PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

PalMeso Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Four legs good: ancient animal genomics and the Near Eastern origins of cattle, sheep and goat.

Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Building Identities in the Northern Iroquoian Longhouse

Followed by a wine reception in the McDonald Institute Coffee Room.

John L. Creese.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

The Adriatic Plain: A Late Glacial Refugium? Preliminary zooarchaeological data from the Late Upper Palaeolithic site of Vela Spila (Croatia)

with drinks and nibbles afterwards in the McDonald Coffee Room

Victoria Pía Spry-Marqués, University of Cambridge.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 16 December 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Colonialism on the Medieval Atlantic Periphery: The Irish Experience

with drinks and nibbles afterwards in the McDonald Coffee Room

Russell O'Riagain.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 09 December 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

The residential area F/I in Tell el-Dab'a/Avaris (Egypt) - Multicultural life in a town of the Second Intermediate Period

Miriam Müller.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Scaling Old Depths: Site Formation Processes, Temporal Resolution, Climate and People at the Haua Fteah, Libya

Robyn H. Inglis, PhD Candidate in Archaeology, Magdalene College.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Back to the Bronze Age: Sharpening up on Bronze Metallurgy

Stephanie Aulsebrook, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Dendrochronology in Cyprus: A Preliminary Reconstruction (A.D.1531-2006) of Spring/Summer Precipitation in the Chionistra Area of the Troodos Mountains and Applications to Environmental and Archaeological Research

Rachel Kulick, MPhil Candidate in Archaeological Science, St John's College.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

What is “Yayoi”? Using Isotopes to investigate the Jomon-Yayoi Transition in Western Japan

Lindsey Friedman, PhD Candidate in Archaeology, Darwin College.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Hoarding Time: The Salisbury Hoard and its implications for archaeology

Jessica Cooney, PhD Candidate in Archaeology, St John's College.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

The Identity of the Late Iron Age people of Romania (The Dacians). The burial evidence.

Catalin Popa, PhD Candidate in Archaeology.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Investigations into the Geoarchaeology of Palaeolithic Northern Bosnia

Gary P. Marriner, MPhil Candidate in Archaeological Research.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

The spatial location of Iron Age rock-art sites in Valcamonica

Craig Alexander, PhD Candidate in Archaeology.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Shell Midden Zooarchaeology, Salmon DNA and Land Use on the Pacific Northwest Coast

Paul Ewonus, PhD Candidate in Archaeology.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Changing Pictures: exploring semiotics through time in the rock carvings of western Russia

Mark Sapwell, PhD Candidate in Archaeology, St John's College.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Geoarchaeological Approaches to Social Space in Prehistoric Western Cyprus

Mat Dalton.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

The Human Response to Rapid Climate Change in the European Upper Palaeolithic: Archaeology and Oxygen Isotopes in the Northern Zone

Alex Pryor.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Trade and Politics in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

Mary Ownby.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Emma Lightfoot.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Untangling Prehistory: Lake Dwellings and the Making of Archaeology in the Late 19th Century

Katherine Cooper.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Treatment of the Dead in the Mesolithic: Reconstructing Taphonomic Histories of Loose Human Bones from Pupicina Cave, Croatia'.

Ros Wallduck.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Digging and Dancing: The Archaeology of Performance

Claire Halley.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

Group Identity and Social Histories in the Neolithic of Borneo

Lindsay Lloyd-Smith.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

How to find an American looter: journey into a new methodology

Jennifer Goddard.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

There's method in this madness: engaging with the Alternative

Tera Pruitt.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

The archaeogenetics of animal breed improvement

Michael Campana.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series

The spoils of El Dorado: Sipán and antiquities trafficking in South America

Donna Yates.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:30-17:30