South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology


2008-10-10 16:30: Investigations on the Archaeology of the Upper Pleistocene in Spain (Dr Ignacio de la Torre, Institute of Archaeology, UCL)

2008-10-31 16:30: Meaning in their Making: a Socio-Technical Approach to the Study of Pavlovian Art (Rebecca Farbstein, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge)

2008-11-07 16:30: Can Archaeologists Recognise Middle Palaeolithic Skill-Level and Individuals via Lithic Technology? (Metin Eren, University of Exeter)

2008-11-14 16:30: Recent Adventures in Palaeolithic India: The 2008 Field Season (Dr Michael Haslam, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge)

2008-11-21 16:30: Recent and Future Ancient DNA Studies on Woolly Mammoth (Dr Ian Barnes, Royal Holloway University of London)

2008-11-28 16:30: Late Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal Occupations in Southern Britain (Tom Cutler, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge)

2008-12-05 16:30: The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Cantabrian Iberia (Dr Jose Manuel Maillo-Fernandez)

2009-01-16 16:30: 'Does the world not move to the beat of just one drum?': Autism and the emergence of modern human behaviour (Dr Penny Spikins, University of York)

2009-01-23 16:30: Sweat and Grind: the 1956 McBurney Expedition to the Haua Fteah (Michael Crouch)

2009-01-30 16:30: Testing Harrisson's Hypothesis: Zooarchaeology and the Bats of Niah (Chris Stimpson, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-04 16:30: Excavating the Earliest Upper Palaeolithic at Beedings (Dr Matthew Pope, University of Sussex)

2009-02-13 16:30: Cultural Innovation and Abrupt Climatic Change in the Palaeolithic of NW Africa (Professor Nick Barton, University of Oxford)

2009-02-20 16:30: Recent Excavations at Lynford Quarry (Dr Bill Boismier, Northamptonshire Archaeology)

2009-02-27 16:30: New Approaches and New Results in the Radiocarbon Dating of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Europe (Katerina Douka, University of Oxford)

2009-03-06 16:30: Iranian Aurignacian: The 2008 Research Season (Professor Marcel Otte, Université de Liège)

2009-03-13 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Hyeong Lee)

2009-05-01 16:30: Occupation and Changing Environments in Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Libya: Micromorphology and the Haua Fteah (Robyn Inglis, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-08 16:30: An Invigorating End to the Ice Age: Cultural Transmission, Adaptation and Innovation Among Hunter-Gatherers of Postglacial Europe (Prof. Marek Zvelebil, University of Sheffield)

2009-05-22 16:30: Peat, Points, and Pots: The Cultural and Ecological Dynamics of Neolithisation in Belgium (Erick Robinson, University of Sheffield)

2009-06-05 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Sacha Jones, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-23 16:30:  Ancient Palaeolithic Art and Early Modern Humans: Some Implications of Absolute Dating (Professor Manuel Gonzalez Morales, University of Cantabria)

2009-10-30 16:30: Into the Blue: New Insights on Submerged Mesolithic Landscapes (Dr Simon Fitch, University of Birmingham)

2009-11-06 16:30: Populating the Palaeolithic: Palaeodemography and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in South-Western France (Jennifer French, Department of Archaeology)

2009-11-13 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Lenka Lisa)

2009-11-20 16:30: Landmarks, Lithics and  Landscapes: Mesolithic Mobility in the Central Pennines (Paul Preston, University of Oxford)

2009-11-27 16:30: The First Modern Humans in the Far North West: the Aurignacian of Britain and Surrounding Regions (Rob Dinnis, University of Sheffield)

2009-12-04 16:30: Climates of the Last Glacial Cycle: First Global Climate Model Reconstructions and Applications (Dr Joy Singarayer, University of Bristol)

2010-01-22 16:30: In Search of the Last Common Ancestor: Recent Findings from Wild Chimpanzees (Dr William McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies)

2010-01-29 16:30: Little Trace, Big Story: Determining Human Behaviour Through Lithic Residue and Use-Wear Analysis (Kate Connell, Department of Archaeology)

2010-02-05 16:30: Believing in Binford: Going Beyond the 5 Foot Excavation Unit to Reconstruct Mesolithic Settlement Patterns in Western Scotland (Professor Steven Mithen, University of Reading)

2010-02-12 16:30: How Fish Swam Across the Green Sahara: Implications for the Peopling of the Desert and the ‘Out of Africa’ Hypothesis (Dr Nick Drake, King's College London)

2010-02-19 16:30: From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain (Dr Fiona Coward, Royal Holloway University of London)

2010-03-05 16:30: A Licence to Kill? Middle Palaeolithic Subsistence in Britain and Europe (Geoff Smith, University College London)

2010-04-30 16:30: Early Fire: Integral or Add-On in Human Evolution? (Professor John Gowlett, University of Liverpool)

2010-05-07 16:30: Glorious isolation: The Laacher See-eruption and material culture change at the end of the Allerød in southern Scandinavia (Dr Felix Reide, Aarhus University)

2010-05-14 16:30: In Through the Out Door: Exploring the Possibility of Late Pleistocene Back Migration from Arabia into Africa (Dr Jeffrey Rose, University of Birmingham)

2010-05-21 16:30: Behaviour of Neanderthals in Kulna Cave (Czech Republic) and Bojnice III open-air site (Slovakia) (Dr Petr Neruda, Moravian Museum, Brno)

2010-06-11 16:30: Growing Up Pleistocene: Finding the children of Upper Palaeolithic Europe (Jessica Cooney, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-20 17:00: Photonic Quantum Information Science and Technologies (Professor Jeremy O'Brien (University of Bristol))

2011-11-17 18:00: Imaginary Interfaces: Interacting Spatially Without Visual Feedback (Mr Sean Gustafson (University of Potsdam))