Category: DISCOVER lecture series

Living the Good Life! | Archaeology Now 2019-2020 Season Opening Lecture

September 16, 2019

It’s not what you think! Two thousand years ago, the Kama Sutra, a Sanskrit work on an idealized way of life was written, containing advice ranging from friendship and equality of women to decorating tips as well as…sex. To cast the Kama Sutra as merely a sex manual is to miss the point of the text–it is one of the world’s best-known but most misunderstood works. … More Living the Good Life! | Archaeology Now 2019-2020 Season Opening Lecture

DISCOVER: DNA and The Story of US | Archaeology Now Houston & Family Tree DNA

September 17, 2018

And now, we’ve found evidence of the first individual hybrid human.  In the same Siberian cave where Denisovans were first found, scientists recovered a bone fragment that came from the at least teen-aged daughter of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.  … More DISCOVER: DNA and The Story of US | Archaeology Now Houston & Family Tree DNA

DISCOVER Lecture ~ Roots of Knowledge: Saving Indigenous Plants for Our Future | Houston Archaeology Education

November 1, 2017

Houston Archaeology group, Houston Society Archaeological Institute of America, explores our we can save indigenous plants for our future with Dr. Maria Fadiman… … More DISCOVER Lecture ~ Roots of Knowledge: Saving Indigenous Plants for Our Future | Houston Archaeology Education

DISCOVER Lecture ~ The Great Road Trip – All the Photos | Houston Society Archaeological Institute of America

October 26, 2017

Houston Archaeology society for Archaeological Institute of America shares photos from The Great Road Trip lecure with Dr. John Kappelman… … More DISCOVER Lecture ~ The Great Road Trip – All the Photos | Houston Society Archaeological Institute of America