An Initial Selection of Glass Artifacts from Community Excavations at Ithaca’s St. James AME Zion Church
CIAMS M.A. student Arnov Tandon explains his analysis of glass artifacts recovered from St. James AME Zion Church.
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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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Why Aren’t There More Nonwhite Archaeologists, Financially Speaking?
Cornell student Ruth Rajcoomar '24 discusses the need for a more inclusive and equitable field and how the community excavations at St. James highlight the potential for financially inclusive fieldwork experiences.
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Freedom's Path: The Underground Railroad in Ithaca
Cornell Historic Preservation graduate student, Kami Cai, presents an ArcGIS StoryMap about the Underground Railroad in Ithaca.
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Looking back, to move forward…
Cornell University celebrates International Archaeology Day on October 21 this year with several exciting events on campus and in Ithaca, alongside additional events at the Corning Museum of Glass.
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Six postdocs honored with achievement awards
Cornell employs 790 postdoctoral scholars who are appointed across nearly 90 departments where they actively participate in the university’s research, teaching, and extension missions.
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Hundreds of Armenian heritage sites at risk in Nagorno-Karabakh
Faculty researchers paint a picture of what will happen if multilateral organizations fail to protect Armenian cultural heritage as Azerbaijan shells the disputed region.
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Engaged Opportunity Grants fund projects from Tompkins to Tanzania
The funded community-engaged learning projects provide opportunities for students to excavate ancient Pompeii, establish a community garden in Moshi, Tanzania and more.
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Unearthing the lives of enslaved peoples at a historical St. Croix sugar plantation
MyKayla Williamson's archaeological excavation takes place on Estate Little Princess, a plantation where people of African descent lived and worked starting in circa 1740.
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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.