Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series


2020-10-15 16:00: Africa and the discourse of inventiveness: Deep Historical and Archaeological Perspectives (Dr Abidemi Babatunde Babalola)

2020-10-22 16:00: Slavery, emancipation, and the quest for reparations in Antigua and Barbuda (Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-29 16:00: Panel Discussion: Embedding Black History and Archaeology in British schools (Panel )

2020-11-05 16:00: Australopithecus from Sterkfontein Caves (South Africa): An evolutionary species? (Dr Amélie Beaudet, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-19 16:00: New Neanderthal discoveries at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan (Dr Emma Pomeroy, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-26 16:00: Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology (Dr Kathelijne Koops, University of Cambridge)

2021-01-28 16:00: The Society of Black Archaeologists: Envisioning a Diverse and Inclusive Discipline (Dr Ayana Flewellen, UC Riverside)

2021-02-04 16:00: Black Culinary Resistance in the French Caribbean during the Slavery Era (Dr Peggy Brunache, University of Glasgow)

2021-02-11 16:00: On the Right of Refusal: Decolonizing Archaeology and Equitable Practices (Dr Uzma Rizvi, Pratt Institute)

2021-02-18 16:00: Galisonian logic devices as affordances for decolonizing archaeology (Dr Ben Marwick, University of Washington)

2021-03-04 16:00: Towards a Kuleana Anthropology: Responsibility and Relationality in Hawai‘i and Oceania (Dr Ty Tengan, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)

2021-03-11 16:00: Engaging custodians of coloniality in archaeology: an African experience (Dr Catherine Namono, Wits University)

2021-03-18 16:00: Ethics of archaeology: a post-Soviet (Central Asian) experience (Dr. Gai Jorayev, UCL)

2021-04-29 16:00: Indigenous & Archaeological Futures: Creating Equity through Community-Based Storytelling with Grand Ronde (Dr Sara Gonzalez, University of Washington)

2021-05-13 16:00: Decolonising Archaeological Practice Beyond Community Engagement: towards a theory of the future (Prof Innocent Pikirayi, University of Pretoria)

2021-05-20 16:00: Colonialism and Meta-Narratives in the Philippines: Decolonizing History through Community Archaeology among the Ifugao (Dr Stephen Acabado, UCLA)

2021-05-27 16:00: What the Archaeology of Decolonization Can Teach Us About the Decolonization of Archaeology (Prof Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University)

2021-10-14 16:00: Gold from the Great Steppe: new discoveries that changed the course of a regional museum (Svetlana Nurgaziyeva, Director, East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Local History)

2021-10-21 16:00: Historical Landmarks and national history: The case of Kazakhstan (Arystanbek Muhamediuly, National Museum of Kazakhstan)

2021-11-04 16:00: Do you know who knows what you don't?: Construction of negotiated archaeological narratives (Jimena Lobo Guerrero, MAA University of Cambridge)

2021-11-11 16:00: It might have been like this? Experimental archaeology: Making, understanding, storytelling (Aiden O'Sullivan, UC Dublin)

2021-11-18 16:00: From reindeer antlers to tea light candles: Multiple users at the Sámi offering places (Tiina Äikäs, University of Oulu)

2021-11-25 16:00: Entangled histories: Archaeology, modern politics, and heritage in Vietnam (Nam Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2022-01-20 16:00: Afro-descendants on the Move:  Archaeologies of Afro-Atlantic Secondary and Reverse Diasporas (Theresa A. Singleton (University of Cambridge, Syracuse University))

2022-01-27 16:00: Landscapes of freedom: Kinship-relations and Geographical Imagination of the Maroons of “la Sierra de la María” during the 17th-18th century, Colombia. (Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros (Universidad Surcolombiana))

2022-02-03 16:00: No Dollar Too Dark: Free Trade, Piracy, Privateering and Illegal Slave Trading in the Northeast Caribbean, Early 19th Century (Ryan Espersen (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-10 16:00: The Presence of Absence: Interrogating and interpreting forced and free migration in the Atlantic Caribbean (Alissandra Cummins (Barbados Museum & Historical Society))

2022-02-17 17:00: Sociality of Merchant Capital and Archaeology of Early Modernity in Atlantic Africa (Akin Ogundiran (UNC Charlotte))

2022-02-24 15:00: Living on Atlantic Time: Commerce and Daily Life on the Gambia River (Liza Gijanto (St Mary’s College of Maryland))

2022-03-03 16:00: Dissonance and Convergence in the North Atlantic: Ireland and the Archaeology of European Expansion (Audrey Horning (College of William & Mary, Queens University Belfast))

2022-03-10 16:00: Enduring Structures, Patterns of Change: ‘English’ Landscapes in the Northern Atlantic, 1000-1800CE (Matthew Johnson (Northwestern University))

2022-04-28 16:00: Toward an acknowledgement of the invisible social metabolism of prestige-goods exchange in the Prehispanic Andes (Prof Alf Hornborg, Lunds Universitet)

2022-05-05 12:00: Low-density urbanism, risk and climate instability (Prof Roland Fletcher, University of Sydney)

2022-05-19 16:00: Modeling ‘The Dawn of Everything’: how simulating a complex yesterday might (or might not) help us with a complicated tomorrow (Dr John Murphy, Northern Illinois University and Argonne National Laboratory)

2022-05-26 16:00: Historical ecology and changes in Jomon landscape practice: examples from northeastern Japan (Prof Junko Habu, University of California)

2022-06-02 16:00: Landscape history, archaeology and storytelling (Prof Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala Universitet and IHOPE)

