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Woven Narratives: Textiles as Living Archives

Woven Narratives: Textiles as Living Archives, the newest exhibition of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections.

Leo Baek is named as Gates Cambridge Scholar

Leo Baek (Archaeology and Art & Art History Major) is named as one of the recipients of Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

De la Tierra: Indigenous Ceramics from West Mexico Transcending Time and Space

Student-curated exhibit of West Mexican ceramics reimagines museum practice by Stanford Report.

Alana Joy Okonkwo receives Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service

Alana Joy Okonkwo, a double-major in Archaeology and African and African American Studies, receives the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service.

Krish Seetah awarded the McMurtry Arts Initiatives Fund by The Office of the Vice President for the Arts

Four Stanford academic community members have been awarded 2023-24 grants from the Burt McMurtry Arts Initiatives Fund…

Krish Seetah named new E-IPER faculty director

Seetah, an environmental archeologist, will be leading the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), which offers PhDs within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and joint and dual MS degrees with other…

Crawford Lake shows humans started a new chapter in geologic time, scientists say

A humble lake in a Canadian suburb may soon become the symbolic starting point for a radical new chapter in Earth’s official history: the Anthropocene, or the age of humans.