhurst College. Lecture given at the Missouri History Museum.
13 April 2010 - Tuesday. 7:30 PM
"From the Valley of the Kings to Philae: Ancient and Modern Pilgrimages." (Egypt). by Professor Eugene Cruz-Uribe, Northern Arizona University
lecture given at the
Missouri History Museum.
5 May 2010 - Wednesday
Prof Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Professor Emerita, Brown University, "Great Temple Excavations at Petra." (Jordan) Held at Brown Hall on the Washington University campus.
5 September 2008 - Friday. 7:00 PM
The 2008 Excavation at Abila of the Decapolis. by Prof. David Chapman, Covenant Theological Seminary
lecture given at Convenant Seminary Library.
16 October 2008 - Thurs. 7:30 PM
Meanings in Early Celtic Art. by Prof. Peter Wells, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
lecture given at the Missouri History Museum.
13 November 2008 - Thurs. 7:30 PM
Deep Submergence Archaeology: the Final Frontier by Prof. Shelley Wachsmann, Texas A & M University.
lecture given at the Missouri History Museum.
11 December 2008 - Thurs.. 7:30 PM
Epheseus from terrace house to tomb by Professor Barry Strauss, Dept. of History and Classics, Cornell University.
Lecture given at the Missouri History Museum.
25 January 2008 - Sunday. 3:00 PM -- The 21st George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture
The Uses of the Past on the Periklean Acropolis. by Professor Jeffrey Hurwit, University of Oregon.
lecture given at Brown Hall auditorium at Washington University.
12 February 2009- Thurs. 7:30 PM
New Archaeological Discoveries in the Republic of Macedonia. by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College at Meramec.
lecture given in the MacDermott Grand Hall at the Missouri History Museum.
12 March 2009 - Thurs. 7:30 PM
The Classical Greek Theater: Architecture, Performance, Cult. by Professor Hans R. Goette, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin.
lecture given at the Missouri History Museum.
16 April 2009 - Thurs. 7:30 PM
There is nothing more permanent than a Posthole - Recent Excavations at Hierakonolis, Upper Egypt. by Professor Thomas Hikade, University of British Columbia. Lecture given at the Missouri History Museum
.
7 May 2009 - Thurs. 7:30 PM
A Crossroads of Conquerers Revisited: Latest Finds of el Peru - Waka. by Professor David Freidel, Washington University.
lecture given at the Missouri History Museum.
Sept. 7 Sept 2007 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Rescue on the Euphrates: results of the Roman frontier city of Zeugma by
Prof. William Aylward,
Dept. of Classics, University of Wisconsin - Madison. University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
5 Oct 2007- Fri.. 7 PM
Bet She'an: A Greco-Roman city of the Decapolis by Prof. Gabriel Mazor, Senior research member with the Israel Department of Antiquities and Director of the Bet Shean Archaeological Project. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
2 Nov. 2007 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Roman Arena and Crowd Dynamics: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? by
Prof. Garrett Fagan,
Pennsylvania State University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
7 Dec. 2007 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Jerusalem of the Crusaders by Prof. Dan Bahat, Bar Ilan University and formerly district archaeologist of Jerusalem for the Ministry of Culture and Education. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
9 Dec. 2007 - Sunday. 2:00 PM
New Discoveries in Jerusalem; City of David, Pool of Sholoach, the piazza at the Western Wall and More by Prof. Dan Bahat, Bar Ilan University and formerly district archaeologist of Jerusalem for the Ministry of Culture and Education. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
20 Jan. 2008 - Sun. 3:00 PM
A monumental cargo: the Roman column wreck at Kizilburun, Turkey by Prof. Deborah Carlson, Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A & M
20th Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecturer
Co-Sponsored with the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University. Lecture held at Steinberg Hall.
1 Feb. 2008 - Friday 7:00 PM
Dead men do tell tales: the Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage by
Prof. Naomi J. Norman,
University of Georgia and editor of the American Journal of Archaeology. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
16 Feb. 2008 - Sat. 10:00 AM until noon
New Discoveries in the Republic of Macedonia.
by Prof. Michael J. Fuller, St. Louis Community College - Meramec. and
Iron Age political
geography in the western Ukrainian steppes. by Nicholas Efremov-Kendall, Dept. of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Community College - Meramec. South County campus multipurpose room.
