Prehistoric Front of the Cold War

The Cold War was waged on many fronts, in nations and whole continents, in the oceans and outer space, from hockey rinks to chess boards. In this talk, Michael Kunichika considers how it played out in the study of prehistory when Western and Soviet scholars debated the origins of art—and of the human—as they contested who would be the best interpreter and, thus, inheritor of the past.

Event Speakers:

Michael Kunichika: Professor of Russian, Amherst College

Edythe Haber: Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Host or Publisher Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies