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Free public Lecture on Archaeology
On Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 3:00 p.m., Professor and archaeologist Dr. Ömür Harmanshah of the University of Illinois, Chicago, will be in Milwaukee to give a free, public lecture on “Rural Landscapes, Archaeological Fieldwork, and Cultural Heritage Destruction in Turkey.” Archaeological remains and landscapes are witnesses to deep time histories, yet they have increasingly been victims of targeted destruction and looting in recent decades. Late capitalist management of landscapes in the contemporary Turkish countryside have created disposable landscapes of extreme extraction and large-scale excavation. Dr. Harmanshah’s talk will focus on various practices of heritage destruction in the western part of Konya province, Turkey, where his Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project has been documenting ancient and historical settlements and landscape features and keeping an account of ongoing heritage destruction since 2010. He will argue that on-the-ground fieldwork and collaboration with local heritage communities are essential to performing such work as compared to remote sensing methods.
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Website: https://go.evvnt.com/1552365-0
