A Peruvian Inca in Emperor Shōwa's Court

Monday, April 8 at 11 a.m. CAS Conference Room, CAS (formerly IBS 3), 1424 Broadway, CU-Boulder In 1958, Japan undertook its first archaeological excavation outside Asia. In this talk, Assistant Professor Miriam Kingsberg of the History department explores the ways in which archaeologists and the media collaborated to transform the unlikely topic of pre-Columbian history into an enduring public obsession. Free and open to the public.