A Brief Look at a Select Glass Jar Lid from Community Excavations at Ithaca’s St. James AME Zion Church
CIAMS M.A. student, Li Hayes, shares what we can learn from a fragment of a fruit canning jar lid.
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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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Stitch by Stitch: Uncovering the Past Through Textiles
CIAMS M.A. student, Sarah Orsinger, analyzes the largest textile found to date at St. James AME Zion Church.
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Doing Archaeology of the Spiritual
CIAMS M.A. student, Haley Stuckey, reflects on excavating at St. James AME Zion Church.
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A Historical Analysis of the Intact Royal Salad Dressing Bottle Found at Ithaca’s St. James AME Zion Church
CIAMS M.A. student, David Dishman, analyzes an intact glass bottle that was recovered from St. James AME Zion Church.
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CIAMS Director Presents on the Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage by Azerbaijan
On September 19, 2024, Prof. Adam T. Smith (Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology, Director of CIAMS, and Co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch) presented testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States Congress. Smith’s testimony was part of a hearin...
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Almonds, pottery and wood help date famed Kyrenia shipwreck 
The Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory identified the likeliest timeline of the Hellenistic-era ship's sinking as between 296-271 BCE, with a strong probability it occurred between 286-272 BCE.
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CIAMS Celebrates Juneteenth at St. James AME Zion Church
As part of Saturday’s festival on June 15th, Cornell’s Institute for Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) and St. James AME Zion Church organized an artifact washing activity for kids next to the church.
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Anthropology Colloquium: Omar Aguilar Sanchez
McGraw Hall
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14
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CIAMS Lecture Series: Sarah Beckmann
Goldwin Smith Hall
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18
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The Archaeology of Uprootedness: A View from Tel Hadid
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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.