The dispersal and behaviour of early Homo Sapiens in Europe ~45,000 years ago: new insights from Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria) and Ranis (Germany).

Dr. Geoff Smith and Dr. Karen Ruebens - University of Reading.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:30-17:30

Of reindeer and whale: Courbet cave input for the understanding of Magdalenian hunters-gatherers’ mobility in south-western France

Dr Claire Lucas, British Museum.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Dawn in the Land of the Jaguar: The Archaic Period of Belize

Dr James Stemp.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Monday 14 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Long-Term Human Interactions with the Earth System

Dr Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology).

St Hugh's College, St Margaret's Road, Oxford (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Rock, Paper, Semantics: How aliens and origami inform our understanding of lithics and language evolution

Jamie Scott, University of Cambridge.

Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Street.

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Neanderthal Legacy: Genes, cultures and archaeological sites

International Women's Day

Professor Marie Soressi, Leiden University.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

In search of mechanisms: Ecological approaches to the evolution of hominin behaviour

Shared with CDAL

Dr. Jonathan Reeves, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

The broad-spectrum species: Plant resource use and processing as deep time adaptations

Dr. Anna Florin, Australian National University.

Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room.

Monday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Unravelling human ancestry: Exploring Palaeolithic technological shifts through laboratory experimental replication and archaeological insights

Dr. Joao Marreiros, Leibniz Centre for Archaeology.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Ecological drivers of hunter-gatherer lithic technology from the Middle and Later Stone Age in Central Africa

Shared with CDAL

Cecilia Padilla Iglesias, University of Zurich.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Monday 05 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Neanderthal life and death in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan

Professor Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Understanding the knapper: what can the biface manufacturing process tell us about hominin behaviour

Kate Anderson, University of Southampton.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

New insights on the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa

Lucy Timbrell, University of Liverpool.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 10 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Fire, Culture, and Society: Excavations at the MIS 11 site of Barnham, Suffolk

Dr. Nick Ashton (British Museum).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River – the first Million Years

Professor Gonen Sharon (Tel Hai College).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Exploring Technological Variability in the Lower Palaeolithic: A Multi-Scalar Approach

James Clark (University of Cambridge).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River - the First Million Years

Dr. Gonen Sharon (Tel-Hai College).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

News from the Negev Desert (Israel): a New Perspective on the Role of Nubian and Centripetal Levallois Knapping Modes in the Middle Palaeolithic of the Levant

Maya Oron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

lntegrating Palaeoclimate into the Study of the Past

Dr. Michela Leonardi (University of Cambridge).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Pareidolia and Cave Art: Integrating Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understand the Cognitive Mechanisms Behind the Emergence of Palaeolithic Art

Dr. Isobel Wisher (Aarhus University).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Beyond status: rethinking the meaning of stone tools in Mesolithic burials

Dr. Aimée Little (University of York).

Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology/Zoom.

Friday 27 May 2022, 16:30-17:30

Animal material resources at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria): bone tools, personal ornaments, and human behaviour during the Initial Upper Palaeolithic.

Dr. Naomi Martisius (University of Tulsa).

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology/Zoom.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:30-17:30

The function of prehistoric stone tools through a multi-technique microscopic approach

Dr. Andreu Ollé, IPHES Catalan Institute for Human Palaeoecology.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room , Department of Archaeology.

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:30-17:30

Smoke on the water, fire in the cave? Evidence for fire making in the Palaeolithic

Dr. Andrew Sorenson, Leiden University.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room , Department of Archaeology.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:30-17:30

Geochronology of a major new Pleistocene sequence at Kilombe Kenya: from the Oldowan to Middle Stone Age

Dr. Sally Hoare, University of Liverpool.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology/Zoom.

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:30-17:30