2 March 2008 - Sunday 2:00 PM
Treasures from the realm of the Queen of Sheba by
Prof. Robert S. Bianchi,
Independent Scholar.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
3 April 2998 - Thursday 7:00 PM
The Koster Site (Illinois River Valley): a 21st century Perspetive. by Prof. Jane E. Buikstra, Director of the center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Community College - Meramec. South County campus multipurpose room, 4115 Meramec Bottom Road at Lemay Ferry Road, Melville/Oakville.
4 April 2008 - Friday 7:00 PM
Tombs of the Mayan Ancestors: Adding the Bioarchaeological Dimension by Prof. Jane E. Buikstra, Director of the center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
May 2 - Friday 7:00 PM
Reunion of Body and Soul: Sexuality and Resurrection in the Egyptian Netherworld by Prof. Lanny Bell, Dept. of Egyptology at Brown University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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Apr. 7, 2006 "Gladiators" by Professor Steven Tuck. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Mar. 10, 2006 "Painting the Creation, Crowning the King: May Art, Iconography and History at San Bartolo, Guatemala" by Professoro William Saturno of the University of New Hampshire. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Sept. 15, 2006 "The Murder of Tutankhamen" by Prof. Robert Brier, Long Island University. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum and held in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Parks.
Sept. 30, Saturday 10 am to 5 PM
Symposium: Elite Burials held at St. Louis Communit College - South County Center and co-sponored by STLCC
"Minoan and Mycenaean Royal Burials" by Prof. Sarantis Symeonoglou, Washingston University
" Elite Burial at Cahokia" by Professor Jerry Rose, Univeristy of Arkansas
" Merovingin Queen Arnegunde" by Professor Neathery Fuller, St. Louis Community College
" Elite Burials in Romania" by Professor Ralph Rowlett, University of Missouri - Columbia
"Oetzi - the Iceman" by Mr. ARvid Rowlett, Independent Scholar
"Egyptian Burials" by Professor Sara Orel, Truman State University
Oct. 27 Fri. - 7:00 PM
Mirador Basin - Cradle of Maya Civilization by Prof. Richard D. Hansen, Idaho State University
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
Nov. 3 Fri. - 7:00 PM
Tell Dothan's Western Cemetery: Death, Burial and Afterlife by Prof. Robert E. Cooley, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Co-Sponsored by the Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis. Lecture held in the chapel.
Nov. 10 Fri. - 7:00 PM
The Great Temple of Petra in Jordan by
Prof. Martha Sharp Joukowsky,
Brown University
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
Dec. 8 - Fri. 7:00 PM
The Next 100 years: the future of Archaeology by Professor Brian Fagan,
University of California - Santa Barbara
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
Jan. 28 - Sun. 3:00 PM
Cycladic Figurines by Prof. Pat Getz-Gentle,
Independent Scholar
19th Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecturer
Co-Sponsored with the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
at Washington University
Brown Hall at Washington University,
on Forsyth Blvd.
Feb. 9 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Romans and Early Christians in the Republic of Macedonia by Prof. Michael Fuller,
St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
Mar. 9 - Fri. 7:00 PM
The Tyrant Slayers by
Prof. Sarantis Symeonoglou,
Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
Mar. 24 - Sat. 9 AM to 1 PM
Symposium: 100th
Anniversary Symposium
of the St. Louis Society of the AIA
Co-sponsored by St. Louis Art Museum and held in the Auditorium
Topics include:
History of the St. Louis Society , by Judy Brilliant
Fowke's 1906 Exploration of Missouri by Prof. Michael Fuller
Greek Papyri from Egypt by Prof. Robert Lamberton
- Break 10:45 to 11:15
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry by Dr. Robert Steven Bianchi
Ancient Coins from the Wulfing Collection by Prof. Sarantis Symeonoglou
Greek Vases in the Washington University Collection by Prof. Susan Rotroff
Mar. 30- Fri. 7:00 PM
Tell Dothan Exavation: Methods and Discoveries by
Prof. John Monson,
Wheaton College
Co-Sponsored by Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis. Lecture held in the chapel.
April 13 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Cahokia Mounds in the Mississippi Valley by Prof. John Kelly, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
April 21 Saturday 12:45 PM
Evidence of the Exodus from Egypt in Archeology by
Prof. Richard Freund,
Director of the The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.
Co-Sponsored by the Bais Abraham Congregation, 6910 Delmar Boulevard, University City, MO 63130.
