This page is devoted to keeping people updated about everything to do with archaeology on Sewanee: The University of the South's campus. Can you dig it?
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Do you know the names of these Ancient Greek pottery shapes?
Test your knowledge with these examples from the Athenian Agora.
Inside a roman domus
Ever wondered how a typical roman house was structured? Then have a look inside!
05/12/2017
Archaeology Magazine
Up to 7,000 former patients of the Mississippi Asylum for the Insane may be buried on the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
archaeology.org/news/5546-170511-mississippi-asylum-graves
(Courtesy The University of Mississippi Medical Center)
05/11/2017
The Vindolanda Trust
More Roman leather from the Vindolanda excavations. This is a goat skin tent panel. If you look closer at the left hand side of this photograph you can see the stitched edge of the leather. The panel came from our pre-Hadrianic excavations (AD 105-120) where the oxygen free environment enables this outstanding level of preservation.
04/28/2017
religionnews.com ROME (RNS) A team of scientists, art historians and other experts uses technology to reimagine the original colors of a monument that is a potent symbol in Jewish history and for the Catholic Church.
During the Scholarship Sewanee celebration tomorrow, the current Guarisco Scholar, Gracie Gibson, will be honored for four years of stellar work in Art History and Classics. Her talk “Meaning Across Medium: Graffiti as Art in the Casa dei Cervi" will be held in Spencer Hall in Room 271 at 2:30pm. Please come and support Gracie and to celebrate her truly interdisciplinary work!
04/26/2017
smithsonianmag.com Researchers say prehistoric mastodon bones bear human-made markings
04/16/2017
Decorating for Easter? Here are some ancient designs to try on your eggs.
04/11/2017
Students in Professor DiBiasie's Digital Archaeology class made a website to showcase all the projects they've completed this semester. Check it out here: https://sewaneedigitalarchaeology.wordpress.com/
sewaneedigitalarchaeology.wordpress.com Out of the trench and into the lab
03/26/2017
Free lecture this Thursday at the Nashville Parthenon "Nemea and the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Zeus" by Prof. Kim Shelton
Congratulations to Gracie Gibson (C' 17) who been accepted into the Ph.D. program in Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin. Well done, Gracie!
Tomorrow, Sewanee professor Jacqueline DiBiasie will be presenting a short talk on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (a computational photography technique) and graffiti at Illumination of Material Culture Symposium at the MET in NYC
There's no time like the present to sign up for the archaeology minor! Forms are available at Dr. Sherwood's office (Snowden 220). More information about the minor can be found http://www.sewanee.edu/academics/archaeology/
sewanee.edu Archaeology, the study of the human past, crosses many disciplinary lines. The field of Archaeology is expanding in both the humanities and the sciences with the application of innovative instrumentation and techniques that allow interdisciplinary teams to address new questions spanning human physic...
How computer programmers, inspired by Renaissance art, recreated ancient Roman ruins like Domus Aurea, the palace of Emperor Nero
02/18/2017
FREE online course: Archaeology: from Dig to Lab and Beyond starts on 6 March (created by University of Reading).
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/archaeology?utm_campaign=university_of_reading_archaeology_march_2017&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=facebook
02/17/2017
Archaeology in Acadie
This is how an archaeologist shovels the driveway.
02/08/2017
smithsonianmag.com Bridging three periods of income inequality, the gravestone of a former slave finds a new home
02/03/2017
Check out this PAID summer research opportunity doing bioarchaeology in Sicily and Athens, Georgia. The deadline for application is February 28th.
"Undergraduate students are integrated as junior partners of the Bioarchaeology of Mediterranean Colonies Project, a cross-disciplinary, international research program. REU students plan and execute independent research projects exploring biocultural impacts of Greek colonization on Sicilian populations, 7-5th c. BC. Currently, the project focuses on the Greek colony, Himera."
http://research.franklin.uga.edu/reu/
01/17/2017
Check out this Summer opportunity in archaeology! Thank you to Sewanee alumna Alex Friedl for passing this along!
