“Idol Hill and the Lives of Roman Idols”

He presents preliminary results of excavations completed from 2010-13 with a team of UB Students on “Idol Hill,” a Celtic burial mound in southern Germany. Constructed in the second millennium B.C., its medieval name, Idol Hill, connects it with the ancient Roman practice of worshipping images of the gods. Kiernan explores how burial mounds and idols are both sacred monuments and artworks with biographies, the function and meaning of which change over time.