The Lecture is free. Lunch is $8.50. If you would like lunch please RSVP to Bais Abraham Tel.314-721-3030,
email office@baisabe.com or to reserve by credit card on the web go to
http://www.baisabe.com/
May 11 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Some Went Down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:230: Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (3000 - 1200 BC) by
Prof. Shelley Wachsmann,
Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A & M
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park
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Feb. 11, 2005 "Greco-Roman Mosaic Treasures of Sicily" by Professor oBarbara Tsakirgis. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Apr. 8, 2005 "The Phoenecians and the Macabees: Excavating at Tel Kedesh, Israel" by Andrea Berlin. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
May 6, 2005 "Cross Roads of Conquerors: the Site of Waka in Guatemala" by Professor David Freidel. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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Sept. 7 Oriental Antiquities and Cultures in 1863
by Mr. Oscanyan, Oriental Lecturer (alias Prof. Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College)
Frontier Park meeting room tent, St. Charles, MO - along the riverfront
Sept. 19 Archaeology and the Life of Christ: the Garden Tomb and Church of the Holy Sepulchre
by Dr. Harold Mare.
Rayburn Chapel at Covenant Theological Seminary
Oct. 11 Archaeology of Cliff Cave by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College,
Fieldtrip and lecture held in Cliff Cave County Park.
Oct. 14 Putting a Roman Temple Back Together by Dr. Michael Nelson, Macalester College. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Oct. 25 Symposium: Archaeology of Crusader Sites and Medieval Culture
held at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley
Michael Fuller, Crusader era sites in Syria
Asa Eger, Crusader era sites near Antioch
Diane Everman, Tel Tanninim in Israel
Jack Lee, Kerak Castle in Jordan
Ali M. Khwaileh, Crusader cemetery in Jordan
Jennifer Stabler, Crusader Caeserea in Israel
Ralph Rowlett, Crusader Sela in Jordan
Nov. 11, 2003 "New Insight Into Egypt's Last Royal Pyramids: Discoveries at
Abydos" by Dr. Stephen P. Harvey, The Oriental Institute of the University
of Chicago. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Dec 9 The Treasure of Troy and other (in)famous stories of art looting. by Prof. Michael Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Jan. 25 New Excavations at Ancient Troy by Prof Brian Rose, University of Cincinati
Seventeenth Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture
Steinberg Hall at Washington University
Feb. 20 Discoveries at Gordion, Turkey by Prof. G. Kenneth Sams,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
March 9 Archaeology of Lewis and Clark by Prof. Harry Fritz,
University of Montana. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
April 10 Archaeology of Cliff Cave by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College.
Fieldtrip and lecture held in Cliff Cave County Park.
April 13, 2004 "Athenian agora excavations from 1966 to the present day" by Professor John Camp,
Director of the American School of Classical Studies.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
April 24, 2004 "St. Louis Historic Archaeology: 2003 report on Vulcan Site" by Mr. Chip Clatto, St. Louis Public Schools.
Missouri Historical Society Auditorium.
May 11, 2004 "Caracol: Maya Metropolis in Belize" by Professors Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase,
Professor of Anthropology,
University of Central Florida. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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Sept. 25 "Community Archaeology in Alexandria, Virginia: A forty year tradition in George Washington's Home Town"
by Dr. Pamela J. Cressey, Missouri Historical Society.
Oct. 11 "Napoleon in Egypt"
by Dr. Robert Briar.
Long Island University.
Oct. 23"St. Louis Archaeology" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College,
Queeny Park Park.
Oct. 26 Field trip to the Crescent Chert Quarries in West Tyson Park" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College and Dennis Hogan (636.391.0922).
Nov. 8 "The Search for Aztec Ancestors: Archaeological Investigations at Xochicalco, Mexico" by Dr. Kenneth Hirth, Pennsylvania State University. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Dec 13 "The Archaeology of Monsters in the Greek World" by adjunct Prof. Deborah Cosmopoulos, Webster University.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Jan. 25, 2003 "Sardis in the Lydian Empire" by Professor Crawford Greenewalt, University of California - Berkeley
Fifteenth Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture at Steinberg Hall at Washington University
Feb. 21 "Pearls - A Natural and Cultural History" by Dr. Neil Landman, curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
March 14 "Fakes, Frauds and Scholars" by Dr. Robert Cohon, Curator, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City.
March 26 "St. Louis Archaeology" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College.
Lecture held in Queeny Park Recreational Complex.
