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The Palaeolithic-Mesolithic seminar series (PalMeso) is the longest running format of talks within the Department of Archaeology. PalMeso present talks on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, and is open and free to anyone who is interested to come along. Talks are given by internal MPhil and PhD research students, as well as post-docs, visiting scholars and university lecturers from UK and overseas academic institutions.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Lydia Clough; Imogen Badley; Annapaola Fedato; Oscar Lozada. 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.

Bones, taphonomy, and experimentation in the reconstruction of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic behaviour

UserEdgard Camarós - University of Santiago de Compostela.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 20 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

I HEAR you! Reconstructing the Evolution of Hominin Hearing

UserAlessandro Urcioli - University of Zurich.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

New Perspectives on Marine Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Early Burials along the South Coast of Peru

Co-hosted with the Americas & Caribbean Archaeology Group

UserMargot Serra - University of Cambridge.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 27 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Hominin Palaeoenvironments predicted by Bovid Astragalus Ecomorphology and Dental Ecometrics

UserMatthew Van Schalkwyk - University of Cambridge.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 20 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Virtual Morphology and Paleolithic Hominins: Integrating 3D Methods from Ontogeny to Fossils

UserCarla Figus - University of Bologna.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 06 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Conservation of the Shanidar Neanderthals

UserDr. Lucía López-Polín, Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 21 November 2025, 16:30-17:30

New Perspectives on the Later Stone Age in Morocco

Co-hosted with the African Archaeology Group

UserDr. Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 14 November 2025, 16:30-17:30

Palaeoecological dynamics of early Homo sapiens and their effects on the Out of Africa

Joint seminar hosted by the PalMeso and Pitt-Rivers seminar series

UserDr. Michela Leonardi, University of Cambridge.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 31 October 2025, 13:15-14:00

Designed to Perform? Assessing Neanderthal Stone Tool Design Through Experimental Approaches

UserDr Lisa Schunk.

HouseHenry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street.

ClockFriday 17 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Half a Century of Prehistory in Eastern Africa (3rd PalMeso & PalEvo Lecture)

UserProf. John Gowlett; Prof. Bernard Wood; Dr. Lucy Timbrell; Dr. James Clark.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 30 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

The Plight of Indian Mesoliths Since 19th Century

UserDr. Nupur Tiwari - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 21 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Unraveling faunal shifts and biogeographical patterns in Holocene Northeastern Africa and the Levant

UserDr. Ignacio Aguilar Lazagabaster - Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre Evolución Humana (CENIEH).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 28 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Bones, teeth and scratches: Inferring behaviours from ancient remains using 3D imaging

UserDr. Lucile Crete, Natural History Museum.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 24 January 2025, 16:30-17:30

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

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

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 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

UserDr Claire Lucas, British Museum.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserDr James Stemp.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

Long-Term Human Interactions with the Earth System

UserDr Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology).

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

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

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

UserJamie Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseHenry Wellcome Building Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Street.

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

Neanderthal Legacy: Genes, cultures and archaeological sites

International Women's Day

UserProfessor Marie Soressi, Leiden University.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

Shared with CDAL

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

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserDr. Anna Florin, Australian National University.

HouseHenry Wellcome Building Seminar Room.

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

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

UserDr. Joao Marreiros, Leibniz Centre for Archaeology.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 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

UserCecilia Padilla Iglesias, University of Zurich.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

Neanderthal life and death in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan

UserProfessor Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserKate Anderson, University of Southampton.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

New insights on the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa

UserLucy Timbrell, University of Liverpool.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserDr. Nick Ashton (British Museum).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River – the first Million Years

UserProfessor Gonen Sharon (Tel Hai College).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserJames Clark (University of Cambridge).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River - the First Million Years

UserDr. Gonen Sharon (Tel-Hai College).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 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

UserMaya Oron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

lntegrating Palaeoclimate into the Study of the Past

User Dr. Michela Leonardi (University of Cambridge).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

ClockFriday 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

UserDr. Isobel Wisher (Aarhus University).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserDr. Aimée Little (University of York).

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

ClockFriday 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.

UserDr. Naomi Martisius (University of Tulsa).

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology/Zoom.

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

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

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

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room , Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserDr. Andrew Sorenson, Leiden University.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room , Department of Archaeology.

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

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

UserDr. Sally Hoare, University of Liverpool.

HouseMcDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology/Zoom.

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

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