2022-06-09 16:00: Documenting land-Use legacies in the Pacific Northwest of North America: coupled archaeological and ecological signatures of indigenous forest gardens ( Dr Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Simon Fraser University)

2022-06-16 16:00: TERRANOVA from the last and current Interglacial periods into the Anthropocene: an Atlas database drawing lessons from ancient land use for future European landscape management (Dr Sjoerd Kluiving, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

2023-10-26 16:00: Shiny pebbles and Nordic aperitifs: case studies in multidisciplinary cultural evolution (Professor Fiona Jordan, University of Bristol)

2023-11-02 16:00: Culture and Evolvability: A Brief Archaeological Perspective (Professor Michael O'Brien, Texas A&M University - San Antonio)

2023-11-09 16:00: Operationalising archaeological taxonomies using cultural evolutionary approaches – and why it matters  (Professor Felix Riede, Aarhus University)

2023-11-16 16:00: Archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution (Professor Alex Mesoudi - University of Exeter)

2023-11-23 16:00: Ancient DNA and cultural transmission (Professor Stephen Shennan, UCL)

2023-11-27 16:00: Why be a monk?  ( Professor Ruth Mace, UCL)

2023-11-30 16:00: Thinking evolutionary laws: technological trajectories and anthropological regularities (Valentine Roux, CNRS Director of Research, Paris)

2024-01-18 16:00: Finding difference in kinship and gender in the European Neolithic: Posthumanist approaches to biomolecular data (Dr. Penny Bickle, University of York)

2024-01-25 16:00: It’s biocultural all the way down: Understanding the Pleistocene hominin niche (Prof. Agustín Fuentes, Princeton University)

2024-02-01 16:00: Animals, ancestors and plants: Shaping genders in the more-than-human worlds of Bronze Age Northern Europe (Dr. Mark Haughton, Aarhus University)

2024-02-08 16:00: Playing with things: The Moche sex pots (Prof. Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University)

2024-02-15 16:00: Before, during and after gender: Towards a non-essentialist history of difference (Prof. John Robb, University of Cambridge & Prof. Oliver Harris, University of Leicester)

2024-02-22 16:00: Girls, girls, girls: The importance of (modern) bodies in envisaged Viking Age social experience (Dr. Marianne Moen, University of Oslo)

2024-03-07 16:00: “We were shaped by space”: An archaeological perspective of presence, identity and the materiality of Black life ( Prof. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

2024-03-14 16:00: Intersectionality in past populations: Examining frailty at the intersections of identities (Asst. Prof. Samantha Yaussy, James Madison University)

2025-01-23 16:00: The 'Wood Age' at Kalambo Falls, Zambia (Professor Larry Barham, University of Liverpool)

2025-01-30 16:00: Archaeology, (Absence) Heritage and the Capitalocene Bog (Dr Benjamin Gearey, University College Cork)

2025-02-06 16:00: From deep past to future horizons: the practical role of wetland archaeology in peatland restoration (Dr Hannah Fluck, National Trust)

2025-02-13 16:00: An animal-oriented perspective on the Neolithic transition in the Dutch wetlands (Dr Nathalie Brusgaard, Leiden University)

2025-02-20 16:00: Understanding long-term spatio-temporal ecological changes in degraded peatlands to inform restoration (Dr Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-27 16:00: Prehistoric Lakeshore Settlements of the Alpine Region and the Balkans Six Millennia of Human History Preserved in Lakes and Wetlands (Professor Albert Hafner, University of Bern)

2025-03-06 16:00: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in current nature recovery (Dr Anwen Cooper, Oxford Archaeology)

2025-03-13 16:00: Where Land and Waters Meet’; 10,000 years of ‘Wildscape’ human eco-dynamics and implications for sustainability and land use change (Professor Nicki Whitehouse, University of Glasgow)

2025-10-16 16:00: The Social Life of Food (Tamara L. Bray, Wayne State University)

2025-10-23 16:00: Pots, bones and biomolecules: multiproxy dietary reconstructions in the Baltic region (Ester Oras, University of Tartu)

2025-10-30 16:00: Culinary Archaeologies of Chocolate: Holistic Approaches to Food Histories of Mesoamerica (Katie Sampeck, University of Reading)

2025-11-06 16:00: Meat consumption and the shaping of a Romano-British culture (Umberto Albarella, University of Sheffield)

2025-11-13 16:00: Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways (Erica Rowan, Royal Holloway University of London)

2025-11-20 16:00: Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies (Michelle Alexander, University of York)

2025-11-27 16:00: The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia (Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, University of the Basque Country)

2025-12-04 16:00: An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa (Amanda Logan, Northwestern University)

2026-02-05 16:00: Governing the Future: Ethics, Power and Responsibility in Archaeological AI (Alphaeus Lien-Talks, University of York)

2026-02-12 16:00: Machine Heritage: Controversies in AI-Generated Meanings and Values of the Past (Chiara Bonacchi, University of Edinburgh)

2026-02-19 16:00: The COST Action Managing AI in Archaeology (MAIA): Building an International Network (Holly Wright, University of York / MAIA)

2026-02-26 16:00: Between Codices, Archives and Algorithms: On How AI is Transforming Historical Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Lancaster University)

2026-03-05 16:00: Palaeoclimate Forecasting and the Next Stage of AI in Archaeology (Mark Altaweel, University College London)

2026-03-19 16:00: Fireside Chat: Roundtable Discussions & Reflections (Alan Blackwell and Maya Indira Ganesh, University of Cambridge)