Event Archive

The growing prominence of the work of Harvard’s Initiative for the Science of the Human Past (SoHP) and the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) was hard to miss at the eighth biennial world...

Amidst the news of continuing lead pollution crises, foremost researchers in this field will present new, groundbreaking and alarming data on the effects of long-term lead pollution, renewing the call to eliminate lead from our cities, homes and the...

Stunning recent results from our collaboration with the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine, reveal new evidence about our human past sealed within the Colle Gnifetti ice core. A groundbreaking new, open-access article in Antiquity, sheds...

The Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) , a collaboration between The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History...

Johannes Krause (Director, Department of Archaeogenetics, MPISSH Jena, Univ. Tübingen), With comments by Edward T. Ryan, Director of Global Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Professor of...

Kimberly D. Bowes, Assoc. Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania With comment by Leslie Dossey (Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago) Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. Prof...

As part of the SoHP "What's New in the Fall of the Roman Empire" Lecture Series, Dr. Gideon Avni, Head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, will speak at...

Under the auspices of the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, we are launching an exciting new virtual Research Center at Harvard and Jena: The Max Planck...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Rocco Rante Archaeologist, Louvre Museum This talk focuses on the dynamics of human occupations ensuing from water needs in the area of the Zerafšan delta. The recent geo-archaeological researches and OSL...

Hosted by Michael McCormick The public lecture will be preceded by a workshop from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm on studies in progress involving Reccopolis. This workshop will feature talks and comments by all speakers. Chairs: Thomas Bisson, Harvard University...