Save the dates for our fall lectures at the University of Richmond, co-sponsored by UR’s Dept. of Classical Studies:

Thursday, October 12, 6 pm, Jepson Hall 118 – Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg), “Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church” (postponed from last October; for a recent news article about the site and finds, see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-oldest-black-churches-first-baptist-williamsburg-180981962/)

Thursday, November 9, 6 pm, Jepson Hall 109 – Kathryn Grossman (North Carolina State University), “Human-animal-divine relationships in Cyprus: a social zooarchaeology of sacrifice” – AIA’s 2023-2024 Kershaw Lecture in Near East Archaeology