Came across this on a different Sewanee forum and thought I'd pass it along. Nantahala is a beautiful region and one of the internships available to students is directly related to archaeology!
12/31/2016
The Vindolanda Trust
We wish you a 'fortunate and happy New Year' a timeless message from 1900 years ago.
This is a fragment of a letter from Hostilius Flavianus to Flavius Cerialis the Commanding Officer of the IX Cohort of Batavians who were stationed at Vindolanda in about AD 100-105. He wishes Cerialis ‘a fortunate and happy New Year.’
12/29/2016
Ever been at an ancient site, wishing that you could easily find out what Thucydides said about a battle there? Herodotus about its history? Or just read a curious story taking place there according to Xenophon? That is now possible thanks to Brady Kiesling's FREE app which uses a map to connect most known sites to all the literary passages mentioning them. You simply turn on the gps, and it will enable you to read everything written about the place in antiquity in an instant. You can also pinch and zoom to do just explore from home. Best of all? It works perfectly offline.
I cannot stress how good this app, whether you are sitting at home, visiting Olympia or exploring a tiny site out in nowhere. This is the first and most important app for anyone enjoying Classical history and archaeology.
12/21/2016
Check out the link below for a list of archaeology books for children.
Looking for that perfect archaeology book for the kiddos? Check out this great list of titles that span from Alexander the Great to the Seven Wonders.
http://ow.ly/al5P307jjIT
Hello everyone! You may see this page has changed names. We have combined Sewanee Classical Archaeology and Domain Archaeology into one page: Sewanee Archaeology. We'll now post articles and news related to both. Thank you for your continuing support of archaeology at the University of the South!
12/02/2016
http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/11/18/worlds-oldest-temple-to-be-nominated-for-heritage-list
dailysabah.com Turkey will nominate Göbeklitepe, branded the world's oldest temple, for the UNESCO World Heritage List. As a well-preserved site in southeastern Turkey, it will be the 16th inclusion from the country on the list, if admitted
12/02/2016
Sewanee Archaeology's cover photo
10/25/2016
dailymail.co.uk The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (Black Sea MAP) involves an international team, led by the University of Southampton's Centre for Maritime Archaeology.
10/04/2016
nytimes.com Archaeologists believe that elegant gold rings and engraved gemstones were not looted from Crete, but were signs of the growth of Minoan culture from the island.
09/30/2016
A website about Troy, with timelines and 3-D reconstructions: http://cerhas.uc.edu/troy/index.html
The discovery was made when conservationist and developer Mark Lucas and his son bought a building in Rochester high street. They planned to covert it into a shop without knowing the road was there.
09/06/2016
Please plan to attend Joe Goodkin's Odyssey this Thursday in Gailor Auditorium at 7:00 p.m., sponsored by the Department of Classics & the Interdisciplinary Program in Humanities. This is a 30-minute original musical composition for solo acoustic guitar and voice, a folk opera that tells the story of Homer's Odyssey in a series of 24 short songs. It has been performed at over 200 venues across the United States. A Q&A session will follow.
09/01/2016
http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2016/08/31/a-short-history-of-regulating-female-dress/
forbes.com Long before France's burkini bans, there was an ancient history of telling women what they could and could not wear as a means of controlling a community's political message.
08/31/2016
heritagedaily.com They may have been engraved by members of the Varangian Guard who were an elite unit of the Byzantine Army, from the 10th to the 14th centuries, whose members served as personal bodyguards to the Byzantine Emperors.
Shakerag Workshops Shakerag Workshops offer week-long studio art workshops for adults in June of each year on the campus of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Sewanee Aerobatic School Sewanee Aerobatic School specializes in spin training and basic aerobatics. Wilbur, a Cessna 152 Aerobat, is a wonderful platform for this training.
Sewanee Chemistry Department 7 cool professors + a talented lab coordinator + lots of neat majors = one big happy family!
The Beecken Center of the School of Theology The Beecken Center is the continuing education arm of the School of Theology at the University of the South. Home to EfM, SUMMA, and Invite Welcome Connect.
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