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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

Brown Bag Lecture Series

Yuchao Zhao speaks on Middle to Late Pleistocene foraging populations on the Tibetan Plateau, Friday, October 23

Visualizing Care: Storytelling As Data Visualization At Mohenjodaro

Uzma Z. Rizvi speaks on archaeological data visualization through deep mapping, Tuesday, October 27

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

Flash Talk | Ancient Abstractions

Nicola Barham, Assistant Curator

12:00 PM
Virtual

The Human Odyssey on the Roof of the World: Adaptations and Resilience on the Tibetan Plateau

Dr. Yuchao Zhao, Assistant Curator of East Asian Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

12:00 PM
1322 School of Education

Saturday Sampler Tour | Spooky, Weird, and Magical: Halloween with the Kelsey

Robin Little, Docent

2:00 PM
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Sunday Drop-In Tour | Halloween Visits to the Ancient Dead

Linda Kimmel, Docent

2:00 PM
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

2026 David Noel Freedman Lecture

One Goat, Two Piglets, and Heaps of Grain – Banking with Barley in Late Bronze Age Babylonia

4:00 PM
Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor) Michigan League

Visualizing Care: Storytelling as Data Visualization at MohenjoDaro

Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi

4:00 PM
Lecture Hall (Rm 125) Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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Quick Links

Online Exhibitions

Center for Community Archaeology and Heritage

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