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Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

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A seminar series on issues in medieval archaeology, broadly conceived. Seminars take place on Mondays in the McDonald Institute Seminar Room, at 13:15.

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Susanne Hakenbeck; Emma Brownlee; Sam Leggett. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

0 upcoming talks and 38 talks in the archive.

Oil, Sugar and Failed Revolution in the City of the Sun God: Empowering Heritage and Community in Si Thep Thailand

User Michael Leadbetter, University of Oxford.

House Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpde-vpzspGtHkO1hrnQX_Wb-_23iXP80q.

Monday 14 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

From ‘robbed in antiquity’ to archaeothanatological recognition and recording of secondary interventions in inhumation burials. Cases from early medieval Europe.

User Dr Alison Klevnäs and Dr Astrid Noterman, Stockholm University.

House Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvce-uqzwrHdOlWr-RzikBut8MBaz__JMI%C2%A0.

Monday 07 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Sophie Moore, Newcastle University.

House Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqf-2gqj0tEt2s-ZnW8vCoEDeUWbCSBVZu.

Monday 24 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Isotopic approaches of diet during early medieval times: Examples from Mediterranean France

User Dr Leïa Mion, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université .

House Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudOypqDguGtbOxAlMe05mZfvqWiX6fUsR%C2%A0.

Monday 10 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Ceramics and the City: Industry, society and space in Fustat, Egypt

User Associate Professor Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton.

House Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcuqsrj8sHdO5xPi43fA6yjy8ZGial615.

Monday 15 March 2021, 13:15-14:00

Settlement Dynamics and Processes of Change in Early Medieval Ireland: New Insights from Radiocarbon Chronologies

User Emma Hannah, Queen's University Belfast.

House Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcuCtrzwuGNfHqCBIhkDlQIdIgKpNANqo.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:15-14:00

Fragments of the sacred: the Material Culture of the Early Medieval Church

User Dr Adrián Maldonado, National Museum of Scotland.

House Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqduGurzstHdc_HYyIul097q1Hop_nfJb5.

Monday 01 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Life in Medieval Cambridge: evidence from isotopic analysis

User Alice Rose (University of Cambridge).

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Weighty Matters: Bullion economies in Scandinavian Scotland

User Tom Horne, University of Glasgow.

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The bioarchaeology of an 'agricultural revolution’

User Helena Hamerow, University of Oxford.

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Early Medieval Transitions: An isotopic perspective on change and social complexity

User Sam Leggett (University of Cambridge).

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Connecting the dots? Tracing early medieval connectivity through portable material culture

User Alison Leonard, Faculty of History.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 23 May 2016, 13:15-14:15

Ploughs, plant remains and place names: yes, there is some evidence for Anglo-Saxon farming, and what it tells us

User Deborah Banham, ASNC.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 25 April 2016, 13:15-14:15

Sedgeford: a new-model estate of 'the long 8th century'?

User Neil Faulkner, University of Bristol/Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 22 February 2016, 13:15-14:15

Tracing medieval population movements through ancient DNA: the Lombard Example

User Patrick Geary, Institute for advanced Study, Princeton.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 14 December 2015, 16:30-17:30

Conflict, negotiation and the creation of a christian lanscape in early medieval Spain

User Alexandra Chavarria, Università degli Studi di Padova.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 23 November 2015, 13:15-14:15

Stecci - Medieval Tombstones: "The Bosnian School of Death"

User Dubravko Lovrenović, University of Sarajevo .

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Some thoughts on continental reliquary caskets

User Anna Gannon, Department of History of Art, Cambridge .

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 18 May 2015, 13:15-14:15

Saying something new about Bodiam Castle

User Matthew Johnson, Northwestern University .

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:15-14:15

From tribal centre to royal monastery: new perspectives on the changing biography of Anglo-Saxon central places from Lyminge, Kent

User Gabor Thomas, University of Reading.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:15-14:15

Binham in Norfolk and its North Sea network in the early Anglo-Saxon period

User Charlotte Behr, University of Roehampton.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:15-14:15

Fish in early Anglo-Saxon art

User Helen Geake, Portable Antiquities Scheme/McDonald Institute.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 17 November 2014, 13:15-14:15

Rethinking the earliest Silver Pennies

User Rory Naismith, Fitzwilliam Museum.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 27 October 2014, 13:15-14:15

Northern Harvests: Hunting, Fishing and Long-term Economic Cycles in the Medieval North

User James Barrett, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:15-14:15

Stecci - Medieval Tombstones: "The Bosnian School of Death"

User Dubravko Lovrenovic , University of Sarajevo.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 12 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Spong Hill and the fifth century invasion of England

User Catherine Hills, Division of Archaeology.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 28 April 2014, 13:15-14:15

Countryman, townsman, citizen: Developing urban identity in Norwegian towns AD 950-1700

User Axel Christophersen, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 24 March 2014, 13:15-14:15

Governance in Anglo-Saxon England through the lens of common rights

User Susan Oosthuizen, Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 24 February 2014, 13:15-14:15

‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in't’. Landscapes and Identities: the case of the English Landscape c. 1500 BC – AD 1086

User Letty Ten Harkel, University of Oxford.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Saturday 25 January 2014, 13:15-14:15

Paradigms Lost: Archaeologists, Historians and the 'Islamic City'

User Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 25 November 2013, 13:15-14:15

Developments along the Niger river: thinking about networks at a first- millennium site in northern Benin, West Africa

User Dr Anne Haour, University of East Anglia .

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 04 November 2013, 13:15-14:15

Iron Age Aftermath. The 1st century AD mass depositions of human remains at Lake Mossø, Alken, Denmark

User Mads Holst, Aarhus University.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 20 May 2013, 13:15-14:15

Secrets of the Ice: The Glacier Archaeology of Oppland, Norway

User Lars Pilø, Oppland Fylkeskommune.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 13 May 2013, 13:15-14:15

Meat under the saddle: diet, subsistence and identity in early medieval Hungary

User Susanne Hakenbeck, McDonald Institute for Archaelogical Research.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 29 April 2013, 13:15-14:15

Designs upon the Land? Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages

User Oliver Creighton, University of Exeter.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 25 February 2013, 13:15-14:15

Seventh-century Finds from Trumpington in their Broader Context

User Sam Lucy, Newnham College.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 28 January 2013, 13:15-14:15

Life on the edge: excavations at Oakington early Anglo-Saxon cemetery

User Duncan Sayer, University of Central Lancashire.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 26 November 2012, 13:15-14:15

Sicily in the eighth and ninth centuries: a case of economic continuity in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods

User Emanuele Vaccaro, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

House Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Monday 29 October 2012, 13:15-14:15

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