ARC39.1 Launch Event & Keynote: Entangled or Entrapped; Human Induced Changes to the Beetle Fauna of the UK

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• Archaeological Review from Cambridge
• Wednesday 09 October 2024, 17:00-19:00
• Hybrid/McDonald Seminar Room .

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Book Launch

The Archaeologial Review from Cambridge would like to invite you to attend the launch event for ARC Volume 39.1 ‘Human-Insect Entanglement: Past, Present, and Future’ including a keynote talk by Dr David Smith and a post-talk wine reception.

Keynote: Entangled or Entrapped; Human Induced Changes to the Beetle Fauna of the UK

Abstract: Hodder’s ‘entanglement of things’ suggests that humans and ‘things’ can share a range of connections, interdependence and dependences. It is suggested that this includes objects of biological origin and, most importantly for the Environmental Archaeologist, living populations of plants and animals.

In this paper I will argue that the insect fauna of the British Isles is a product of such a human/ animal/ plant/ landscape and landuse interaction. This will be done by drawing on a range of recent research which looks at how the synanthropic insect fauna develops and changes across circa the last 10,000 years specifically in response to a large-scale change in land use in the Late Bronze Age and the development of Urban landscapes in the Roman Period. It will be suggested that by the end of this sequence of events, for one party, this arrangement has moved from entanglement to entrapment.

Speaker: Dr David Smith (MA CANTAB ), MA (Sheffield). PhD (Shefield), FRES . Associate professor of Environmental Archaeology, Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham.

David Smith has been actively researching the development of the insect fauna of Northern Europe since 1986. This has concentrated a range of urban sites of different dates across the UK. He has also worked on a large number of deposits taken from ‘natural’ and rural settlement sites across the last 15,000 years. David also runs a consultancy that offers archaeoentomological services to may archaeological units based in the UK and abroad.

Programme: 16:30 ARC Freshers’ Recruitment Event 17:00 Vol.39.1 Launch Keynote Talk 18:30 Wine Reception

Venue: Hybrid/McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing St., Cambridge CB2 3ER

Register for Online Attendance: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAud—rqzwqH9IE7TfyD73fTFQGsC4BUFVq#/registration

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