March 29 "Fieldtrip to Crescent Chert Quaries" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College and Dennis Hogan (636.391-0922)
April 11 "Images on Textiles: The Weave of Fifth Century Athenaian Art and Society" by Professor Michael Vickers, Ashmolian Museum and Kress Lecturer.
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
April 22 "Fourth Summer Excavation Report" by Mr. Chip Clatto, St. Louis Public Schools.
Missouri Historical Society Auditorium.
May 9 "New Evidence for Understanding the Initial Peopling of the Americas" by Professor Robson Bonnichsen, Texas A & M. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Jan 2002 "Leogros Kalos: Life and Love of an Athenian Playboy" by Professor Alan Shapriso. Mylonas Annual Lecture.
Feb. 2002 "Shrine of the Book" by Dr. Aldoph Roitman. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
May 14, 2002 "Cyrpus and the Aegean World during the Bronze Age" by Professor Vassos Karageorghis. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Nov. 8, 2002 "The Search for Aztec Ancestors" by Professor Kenneth Hirch. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Nov. 13, 2001 "Archaeology of Star Wars" by David West Reynolds. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Mar. 27, 2001 "Mummies of Ancient China" by ___. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Jan. 21, 2001 "Homer's World the World of Mycenaean Greece" by Professor Iona Mylonas Shear
Apr. 11, 2000 "Maya Archaeology" by Professor Norman Hammond. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium f
Dec. 12, 2000 "Tuneinir in Syria" by Professor Michael Fuller of St. Louis Community College. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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Dec. 14, 1999 "New Advances in Ice Age Art" by Paul Bahn. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Nov. 9, 1999 "Heinrich Schliemann's Brilliant Fraud: the Agamemmon Mask" by Professor William M. Calder III given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Sept. 19, 1999 "Steamboat Arabia Wreck near Kansas City, MO" by _____. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
April 13, 1999 "Identifying the Raice Warriors" by Professor John Hale. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Feb. 2, 1999 "Burial and Society in Early Iron Age Crete" by Leslie Preston Day. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Sept. 23, 1997 "The 1997 excavation of a semi-circular struture at the Theatre Cavea Complex at Abila of the Decapolis, Jordan" by Prof. Harold Mare of Covenant Seminary. Lecture given at the seminary.
Sept. 17, 1997 "Archaeology of St. Louis" by Joe Harl of St. Louis Archaeological Resources, Inc. Lecture given at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley
Oct. 14, 1997 "Royal Tombs at Yxona in Mexico" by Professor David Friedel of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Nov. 18, 1997 "Greeks at Knossos? Homer, Sir Arthur Evans, Archaeology and Science" by Professor Hal Haskell of Southwestern University. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
Dec. 8, 1997 "Tuneinir (Syria), Father of the Saint" by Professor Michael Fuller of St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
Jan. 27, 1998 "Why Look at Vases" by Professor Mary B. Moore of Hunter College, NYC. Lecuter given in the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
February 10, 1998 "Life and Death in a Medieval Islamic City" by Professor David Whitehouse of the Corning Museum of Glass. Lecure given in the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
February 23, 1998 "Recent Discoveries at Bethsaida, Israel" by Professor Richard Freund of the University of Nebraska. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
March 10, 1998 "Thracian Art and Scthian Art: A Comparative View" by Curator Adriana Calinescu of the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
April 9, 1998 "Exploring Ancient Assyria" by Allison Karmel Thomason, doctoral candidate at Columbia University. Lecture given at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley.
May 12, 1998 "Ongoing Excavations in the Precinct of the Goddess Mut, Egypt" by Professor William H. Peck of the Detroit Institute of Art. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Oct. 13, 1998 "Parthenon Frieze" by Dr. Ian Jenkins of the British Museum. Leeture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Sept. 30, 1998 "Vikings" by Professor Ralph Rowlett of the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Lecture given in the St. Louis Community College Student Center - Florissant Valley.
Nov. 3, 1998 "Dresdon Codex of the Maya" by Julia Ayler. Lectures presented in the St. Louis Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Nov. 30, 1998 "Hallucinaing Kowoj: Architecture and Politics in Late Post Class Peten, Guatemala" by Don Rice. Lecture given in the St. Louis Community College Student Center - Florissant Valley.
Nov. 14, 1997 "Royal Tombs at Yaxuna" by Professor David Freidel. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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Jan. 21, 1995 "Meditation on Art and Coins: The Aphrodite in the Gardens of Alkamenes" by Professor Sarantis Symeonoglou of the Dept. of Art and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Lecture given in Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University.
