Garrod Seminar Room, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research


2024-10-22 13:00: Reinterpreting A Black Past: Historical archaeology in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow))

2024-11-05 13:00: Colonial Legacies and the Fragmentation of African Archaeological Heritage: The Case of Almoravid Coins (Jeanette Plummer Sires)

2024-11-19 13:00: Entangled materialities and new global histories from southern Africa (Abigail J. Moffett (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge))

2024-11-26 13:00: Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa (Professor Cyprian Broodbank, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-11 13:00: Potters’ Genealogies of Practice in the Congo Basin? Retracing Social Learning and Trans-Generational Training Networks through the past two-and-a-half Millennia (Dr Dirk Seidensticker, Ghent University)

2025-02-25 13:00: Tracing Brain Evolution in Africa: Evidence from Fossil Endocasts (Edwin De Jager, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-10 13:00: The African Humid Period: Human Socio-cultural Responses - a view from the Turkana Basin, East Africa (Dr Amanuel Beyin, University of Louisville)

2025-03-18 13:00: Zooarchaeology of Saharan pastoralism: a biomolecular approach (Dr Martina Di Matteo, The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome)

2025-11-04 13:00: The Social Lives of Faunal Remains: Rethinking Taphonomy as Social Process (Akshay Sarathi (Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah))

2025-11-04 13:00: African Superfoods and Usable Pasts (Amanda L. Logan, Department of Anthropology Northwest​ern University)

2025-11-18 13:00: The Sutherland Nine and the Community: Archaeological and Heritage Perspectives from the Sutherland Reburials Project, South Africa (Michaela Heale (University of Cambridge))