RECENT NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Columbia Center for Archaeology goes online
Given the restrictions on in-person meetings that have been created by the Covid-19 situation, the CCA has developed a series of online events in an effort to reconstitute our archaeological community in virtual space. We’re hosting a series of informal online...
Tree ring research at New Palz
Tree ring dating connected to research carried out by Jeff Benjamin (PhD candidate, Anthropology)
Stigler fund for Archaeological fieldwork accepting proposals now
Given by the Department of Anthropology, these awards are open to all full-time students at Columbia and Barnard except those students who will graduate before their proposed field season. Deadline is April 17th 2020. Click above for more information....
Open Lab hours, fridays 12-4pm POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
PLEASE NOTE: OPEN LAB IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Drop in to 954 Schermerhorn Extension on Fridays during semester between 12-4 pm when students will be helping with the cataloging and analysis of ongoing research projects. Lab hours start up again on January...
Spring Newsletter 2020
News from faculty and graduate students as well as upcoming events for the Spring semester. (Image: students sorting botanical remains in Madagascar)
The soil is sentient: An Ar(t)chaeological Exhibit
In the fall semester 2019 Jeffrey Benjamin (Anthropology) taught the course “Principles of Art in Archaeological Practice.” This show, mounted in Low Library Rotunda in January 2020, is the culmination of a semester’s work by students in the course.
News and Events Fall 2019
Columbia archaeologists have been particularly active since our last newsletter. Click through for reports on some of the faculty research, summer field projects, and conference activities that have taken place.
Ecologies of Remembrance works toward an ethnographic study of the material afterlives of contemporary migrant death along the Central Mediterranean route to Europe (between North Africa and Italy). The news media around the Mediterranean are frequently dominated by...
One year postdoctoral position in Art History & Archaeology announced
The Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Research Scholar position in the field of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology. The successful candidate will: A) conduct research and...
SANIGHTAAQ – Yupik Ceremonial Gut Parka
Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History | May 28—August 4, 2019 — Curated by a team of Columbia University Museum Anthropology graduate students, this exhibit features a striking 19th century sanightaaq, or Siberian Yupik ceremonial gut parka.
