
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.
CIAMS M.A. student Arnov Tandon explains his analysis of glass artifacts recovered from St. James AME Zion Church.
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.
Cornell Historic Preservation graduate student, Kami Cai, presents an ArcGIS StoryMap about the Underground Railroad in Ithaca.
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.
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.
Faculty researchers paint a picture of what will happen if multilateral organizations fail to protect Armenian cultural heritage as Azerbaijan shells the disputed region.
The funded community-engaged learning projects provide opportunities for students to excavate ancient Pompeii, establish a community garden in Moshi, Tanzania and more.
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.
Rachel Bean, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Astronomy and senior associate dean for math and science, has been named interim A&S dean.
This year, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) members received several grants and fellowships to support their research activities.
Lisa Sasaki ’97 is helping to shepherd the high-profile new Washington, D.C., institution into existence
Faculty from six colleges across Cornell tackle issues ranging from the health of endangered wild dogs to the spread of misinformation through social media.
A&S faculty members will delve into questions ranging from quantum computing to foreign policy development and from heritage forensics to effects of climate change.
This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
Charlee Mandy is an archaeology and classics major.
Hannah Master is an archaeology and Near Eastern studies major.
Students and staff are finding support, community, visibility and a voice through Neurodiversity @ Cornell.
An interdisciplinary collaboration used tree ring and isotope records to pinpoint a likely culprit: three straight years of severe drought in an already dry period.
In the Society for the Humanities Invitational Lecture Feb. 15, art historian Verity Platt will present her research on the humble sea sponge.
The Cornell Chronicle has written an article about CIAMS member Magnus Fiskesjö's class on heritage, archaeology and repatriation.
The refurbishment and preservation of McGraw has become a top priority for the College of Arts & Sciences and the university.
This semester’s work also featured an end-of-semester mini-field course for local children and youth presented by two Cornell students.
Llhuros – its relics, rituals, poetry, and music – as well as the academic commentary it inspired, "documents just one tiny little sliver of Cornell’s history. But it’s a fascinating one.”
Join CIAMS M.A. student MyKayla Williamson on a day digging at St. James and a day analyzing ceramic artifacts in the lab.
Cornell student Jonathan Ebenezer ‘23 discusses the role of community resistance on the Underground Railroad as it relates to St. James.
Cornell student Milan Taylor ’24 speaks with Maia Dedrick, Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow, about paleoethnobotany work conducted at St. James.
Cornell student Aaliyah Brown '23 talks with SMSA founder Denise Lee '73 about engaging youth in the excavations at St. James.
CIAMS M.A. student Carol Anne Barsody shares her experiences participating in the excavations at St. James.
The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
Israeli archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and his colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter.
“A Tale of Two Mummies: Multisensory Experience” runs Oct. 7-9, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., in Upson Hall’s Lounge 116.
Sturt Manning has zeroed in on a much narrower range of dates, approximately 1609–1560 BCE, for the eruption on Santorini, a pivotal event in the prehistory of the region.
'We saw this conference as a way to expand the conversation beyond Cornell.'
The study compiled decades of high-resolution satellite imagery from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.
Altogether 88 footprints were documented, including both adults and children, offering insight into family life in the time of the Pleistocene.
Humanities students studying an array of topics presented their work at the A.D. White House.
Emma Van Metre is a history and archaeology major.
Medieval Studies PhD candidate Alice Wolff teamed up with scientists from CALS to publish a new open-access review article in Weed Science this past February titled, “In the ruins: the neglected link between archaeology and weed science.” Antonio DiTommaso, Professor of Weed Science and Chair of the Soil and Crop Sciences Section in the School of...
CIAMS faculty member Kurt Jordan worked with members of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ community in writing a new book for the Tompkins County Historical Commission, “The Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ People in the Cayuga Lake Region: A Brief History,” published earlier this year. The book addresses a significant gap in records of Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ history in Tompkins County....
What began as a passion project for a master’s student in archaeology, has become a cross-campus fascination that encompasses everything from ancient burial rituals to the lost history of donated artifacts, the totemic power of animals, and even Egyptian beer.
CIAMS M.A. student Carol Anne Barsody has had her collaboration with researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Lab of Ornithology featured in the Cornell Chronicle.Read the full story by David Nutt and view a video about the project in the Cornell Chronicle.
Dusti Bridges, a PhD candidate in Anthropology and an alumna of the CIAMS Master's program, has been named an inaugural Zhu Fellow to support her doctoral research. Read more about the Fellowship and Dusti's research in an article by Kathy Hovis in the Cornell Chronicle.
The 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
On March 16, please consider a gift to CIAMS. Your donations can help Cornell students gain life-changing experiences in the field, in the lab, in the classroom, and in community outreach and service. Our thanks to all of the generous donors who continue to support our work.https://givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/cu-archaeology
CIAMS is pleased to announce the call for papers and posters for “Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences 3: Rethinking the Paradigm,” a conference for scholars of all career levels to be co-hosted at Cornell’s Ithaca campus on October 7-9, 2022 by the Archaeological Science Group at Cornell (ArchSci@Cornell), the CIAMS Anti-racism and Anti-...
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Sources: College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell ChronicleA group of graduate students from Cornell is collaborating with students across the country to create a scholarly podcast focused on issues of diversity in archaeology.SAPIENS Talk Back launched its first two episodes in January and February and is planning to release a new episode...
Cornell graduate students are collaborating with students across the country on the scholarly podcast.