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Students working at the site of Incoronata

Fieldwork Students work at the archaeological site of Incoronata (1000-600 BC), in southern Italy.

Research Dr. David Stone presenting paper at the National Institute of Heritage, Tunisia.

Degrees and Careers

Museums and Collections

Laboratories Prof. Laura Motta working in the Bioarchaeology Laboratory.

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Recent News

The Jeffrey R. Parsons Lecture 2025

Dr. Elizabeth Arkush on war and politics before the Incas, Friday, February 14

Museums at Noon

Hayley Crowell speaks on how specimens change from "curiosities" to scientific collections, Friday, January 24

Welcome to Archaeology at Michigan!

This website is a gateway to the University of Michigan’s extensive teaching and research activity in the field of archaeology. Our faculty, staff, and students are conducting fieldwork and collections-based research across the globe, spanning periods from half a million years ago to the present. The University of Michigan houses outstanding archaeological collections and offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees and programs in archaeology and related disciplines. This site provides an overview of our research, educational programs, collections, and resources that are of interest to students, scholars, teachers, and the general public.

Events

Featured

Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series: "From Fossils to the Forest"

Rescheduled Dates, U-M Anthropology | Professor Laura MacLatchy

3:00 PM
Henderson Room (third floor) Michigan League

Upcoming

January Book Club | Ithaca by Claire North

Kafi Laramore-Josey, UMMA

6:00 PM
Newberry Hall, Room 125 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Saturday Sampler Tour | Calling on the Ancient Gods of the Kelsey

2:00 PM
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Flash Talk | Local Ritual Practices in Rural Sanctuaries of Sardinia during the Punic and Roman Rule

Mattia Lauretti

12:00 PM
Virtual

AIA Lecture | Decolonizing Museums and the Case of the “Elgin Marbles”: Exceptionalism vs. Solidarity

Elizabeth Marlowe, Colgate University

6:00 PM
Newberry Hall, Room 125 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Read and Look | G is for Gladiator

Connie Powers, Docent

11:15 AM
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Flash Talk | Were There Really Women Working in the Valley of the Kings?

Kathleen Sheppard, Missouri S&T

12:00 PM
Virtual

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Acknowledgments

This website is generously supported by:

Department of Anthropology

Department of Classical Studies

Department of the History of Art

Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Middle East Studies

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology