PalMeso Seminar Series


2022-03-04 16:30: Geochronology of a major new Pleistocene sequence at Kilombe Kenya: from the Oldowan to Middle Stone Age (Dr. Sally Hoare, University of Liverpool)

2022-03-11 16:30: Smoke on the water, fire in the cave? Evidence for fire making in the Palaeolithic (Dr. Andrew Sorenson, Leiden University)

2022-03-18 16:30: The function of prehistoric stone tools through a multi-technique microscopic approach (Dr. Andreu Ollé, IPHES Catalan Institute for Human Palaeoecology)

2022-05-06 16:30: Animal material resources at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria): bone tools, personal ornaments, and human behaviour during the Initial Upper Palaeolithic. (Dr. Naomi Martisius (University of Tulsa))

2022-05-27 16:30: Beyond status: rethinking the meaning of stone tools in Mesolithic burials (Dr. Aimée Little (University of York))

2022-11-04 16:00: Pareidolia and Cave Art: Integrating Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understand the Cognitive Mechanisms Behind the Emergence of Palaeolithic Art (Dr. Isobel Wisher (Aarhus University))

2022-11-11 16:30: lntegrating Palaeoclimate into the Study of the Past (  Dr. Michela Leonardi (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-18 16:30: 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))

2023-02-03 16:30: Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River - the First Million Years (Dr. Gonen Sharon (Tel-Hai College))

2023-02-24 16:30: Exploring Technological Variability in the Lower Palaeolithic: A Multi-Scalar Approach (James Clark (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-03 16:30: Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River – the first Million Years (Professor Gonen Sharon (Tel Hai College))

2023-03-10 16:30: Fire, Culture, and Society: Excavations at the MIS 11 site of Barnham, Suffolk (Dr. Nick Ashton (British Museum))

2023-11-10 16:30: New insights on the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa  (Lucy Timbrell, University of Liverpool)

2023-11-24 16:30: Understanding the knapper: what can the biface manufacturing process tell us about hominin behaviour (Kate Anderson, University of Southampton)

2024-02-02 17:00: Neanderthal life and death in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan (Professor Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-05 16:00: Ecological drivers of hunter-gatherer lithic technology from the Middle and Later Stone Age in Central Africa (Cecilia Padilla Iglesias, University of Zurich)

2024-02-16 16:30: Unravelling human ancestry: Exploring Palaeolithic technological shifts through laboratory experimental replication and archaeological insights (Dr. Joao Marreiros, Leibniz Centre for Archaeology)

2024-02-19 17:00: The broad-spectrum species: Plant resource use and processing as deep time adaptations (Dr. Anna Florin, Australian National University)

2024-02-23 16:30: In search of mechanisms: Ecological approaches to the evolution of hominin behaviour (Dr. Jonathan Reeves, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

2024-03-08 16:30: Neanderthal Legacy: Genes, cultures and archaeological sites (Professor Marie Soressi, Leiden University)

2024-03-15 16:30: Rock, Paper, Semantics: How aliens and origami inform our understanding of lithics and language evolution (Jamie Scott, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-08 17:00: Long-Term Human Interactions with the Earth System (Dr Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology))

2024-10-14 16:30: Dawn in the Land of the Jaguar: The Archaic Period of Belize (Dr James Stemp)

2024-11-01 16:30: Of reindeer and whale: Courbet cave input for the understanding of Magdalenian hunters-gatherers’ mobility in south-western France  (Dr Claire Lucas, British Museum)

2024-12-06 16:30: The dispersal and behaviour of early Homo Sapiens in Europe ~45,000 years ago: new insights from Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria) and Ranis (Germany). (Dr. Geoff Smith and Dr. Karen Ruebens - University of Reading)

2025-01-24 16:30: Bones, teeth and scratches: Inferring behaviours from ancient remains using 3D imaging (Dr. Lucile Crete, Natural History Museum)

2025-02-28 16:30: Unraveling faunal shifts and biogeographical patterns in Holocene Northeastern Africa and the Levant (Dr. Ignacio Aguilar Lazagabaster - Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre Evolución Humana (CENIEH))

2025-03-21 16:30: The Plight of Indian Mesoliths Since 19th Century (Dr. Nupur Tiwari - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)

2025-05-30 17:00: Half a Century of Prehistory in Eastern Africa (3rd PalMeso & PalEvo Lecture) (Prof. John Gowlett; Prof. Bernard Wood; Dr. Lucy Timbrell; Dr. James Clark)

2025-10-17 16:00: Designed to Perform? Assessing Neanderthal Stone Tool Design Through Experimental Approaches (Dr Lisa Schunk)

2025-10-31 13:15: Palaeoecological dynamics of early Homo sapiens and their effects on the Out of Africa (Dr. Michela Leonardi, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-14 16:30: New Perspectives on the Later Stone Age in Morocco (Dr. Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum)

2025-11-21 16:30: Conservation of the Shanidar Neanderthals (Dr. Lucía López-Polín, Catalan Institute of Human  Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES))

2026-02-06 16:30: Virtual Morphology and Paleolithic Hominins: Integrating 3D Methods from Ontogeny to Fossils (Carla Figus - University of Bologna)

2026-02-20 16:30: Hominin Palaeoenvironments predicted by Bovid Astragalus Ecomorphology and Dental Ecometrics (Matthew Van Schalkwyk - University of Cambridge)

2026-02-27 16:30: New Perspectives on Marine Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Early Burials along the South Coast of Peru (Margot Serra - University of Cambridge)

2026-03-13 16:30: I HEAR you! Reconstructing the Evolution of Hominin Hearing (Alessandro Urcioli - University of Zurich)

2026-03-20 16:30: Bones, taphonomy, and experimentation in the reconstruction of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic behaviour (Edgard Camarós - University of Santiago de Compostela)