Monuments and memory

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Susan E. Alcock is an archaeologist at the University of Michigan specializing in the eastern Roman Empire and discusses about ancient memory, empires and changing classical archaeology, and the way ancients viewed their own past. Alcock explains that her upcoming project in Armenia pays special attention to the Hellenistic, roman and Parthian periods.

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The nuclear option

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Mathias Rossbach describes the training provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency to archaeologists in the usage of nuclear analytical techniques to determine the chemical composition of ceramic, stone and metal artifacts.

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Conversations

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Garden archaeologist, Kathryn Gleason, feels gardens are the most complex type of artifacts, and that excavation in these places reveals the relationship of people to an idea about nature.

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