Sept. 25, 1995 "Abila of the Decapolis and Its Underground Aqueducts" by Professor W. Harold Mare of Covenant Theological Seminary. Lecture given at Covenant Theological Seminary.
Oct. 17, 1995 "Petra: Its Past, Its Present, Its Future" by Professor Martha Sharp Joukowsky of the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Nov. 7, 1995 "Tigris and Tuneinir: Awesome Archaeology" by Professor Mihcael Fuller of St. Louis Community College. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Nov. 30, 1995 "Peopes and Cultures of Ancient Iraq" by Dr. Judy Franke, Director of the Dickson Monds Museum in Illinois. Lecture given in the St. Louis Community College Student Center at Florissant Valley.
Dec. 19, 1995 "Science and Classical Archaeology: A Perfect Match?" by Professor William R. Biers of the University of Missouri - Columbia. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Jan. 21, 1996 "Clear Light and Shining Ruins: Early Photographs of Athens" by Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak of the Dept. of Classics at Wesleyan University. Eighth Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Feb. 13, 1996 "Maya Political and Economic Systems: The View from Blue Creek, Belize" by Professor Thomas H. Guderjan of St. Mary's University. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Mar. 5, 1996 Junior Archaeology Day hosted with the St. Louis Art Museum.
Mar. 18, 1996 "Alexander the Great" by Proessor Kevin Herbert of Washington University. Lecture given at St. Louis Community College Student Center - Florissant Valley
Apr. 8, 1996 "Early Glass of the Ancient World" by Dr. E. Marianne Stern of the Kelsey Mustum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Lecture given in the St Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
May 7, 1996 "Mottled Oliver and the Athenina Cult of Isis" by Professor Susan Rotroff of the Dept. of Classics at Washington Universit in St. Louis. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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Nov. 8, 1994 "Interpreting the Bonampak Murals" by Dr. Peter Matthews. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Mar. 1, 1994 "Pieces of the Past" given during the Children's Archaeology program hosted at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Apr. 12, 1994 "Function and Form at the Entrance of the Athenian Acropolis" by Nick Harrison Eiteljord. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Jan. 26, 1993 "The Greeks and the Black Sea" by Dr. John Fossey of the Dept. of Art History at McGill University. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Feb. 22, 1993 "Diet & Disease from the City of David Excavation in Jerusalem" by Peter Warnock from the Dept. of Anthropology at University of Missouri - Columbia. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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Sept. 20, 1991 "Abila of the Deacapolis: A Prosperous Roman City in the time of Jesus" by Dr. W. Harold Mare. Lecture given in Rayurn Chapel at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis.
Oct. 8, 1991 "The Roman Surveyor and Planning a Roman Colony" by Dr. David Romano. Lecture given in the auditorium of St. Louis Art Museum.
Nov. 5, 1991 "Zuni: Past, Present and Future" by Dr. Ted Frisbie. Lecture given in the Student Center Auditorium of St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley.
Jan. 21, 1992 "Excavation at Kommos, Crete" by Dr. Joseph W. Shaw. Fourth Annual George E. Mylonas Lecture given at Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University in St. Louis.
Feb. 11, 1992 "A Roman Villa in Tuscany: A Family History Unfolds" by Dr. Mario Del Chairo. Lecture given in the Auditorium of the St. Louois Art Museum.
Mar. 3, 1992 "Chiribaya Alta and La Yaral: Mortuary Sites in Southern Peru" by Mr. John Dendy. Lecture given in the Student Center Auditorium at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley.
Mar. 8, 1992 "Indiana Jones and the Middle Kingdom: Theory and Practice of Chinese Archaeology" by Dr. Robert Thorpe. Lecture given in the Auditorium of the St. Louis Art Museum.
April 14, 1992 "Ancient Marbles of Anatolia" by Dr. Nancy H. Ramage. Lecture given in the Auditorium of the St. Louis Art Museum.
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Oct. 10, 1989 "The Rise of Symbolic Behavior in Human Evolution" by Dr. Nicholas Toth. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Nov. 16, 1989 "Digging Out the Truth: An Archaeologist's View of Early America" by Dr. Ralph Rowlett. Lecture iven at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley Auditorium.
