Professor Matt Velasco publishes book, Feature in New York Times
Associate Professor of Archaeology Matt Velasco publishes a book titled "The Mountain Embodied", with a featured article in the New York Times.
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Cornell is one of the few universities in the United States that offers a separate archaeology major in addition to its graduate program. The program also offers a new post doc in archaeology. Our faculty's specialties range from studies of early peoples to the historic 19th century, within the following departments and programs: American Indian studies, anthropology, classics, earth and atmospheric sciences, historic preservation, history of art and visual studies, landscape architecture, and Near Eastern studies. Archaeology at Cornell is particularly strong in the eastern Mediterranean area, and in the Americas (both pre- and post-Columbian)
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Sacred Ground: Excavating Black History at Ithaca's Freedom Church
Running from June 19th, 2025 to December xth, 2025 at the Ithaca History Center, this exhibit highlights four seasons of excavations at the St. James AME Zion Church. The exhibit displays a wide variety of artifacts, and centers the community collaboration between Cornell students, faculty, and the ...
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CIAMS Congratulates 2025 Graduates
Congratulations to the CIAMS 2025 graduates! Cornell's 2025 Commencement Ceremonies took place on the weekend of May 23-25th, during which this year's graduates were able to celebrate their hard-earned accomplishments.
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Cornell Anthropology Opens New Collaboratory in Olin Library
A new Anthropology Collaboratory opened with an event on May 14 from 1:30-3:00 p.m.. The complex gathers many of the university’s anthropology collections and laboratories together in one place in Olin Library.
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CIAMS Members Receive Awards at the Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting
Congratulations to our CIAMS Members, who will receive awards for their scholarship and work at the Society for American Archaeology's 2025 Annual Meeting.
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History of art staff member publishes research on face pots
Danielle Vander Horst M.A. ’19 wrote about Romano-British face pots in master’s thesis in the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. This year, Vander Horst published a chapter on them in the Archaeological Institute of America's annual peer-reviewed book series that expands on her ...
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Cornell Undergraduate Unearths Miniature Hercules Statue in Montaione, Italy
A miniature Hercules statue was recently unearthed by Alexander Cooper-Bohler (‘25), an Archaeology Major with a minor in East Asian Studies, and a student in the Montaione Field School.
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Manning honored for contributions to archaeology
Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics, received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) in Boston in November.
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CIAMS Lecture Series: Seth Estrin
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RadioCIAMS: The Cornell Archaeology Podcast
RadioCIAMS is our podcast series, wherein we probe critical debates in archaeology in conversation between leading practitioners and the next generation of researchers. Our most recent episode is embedded below. Click here to browse previous RadioCIAMS episodes archived on our website, or visit our soundcloud page to hear more. RadioCIAMS is also available wherever you get your podcasts.