The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program is happy to welcome Adria LaViolette, professor of Anthropology, as its new director! Dr. LaViolette is an archaeologist with active research in eastern Africa, and a particular interest in indigenous medium-range and large-scale societies over the last two millennia.
Congratulations, Caroline! It is our pleasure to share the exciting news that Caroline Carter has been awarded the Fulbright-IKY PhD Research Award this academic year for her dissertation on caves and religious practices in ancient Athens and Attica.
Congratulations to our Distinguished Majors for successfully defending their theses! Katie Haines - Monuments in the Iron Age Landscape, Henry Hesford - Quarrying Stone Tools in Prehistoric Cantabria, Cannon Slayton - Cups, Kraters, & Kleisthenes? and Grace Saunders - A Monumental Effort.
The International Space Station Archaeological Project, established by UVA alumnus Dr. Justin Walsh, was recently featured in an article by Popular Science. Dr. Justin Walsh (professor at Chapman University) is a leading scholar in the new field of space archaeology, which studies the material culture of human activity in outer space and human activity on Earth that is directed at space.
Join Professor Tyler Jo Smith, director of UVA's Interdisciplinary Archeology Program, as she explores the fascinating intersections of art, religion, and culture in the production and consumption of alcohol across ancient civilizations. From the symposia of ancient Greece to the bronze vessels of China, this conversation delves into how alcohol shaped rituals, beliefs, and artistic traditions throughout history.
Omokolade Omigbule is a third-year anthropology doctoral student and an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow in Indigenous studies at the University of Virginia. He is a budding Black Atlantic archaeologist from Osun state, southwest Nigeria. In this interview, he discusses his journey into archaeology and his hopes to empower communities through history, and the importance of open-mindedness in the pursuit of knowledge and cross-cultural connection.
As Russian missile strikes and heavy assaults by ground troops pace deadly attacks on Ukraine, a new report by University of Virginia researchers reveals another destructive facet of Russia’s invasion.
This small sign affixed to a Brooks Hall basement door has, by most guesses, been in place perhaps 20 years. No one seems to know who put it there or why.
Malcolm Bell, professor emeritus in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia and department chair from 1978 to 1985, died Jan. 7 of pneumonia. He was 82 years old.
Archaeologists have unearthed what is thought to be the earliest cistern at the University of Virginia and found new evidence of an outbuilding that may have housed enslaved people.