Dec. 12, 1989 "Tell Tuneinir: Mongols, Monophysites, and Mesopotamia" by Dr. Michael J. Fuller. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Jan. 23, 1990 "Second Anual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture" by Dr. James R. McCredie. Lecture given at Steinberg Auditorium of Washington University in St. Louis.
Feb. 13, 1990 "Odyssey Project" by Dr. Sarantis Symeonoglou. Lecture given in the Auditorium of the St. Louis Art Museum.
March 2, 1990 "The Role of Women in Ancient Israel" by Dr. Carol Meyers. Lecture given at Temple Emanuel on Conway Road in St. Louis.
March 3, 1998 "Discovery of the Lost Ark" by Dr. Carol Meyers. Lecture given at Temple Emanuel on Conway Road in St. Louis.
April 3, 1990 "Groves of Academe: Hellenistic Athens as a University" by Dr. Sustan Rotroff. Lecture given in the Auditorium of the St. Louis Art Museum.
May 15, 1990 "Hellenistic Sculpture" by Dr. Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway - the George M. A. Hanfmann Lecturer for the national AIA. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
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May 4, 1993 "Report on 1992 excavation season at Ithica, Greece" by Dr. Sarantis Symeonoglou of the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
April 13, 1993 "The Flutter of Wings: Icarus descent through Western Art" by Dr. Karl Kilinski II, Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
March 29, 1993 "Cartouches, Ossuaries, Saints, and Snakes: Egyptian Exploration Society Research at Jebel el-Haridi" by Dr. Sarah E. Orel, Northeast Missouri State University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Feb. 22, 1993 "Diet and Disease: Archaeological Evidence from the City of David excavation in Jerusalem" by Peter Warnock, graduate student at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Lecture given at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley auditorium.
Feb. 9, 1993 "Report on the 1992 field season of excavations at Tell Tuneinir" by Dr. Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Jan. 26, 1993 "The Greeks and the Black Sea" by Dr. John Fossy of McGill University. 5th annual George Mylonas Lecture given at Steinberg Hall, Washington University.
Dec. 8, 1992 "Recent Discoveries in Oman" by Dr. Juris Zarins of Southwest Missouri State University. Lecure given at the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
Nov. 8, 1992 "Three Ancient Capital Cities from the Air" by Dr. J. Wilson Meyers of Boston University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium.
Oct. 13, 1992 "Treasures of the Macedonian Royal Tombs" by Dr. Eugene N. Borza of Pennsylvania State University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum auditorium
Sept. 11, 1992 "The 1992 excavation season at Abila of the Decapolis" by Dr. W. Harold Mare of Covenant Theological Seminary. Lecture given in Rayburn Chapel at Covenant Theological Seminary.
Oct. 8, 1991 "The Roman Surveyor and Planning a Roman Colony" by Dr. David Romano, Keeper of the Colletion at the University of Archaeology/Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Feb. 11, 1992 "A Roman Village in Tuscany: A Family History Unfolds" by Professor Mario Del Chiaro in the Dept. of Art History at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Apr. 14, 1992 "The Antiquarians' View of Antiquity" by Professor Nancy Ramage of the Art History Dept. at Ithaca College. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Oct. 1990 "The Neolithic Site of Abu Hureya, Syria" by Professor Andrew Moore. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Dec. 13, 1988 "Tell Tuneinir, Syria report" by Professor Michael Fuller of St. Louis Community College. Lecture given in the St. Louis Community College Student Center - Florissant Valley.
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May 13, 1986 "Mycenae" by Dr. George Mylonas, former profess and chairman of the Dept of Art and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis.
April 15, 1986 "Ain Dara and the Hittite Legacy" by Dr. Paul E. Zimansky of the Dept. of Archaeology at Boston University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Feb. 25, 1986 "Byzantine Greece: the Archaeological Evidence" by Dr. Timothy E. Gregory, Associate Professor of the Dept. of History at Ohio State University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Dec. 10, 1986 "Serçe Limani: An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, Turkey" by Dr. George Bass, Founder of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A & M University.
Oct. 22, 1985 "The gold of Croesus" by Dr. Andrew Ramage, Associate Professor and chairmen of the Art Department at Cornell University.
Sept. 22, 1985 "Excavations at Ithaka: 1985 season" by Dr. Sarantis Symeonoglou, Dept. of Art and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis.
May 7, 1985 "Archaeology on the edge of the Ocean, Excavations at Mirobriga, Portugal" by Dr. William Biers, University of Missouri at Colubmia. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
March 26, 1985 "New Archaeologiacl Discoveries in the City of David - Biblical Jerusalem" by Dr. Yigal Shiloh, Head of the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Miuseum.
March 17, 1985 "Prehistory" by Dr. Catherine Perles at the Univesrity of Paris. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Feb. 17, 1984 ""Science versus 'The Mummy'" by Dr. Kenneth Ostrand from Ohio State University.
Dec. 11, 1984 "Ionia: Cradel of Civilization" by Dr. Robert Bianchi, curator at the Brooklyn Museum.
Nov. 20, 1984 "Life and Death in a Medieval Monastery" by Dr. Stephen Dyson, Wesleyan University.
Nov. 4, 1984 "Excavations at Ithika: 1984" by Dr. Sarantis Symeonoglou, Washington University in St. Louis.
June 2, 1984 "Archaeological Field Trip"
May 8, 1984 "Anemurium - Excavation of a Medium-Sized Roman City in Rough Cilicia" by Dr. James Russell of the University of British Columbia. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
April 8, 1984 "Interesting Developments at Mycenae" by Dr. Spyros E. Iakovides of the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
March 13, 1984 "The Mithraic Cult Center and Related 3rd Century Strucutres at Caesarea, Ancient Palestine" by Dr. Robert Bull of Drew University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
February 14, 1984 "Chinese Archaeology" a joint meeting with the Arts of Oceania, Africa and Americas.Discussion directed by Dr. Pat O'Neil. Program held at the St. Louis Art Museum
January 15, 1984 "Mummies, Maidens and Mosaics: by Sidney Goldstein, Assistant Director of the St. Louis Art Museum. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
October 11, 1983 "Etruscan Gold' by Dr. Richard De Puma of the University of Iowa. Lecure given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
Sat May 14, 1983 "Archaeological Field Trip to Prairie du Pont, Fort Kaskasia, Modoc Rock Shelter, and Fort de Chartres" with Terry Norris, District Archaeologist for US Corps of Engineers
April 19, 1983 "The Invention of Writing" by Dr. Denise Schmandt-Besserat from the University of Texas at Austin.
March 8, 1983 "The Tools of Asclepius: Lecture by Dr. Lawrence J. Bliquez of the University of Washington in Seattle. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
February 8, 1983 "Pyramid and Sacred Mountain: Landscape and Symbol in the Art of Ancient Mexico" by Dr. Richard Fraser Townsend from the Art Institute of Chicago.
January 13, 1983 "Excavating Biblical Tell Ta'annek (West Bank)" by Dr. Carl Graesser Jr from Christ Seminary, St. Louis. Co-hosted by the Engineers Club of St. Louis at their headquarters located on 4359 Lindell.
November 2, 1982 "The Archaeology of Jordan" by Dr. James Abbott Sauer from the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
October 5, 1982 "Images of the Mind: Chinese Calligraphy and Painting" by Dr. Wen Fong from the Art Museum at Princeton University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
May 11, 1982 "Money of Early America" by Eric P. Newman, independent scholar. Lecture given in the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
February 9, 1982 "The Art of the Aztecs" by Dr. Esther Pasztory from Columbia University. Lecture given at the St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.
TIME WARP... yes, this gap will eventually be filled when I have more time to go through the archives of the St. Louis Society...
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May 1958 "Indian burials at Santa Maria in Ripa, St. Louis" by Mr. Leonard Blake of the Missouri Archaeological Society.
April 10, 1958 "Egypt, Greece and Rome" by Professor William C. Korfmacher of St. Louis University [joint meeting with the Engineers club of St. Louis].
March 31, 1958 "Homer's Recitations of his epics in the light of the singong of the Heroic songs in the Balkans" by Professor James A. Notopoulos, Trinity College.
Feb. 28, 1958 "Greek Artillery and her Engines" by Professor Frederick E. Winter, Royal Ontario Museum.
Jan. 24, 1958 "Some sites of Roman occupation in Western Europe" by Professor Oscar E. Nybakken of Iowa State University.
Dec. 13, 1957 "Maya Archaeology in Mexico" by Professor Alberto Ruz L'huillier, Director of Maya Archaeological Zone in Mexico.
Nov. 22, 1957 " Photographing Works of Art" by Professor Norris K. Smieth, Washington University in St. Louis.
Aril 4, 1957 - Three Roman Battles In Greece by William E. Gwatkin (University of Missouri)